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 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 12 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,338 6,328 7,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.29% 11.37% 10.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.04% 67.07% 52.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,807 4,142 5,883
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 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £44,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% -0.57% -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 10,946 9,435 15,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.85% 16.95% 19.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,199 5,948 9,262
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 £73,750
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 9 June 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 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
South East 0 2,049 £40,000 +5.26% 382
North of England +1 1,578 £37,500 -6.25% 349
Midlands +6 1,354 £35,000 -12.50% 262
South West +4 1,016 £41,206 +3.02% 230
North West -6 792 £40,000 -5.88% 185
West Midlands +11 774 £35,000 -12.50% 151
East of England +1 770 £32,500 -14.47% 172
Yorkshire +11 602 £36,000 - 134
East Midlands +3 575 £33,966 -14.98% 111
Scotland -43 368 £42,500 - 100
North East +6 186 £33,000 -17.50% 33
Wales +4 151 £32,500 -1.52% 34
Northern Ireland -13 48 £37,500 -11.76% 17
Isle of Man -1 13 £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 1,077 (14.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 741 (10.10%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.02%) IIS
4 113 (1.54%) Apache
5 52 (0.71%) Confluence
6 38 (0.52%) CMS
7 34 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 32 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
9 30 (0.41%) Skype for Business
10 26 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
11 24 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 20 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
13 15 (0.20%) WordPress
14 13 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
14 13 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
15 12 (0.16%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.095%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.095%) CloudStack
16 7 (0.095%) nginx
17 6 (0.082%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1,058 (14.42%) Microsoft Office
2 229 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 16 (0.22%) Trello
7 12 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.082%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.041%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.041%) Pro Tools
11 3 (0.041%) Simulink
12 2 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.027%) CATIA
12 2 (0.027%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.027%) Sketch
13 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 20 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 15 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.082%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.068%) Shopify
8 3 (0.041%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.041%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.027%) assyst
9 2 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.014%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.014%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.014%) iTrent
10 1 (0.014%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,101 (42.26%) Microsoft 365
2 2,643 (36.02%) Azure
3 834 (11.37%) Entra ID
4 634 (8.64%) AWS
5 317 (4.32%) OneDrive
6 231 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (3.11%) IBM Cloud
8 215 (2.93%) SaaS
9 148 (2.02%) IaaS
10 138 (1.88%) GCP
11 136 (1.85%) Serverless
12 128 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 122 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 121 (1.65%) Azure Functions
15 119 (1.62%) Azure API Management
16 102 (1.39%) Power Platform
17 101 (1.38%) Google Workspace
18 90 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
19 89 (1.21%) Mimecast
20 72 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,370 (18.67%) Firewall
2 1,058 (14.42%) DNS
3 811 (11.05%) DHCP
4 696 (9.48%) TCP/IP
5 603 (8.22%) WAN
6 596 (8.12%) LAN
7 556 (7.58%) VPN
8 398 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
9 367 (5.00%) SAN
10 323 (4.40%) Wireless
11 280 (3.82%) Internet
12 276 (3.76%) VoIP
13 271 (3.69%) VLAN
14 227 (3.09%) Network Security
15 136 (1.85%) NAS
16 135 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
17 121 (1.65%) WLAN
18 91 (1.24%) SD-WAN
19 90 (1.23%) SNMP
20 87 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 575 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 342 (4.66%) MongoDB
3 276 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 272 (3.71%) DB2
5 243 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 209 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 126 (1.72%) MySQL
8 118 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 80 (1.09%) Power BI
10 65 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (0.59%) Oracle Database
12 34 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 31 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 27 (0.37%) QlikView
15 27 (0.37%) RDBMS
16 25 (0.34%) Redis
17 24 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.27%) MariaDB
19 16 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 179 (2.44%) Git
2 135 (1.84%) JIRA
3 113 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 67 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 65 (0.89%) Subversion
6 53 (0.72%) GitLab
7 37 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 22 (0.30%) MSI
9 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.27%) Ant
11 19 (0.26%) CMake
12 17 (0.23%) LabVIEW
13 16 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
16 12 (0.16%) AdminStudio
16 12 (0.16%) InstallShield
17 10 (0.14%) eggPlant
17 10 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 10 (0.14%) Trac
General
1 2,208 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 713 (9.72%) Finance
3 613 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
4 431 (5.87%) Public Sector
5 281 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 271 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
7 264 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 255 (3.48%) Law
9 228 (3.11%) Retail
10 219 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 137 (1.87%) Legal
12 135 (1.84%) Electronics
13 131 (1.79%) Aerospace
13 131 (1.79%) Marketing
14 110 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 84 (1.14%) Games
16 76 (1.04%) Military
17 73 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 71 (0.97%) Automotive
19 58 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,365 (18.60%) IT Support
2 1,187 (16.18%) Support Engineer
3 998 (13.60%) IT Engineer
4 903 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 841 (11.46%) Analyst
6 762 (10.38%) Senior
7 715 (9.74%) IT Support Engineer
8 520 (7.09%) IT Technician
9 412 (5.61%) Developer
10 411 (5.60%) Lead
