Windows Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 19 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,269 847 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.71% 9.90% 10.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.35% 68.14% 58.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 589 1,011
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,000 £27,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £42,801
% change year-on-year -8.05% +1.63% -4.89%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,662 1,243 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.72% 14.53% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 811 1,398
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,625
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +7.92%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +9 714 £35,000 -12.50% 147
East Midlands +3 550 £33,966 -15.09% 113
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 204 (16.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (13.87%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.10%) IIS
4 17 (1.34%) Skype for Business
5 14 (1.10%) Apache
6 12 (0.95%) Confluence
7 10 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.16%) Liferay
10 2 (0.16%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.079%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.079%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.079%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 185 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.87%) Trello
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.16%) CATIA
7 2 (0.16%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.079%) InDesign
8 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.63%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.079%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.079%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.079%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.079%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 650 (51.22%) Microsoft 365
2 523 (41.21%) Azure
3 202 (15.92%) Entra ID
4 71 (5.59%) AWS
4 71 (5.59%) IBM Cloud
5 38 (2.99%) OneDrive
6 33 (2.60%) SaaS
7 29 (2.29%) GCP
8 19 (1.50%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.42%) Google Workspace
9 18 (1.42%) IaaS
9 18 (1.42%) Mimecast
10 17 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.18%) PaaS
12 12 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.71%) GitHub
13 9 (0.71%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 268 (21.12%) Firewall
2 250 (19.70%) DNS
3 209 (16.47%) DHCP
4 145 (11.43%) TCP/IP
5 106 (8.35%) WAN
6 100 (7.88%) LAN
7 96 (7.57%) Wi-Fi
8 82 (6.46%) SAN
9 80 (6.30%) VPN
10 64 (5.04%) VLAN
11 38 (2.99%) Wireless
12 29 (2.29%) Network Security
13 25 (1.97%) Internet
14 19 (1.50%) SSL
14 19 (1.50%) VoIP
15 18 (1.42%) PBX
15 18 (1.42%) Skype
16 15 (1.18%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.18%) SNMP
17 14 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (9.61%) SQL Server
2 76 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 75 (5.91%) DB2
3 75 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (5.67%) NoSQL
5 18 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.34%) Power BI
7 15 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.02%) MySQL
10 10 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.55%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.32%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.32%) Redis
14 4 (0.32%) SQLite
14 4 (0.32%) UniData
15 3 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 26 (2.05%) JIRA
2 16 (1.26%) Git
3 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.32%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.24%) Subversion
6 2 (0.16%) Bower
6 2 (0.16%) CANoe
6 2 (0.16%) GitLab
6 2 (0.16%) gulp
6 2 (0.16%) Moq
7 1 (0.079%) CMake
7 1 (0.079%) Toad
General
1 369 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 110 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 97 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.57%) Finance
5 95 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 71 (5.59%) Law
6 71 (5.59%) Manufacturing
7 70 (5.52%) Retail
8 43 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (3.07%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.97%) Automotive
12 20 (1.58%) Marketing
13 18 (1.42%) Electronics
13 18 (1.42%) Legal
14 14 (1.10%) Games
14 14 (1.10%) Police
15 12 (0.95%) Local Government
16 9 (0.71%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 255 (20.09%) IT Support
2 206 (16.23%) IT Engineer
3 198 (15.60%) Support Engineer
4 142 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 125 (9.85%) Analyst
6 118 (9.30%) Senior
7 114 (8.98%) IT Support Engineer
8 95 (7.49%) IT Technician
9 90 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
10 71 (5.59%) Full Stack Engineer
11 70 (5.52%) 1st Line Support
12 65 (5.12%) 2nd Line Support
13 62 (4.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (4.73%) Lead
15 58 (4.57%) Support Technician
16 54 (4.26%) IT Analyst
17 52 (4.10%) Developer
17 52 (4.10%) IT Support Technician
18 50 (3.94%) Support Analyst
19 46 (3.62%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (11.11%) .NET
2 106 (8.35%) HTML
3 94 (7.41%) ASP.NET
3 94 (7.41%) REST
4 93 (7.33%) CSS
5 90 (7.09%) Vue
6 89 (7.01%) Web Services
7 86 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 86 (6.78%) React
