Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 12 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,138 6,427 7,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.97% 10.90% 10.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.55% 66.08% 52.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,842 4,239 5,920
10th Percentile £24,696 £24,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £39,525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.20% -1.19%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,813
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £66,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,567 9,726 14,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 16.49% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,150 6,103 9,299
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 2,036 £40,000 +6.67% 458
North of England +7 1,565 £37,500 -6.25% 373
Midlands +11 1,236 £35,000 -12.50% 287
South West +5 991 £42,500 +9.98% 243
North West -4 759 £40,000 - 171
East of England +3 743 £32,500 -15.58% 223
West Midlands +13 692 £35,000 -12.50% 165
Yorkshire +19 617 £37,000 -1.33% 170
East Midlands +10 538 £35,000 -10.71% 122
Scotland -43 370 £42,202 -6.22% 92
North East +14 191 £33,000 -17.50% 36
Wales +9 146 £32,500 -7.14% 29
Northern Ireland -13 47 £37,500 -25.00% 15
Isle of Man -5 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1,063 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 732 (10.25%) SharePoint
3 147 (2.06%) IIS
4 117 (1.64%) Apache
5 53 (0.74%) Confluence
6 39 (0.55%) CMS
7 35 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 33 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
9 27 (0.38%) Skype for Business
10 26 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
11 23 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 20 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
13 15 (0.21%) WordPress
14 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
14 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
15 10 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.098%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.098%) CloudStack
16 7 (0.098%) nginx
17 6 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1,037 (14.53%) Microsoft Office
2 208 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 17 (0.24%) Trello
7 11 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.056%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.042%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.042%) Pro Tools
11 3 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.028%) CATIA
12 2 (0.028%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.028%) Sketch
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 20 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.22%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.084%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.070%) Shopify
8 3 (0.042%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.042%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.028%) assyst
9 2 (0.028%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.028%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.028%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.014%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.014%) Magento
10 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.014%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,077 (43.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2,615 (36.63%) Azure
3 825 (11.56%) Entra ID
4 615 (8.62%) AWS
5 320 (4.48%) OneDrive
6 230 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (3.19%) IBM Cloud
8 217 (3.04%) SaaS
9 150 (2.10%) GCP
10 139 (1.95%) IaaS
11 135 (1.89%) Serverless
12 130 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 123 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 121 (1.70%) Azure Functions
15 119 (1.67%) Azure API Management
16 105 (1.47%) Power Platform
17 94 (1.32%) Google Workspace
18 92 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
19 81 (1.13%) Mimecast
20 71 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,352 (18.94%) Firewall
2 1,040 (14.57%) DNS
3 800 (11.21%) DHCP
4 680 (9.53%) TCP/IP
5 599 (8.39%) WAN
6 588 (8.24%) LAN
7 554 (7.76%) VPN
8 399 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
9 355 (4.97%) SAN
10 314 (4.40%) Wireless
11 276 (3.87%) VoIP
12 267 (3.74%) VLAN
13 207 (2.90%) Internet
14 153 (2.14%) Network Security
15 136 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
16 131 (1.84%) NAS
17 98 (1.37%) SD-WAN
18 95 (1.33%) SNMP
19 86 (1.20%) HTTP
20 68 (0.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 339 (4.75%) MongoDB
3 272 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 268 (3.75%) DB2
5 244 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 204 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 121 (1.70%) MySQL
8 114 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.15%) Power BI
10 67 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 35 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 34 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (0.38%) RDBMS
16 25 (0.35%) Redis
17 24 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.28%) QlikView
19 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
20 16 (0.22%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 171 (2.40%) Git
2 138 (1.93%) JIRA
3 113 (1.58%) Visual Studio
4 66 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 66 (0.92%) Subversion
5 55 (0.77%) GitLab
6 36 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.34%) Ant
8 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.28%) CMake
9 20 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
9 20 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 19 (0.27%) MSI
11 15 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (0.18%) eggPlant
14 10 (0.14%) Trac
15 9 (0.13%) InstallShield
15 9 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,185 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 688 (9.64%) Finance
3 591 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 277 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 275 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 254 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 247 (3.46%) Law
9 235 (3.29%) Retail
10 213 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 136 (1.91%) Legal
12 132 (1.85%) Marketing
13 126 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 125 (1.75%) Electronics
15 110 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
16 85 (1.19%) Games
17 78 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
18 77 (1.08%) Military
19 62 (0.87%) Automotive
20 56 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,259 (17.64%) IT Support
2 1,134 (15.89%) Support Engineer
3 931 (13.04%) IT Engineer
4 887 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 813 (11.39%) Analyst
6 773 (10.83%) Senior
7 645 (9.04%) IT Support Engineer
8 488 (6.84%) IT Technician
9 402 (5.63%) Lead
10 401 (5.62%) Developer
