Windows Jobs in Dorset

Microsoft Windows
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 100 85 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 7.73% 13.82% 13.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.73% 55.92% 52.82%
Number of salaries quoted 83 68 92
10th Percentile £28,833 £32,500 £27,525
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,813 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -15.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,125 £60,938
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,525
% change year-on-year - +1.20% +5.40%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 162 152 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 12.53% 24.72% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 139 113 167
10th Percentile £30,675 £34,100 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £69,750 £75,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Dorset over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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
Bournemouth -20 33 £57,500 +29.21% 13
Poole +20 29 £45,000 +25.00% 4
Dorchester -10 8 £30,250 -19.33% 2
Weymouth -14 3 £31,350 - 1
Ferndown -4 2 £24,500 -43.68%
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 31 (31.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (11.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (8.00%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (42.00%) Azure
3 25 (25.00%) AWS
4 23 (23.00%) GCP
5 8 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.00%) IaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.00%) Dropbox
9 1 (1.00%) Google Drive
9 1 (1.00%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.00%) Firewall
2 21 (21.00%) WAN
3 20 (20.00%) LAN
4 7 (7.00%) SAN
5 6 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (5.00%) DNS
7 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.00%) VPN
8 3 (3.00%) DHCP
8 3 (3.00%) NAS
8 3 (3.00%) Wireless
9 2 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.00%) 4G
10 1 (1.00%) 5G
10 1 (1.00%) Network Security
10 1 (1.00%) SNMP
10 1 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.00%) Tableau
3 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Git
1 8 (8.00%) Subversion
2 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.00%) Aviation
4 4 (4.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.00%) Games
5 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (29.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (27.00%) Support Engineer
3 23 (23.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 23 (23.00%) Senior
4 19 (19.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 17 (17.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (14.00%) IT Support
7 11 (11.00%) IT Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Support Technician
9 7 (7.00%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Lead
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
11 5 (5.00%) IT Technician
11 5 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) MFC
1 10 (10.00%) Qt
1 10 (10.00%) STL
2 2 (2.00%) XML
3 1 (1.00%) .NET
3 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.00%) Web Services
3 1 (1.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Hackathon
2 7 (7.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.00%) BYOD
3 2 (2.00%) Clustering
3 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.00%) iPad
3 2 (2.00%) Replication
3 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (37.00%) Windows Server
2 19 (19.00%) Linux
3 11 (11.00%) Mac OS
4 10 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.00%) Android
8 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (12.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
4 12 (12.00%) Server Virtualisation
5 11 (11.00%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.00%) Roadmaps
6 10 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 10 (10.00%) Multithreaded Programming
6 10 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 8 (8.00%) Change Management
7 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (8.00%) Defect Tracking
7 8 (8.00%) Time Management
8 7 (7.00%) Agile
9 6 (6.00%) Scrum
10 5 (5.00%) Software Testing
10 5 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) C++
2 9 (9.00%) C#
2 9 (9.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.00%) Java
4 4 (4.00%) SQL
5 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.00%) Python
7 1 (1.00%) C
7 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.00%) DBS Check
4 8 (8.00%) MCITP
4 8 (8.00%) MCSE
4 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.00%) Degree
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 27 (27.00%) Hyper-V
2 27 (27.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.00%) XenDesktop
4 9 (9.00%) XenApp
5 4 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (2.00%) Docker
6 2 (2.00%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) SCCM
2 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.00%) PaperCut
4 2 (2.00%) SCOM
5 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (57.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (37.00%) VMware
3 27 (27.00%) Google
4 17 (17.00%) Cisco
5 15 (15.00%) HP
6 12 (12.00%) Citrix
6 12 (12.00%) Dell
6 12 (12.00%) Symantec
7 6 (6.00%) Veeam
8 3 (3.00%) Apple
8 3 (3.00%) Aruba
9 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.00%) Oracle
10 1 (1.00%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.00%) Databricks
10 1 (1.00%) Draytek
10 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.00%) Sparx
10 1 (1.00%) Webroot
10 1 (1.00%) Xamarin