Windows Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,036 1,779 2,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.06% 12.45% 10.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.77% 65.28% 48.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 1,208 1,702
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,619 £29,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £58,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,799 £43,000
% change year-on-year -8.67% +1.86% -4.44%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,837 2,725 4,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.80% 19.07% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 1,894 2,784
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,688 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley +3 657 £40,000 +16.54% 122
Hampshire +5 651 £44,700 +27.71% 99
Berkshire +3 292 £45,000 +28.57% 51
Surrey -2 266 £42,500 +11.84% 43
Oxfordshire +11 205 £41,000 +17.14% 44
Buckinghamshire -15 160 £38,000 +11.76% 27
Kent -7 151 £37,500 +10.29% 35
East Sussex +20 143 £37,500 -31.82% 18
West Sussex +12 121 £35,000 -30.00% 31
Middlesex +4 26 £42,500 -51.43% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 - 1
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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
1 268 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 183 (8.99%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.36%) IIS
4 31 (1.52%) Apache
5 22 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.59%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) WordPress
8 8 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.20%) TWiki
13 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.15%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
15 1 (0.049%) WebSphere
Applications
1 290 (14.24%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.83%) AutoCAD
5 16 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.049%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.098%) assyst
3 1 (0.049%) iTrent
3 1 (0.049%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 867 (42.58%) Microsoft 365
2 737 (36.20%) Azure
3 191 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 137 (6.73%) AWS
5 102 (5.01%) OneDrive
6 88 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.78%) Serverless
8 76 (3.73%) Azure Functions
8 76 (3.73%) IBM Cloud
9 75 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 74 (3.63%) Azure API Management
10 74 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 61 (3.00%) SaaS
12 43 (2.11%) IaaS
13 30 (1.47%) Power Platform
14 24 (1.18%) Mimecast
15 23 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 435 (21.37%) Firewall
2 313 (15.37%) DNS
3 207 (10.17%) DHCP
4 172 (8.45%) TCP/IP
5 167 (8.20%) VPN
6 123 (6.04%) LAN
7 121 (5.94%) Wireless
8 120 (5.89%) WAN
9 102 (5.01%) VoIP
10 87 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
11 86 (4.22%) VLAN
12 75 (3.68%) SAN
13 35 (1.72%) SNMP
14 34 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
15 32 (1.57%) NAS
16 30 (1.47%) Network Security
17 29 (1.42%) Internet
18 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
19 22 (1.08%) FTP
19 22 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 101 (4.96%) Relational Database
3 92 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (4.47%) DB2
5 86 (4.22%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 38 (1.87%) MySQL
8 34 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (0.93%) Power BI
10 8 (0.39%) GIS
11 7 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.34%) Redis
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.29%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.098%) Tableau
16 1 (0.049%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 77 (3.78%) Git
2 52 (2.55%) Visual Studio
3 37 (1.82%) Subversion
4 32 (1.57%) JIRA
5 24 (1.18%) Ant
6 23 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.79%) CMake
8 13 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 13 (0.64%) eggPlant
9 12 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.49%) GitLab
10 10 (0.49%) MSI
10 10 (0.49%) Trac
11 6 (0.29%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.20%) AdminStudio
13 4 (0.20%) Hudson
13 4 (0.20%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 632 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 155 (7.61%) Finance
3 137 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 90 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.46%) Legal
8 48 (2.36%) Law
9 45 (2.21%) Retail
10 44 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 39 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.92%) Military
12 37 (1.82%) Electronics
13 36 (1.77%) Games
14 35 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.38%) Marketing
16 27 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.23%) Back Office
18 15 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 13 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 336 (16.50%) IT Support
2 320 (15.72%) Support Engineer
3 251 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 243 (11.94%) IT Engineer
5 237 (11.64%) Analyst
6 193 (9.48%) IT Support Engineer
7 185 (9.09%) Senior
8 151 (7.42%) Developer
9 145 (7.12%) Lead
10 143 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 115 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 114 (5.60%) 3rd Line Support
13 103 (5.06%) Support Analyst
14 98 (4.81%) IT Technician
15 93 (4.57%) IT Analyst
16 88 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 85 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
18 83 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
19 80 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
20 79 (3.88%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (8.50%) .NET
2 124 (6.09%) HTML
3 120 (5.89%) AngularJS