11 405 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 374 (5.10%) Support Technician
13 315 (4.29%) Software Engineer
14 311 (4.24%) IT Analyst
15 310 (4.22%) Support Analyst
16 301 (4.10%) IT Support Technician
17 272 (3.71%) 1st Line Support
18 264 (3.60%) Service Analyst
19 261 (3.56%) Administrator
20 256 (3.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (7.26%) .NET
2 399 (5.44%) HTML
3 346 (4.72%) CSS
4 315 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 311 (4.24%) React
6 309 (4.21%) ASP.NET
7 306 (4.17%) REST
8 291 (3.97%) Web Services
9 281 (3.83%) Vue
10 272 (3.71%) jQuery
11 266 (3.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 231 (3.15%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (3.11%) Backbone.js
13 228 (3.11%) Ember.js
14 149 (2.03%) Node.js
15 120 (1.64%) WPF
16 93 (1.27%) .NET Framework
17 82 (1.12%) XML
18 76 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
19 63 (0.86%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 506 (6.90%) Driving Licence
2 458 (6.24%) Data Centre
3 362 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 288 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 277 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 277 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 233 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 228 (3.11%) Blockchain
8 211 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 179 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 171 (2.33%) Replication
11 119 (1.62%) PKI
12 116 (1.58%) Clustering
13 115 (1.57%) e-Learning
14 75 (1.02%) EPoS
15 72 (0.98%) Smartphone
16 66 (0.90%) Client/Server
17 60 (0.82%) IoT
18 56 (0.76%) Private Cloud
19 55 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2,759 (37.60%) Windows Server
2 1,979 (26.97%) Linux
3 1,395 (19.01%) Windows 10
4 539 (7.35%) Android
5 517 (7.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 503 (6.85%) Apple iOS
7 477 (6.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 425 (5.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 290 (3.95%) Mac OS
10 263 (3.58%) Windows 7
11 243 (3.31%) Unix
12 120 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 119 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 113 (1.54%) Windows 8
15 89 (1.21%) CentOS
16 77 (1.05%) Ubuntu
17 62 (0.84%) VMS
18 56 (0.76%) Mac OS X
19 49 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
20 34 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,792 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
2 1,293 (17.62%) ITIL
3 1,252 (17.06%) Customer Service
4 1,154 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 711 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
6 662 (9.02%) Mentoring
7 614 (8.37%) Agile
8 566 (7.71%) DevOps
9 442 (6.02%) Software Engineering
10 435 (5.93%) Computer Science
11 369 (5.03%) User Experience
12 361 (4.92%) Project Management
13 341 (4.65%) Service Management
14 327 (4.46%) MVC
15 325 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence
15 325 (4.43%) Service Delivery
16 319 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
16 319 (4.35%) OO
17 306 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 302 (4.12%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 987 (13.45%) SQL
2 860 (11.72%) PowerShell
3 641 (8.74%) C#
4 589 (8.03%) Python
5 427 (5.82%) JavaScript
6 357 (4.87%) Java
7 311 (4.24%) C++
8 237 (3.23%) Bash
9 181 (2.47%) C
10 93 (1.27%) VB
11 56 (0.76%) Perl
12 55 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 55 (0.75%) VBScript
13 54 (0.74%) XAML
14 39 (0.53%) PHP
15 36 (0.49%) TypeScript
16 30 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 30 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 27 (0.37%) R
18 24 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,173 (15.99%) Degree
2 909 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 531 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 510 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 394 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 329 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 318 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
8 283 (3.86%) CCNA
9 227 (3.09%) DBS Check
10 218 (2.97%) MCP
11 209 (2.85%) MCSE
12 151 (2.06%) A+ Certification
13 132 (1.80%) CCNP
14 96 (1.31%) Azure Certification
15 87 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
16 81 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
17 77 (1.05%) MCSA
18 69 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 67 (0.91%) LPIC
20 58 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (6.42%) SLA
2 165 (2.25%) GDPR
3 126 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 119 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 115 (1.57%) QA
6 55 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 42 (0.57%) NIST
8 40 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 19 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (0.23%) PMO
12 12 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.16%) ITGC
13 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 8 (0.11%) MISRA
14 7 (0.095%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.082%) GRC
15 6 (0.082%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.082%) ISO 9000
16 5 (0.068%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,128 (42.63%) Active Directory
2 1,208 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,014 (13.82%) Hyper-V
4 230 (3.13%) Docker
5 217 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
6 216 (2.94%) vSphere
7 182 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 115 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 105 (1.43%) Firmware
10 93 (1.27%) XenApp
11 72 (0.98%) XenDesktop
12 61 (0.83%) KVM
13 52 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
14 45 (0.61%) Terminal Services
15 44 (0.60%) VirtualBox
16 23 (0.31%) pfSense
17 21 (0.29%) VMware NSX
17 21 (0.29%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
19 19 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 740 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 462 (6.30%) SCCM
3 259 (3.53%) Kubernetes
4 256 (3.49%) Ansible
5 185 (2.52%) vCenter Server
6 169 (2.30%) WSUS
7 148 (2.02%) Terraform
8 121 (1.65%) SCOM
9 81 (1.10%) Puppet
10 69 (0.94%) Prometheus
11 56 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 53 (0.72%) FortiGate
13 49 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 48 (0.65%) ZABBIX
15 43 (0.59%) Nagios
16 38 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
17 36 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
18 35 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
19 34 (0.46%) Grafana
20 30 (0.41%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3,742 (50.99%) Microsoft
2 1,816 (24.75%) VMware
3 604 (8.23%) Cisco
4 444 (6.05%) Red Hat
5 414 (5.64%) Citrix
6 354 (4.82%) Veeam
7 327 (4.46%) IBM
8 277 (3.77%) Apple
9 274 (3.73%) Dell
10 235 (3.20%) HP
11 211 (2.88%) Google
12 208 (2.83%) Oracle
13 172 (2.34%) NetApp
14 131 (1.79%) ServiceNow
15 125 (1.70%) Meraki
16 118 (1.61%) Sophos
17 95 (1.29%) Adobe
18 87 (1.19%) Palo Alto
19 85 (1.16%) Splunk
20 82 (1.12%) SolarWinds