11 395 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support
12 358 (5.02%) Support Technician
13 305 (4.27%) Software Engineer
14 299 (4.19%) IT Analyst
15 298 (4.17%) Support Analyst
16 291 (4.08%) IT Support Technician
17 263 (3.68%) 1st Line Support
18 255 (3.57%) Administrator
19 253 (3.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
20 251 (3.52%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (7.30%) .NET
2 396 (5.55%) HTML
3 346 (4.85%) CSS
4 317 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 311 (4.36%) ASP.NET
6 310 (4.34%) React
7 304 (4.26%) REST
8 293 (4.10%) Web Services
9 277 (3.88%) Vue
10 276 (3.87%) jQuery
11 268 (3.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 230 (3.22%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (3.19%) Backbone.js
13 228 (3.19%) Ember.js
14 151 (2.12%) Node.js
15 113 (1.58%) WPF
16 85 (1.19%) .NET Framework
16 85 (1.19%) XML
17 74 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
18 58 (0.81%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 462 (6.47%) Data Centre
2 438 (6.14%) Driving Licence
3 355 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 282 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 277 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 270 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 235 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 228 (3.19%) Blockchain
9 186 (2.61%) Public Cloud
10 167 (2.34%) Replication
11 142 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 114 (1.60%) e-Learning
13 108 (1.51%) Clustering
13 108 (1.51%) PKI
14 77 (1.08%) EPoS
15 67 (0.94%) Smartphone
16 63 (0.88%) Client/Server
17 59 (0.83%) CMDB
18 55 (0.77%) NHS
19 54 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2,735 (38.32%) Windows Server
2 1,883 (26.38%) Linux
3 1,364 (19.11%) Windows 10
4 525 (7.36%) Android
5 504 (7.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 494 (6.92%) Apple iOS
7 454 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 414 (5.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 296 (4.15%) Mac OS
10 271 (3.80%) Windows 7
11 252 (3.53%) Unix
12 125 (1.75%) Windows 8
13 124 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 114 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
15 87 (1.22%) CentOS
16 75 (1.05%) Ubuntu
17 60 (0.84%) VMS
18 57 (0.80%) Mac OS X
19 50 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
20 34 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,231 (17.25%) ITIL
3 1,211 (16.97%) Customer Service
4 1,145 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 731 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
6 619 (8.67%) Agile
7 609 (8.53%) Mentoring
8 568 (7.96%) DevOps
9 432 (6.05%) Software Engineering
10 376 (5.27%) User Experience
11 367 (5.14%) Computer Science
12 355 (4.97%) Project Management
13 347 (4.86%) Service Management
14 327 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 320 (4.48%) OO
16 319 (4.47%) MVC
17 315 (4.41%) Service Delivery
18 305 (4.27%) Disaster Recovery
19 299 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 292 (4.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (14.07%) SQL
2 867 (12.15%) PowerShell
3 621 (8.70%) C#
4 594 (8.32%) Python
5 426 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 358 (5.02%) Java
7 302 (4.23%) C++
8 239 (3.35%) Bash
9 173 (2.42%) C
10 82 (1.15%) VB
11 59 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 56 (0.78%) VBScript
13 53 (0.74%) Perl
14 50 (0.70%) XAML
15 34 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 33 (0.46%) PHP
16 33 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 27 (0.38%) R
17 27 (0.38%) VB.NET
18 23 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,066 (14.93%) Degree
2 890 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 523 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 443 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 382 (5.35%) DV Cleared
6 263 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 258 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
8 221 (3.10%) CCNA
9 215 (3.01%) DBS Check
10 150 (2.10%) MCSE
11 146 (2.05%) A+ Certification
12 145 (2.03%) MCP
13 93 (1.30%) Azure Certification
14 87 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
15 84 (1.18%) MCSA
16 76 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
17 66 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 65 (0.91%) CCNP
19 59 (0.83%) CISSP
20 57 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (6.49%) SLA
2 167 (2.34%) GDPR
3 124 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 112 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 112 (1.57%) QA
5 55 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 45 (0.63%) NIST
7 33 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 17 (0.24%) PMO
10 14 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.17%) ITGC
13 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 8 (0.11%) MISRA
14 7 (0.098%) GRC
14 7 (0.098%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.084%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.084%) ISO 9000
16 5 (0.070%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,113 (43.61%) Active Directory
2 1,190 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,026 (14.37%) Hyper-V
4 224 (3.14%) Docker
5 212 (2.97%) VMware ESXi
6 195 (2.73%) vSphere
7 180 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
8 112 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 101 (1.41%) Firmware
10 87 (1.22%) XenApp
11 69 (0.97%) XenDesktop
12 63 (0.88%) KVM
13 48 (0.67%) VirtualBox
14 47 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
15 44 (0.62%) Terminal Services
16 21 (0.29%) pfSense
16 21 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 20 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
17 20 (0.28%) VMware NSX
17 20 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 732 (10.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 466 (6.53%) SCCM
3 266 (3.73%) Ansible
4 247 (3.46%) Kubernetes
5 179 (2.51%) vCenter Server
6 159 (2.23%) WSUS
7 153 (2.14%) Terraform
8 117 (1.64%) SCOM
9 79 (1.11%) Puppet
10 68 (0.95%) Prometheus
11 53 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 53 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
12 47 (0.66%) ZABBIX
13 42 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 42 (0.59%) Progress Chef
14 41 (0.57%) Nagios
15 37 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
16 36 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
16 36 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
17 34 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3,608 (50.55%) Microsoft
2 1,787 (25.04%) VMware
3 532 (7.45%) Cisco
4 436 (6.11%) Red Hat
5 402 (5.63%) Citrix
6 344 (4.82%) Veeam
7 336 (4.71%) IBM
8 281 (3.94%) Dell
9 277 (3.88%) Apple
10 238 (3.33%) HP
11 216 (3.03%) Google
12 192 (2.69%) Oracle
13 171 (2.40%) NetApp
14 128 (1.79%) Meraki
15 122 (1.71%) ServiceNow
16 114 (1.60%) Sophos
17 100 (1.40%) Adobe
18 83 (1.16%) Splunk
19 81 (1.13%) Palo Alto
19 81 (1.13%) SolarWinds