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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,049 1,669 2,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.13% 12.45% 10.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.85% 65.45% 48.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,159 1,682
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,750 £25,025
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.59% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £58,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -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 2,892 2,550 4,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.71% 19.03% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 1,807 2,767
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the 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 9 June 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 9 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
Hampshire +6 661 £45,000 +28.57% 100
Thames Valley -2 649 £40,210 +14.89% 115
Berkshire +1 282 £50,000 +33.33% 51
Surrey -3 269 £42,500 +12.58% 49
Oxfordshire +6 207 £42,000 +21.74% 28
Kent -5 166 £37,500 +10.29% 39
Buckinghamshire -14 160 £38,000 +11.76% 36
East Sussex +20 151 £39,500 -15.05% 12
West Sussex +8 113 £35,000 -30.00% 23
Middlesex -2 22 £39,595 -54.75% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 -
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
1 267 (13.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (8.98%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.20%) IIS
4 29 (1.42%) Apache
5 21 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.54%) Confluence
6 11 (0.54%) WordPress
7 8 (0.39%) CMS
8 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2000
10 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.20%) TWiki
12 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.15%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.049%) Mule
14 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 285 (13.91%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.78%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.098%) assyst
3 1 (0.049%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 855 (41.73%) Microsoft 365
2 742 (36.21%) Azure
3 207 (10.10%) Entra ID
4 136 (6.64%) AWS
5 102 (4.98%) OneDrive
6 84 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.76%) Serverless
8 76 (3.71%) Azure Functions
8 76 (3.71%) IBM Cloud
9 75 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
10 74 (3.61%) Azure API Management
10 74 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 60 (2.93%) SaaS
12 45 (2.20%) IaaS
13 27 (1.32%) Power Platform
14 26 (1.27%) Google Workspace
14 26 (1.27%) Mimecast
15 25 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 440 (21.47%) Firewall
2 314 (15.32%) DNS
3 201 (9.81%) DHCP
4 173 (8.44%) TCP/IP
5 162 (7.91%) VPN
6 121 (5.91%) Wireless
7 119 (5.81%) LAN
8 114 (5.56%) WAN
9 103 (5.03%) VoIP
10 86 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
11 85 (4.15%) VLAN
12 72 (3.51%) SAN
13 34 (1.66%) Internet
13 34 (1.66%) NAS
13 34 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
14 31 (1.51%) SNMP
15 30 (1.46%) Network Security
16 22 (1.07%) Unified Communications
17 21 (1.02%) FTP
18 20 (0.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 100 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 93 (4.54%) DB2
4 92 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (4.15%) MongoDB
6 76 (3.71%) NoSQL
7 39 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (1.90%) MySQL
8 16 (0.78%) Power BI
9 8 (0.39%) GIS
10 7 (0.34%) MariaDB
10 7 (0.34%) Redis
11 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.24%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.049%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.049%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.049%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (3.90%) Git
2 53 (2.59%) Visual Studio
3 38 (1.85%) Subversion
4 28 (1.37%) JIRA
5 22 (1.07%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.98%) Ant
7 15 (0.73%) CMake
8 14 (0.68%) MSI
9 13 (0.63%) Eclipse
10 12 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.49%) eggPlant
11 10 (0.49%) GitLab
11 10 (0.49%) Trac
12 7 (0.34%) AdminStudio
12 7 (0.34%) InstallShield
13 6 (0.29%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.24%) Selenium
15 4 (0.20%) Hudson
General
1 637 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 170 (8.30%) Finance
3 141 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
6 74 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 48 (2.34%) Law
8 48 (2.34%) Legal
9 43 (2.10%) Retail
10 39 (1.90%) Military
11 38 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 38 (1.85%) Electronics
12 36 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (1.76%) Games
13 30 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (1.32%) Marketing
15 22 (1.07%) Back Office
16 16 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 333 (16.25%) IT Support
2 316 (15.42%) Support Engineer
3 255 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 239 (11.66%) Analyst
4 239 (11.66%) IT Engineer
5 192 (9.37%) IT Support Engineer
6 185 (9.03%) Senior
7 149 (7.27%) Lead
8 146 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 144 (7.03%) Developer
10 114 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
11 108 (5.27%) 3rd Line Support
12 103 (5.03%) Support Analyst
13 98 (4.78%) IT Technician
14 92 (4.49%) IT Analyst
15 88 (4.29%) 1st Line Support
16 82 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 81 (3.95%) Support Technician
18 80 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
19 79 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (8.30%) .NET
2 119 (5.81%) HTML
3 117 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 112 (5.47%) CSS
5 109 (5.32%) React
6 97 (4.73%) Web Services
