Windows Jobs in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 29 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 -21
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,008 2,908 4,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.50% 8.44% 7.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.26% 53.81% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,609 2,407 3,398
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,650 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,092 £93,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,077 5,404 11,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.03% 15.68% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 4,128 6,185
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £101,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the London 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
Central London -1 424 £55,000 +4.76% 51
West London -25 96 £34,000 -17.07% 35
South London -19 49 £38,500 -8.33% 18
East London -1 43 £47,500 +5.56% 16
North London -15 8 £37,500 +14.86% 6
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 459 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 231 (11.50%) SharePoint
3 62 (3.09%) IIS
4 28 (1.39%) Skype for Business
5 21 (1.05%) Confluence
6 20 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 18 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
8 17 (0.85%) Apache
9 16 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
10 15 (0.75%) SAS
11 12 (0.60%) JBoss
12 8 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.40%) WordPress
13 7 (0.35%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.35%) WildFly
14 5 (0.25%) CMS
15 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
15 3 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.15%) Site Server
Applications
1 339 (16.88%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.70%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.50%) Revit
6 7 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.15%) SPSS
10 2 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.100%) InCopy
10 2 (0.100%) InDesign
10 2 (0.100%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.100%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.050%) Trello
11 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 27 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.90%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.75%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.45%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.15%) Eikon
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.100%) Farmplan
8 2 (0.100%) KEYPrime
8 2 (0.100%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.050%) Endur
9 1 (0.050%) Findur
9 1 (0.050%) LabWindows
9 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.050%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 906 (45.12%) Microsoft 365
2 746 (37.15%) Azure
3 241 (12.00%) AWS
4 225 (11.21%) Entra ID
5 87 (4.33%) OneDrive
6 71 (3.54%) GCP
7 69 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (3.44%) SaaS
8 65 (3.24%) Power Platform
9 50 (2.49%) GitHub
10 49 (2.44%) IaaS
11 48 (2.39%) Mimecast
12 38 (1.89%) Serverless
13 36 (1.79%) PaaS
13 36 (1.79%) WhatsApp
14 33 (1.64%) Google Workspace
15 31 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
16 28 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 350 (17.43%) Firewall
2 298 (14.84%) DNS
3 263 (13.10%) WAN
4 184 (9.16%) Wireless
5 183 (9.11%) LAN
6 171 (8.52%) VPN
7 160 (7.97%) DHCP
8 137 (6.82%) TCP/IP
9 135 (6.72%) Cisco IOS
10 123 (6.13%) SD-WAN
11 108 (5.38%) WebEx
12 98 (4.88%) SAN
13 92 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
14 85 (4.23%) Internet
15 52 (2.59%) VLAN
16 48 (2.39%) Network Security
17 43 (2.14%) NAS
18 40 (1.99%) VoIP
19 37 (1.84%) Skype
20 29 (1.44%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 54 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (2.64%) Power BI
4 45 (2.24%) MySQL
5 42 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (1.39%) DB2
9 20 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 15 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 12 (0.60%) Data Hub
12 12 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.60%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.55%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 87 (4.33%) JIRA
2 69 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 62 (3.09%) Git
4 30 (1.49%) GitLab
5 29 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.35%) CMake
7 7 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (0.35%) Snyk
8 6 (0.30%) Subversion
9 5 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 5 (0.25%) Postman
9 5 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) MSI
10 3 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.100%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.100%) Maven
General
1 669 (33.32%) Social Skills
2 537 (26.74%) Finance
3 241 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (9.36%) Banking
5 122 (6.08%) Legal
6 113 (5.63%) Law
7 66 (3.29%) Retail
8 62 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 54 (2.69%) Public Sector
10 50 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.69%) Games
12 34 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.54%) Automotive
14 30 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (1.29%) Marketing
16 25 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (1.15%) Front Office
19 20 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 356 (17.73%) Analyst
2 315 (15.69%) Senior
3 311 (15.49%) IT Support
4 266 (13.25%) Support Engineer
5 182 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 180 (8.96%) Support Analyst
7 145 (7.22%) IT Engineer
8 136 (6.77%) Support Specialist
9 131 (6.52%) IT Analyst
10 109 (5.43%) Lead
11 103 (5.13%) IT Support Specialist
12 90 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
13 86 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
13 86 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
14 85 (4.23%) Applications Support
14 85 (4.23%) IT Support Analyst
15 83 (4.13%) Desktop Support
16 82 (4.08%) Consultant
