Windows Jobs in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 383 621 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.73% 10.69% 8.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.24% 76.38% 65.15%
Number of salaries quoted 260 547 429
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,960 £24,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £27,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £37,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -2.63% +4.11%
75th Percentile £42,000 £54,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £63,250 £65,313
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,823
% change year-on-year - -8.72% +3.11%

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 439 813 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.73% 14.00% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 287 675 607
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £24,800
25th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% -4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £43,189 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 +10 195 £40,000 -5.88% 68
North Yorkshire -19 43 £33,750 +12.50% 38
South Yorkshire +4 42 £32,500 -8.45% 44
East Yorkshire -1 24 £32,000 +8.47% 17
Humberside -22 2 £40,101 +14.57% 2
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (9.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.31%) IIS
4 3 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.26%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 127 (33.16%) AWS
2 96 (25.07%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (17.23%) Azure
4 33 (8.62%) SaaS
5 25 (6.53%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (1.57%) GitHub
9 4 (1.04%) IaaS
9 4 (1.04%) PaaS
10 3 (0.78%) Azure Stack
10 3 (0.78%) GCP
10 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.52%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.52%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.52%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.26%) Datadog
12 1 (0.26%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.26%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.23%) Firewall
2 39 (10.18%) LAN
3 33 (8.62%) Cisco IOS
4 30 (7.83%) Wireless
5 28 (7.31%) VPN
6 24 (6.27%) WAN
7 21 (5.48%) DNS
8 20 (5.22%) VoIP
9 19 (4.96%) DHCP
9 19 (4.96%) TCP/IP
10 15 (3.92%) SAN
11 8 (2.09%) Internet
11 8 (2.09%) Multicast
11 8 (2.09%) SMTP
12 7 (1.83%) DKIM
12 7 (1.83%) DMARC
12 7 (1.83%) DNSSEC
12 7 (1.83%) NAS
13 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.57%) DB2
3 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.52%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.31%) JIRA
3 3 (0.78%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.78%) Eclipse RCP
3 3 (0.78%) Git
3 3 (0.78%) Spinnaker
4 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 191 (49.87%) Social Skills
2 101 (26.37%) Presentation Skills
3 35 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.36%) Esports
5 29 (7.57%) Law
6 23 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.96%) Finance
8 18 (4.70%) Telecoms
9 17 (4.44%) Banking
10 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.35%) Retail
12 6 (1.57%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.04%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.52%) Automotive
16 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.52%) Legal
17 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 185 (48.30%) IT Support
2 59 (15.40%) Analyst
3 48 (12.53%) Support Engineer
4 39 (10.18%) IT Analyst
4 39 (10.18%) IT Engineer
4 39 (10.18%) Support Analyst
5 34 (8.88%) Desktop Support
6 30 (7.83%) IT Support Engineer
7 29 (7.57%) 2nd Line Support
8 26 (6.79%) IT Support Analyst
9 18 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 18 (4.70%) Support Technician
10 17 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.18%) 1st Line Support
11 16 (4.18%) Lead
11 16 (4.18%) Senior
11 16 (4.18%) Software Support Engineer
12 15 (3.92%) IT Technician
13 12 (3.13%) IT Support Technician
13 12 (3.13%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.57%) HTML
2 5 (1.31%) Middleware
3 4 (1.04%) REST
4 3 (0.78%) .NET
4 3 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET
4 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (0.78%) CSS
4 3 (0.78%) JSP
4 3 (0.78%) SOAP
4 3 (0.78%) WinForms
4 3 (0.78%) XML
4 3 (0.78%) XSLT
5 2 (0.52%) LDAP
6 1 (0.26%) DirectX
6 1 (0.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 102 (26.63%) Enterprise Software
2 32 (8.36%) Social Media
3 22 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.18%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.35%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.09%) Replication
8 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.57%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.04%) Life Science
10 4 (1.04%) NHS
11 3 (0.78%) CCTV
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) EPoS
11 3 (0.78%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 99 (25.85%) Windows Server
2 67 (17.49%) Linux
3 52 (13.58%) Windows 10
4 47 (12.27%) Android
5 32 (8.36%) Windows Vista
6 23 (6.01%) Mac OS X
7 11 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.83%) Unix
9 7 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.52%) Solaris
14 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (32.64%) Mathematics
3 109 (28.46%) Line Management
4 73 (19.06%) Customer Service
5 51 (13.32%) ITIL
6 34 (8.88%) Computer Science
7 28 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (5.48%) DevOps
8 21 (5.48%) Migration
9 19 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (4.96%) Service Delivery
9 19 (4.96%) Software Testing
10 18 (4.70%) Analytical Thinking
10 18 (4.70%) CRM
11 16 (4.18%) Data Privacy
11 16 (4.18%) Exploratory Testing
12 14 (3.66%) Containerisation
13 13 (3.39%) Change Management
14 12 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (2.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (11.49%) SQL
2 34 (8.88%) Python
3 13 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.87%) Bash
5 7 (1.83%) C#
6 5 (1.31%) Bicep
6 5 (1.31%) Java
7 4 (1.04%) Perl
8 3 (0.78%) Ada
8 3 (0.78%) C
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.78%) Jython
8 3 (0.78%) Rust
9 2 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (10.70%) Degree
2 32 (8.36%) DBS Check
3 21 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (4.70%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.39%) CCNP
8 12 (3.13%) MCSA
9 6 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.31%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.04%) CCNA
12 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.52%) CISSP
13 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) CISM
14 1 (0.26%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.48%) SLA
2 10 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) ISO 14001
4 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.78%) QA
4 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (29.50%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.31%) Hyper-V
3 26 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.52%) Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) KVM
6 2 (0.52%) NFS
6 2 (0.52%) SRDF
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 2 (0.52%) Xen
7 1 (0.26%) pfSense
7 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.39%) Ansible
3 9 (2.35%) Terraform
4 6 (1.57%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.31%) AirWatch
5 5 (1.31%) SCCM
6 3 (0.78%) Puppet
6 3 (0.78%) WSUS
7 2 (0.52%) Control-M
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.52%) SCOM
8 1 (0.26%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 124 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.58%) Cisco
3 43 (11.23%) VMware
4 21 (5.48%) Apple
5 16 (4.18%) Zoho
6 9 (2.35%) Oracle
7 8 (2.09%) Veritas
8 7 (1.83%) IronPort
9 6 (1.57%) IBM
10 5 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.04%) NetApp
11 4 (1.04%) Veeam
12 3 (0.78%) Dell
12 3 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.78%) EMC
12 3 (0.78%) Google
12 3 (0.78%) HP
12 3 (0.78%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.78%) SonicWALL