Windows Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,631 8,908 12,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.06% 9.85% 9.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.84% 61.29% 47.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,082 6,431 8,978
10th Percentile £25,024 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £30,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,537 14,534 25,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.61% 16.07% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,901 9,985 15,043
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +2 2,049 £40,000 +8.11% 375
London +10 2,008 £55,000 +4.76% 459
North of England +9 1,568 £37,500 -5.95% 322
Midlands +14 1,237 £35,000 -12.50% 264
South West +4 984 £42,500 +11.84% 234
North West -4 758 £40,000 - 175
East of England +3 754 £32,500 -15.58% 202
West Midlands +14 691 £35,000 -12.50% 148
Yorkshire +21 623 £37,000 -2.63% 118
East Midlands +10 540 £34,500 -13.53% 116
North East +14 189 £33,000 -17.50% 34
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,485 (17.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 927 (10.74%) SharePoint
3 202 (2.34%) IIS
4 112 (1.30%) Apache
5 63 (0.73%) Confluence
6 53 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 49 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
8 45 (0.52%) CMS
9 44 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 26 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
12 22 (0.25%) WordPress
13 18 (0.21%) SAS
14 15 (0.17%) JBoss
15 14 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
15 14 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
16 10 (0.12%) nginx
16 10 (0.12%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,317 (15.26%) Microsoft Office
2 244 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.36%) AutoCAD
5 30 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.21%) Trello
8 15 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.12%) Revit
10 9 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.035%) InDesign
13 3 (0.035%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.035%) Simulink
13 3 (0.035%) SPSS
14 2 (0.023%) CATIA
14 2 (0.023%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 50 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.35%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 15 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 10 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
6 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.081%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.058%) Shopify
9 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.046%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.035%) assyst
11 3 (0.035%) Eikon
11 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Cash Management
11 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.023%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3,795 (43.97%) Microsoft 365
2 3,208 (37.17%) Azure
3 983 (11.39%) Entra ID
4 814 (9.43%) AWS
5 375 (4.34%) OneDrive
6 297 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (3.01%) SaaS
8 238 (2.76%) IBM Cloud
9 189 (2.19%) GCP
10 182 (2.11%) Serverless
11 176 (2.04%) Power Platform
12 173 (2.00%) IaaS
13 144 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.60%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.58%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
17 128 (1.48%) Google Workspace
18 127 (1.47%) Mimecast
19 106 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
20 103 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,616 (18.72%) Firewall
2 1,297 (15.03%) DNS
3 933 (10.81%) DHCP
4 830 (9.62%) WAN
5 772 (8.94%) TCP/IP
6 754 (8.74%) LAN
7 679 (7.87%) VPN
8 489 (5.67%) Wireless
9 460 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
10 427 (4.95%) SAN
11 317 (3.67%) VLAN
12 297 (3.44%) VoIP
13 251 (2.91%) Internet
14 209 (2.42%) SD-WAN
15 186 (2.16%) Network Security
16 164 (1.90%) NAS
17 149 (1.73%) Cisco IOS
18 143 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
19 110 (1.27%) WebEx
20 94 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 784 (9.08%) SQL Server
2 356 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 325 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 284 (3.29%) DB2
5 255 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 229 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 156 (1.81%) MySQL
8 139 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 137 (1.59%) Power BI
10 69 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 52 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 50 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 47 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
15 28 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (0.32%) RDBMS
16 24 (0.28%) Redis
17 20 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 20 (0.23%) QlikView
18 18 (0.21%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 230 (2.66%) Git
2 197 (2.28%) JIRA
3 141 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 97 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 80 (0.93%) GitLab
6 71 (0.82%) Subversion
7 44 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 35 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.31%) CMake
10 25 (0.29%) Ant
11 24 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.25%) LabVIEW
14 21 (0.24%) MSI
15 19 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
16 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (0.14%) SonarQube
18 10 (0.12%) Trac
19 9 (0.10%) eggPlant
General
1 2,709 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 1,129 (13.08%) Finance
3 798 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 472 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 340 (3.94%) Law
6 298 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 296 (3.43%) Retail
8 289 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
9 257 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 255 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 243 (2.82%) Legal
12 229 (2.65%) Banking
13 158 (1.83%) Marketing
14 133 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 127 (1.47%) Aerospace
16 122 (1.41%) Electronics
17 117 (1.36%) Games
18 94 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
19 87 (1.01%) Automotive
20 63 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,489 (17.25%) IT Support
2 1,316 (15.25%) Support Engineer
3 1,111 (12.87%) Analyst
4 1,042 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,030 (11.93%) IT Engineer
6 985 (11.41%) Senior
7 702 (8.13%) IT Support Engineer
8 506 (5.86%) Lead
9 498 (5.77%) IT Technician
10 458 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 457 (5.29%) Developer
12 446 (5.17%) Support Analyst
13 395 (4.58%) IT Analyst
14 353 (4.09%) Support Technician
15 321 (3.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 314 (3.64%) Service Analyst
