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 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 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,197 6,419 7,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.47% 11.35% 10.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.02% 66.93% 52.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,827 4,149 5,909
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 £67,300
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -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 10,738 9,590 15,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.13% 16.96% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,185 5,970 9,259
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 £72,500 £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 1 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 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
South East 0 2,033 £40,000 +6.67% 364
North of England +2 1,568 £37,500 -6.25% 351
Midlands +7 1,269 £35,000 -12.50% 261
South West +6 1,002 £42,000 +5.00% 215
North West -6 772 £40,000 -5.88% 191
East of England +1 762 £32,500 -14.47% 164
West Midlands +9 714 £35,000 -12.50% 147
Yorkshire +14 608 £36,064 -3.83% 136
East Midlands +3 550 £33,966 -15.09% 114
Scotland -47 364 £42,500 - 101
North East +11 190 £33,000 -17.50% 28
Wales +5 148 £32,500 -2.99% 34
Northern Ireland -11 47 £37,500 -16.67% 27
Isle of Man -3 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 1,070 (14.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 735 (10.21%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.06%) IIS
4 115 (1.60%) Apache
5 53 (0.74%) Confluence
6 38 (0.53%) CMS
7 34 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 32 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
9 28 (0.39%) Skype for Business
10 26 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
11 24 (0.33%) 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 11 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.097%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.097%) CloudStack
16 7 (0.097%) nginx
17 6 (0.083%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1,044 (14.51%) Microsoft Office
2 221 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 16 (0.22%) Trello
7 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.042%) Final Cut Pro
10 3 (0.042%) Pro Tools
10 3 (0.042%) Simulink
11 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.028%) CATIA
11 2 (0.028%) NASTRAN
11 2 (0.028%) Sketch
12 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 11 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
5 9 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.083%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.069%) 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%) iTrent
10 1 (0.014%) Sage 300 ERP
10 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,076 (42.74%) Microsoft 365
2 2,623 (36.45%) Azure
3 826 (11.48%) Entra ID
4 620 (8.61%) AWS
5 319 (4.43%) OneDrive
6 228 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 228 (3.17%) IBM Cloud
7 211 (2.93%) SaaS
8 144 (2.00%) GCP
9 139 (1.93%) IaaS
10 136 (1.89%) Serverless
11 130 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 123 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 121 (1.68%) Azure Functions
14 119 (1.65%) Azure API Management
15 103 (1.43%) Power Platform
16 96 (1.33%) Google Workspace
17 91 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
18 86 (1.19%) Mimecast
19 70 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,361 (18.91%) Firewall
2 1,051 (14.60%) DNS
3 807 (11.21%) DHCP
4 689 (9.57%) TCP/IP
5 596 (8.28%) WAN
6 589 (8.18%) LAN
7 552 (7.67%) VPN
8 389 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
9 370 (5.14%) SAN
10 316 (4.39%) Wireless
11 271 (3.77%) VoIP
12 269 (3.74%) VLAN
13 209 (2.90%) Internet
14 159 (2.21%) Network Security
15 138 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
16 135 (1.88%) NAS
17 91 (1.26%) SD-WAN
17 91 (1.26%) SNMP
18 88 (1.22%) HTTP
19 65 (0.90%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 566 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 342 (4.75%) MongoDB
3 274 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 271 (3.77%) DB2
5 243 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 206 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 123 (1.71%) MySQL
8 113 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (1.13%) Power BI
10 65 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 34 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 31 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 25 (0.35%) Redis
16 24 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.31%) QlikView
18 19 (0.26%) MariaDB
19 16 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 174 (2.42%) Git
2 136 (1.89%) JIRA
3 113 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 66 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 64 (0.89%) Subversion
6 53 (0.74%) GitLab
7 36 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.29%) Ant
8 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 21 (0.29%) MSI
9 19 (0.26%) CMake
10 17 (0.24%) LabVIEW
11 16 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 15 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 15 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.17%) eggPlant
15 11 (0.15%) AdminStudio
15 11 (0.15%) InstallShield
16 10 (0.14%) Trac
General
1 2,185 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 700 (9.73%) Finance
3 599 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
4 429 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 279 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 274 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 257 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 241 (3.35%) Law
9 232 (3.22%) Retail
10 220 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 132 (1.83%) Electronics
11 132 (1.83%) Legal
12 131 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 128 (1.78%) Marketing
14 110 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
15 86 (1.19%) Games
16 77 (1.07%) Military
16 77 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 69 (0.96%) Automotive
18 56 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,277 (17.74%) IT Support
2 1,126 (15.65%) Support Engineer
3 922 (12.81%) IT Engineer
4 893 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 828 (11.50%) Analyst
6 768 (10.67%) Senior
7 643 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 509 (7.07%) IT Technician
9 406 (5.64%) Developer
10 404 (5.61%) Lead
11 400 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
12 370 (5.14%) Support Technician
13 310 (4.31%) Software Engineer
14 304 (4.22%) IT Analyst
14 304 (4.22%) Support Analyst
