Windows Jobs in the North East

Microsoft Windows
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 13 27 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 189 114 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 10.18% 8.91% 13.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.21% 70.37% 51.26%
Number of salaries quoted 158 99 197
10th Percentile £23,675 £24,300 £21,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,375 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - +4.58%
75th Percentile £46,250 £50,938 £42,500
90th Percentile £54,125 £61,250 £49,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 248 162 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.36% 12.66% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 202 133 315
10th Percentile £24,050 £26,000 £22,950
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £58,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North East.

Salary trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the North East

Windows
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +18 122 £37,500 -8.23% 17
Durham +7 51 £30,000 -25.00% 9
Northumberland +3 14 £24,500 -25.76% 2
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 60 (31.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.65%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 104 (55.03%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (46.03%) Azure
3 42 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.41%) AWS
4 14 (7.41%) IaaS
5 6 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.12%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.59%) Azure Service Fabric
8 3 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.59%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
9 2 (1.06%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.69%) Firewall
2 26 (13.76%) DNS
3 25 (13.23%) DHCP
4 19 (10.05%) VoIP
4 19 (10.05%) WAN
5 17 (8.99%) LAN
6 16 (8.47%) VPN
7 11 (5.82%) VLAN
8 8 (4.23%) SAN
8 8 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (3.17%) Wireless
10 5 (2.65%) NAS
10 5 (2.65%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.12%) WLAN
12 2 (1.06%) HTTPS
12 2 (1.06%) PBX
12 2 (1.06%) SSL
13 1 (0.53%) Internet
13 1 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.17%) Power BI
4 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.06%) MySQL
5 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.70%) GitLab
2 5 (2.65%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.06%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 69 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.41%) Finance
5 9 (4.76%) Law
6 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.23%) Retail
7 6 (3.17%) Legal
8 5 (2.65%) Automotive
8 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (15.34%) Senior
3 28 (14.81%) Analyst
4 25 (13.23%) IT Technician
5 22 (11.64%) Support Engineer
6 18 (9.52%) IT Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Service Analyst
7 15 (7.94%) Service Desk Analyst
8 14 (7.41%) IT Support
9 13 (6.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 12 (6.35%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (6.35%) ICT Specialist
11 11 (5.82%) Administrator
11 11 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (5.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
13 9 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.59%) .NET
1 3 (1.59%) HTML
1 3 (1.59%) JSON
1 3 (1.59%) REST
2 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.06%) WPF
3 1 (0.53%) JWT
3 1 (0.53%) Middleware
3 1 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.35%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.76%) Clustering
4 9 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.65%) EPoS
6 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.12%) Replication
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.59%) Life Science
8 3 (1.59%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.06%) Handset
9 2 (1.06%) iPhone
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Robotics
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 108 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 52 (27.51%) Windows 10
3 20 (10.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (6.88%) Unix
6 11 (5.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (5.29%) Windows 7
8 9 (4.76%) Linux
9 6 (3.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (24.87%) ITIL
3 42 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 26 (13.76%) Customer Service
6 25 (13.23%) Migration
7 23 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (12.17%) Energy Management
7 23 (12.17%) Mentoring
7 23 (12.17%) Operations Management
8 18 (9.52%) Change Management
8 18 (9.52%) Coaching
9 13 (6.88%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (6.88%) Cost Management
9 13 (6.88%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (6.88%) Service Management
10 11 (5.82%) Architecture Roadmap
10 11 (5.82%) Cloud Security
10 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (5.82%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.23%) SQL
2 10 (5.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.65%) Bash
4 2 (1.06%) C#
4 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.53%) Python
5 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.70%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.12%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.59%) HNC
5 3 (1.59%) HND
5 3 (1.59%) MCITP
5 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) MCSE
6 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CISM
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) GSEC
7 1 (0.53%) MCSA
7 1 (0.53%) SSCP
7 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.99%) SLA
2 12 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (4.76%) NIST
5 3 (1.59%) GDPR
5 3 (1.59%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 110 (58.20%) Active Directory
2 34 (17.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.17%) vSphere
6 2 (1.06%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (15.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.35%) Terraform
3 10 (5.29%) SCCM
4 9 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
5 8 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.70%) Ansible
7 6 (3.17%) Autotask
7 6 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (3.17%) WSUS
8 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.59%) SCOM
9 2 (1.06%) Grafana
9 2 (1.06%) Kibana
9 2 (1.06%) logstash
9 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 60 (31.75%) VMware
3 16 (8.47%) Cisco
4 9 (4.76%) Apple
4 9 (4.76%) Splunk
5 7 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.65%) Datto
6 5 (2.65%) Intel
6 5 (2.65%) Meraki
7 4 (2.12%) BMC
7 4 (2.12%) Citrix
7 4 (2.12%) Sophos
8 3 (1.59%) Autodesk
8 3 (1.59%) Dell
8 3 (1.59%) Google
8 3 (1.59%) HP
8 3 (1.59%) IBM
8 3 (1.59%) Mitel
8 3 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.59%) SolarWinds