17 293 (3.39%) 1st Line Support
18 292 (3.38%) Administrator
19 291 (3.37%) IT Support Technician
20 289 (3.35%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (6.69%) .NET
2 433 (5.02%) HTML
3 382 (4.43%) CSS
4 337 (3.90%) REST
5 336 (3.89%) React
6 333 (3.86%) AngularJS
7 331 (3.84%) ASP.NET
8 313 (3.63%) Web Services
9 289 (3.35%) Vue
10 287 (3.33%) jQuery
11 279 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 241 (2.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.76%) Backbone.js
13 238 (2.76%) Ember.js
14 162 (1.88%) Node.js
15 126 (1.46%) WPF
16 93 (1.08%) XML
17 80 (0.93%) .NET Framework
18 68 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
19 66 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 511 (5.92%) Data Centre
2 419 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 410 (4.75%) Driving Licence
4 354 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 304 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 287 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 247 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 238 (2.76%) Blockchain
9 234 (2.71%) Video Conferencing
10 222 (2.57%) Public Cloud
11 207 (2.40%) Replication
12 172 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 153 (1.77%) Clustering
14 145 (1.68%) PKI
15 129 (1.49%) e-Learning
16 100 (1.16%) Wiki
17 93 (1.08%) Smartphone
18 83 (0.96%) EPoS
19 81 (0.94%) Client/Server
20 72 (0.83%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3,184 (36.89%) Windows Server
2 2,184 (25.30%) Linux
3 1,807 (20.94%) Windows 10
4 665 (7.70%) Android
5 581 (6.73%) Apple iOS
6 579 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 513 (5.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 481 (5.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 379 (4.39%) Mac OS
10 320 (3.71%) Unix
11 318 (3.68%) Windows 7
12 167 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 153 (1.77%) Ubuntu
14 150 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
15 127 (1.47%) Windows 8
16 112 (1.30%) CentOS
17 111 (1.29%) VMS
18 77 (0.89%) Mac OS X
19 60 (0.70%) Solaris
20 39 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,919 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
2 1,490 (17.26%) ITIL
3 1,338 (15.50%) Customer Service
4 1,330 (15.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 914 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
6 769 (8.91%) Agile
7 727 (8.42%) DevOps
8 672 (7.79%) Mentoring
9 530 (6.14%) Computer Science
10 450 (5.21%) Software Engineering
11 449 (5.20%) Service Management
12 434 (5.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 404 (4.68%) User Experience
14 403 (4.67%) Project Management
15 402 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 376 (4.36%) ITSM
17 358 (4.15%) Change Management
18 351 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence
18 351 (4.07%) Service Delivery
19 346 (4.01%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,267 (14.68%) SQL
2 1,262 (14.62%) PowerShell
3 754 (8.74%) Python
4 712 (8.25%) C#
5 495 (5.74%) JavaScript
6 392 (4.54%) Java
7 384 (4.45%) Bash
8 281 (3.26%) C++
9 177 (2.05%) C
10 108 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 104 (1.20%) Perl
12 79 (0.92%) VB
13 60 (0.70%) VBScript
14 52 (0.60%) XAML
15 49 (0.57%) Ruby
16 43 (0.50%) TypeScript
17 37 (0.43%) PHP
18 36 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 31 (0.36%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,396 (16.17%) Degree
2 988 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 561 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 528 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 442 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 358 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 285 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
8 245 (2.84%) DBS Check
9 219 (2.54%) CCNA
10 186 (2.16%) MCSE
11 175 (2.03%) A+ Certification
12 164 (1.90%) Master's Degree
13 148 (1.71%) MCP
14 125 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 119 (1.38%) MCSA
16 103 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
17 91 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 85 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 80 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
20 78 (0.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (6.69%) SLA
2 182 (2.11%) GDPR
3 166 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 137 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 116 (1.34%) QA
6 67 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 60 (0.70%) NIST
8 57 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.24%) PMO
10 19 (0.22%) COBIT
10 19 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (0.20%) GRC
11 17 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.14%) NCSC
14 9 (0.10%) ITGC
15 8 (0.093%) ISO 13485
15 8 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.093%) MISRA
System Software
1 3,936 (45.60%) Active Directory
2 1,437 (16.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,073 (12.43%) Hyper-V
4 391 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
5 260 (3.01%) Docker
6 237 (2.75%) vSphere
7 215 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
8 197 (2.28%) XenApp
9 177 (2.05%) XenDesktop
10 147 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
11 113 (1.31%) Firmware
12 106 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
13 86 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
14 54 (0.63%) KVM
15 48 (0.56%) Terminal Services
15 48 (0.56%) VirtualBox
16 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
17 23 (0.27%) VMware Server
18 19 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
18 19 (0.22%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 903 (10.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 704 (8.16%) SCCM
3 346 (4.01%) Ansible
4 308 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 261 (3.02%) Terraform
6 223 (2.58%) vCenter Server
7 176 (2.04%) WSUS
8 135 (1.56%) SCOM
9 121 (1.40%) Puppet
10 114 (1.32%) AirWatch
11 95 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
11 95 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 70 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 63 (0.73%) Prometheus
14 62 (0.72%) Grafana
15 60 (0.70%) Nagios
16 53 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
17 51 (0.59%) FortiGate
18 45 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
19 42 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,397 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 2,121 (24.57%) VMware
3 779 (9.03%) Cisco
4 607 (7.03%) Citrix
5 488 (5.65%) Red Hat
6 414 (4.80%) Veeam
7 370 (4.29%) Apple
8 368 (4.26%) IBM
9 311 (3.60%) HP
10 279 (3.23%) Oracle
11 277 (3.21%) Dell
12 274 (3.17%) Google
13 189 (2.19%) ServiceNow
14 166 (1.92%) Meraki
14 166 (1.92%) NetApp
15 128 (1.48%) Adobe
16 120 (1.39%) Splunk
17 115 (1.33%) Palo Alto
17 115 (1.33%) Sophos
18 114 (1.32%) SolarWinds