4 116 (5.70%) CSS
5 111 (5.45%) React
6 101 (4.96%) Web Services
7 98 (4.81%) jQuery
7 98 (4.81%) REST
8 93 (4.57%) Vue
9 92 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 87 (4.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 83 (4.08%) Node.js
12 76 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (3.73%) Backbone.js
12 76 (3.73%) Ember.js
13 54 (2.65%) XML
14 39 (1.92%) WPF
15 38 (1.87%) Qt
16 30 (1.47%) Hibernate
17 28 (1.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 113 (5.55%) Algorithms
3 84 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 81 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (3.93%) Driving Licence
6 77 (3.78%) Data Structures
7 76 (3.73%) Blockchain
8 69 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 57 (2.80%) PKI
10 49 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 46 (2.26%) Replication
12 41 (2.01%) CMDB
13 38 (1.87%) Client/Server
14 32 (1.57%) IoT
15 30 (1.47%) Clustering
16 28 (1.38%) NHS
17 21 (1.03%) Digital Signage
18 19 (0.93%) Smartphone
19 18 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
20 17 (0.83%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 764 (37.52%) Windows Server
2 539 (26.47%) Linux
3 436 (21.41%) Windows 10
4 165 (8.10%) Apple iOS
5 163 (8.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 159 (7.81%) Android
7 141 (6.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 111 (5.45%) Windows 7
9 107 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 59 (2.90%) Windows 8
11 58 (2.85%) Mac OS
12 37 (1.82%) Unix
13 34 (1.67%) Ubuntu
14 26 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 25 (1.23%) CentOS
16 24 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.83%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.74%) Mac OS X
19 11 (0.54%) VMS
19 11 (0.54%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
2 353 (17.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 343 (16.85%) Customer Service
4 342 (16.80%) ITIL
5 221 (10.85%) DevOps
6 218 (10.71%) Agile
7 215 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
8 182 (8.94%) Software Engineering
9 136 (6.68%) Computer Science
10 129 (6.34%) Mentoring
11 122 (5.99%) OO
12 114 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 107 (5.26%) Service Delivery
14 106 (5.21%) MVC
15 103 (5.06%) Project Management
16 102 (5.01%) MVVM
17 98 (4.81%) OOP
18 97 (4.76%) Service Management
19 92 (4.52%) SOLID
20 91 (4.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 306 (15.03%) SQL
2 281 (13.80%) PowerShell
3 229 (11.25%) C#
4 224 (11.00%) Python
5 171 (8.40%) Java
6 167 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 157 (7.71%) C++
8 93 (4.57%) C
9 40 (1.96%) VB
10 34 (1.67%) Bash
11 32 (1.57%) Perl
12 31 (1.52%) VBScript
13 19 (0.93%) XAML
14 18 (0.88%) R
15 15 (0.74%) ActionScript
15 15 (0.74%) Haskell
16 14 (0.69%) Bicep
17 12 (0.59%) Go
18 9 (0.44%) PHP
19 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 375 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 353 (17.34%) Degree
3 263 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 184 (9.04%) DV Cleared
5 110 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 75 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (2.75%) CCNA
9 42 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 42 (2.06%) MCP
10 36 (1.77%) MCSE
11 34 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 29 (1.42%) CCNP
13 25 (1.23%) A+ Certification
13 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 20 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
15 19 (0.93%) HNC
16 18 (0.88%) MCSA
17 17 (0.83%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.17%) SLA
2 66 (3.24%) GDPR
3 42 (2.06%) QA
4 38 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.29%) GRC
10 5 (0.25%) NIST
11 4 (0.20%) COBIT
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.15%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.098%) PMO
14 1 (0.049%) DICOM
14 1 (0.049%) HL7
14 1 (0.049%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 891 (43.76%) Active Directory
2 322 (15.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 274 (13.46%) Hyper-V
4 69 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 62 (3.05%) vSphere
6 61 (3.00%) XenApp
7 52 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
8 51 (2.50%) Docker
9 48 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 48 (2.36%) VirtualBox
10 44 (2.16%) XenDesktop
11 35 (1.72%) Firmware
12 17 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.79%) KVM
14 11 (0.54%) NFS
14 11 (0.54%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.49%) pfSense
16 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.34%) VMware Server
18 6 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 196 (9.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 137 (6.73%) SCCM
3 88 (4.32%) WSUS
4 72 (3.54%) vCenter Server
5 64 (3.14%) Kubernetes
6 54 (2.65%) Ansible
6 54 (2.65%) SCOM
7 34 (1.67%) Terraform
8 26 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (1.13%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
11 18 (0.88%) Puppet
11 18 (0.88%) WMI
12 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 16 (0.79%) SCDPM
13 15 (0.74%) FortiGate
13 15 (0.74%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.69%) Grafana
15 12 (0.59%) IBM BigFix
16 11 (0.54%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,016 (49.90%) Microsoft
2 469 (23.04%) VMware
3 164 (8.06%) Cisco
4 146 (7.17%) Citrix
5 117 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 94 (4.62%) Veeam
7 91 (4.47%) IBM
8 59 (2.90%) Apple
9 53 (2.60%) Dell
10 44 (2.16%) Google
10 44 (2.16%) Oracle
11 43 (2.11%) Adobe
12 42 (2.06%) HP
12 42 (2.06%) Juniper
13 32 (1.57%) Palo Alto
14 31 (1.52%) Meraki
15 30 (1.47%) Draytek
15 30 (1.47%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.47%) Sophos
16 27 (1.33%) Splunk