8 85 (6.70%) jQuery
9 83 (6.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 73 (5.75%) ASP.NET Core
11 71 (5.59%) Backbone.js
11 71 (5.59%) Ember.js
12 22 (1.73%) ASP.NET MVC
13 21 (1.65%) WPF
14 16 (1.26%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.26%) .NET Framework
14 16 (1.26%) WinForms
15 12 (0.95%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.96%) Driving Licence
2 100 (7.88%) Data Centre
3 84 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 71 (5.59%) Algorithms
5 71 (5.59%) Blockchain
5 71 (5.59%) Data Structures
5 71 (5.59%) e-Learning
6 46 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 44 (3.47%) Replication
8 29 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 28 (2.21%) Clustering
9 28 (2.21%) PKI
10 22 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.18%) EPoS
12 15 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
13 11 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 551 (43.42%) Windows Server
2 255 (20.09%) Linux
3 217 (17.10%) Windows 10
4 118 (9.30%) Apple iOS
5 115 (9.06%) Android
6 92 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 74 (5.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 73 (5.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 48 (3.78%) Windows 7
10 41 (3.23%) Mac OS
11 40 (3.15%) Unix
12 21 (1.65%) Windows 8
13 18 (1.42%) Ubuntu
14 16 (1.26%) Solaris
14 16 (1.26%) VMS
15 14 (1.10%) CentOS
16 12 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
19 5 (0.39%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (16.31%) Customer Service
3 179 (14.11%) ITIL
4 172 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 170 (13.40%) Cybersecurity
6 143 (11.27%) Mentoring
7 135 (10.64%) Agile
8 99 (7.80%) Web Development
9 96 (7.57%) MVC
10 84 (6.62%) OOP
11 82 (6.46%) OO
12 81 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 81 (6.38%) Design Patterns
13 80 (6.30%) Full Stack Development
13 80 (6.30%) User Experience
14 78 (6.15%) MVVM
15 77 (6.07%) Coaching
15 77 (6.07%) SOLID
16 75 (5.91%) Code Quality
17 74 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 235 (18.52%) SQL
2 132 (10.40%) C#
3 109 (8.59%) PowerShell
4 97 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.99%) Python
6 25 (1.97%) Java
7 24 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.26%) C
9 15 (1.18%) C++
9 15 (1.18%) XAML
10 14 (1.10%) VB.NET
11 12 (0.95%) PHP
12 11 (0.87%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.63%) Bash
13 8 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.39%) Bicep
14 5 (0.39%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.24%) Go
15 3 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 160 (12.61%) Degree
2 95 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 61 (4.81%) DBS Check
5 46 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (3.23%) CCNA
7 35 (2.76%) MCP
7 35 (2.76%) SC Cleared
8 34 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 30 (2.36%) A+ Certification
10 28 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.21%) MCSE
11 20 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 18 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.26%) CCNP
14 15 (1.18%) MCSA
15 13 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.95%) AWS Certification
17 9 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.33%) SLA
2 30 (2.36%) GDPR
3 25 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (1.50%) QA
5 16 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.87%) NIST
9 5 (0.39%) MISRA
10 3 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.079%) ITGC
12 1 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 599 (47.20%) Active Directory
2 232 (18.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 208 (16.39%) Hyper-V
4 43 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (3.15%) vSphere
6 28 (2.21%) Docker
7 22 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (1.02%) KVM
9 11 (0.87%) Firmware
9 11 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.71%) Terminal Services
10 9 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.71%) VMware Server
11 8 (0.63%) pfSense
11 8 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.55%) XenApp
12 7 (0.55%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.39%) NFS
13 5 (0.39%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 156 (12.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (6.93%) SCCM
3 27 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.65%) SCOM
4 21 (1.65%) Terraform
5 17 (1.34%) vCenter Server
6 14 (1.10%) WSUS
7 10 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.63%) Ansible
9 7 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.39%) AirWatch
10 5 (0.39%) Autotask
10 5 (0.39%) Backup Exec
10 5 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.39%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.32%) Grafana
11 4 (0.32%) SCOrch
11 4 (0.32%) vMotion
Vendors
1 721 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 338 (26.64%) VMware
3 103 (8.12%) Cisco
4 101 (7.96%) Veeam
5 84 (6.62%) IBM
6 81 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 78 (6.15%) Dell
8 60 (4.73%) HP
9 55 (4.33%) Apple
10 52 (4.10%) Citrix
11 38 (2.99%) Google
12 32 (2.52%) ServiceNow
13 29 (2.29%) Meraki
14 27 (2.13%) Adobe
15 25 (1.97%) Sophos
16 20 (1.58%) NetApp
17 19 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
17 19 (1.50%) Oracle
18 18 (1.42%) Acronis
19 16 (1.26%) Remedy