15 300 (4.17%) IT Support Technician
16 265 (3.68%) 1st Line Support
17 262 (3.64%) Service Analyst
18 258 (3.58%) Administrator
19 252 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 528 (7.34%) .NET
2 397 (5.52%) HTML
3 345 (4.79%) CSS
4 315 (4.38%) AngularJS
5 309 (4.29%) ASP.NET
5 309 (4.29%) React
6 305 (4.24%) REST
7 291 (4.04%) Web Services
8 279 (3.88%) Vue
9 274 (3.81%) jQuery
10 267 (3.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 230 (3.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 228 (3.17%) Backbone.js
12 228 (3.17%) Ember.js
13 149 (2.07%) Node.js
14 116 (1.61%) WPF
15 90 (1.25%) .NET Framework
16 82 (1.14%) XML
17 76 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
18 60 (0.83%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 460 (6.39%) Data Centre
2 437 (6.07%) Driving Licence
3 362 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
4 286 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 277 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 270 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 235 (3.27%) Data Structures
8 228 (3.17%) Blockchain
9 185 (2.57%) Public Cloud
10 169 (2.35%) Replication
11 142 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 117 (1.63%) PKI
13 114 (1.58%) e-Learning
14 112 (1.56%) Clustering
15 77 (1.07%) EPoS
16 68 (0.94%) Smartphone
17 65 (0.90%) Client/Server
18 57 (0.79%) Private Cloud
19 55 (0.76%) IoT
19 55 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,747 (38.17%) Windows Server
2 1,899 (26.39%) Linux
3 1,378 (19.15%) Windows 10
4 533 (7.41%) Android
5 511 (7.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 497 (6.91%) Apple iOS
7 472 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 421 (5.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 285 (3.96%) Mac OS
10 266 (3.70%) Windows 7
11 247 (3.43%) Unix
12 123 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 119 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
14 117 (1.63%) Windows 8
15 90 (1.25%) CentOS
16 75 (1.04%) Ubuntu
17 61 (0.85%) VMS
18 57 (0.79%) Mac OS X
19 50 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
20 35 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,702 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
2 1,235 (17.16%) Customer Service
3 1,229 (17.08%) ITIL
4 1,146 (15.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 714 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
6 620 (8.61%) Agile
7 603 (8.38%) Mentoring
8 566 (7.86%) DevOps
9 438 (6.09%) Software Engineering
10 371 (5.15%) User Experience
11 368 (5.11%) Computer Science
12 356 (4.95%) Project Management
13 346 (4.81%) Service Management
14 326 (4.53%) MVC
15 324 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence
16 319 (4.43%) OO
17 315 (4.38%) Service Delivery
18 311 (4.32%) Disaster Recovery
19 301 (4.18%) Continuous Improvement
20 296 (4.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 996 (13.84%) SQL
2 864 (12.01%) PowerShell
3 629 (8.74%) C#
4 588 (8.17%) Python
5 424 (5.89%) JavaScript
6 357 (4.96%) Java
7 310 (4.31%) C++
8 237 (3.29%) Bash
9 177 (2.46%) C
10 88 (1.22%) VB
11 56 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 55 (0.76%) VBScript
13 53 (0.74%) Perl
13 53 (0.74%) XAML
14 36 (0.50%) PHP
15 35 (0.49%) TypeScript
16 30 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 30 (0.42%) VB.NET
17 27 (0.38%) R
18 23 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,086 (15.09%) Degree
2 903 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 531 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 440 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 395 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 262 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 256 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
8 221 (3.07%) DBS Check
9 219 (3.04%) CCNA
10 149 (2.07%) MCP
11 148 (2.06%) A+ Certification
12 142 (1.97%) MCSE
13 95 (1.32%) Azure Certification
14 87 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
15 80 (1.11%) MCSA
16 79 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
17 68 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 66 (0.92%) CCNP
19 58 (0.81%) CISSP
20 57 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (6.42%) SLA
2 167 (2.32%) GDPR
3 122 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 115 (1.60%) QA
5 113 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 55 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 43 (0.60%) NIST
8 35 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 17 (0.24%) PMO
11 16 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.17%) ITGC
13 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 8 (0.11%) MISRA
14 7 (0.097%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.083%) GRC
15 6 (0.083%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.083%) ISO 9000
16 5 (0.069%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,118 (43.32%) Active Directory
2 1,203 (16.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,022 (14.20%) Hyper-V
4 227 (3.15%) Docker
5 216 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
6 207 (2.88%) vSphere
7 178 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
8 115 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 104 (1.45%) Firmware
10 94 (1.31%) XenApp
11 74 (1.03%) XenDesktop
12 62 (0.86%) KVM
13 48 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
14 47 (0.65%) VirtualBox
15 44 (0.61%) Terminal Services
16 22 (0.31%) pfSense
17 21 (0.29%) VMware Server
18 20 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
18 20 (0.28%) VMware NSX
18 20 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 741 (10.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 463 (6.43%) SCCM
3 261 (3.63%) Ansible
4 256 (3.56%) Kubernetes
5 185 (2.57%) vCenter Server
6 165 (2.29%) WSUS
7 150 (2.08%) Terraform
8 118 (1.64%) SCOM
9 81 (1.13%) Puppet
10 69 (0.96%) Prometheus
11 53 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
12 51 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 48 (0.67%) ZABBIX
14 47 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 43 (0.60%) Nagios
16 38 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
17 37 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
18 35 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
18 35 (0.49%) Progress Chef
19 34 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3,635 (50.51%) Microsoft
2 1,812 (25.18%) VMware
3 531 (7.38%) Cisco
4 443 (6.16%) Red Hat
5 418 (5.81%) Citrix
6 352 (4.89%) Veeam
7 333 (4.63%) IBM
8 274 (3.81%) Apple
9 271 (3.77%) Dell
10 233 (3.24%) HP
11 212 (2.95%) Google
12 201 (2.79%) Oracle
13 177 (2.46%) NetApp
14 127 (1.76%) ServiceNow
15 124 (1.72%) Meraki
16 115 (1.60%) Sophos
17 94 (1.31%) Adobe
18 86 (1.19%) Splunk
19 84 (1.17%) Palo Alto
20 82 (1.14%) SolarWinds