7 96 (4.69%) REST
8 94 (4.59%) jQuery
9 93 (4.54%) Vue
10 87 (4.25%) ASP.NET
11 83 (4.05%) Node.js
11 83 (4.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 76 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (3.71%) Backbone.js
12 76 (3.71%) Ember.js
13 48 (2.34%) XML
14 44 (2.15%) WPF
15 39 (1.90%) Qt
16 27 (1.32%) .NET Framework
17 26 (1.27%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.47%) Algorithms
1 112 (5.47%) Data Centre
2 88 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 86 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 77 (3.76%) Driving Licence
5 76 (3.71%) Blockchain
6 69 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 64 (3.12%) PKI
8 48 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.29%) Replication
10 42 (2.05%) Client/Server
11 38 (1.85%) IoT
12 37 (1.81%) CMDB
13 33 (1.61%) Clustering
14 27 (1.32%) NHS
15 25 (1.22%) Smartphone
16 21 (1.02%) Digital Signage
17 18 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (0.83%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 763 (37.24%) Windows Server
2 552 (26.94%) Linux
3 443 (21.62%) Windows 10
4 164 (8.00%) Apple iOS
5 163 (7.96%) Android
6 161 (7.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 141 (6.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 110 (5.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 102 (4.98%) Windows 7
10 60 (2.93%) Mac OS
11 52 (2.54%) Windows 8
12 38 (1.85%) Ubuntu
13 37 (1.81%) Unix
14 28 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (1.17%) CentOS
16 22 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.83%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.73%) Mac OS X
19 12 (0.59%) Windows NT
20 10 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
2 353 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 351 (17.13%) ITIL
4 346 (16.89%) Customer Service
5 229 (11.18%) Agile
6 228 (11.13%) DevOps
7 204 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
8 185 (9.03%) Software Engineering
9 128 (6.25%) Computer Science
10 126 (6.15%) Mentoring
11 118 (5.76%) OO
12 114 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 110 (5.37%) MVC
14 109 (5.32%) Service Delivery
15 108 (5.27%) MVVM
15 108 (5.27%) Service Management
16 105 (5.12%) Project Management
17 97 (4.73%) SOLID
18 95 (4.64%) OOP
19 91 (4.44%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 286 (13.96%) SQL
2 285 (13.91%) PowerShell
3 233 (11.37%) C#
4 222 (10.83%) Python
5 167 (8.15%) Java
6 164 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 155 (7.56%) C++
8 97 (4.73%) C
9 51 (2.49%) VB
10 36 (1.76%) Perl
11 35 (1.71%) Bash
12 30 (1.46%) VBScript
13 23 (1.12%) XAML
14 18 (0.88%) ActionScript
14 18 (0.88%) Bicep
14 18 (0.88%) R
15 15 (0.73%) Haskell
16 12 (0.59%) Go
17 9 (0.44%) PHP
18 8 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 363 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 362 (17.67%) Degree
3 257 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 183 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 103 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 73 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (2.64%) CCNA
9 44 (2.15%) MCP
10 43 (2.10%) DBS Check
11 36 (1.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 34 (1.66%) MCSE
13 30 (1.46%) CCNP
14 25 (1.22%) A+ Certification
14 25 (1.22%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
16 19 (0.93%) HNC
16 19 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
17 17 (0.83%) CISSP
18 16 (0.78%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.13%) SLA
2 63 (3.07%) GDPR
3 45 (2.20%) QA
4 43 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 33 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.29%) GRC
9 6 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.20%) COBIT
11 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.15%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.098%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.098%) PMO
13 2 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 898 (43.83%) Active Directory
2 315 (15.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 261 (12.74%) Hyper-V
4 72 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (3.42%) vSphere
6 59 (2.88%) XenApp
7 55 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 53 (2.59%) Docker
9 51 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
10 44 (2.15%) VirtualBox
11 39 (1.90%) XenDesktop
12 34 (1.66%) Firmware
13 17 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
14 14 (0.68%) OpenSSH
15 13 (0.63%) KVM
15 13 (0.63%) NFS
16 12 (0.59%) pfSense
17 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
19 6 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 201 (9.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 147 (7.17%) SCCM
3 97 (4.73%) WSUS
4 74 (3.61%) vCenter Server
5 70 (3.42%) Kubernetes
6 55 (2.68%) Ansible
7 54 (2.64%) SCOM
8 36 (1.76%) Terraform
9 28 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.12%) ZABBIX
11 20 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
12 18 (0.88%) Puppet
12 18 (0.88%) WMI
13 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.78%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.73%) IBM BigFix
14 15 (0.73%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.68%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.68%) PowerCLI
16 13 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,017 (49.63%) Microsoft
2 471 (22.99%) VMware
3 169 (8.25%) Cisco
4 149 (7.27%) Citrix
5 116 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 97 (4.73%) Veeam
7 95 (4.64%) IBM
8 58 (2.83%) Apple
9 54 (2.64%) Dell
10 46 (2.24%) Google
11 44 (2.15%) Oracle
12 41 (2.00%) Adobe
12 41 (2.00%) HP
13 40 (1.95%) Juniper
14 34 (1.66%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.51%) Meraki
16 30 (1.46%) Draytek
17 29 (1.42%) Fortinet
17 29 (1.42%) Sophos
17 29 (1.42%) Splunk