Windows Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 +18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 267 383 610
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.22% 15.13% 10.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.37% 87.24% 76.73%
Number of salaries quoted 227 260 543
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £24,580
25th Percentile £28,625 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £32,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £53,875
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,875 £63,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 359 439 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.67% 17.34% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 259 288 672
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -19.25% -5.29%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,125 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,250 £70,000 £64,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Windows job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -31 125 £41,500 +3.75% 25
South Yorkshire -45 30 £40,000 +23.08% 24
North Yorkshire -11 26 £35,000 +5.66% 11
East Yorkshire -27 23 £29,500 -7.81% 5
Humberside - 5 £24,500 - 2
Windows
England

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 46 (17.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (16.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 42 (15.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 150 (56.18%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (34.08%) Azure
3 35 (13.11%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.24%) AWS
5 9 (3.37%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.62%) Azure AKS
6 7 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (2.25%) Google Docs
7 6 (2.25%) Google Sheets
8 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.50%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.12%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.12%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.12%) SaaS
11 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.75%) IaaS
11 2 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.35%) DHCP
1 57 (21.35%) DNS
2 56 (20.97%) LAN
2 56 (20.97%) WAN
3 36 (13.48%) Firewall
4 35 (13.11%) TCP/IP
5 27 (10.11%) VLAN
6 26 (9.74%) VPN
7 16 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (4.87%) Wireless
9 9 (3.37%) WLAN
10 8 (3.00%) SAN
10 8 (3.00%) VoIP
11 6 (2.25%) NAS
11 6 (2.25%) Network Security
12 5 (1.87%) ATM
13 4 (1.50%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (1.50%) BGP
13 4 (1.50%) MPLS
13 4 (1.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.62%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) MySQL
6 2 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (4.12%) GitLab
2 8 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 100 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.24%) Manufacturing
3 18 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.87%) Retail
7 10 (3.75%) Advertising
8 8 (3.00%) Esports
9 6 (2.25%) Finance
9 6 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.87%) Legal
11 4 (1.50%) Law
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 115 (43.07%) IT Support
2 58 (21.72%) Support Engineer
3 46 (17.23%) IT Engineer
4 43 (16.10%) IT Support Engineer
5 40 (14.98%) Senior
6 32 (11.99%) 2nd Line Support
7 31 (11.61%) IT Technician
8 28 (10.49%) Analyst
9 27 (10.11%) Support Technician
10 26 (9.74%) IT Support Technician
11 24 (8.99%) Support Analyst
12 19 (7.12%) Desktop Support
12 19 (7.12%) IT Analyst
13 18 (6.74%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 18 (6.74%) Administrator
13 18 (6.74%) Systems Administrator
14 16 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (5.99%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (5.24%) Technical Administrator
16 13 (4.87%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.62%) Node.js
2 5 (1.87%) REST
3 4 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (1.50%) SAML
4 2 (0.75%) EDI
5 1 (0.37%) .NET
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) JSON
5 1 (0.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.23%) Driving Licence
2 18 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.00%) Social Media
7 6 (2.25%) CMDB
7 6 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.50%) PKI
8 4 (1.50%) SCADA
9 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.12%) NHS
9 3 (1.12%) Replication
10 2 (0.75%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.75%) Life Science
10 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 111 (41.57%) Windows Server
2 50 (18.73%) Windows 10
3 38 (14.23%) Android
4 33 (12.36%) Mac OS
5 25 (9.36%) Linux
6 18 (6.74%) Apple iOS
7 10 (3.75%) Unix
8 9 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.22%) Customer Service
3 57 (21.35%) ITIL
4 48 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (11.99%) Service Delivery
6 25 (9.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (7.87%) Incident Management
9 20 (7.49%) ITSM
10 19 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (7.12%) Mentoring
10 19 (7.12%) Process Improvement
11 18 (6.74%) Coaching
11 18 (6.74%) Time Management
11 18 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
12 16 (5.99%) Computer Science
12 16 (5.99%) User Experience
13 15 (5.62%) DevOps
13 15 (5.62%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (4.87%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.36%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.37%) SQL
3 9 (3.37%) Python
4 7 (2.62%) Java
5 1 (0.37%) C#
5 1 (0.37%) Delphi
5 1 (0.37%) PHP
5 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.37%) VBA
5 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (9.74%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.61%) Degree
3 22 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.87%) A+ Certification
5 13 (4.87%) DBS Check
5 13 (4.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (2.62%) CCNA
9 6 (2.25%) HNC
9 6 (2.25%) HND
9 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.50%) NVQ Level 3
12 3 (1.12%) CCNP
13 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.00%) SLA
5 5 (1.87%) GDPR
6 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.75%) QA
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 144 (53.93%) Active Directory
2 26 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.36%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.25%) vSphere
5 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (6.37%) SCCM
3 14 (5.24%) Nessus
4 10 (3.75%) WSUS
5 7 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (2.62%) Argo
5 7 (2.62%) Terraform
6 6 (2.25%) VxRail
7 4 (1.50%) Ansible
7 4 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 168 (62.92%) Microsoft
2 51 (19.10%) VMware
3 30 (11.24%) Citrix
4 17 (6.37%) Apple
4 17 (6.37%) Veeam
5 12 (4.49%) Cisco
6 10 (3.75%) Meraki
7 9 (3.37%) Google
8 6 (2.25%) Commvault
8 6 (2.25%) Dell
8 6 (2.25%) HP
8 6 (2.25%) Tenable
8 6 (2.25%) Zerto
9 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.87%) Oracle
9 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.50%) Splunk
11 3 (1.12%) WatchGuard
11 3 (1.12%) Zoho