17 77 (3.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 76 (3.78%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.83%) .NET
2 55 (2.74%) HTML
3 47 (2.34%) CSS
4 35 (1.74%) REST
5 31 (1.54%) YAML
6 28 (1.39%) LDAP
7 27 (1.34%) HTML5
7 27 (1.34%) WPF
8 26 (1.29%) React
9 25 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
10 24 (1.20%) Web Services
11 22 (1.10%) ARM Templates
12 21 (1.05%) ASP.NET
13 18 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (0.85%) Middleware
15 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
16 13 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
16 13 (0.65%) RESTful
17 12 (0.60%) Vue
18 11 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 188 (9.36%) Video Conferencing
2 103 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 94 (4.68%) Wiki
4 90 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 76 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
6 61 (3.04%) Replication
7 56 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.59%) Clustering
9 46 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 41 (2.04%) PKI
11 39 (1.94%) Cyberattack
12 38 (1.89%) iPad
13 37 (1.84%) Smartphone
14 34 (1.69%) Blackberry
15 33 (1.64%) iPhone
16 30 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (1.34%) Security Posture
19 24 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 640 (31.87%) Windows Server
2 509 (25.35%) Windows 10
3 470 (23.41%) Linux
4 164 (8.17%) Android
5 123 (6.13%) Unix
6 118 (5.88%) Mac OS
7 101 (5.03%) Apple iOS
8 88 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 84 (4.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 80 (3.98%) Ubuntu
11 71 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 52 (2.59%) VMS
13 51 (2.54%) Windows 7
14 41 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
15 37 (1.84%) Mac OS X
16 36 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 32 (1.59%) CentOS
18 27 (1.34%) Solaris
19 21 (1.05%) zOS
20 12 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (17.03%) ITIL
2 338 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
3 235 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
4 234 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 231 (11.50%) Customer Service
6 194 (9.66%) Computer Science
7 189 (9.41%) DevOps
8 188 (9.36%) Agile
9 160 (7.97%) Business Continuity
10 158 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 154 (7.67%) ITSM
12 137 (6.82%) Mobile Device Management
13 123 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (5.88%) Service Management
15 112 (5.58%) BCP
16 108 (5.38%) CI/CD
17 105 (5.23%) Information Security
17 105 (5.23%) Mentoring
18 104 (5.18%) Business Continuity Planning
18 104 (5.18%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 390 (19.42%) PowerShell
2 330 (16.43%) SQL
3 187 (9.31%) Python
4 150 (7.47%) Bash
5 111 (5.53%) C#
6 74 (3.69%) JavaScript
7 55 (2.74%) T-SQL
8 54 (2.69%) Perl
9 52 (2.59%) Java
10 36 (1.79%) Ruby
11 23 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.75%) C++
13 11 (0.55%) Korn
14 10 (0.50%) C
14 10 (0.50%) RPG
15 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.40%) PHP
16 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.25%) SAS Macro
18 3 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 443 (22.06%) Degree
2 141 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 133 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 126 (6.27%) Master's Degree
5 98 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (2.74%) SC Cleared
9 53 (2.64%) MCSE
10 42 (2.09%) MCSA
11 41 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 37 (1.84%) CISSP
13 36 (1.79%) Azure Certification
14 34 (1.69%) A+ Certification
15 31 (1.54%) CCNA
16 30 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 28 (1.39%) DBS Check
18 25 (1.25%) MBA
19 24 (1.20%) CISM
20 23 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.52%) SLA
2 52 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (1.84%) GDPR
4 31 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.10%) NIST
7 20 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.95%) QA
9 15 (0.75%) COBIT
9 15 (0.75%) PMO
10 11 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.40%) ITGC
13 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.15%) NCSC
15 2 (0.100%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.100%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.100%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 996 (49.60%) Active Directory
2 323 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 189 (9.41%) VMware ESXi
4 111 (5.53%) XenApp
5 110 (5.48%) XenDesktop
6 94 (4.68%) Microsoft App-V
7 76 (3.78%) Hyper-V
8 65 (3.24%) Docker
9 54 (2.69%) vSphere
10 41 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
11 40 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
12 38 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
13 21 (1.05%) Firmware
14 13 (0.65%) vCloud
15 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.30%) Forefront TMG
15 6 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.20%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 265 (13.20%) SCCM
2 219 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (6.97%) Ansible
4 133 (6.62%) Terraform
5 98 (4.88%) AirWatch
6 88 (4.38%) Kubernetes
7 64 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
8 63 (3.14%) vCenter Server
9 47 (2.34%) Puppet
10 44 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
11 34 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
12 29 (1.44%) Grafana
13 22 (1.10%) SCOM
14 21 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (1.00%) Nagios
15 20 (1.00%) WSUS
16 15 (0.75%) Progress Chef
17 14 (0.70%) Nessus
17 14 (0.70%) Prometheus
18 13 (0.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 993 (49.45%) Microsoft
2 463 (23.06%) VMware
3 290 (14.44%) Cisco
4 221 (11.01%) Citrix
5 116 (5.78%) Apple
6 110 (5.48%) Oracle
7 82 (4.08%) Veeam
8 74 (3.69%) HP
8 74 (3.69%) ServiceNow
9 73 (3.64%) Bloomberg
10 69 (3.44%) Red Hat
11 65 (3.24%) Google
12 53 (2.64%) Palo Alto
13 50 (2.49%) Commvault
14 43 (2.14%) iManage
15 42 (2.09%) IBM
15 42 (2.09%) NetApp
16 40 (1.99%) Meraki
16 40 (1.99%) Qualys
17 39 (1.94%) Sun