Microsoft Windows
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,447 10,170 13,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.58% 9.80% 8.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.00% 61.30% 46.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 7,176 9,993
10th Percentile £25,200 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £39,500 £38,342
% change year-on-year -5.06% +3.02% -4.15%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,101 16,590 29,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 15.99% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,896 11,178 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

Windows
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +6 8,702 £40,132 -7.74% 1,860
UK excluding London +5 7,229 £37,500 -5.06% 1,526
Work from Home +4 2,813 £49,800 -0.40% 638
South East +2 2,082 £40,000 +9.59% 377
London +11 2,029 £55,000 +4.76% 451
North of England +10 1,563 £37,500 -5.65% 334
Midlands +12 1,244 £35,000 -12.50% 280
South West +5 996 £42,500 +11.84% 235
East of England +3 754 £32,500 -15.58% 205
North West -4 754 £40,000 - 181
West Midlands +13 699 £35,000 -12.50% 160
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 119
East Midlands +11 539 £34,000 -11.11% 120
Scotland -41 387 £40,000 -11.11% 95
North East +14 190 £34,500 -13.75% 40
Wales +10 152 £32,500 -7.14% 30
Northern Ireland -11 48 £37,500 -25.00% 19
Isle of Man -3 12 £43,750 +45.83%

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1,585 (16.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 990 (10.48%) SharePoint
3 211 (2.23%) IIS
4 128 (1.35%) Apache
5 75 (0.79%) Confluence
6 53 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 49 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
8 47 (0.50%) CMS
8 47 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
9 39 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 35 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 22 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.23%) WordPress
12 19 (0.20%) SAS
13 15 (0.16%) JBoss
14 14 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
14 14 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
15 11 (0.12%) nginx
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 8 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,409 (14.91%) Microsoft Office
2 272 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 15 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.11%) Revit
10 9 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.074%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.042%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.032%) InDesign
13 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.032%) Simulink
13 3 (0.032%) SPSS
14 2 (0.021%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 51 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 20 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
4 17 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 15 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.095%) Carpe Diem
7 9 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.095%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.074%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.064%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.053%) Shopify
10 5 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.053%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.032%) Eikon
12 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
12 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
13 2 (0.021%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4,111 (43.52%) Microsoft 365
2 3,479 (36.83%) Azure
3 1,076 (11.39%) Entra ID
4 899 (9.52%) AWS
5 416 (4.40%) OneDrive
6 320 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 304 (3.22%) SaaS
8 238 (2.52%) IBM Cloud
9 221 (2.34%) GCP
10 210 (2.22%) IaaS
11 191 (2.02%) Power Platform
12 187 (1.98%) Serverless
13 144 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.46%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.44%) Google Workspace
16 135 (1.43%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
17 133 (1.41%) Mimecast
18 129 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
19 122 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,770 (18.74%) Firewall
2 1,376 (14.57%) DNS
3 1,001 (10.60%) DHCP
4 903 (9.56%) WAN
5 828 (8.76%) TCP/IP
6 803 (8.50%) LAN
7 763 (8.08%) VPN
8 522 (5.53%) Wireless
9 495 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
10 476 (5.04%) SAN
11 352 (3.73%) VLAN
12 330 (3.49%) VoIP
13 298 (3.15%) Internet
14 229 (2.42%) SD-WAN
15 209 (2.21%) Network Security
16 183 (1.94%) NAS
17 169 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
18 164 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
19 114 (1.21%) SNMP
19 114 (1.21%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 856 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 384 (4.06%) MongoDB
3 325 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 295 (3.12%) DB2
5 260 (2.75%) NoSQL
6 246 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 172 (1.82%) MySQL
8 148 (1.57%) Power BI
9 147 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 74 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 53 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 52 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 50 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 39 (0.41%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (0.26%) Redis
18 23 (0.24%) InfluxDB
19 22 (0.23%) Big Data
20 21 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 234 (2.48%) JIRA
2 233 (2.47%) Git
3 151 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 119 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 106 (1.12%) GitLab
6 74 (0.78%) Subversion
7 45 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 35 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.30%) CMake
10 27 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
11 25 (0.26%) Ant
12 24 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (0.25%) TeamCity
13 22 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.23%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.23%) MSI
14 17 (0.18%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 14 (0.15%) Selenium
17 13 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 2,942 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 1,266 (13.40%) Finance
3 862 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 505 (5.35%) Public Sector
5 371 (3.93%) Law
6 350 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 327 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 316 (3.34%) Retail
9 298 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 282 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 262 (2.77%) Legal
12 249 (2.64%) Banking
13 172 (1.82%) Marketing
14 142 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 139 (1.47%) Electronics
16 130 (1.38%) Aerospace
17 126 (1.33%) Games
18 101 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
19 87 (0.92%) Automotive
20 81 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,604 (16.98%) IT Support
2 1,424 (15.07%) Support Engineer
3 1,218 (12.89%) Analyst
4 1,134 (12.00%) Senior
5 1,124 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1,113 (11.78%) IT Engineer
7 739 (7.82%) IT Support Engineer
8 540 (5.72%) IT Technician
9 518 (5.48%) Lead
10 513 (5.43%) 2nd Line Support
11 492 (5.21%) Support Analyst
12 473 (5.01%) Developer
13 439 (4.65%) IT Analyst
14 379 (4.01%) Support Technician
15 343 (3.63%) Service Analyst
16 340 (3.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 317 (3.36%) Service Desk Analyst
18 315 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
19 313 (3.31%) Administrator
20 311 (3.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 612 (6.48%) .NET
2 455 (4.82%) HTML
3 396 (4.19%) CSS
4 338 (3.58%) REST
5 337 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 336 (3.56%) React
7 334 (3.54%) ASP.NET
8 311 (3.29%) Web Services
9 287 (3.04%) Vue
10 286 (3.03%) jQuery
11 277 (2.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 241 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
12 241 (2.55%) Ember.js
13 238 (2.52%) Backbone.js
14 162 (1.71%) Node.js
15 141 (1.49%) WPF
16 97 (1.03%) .NET Framework
17 95 (1.01%) XML
18 87 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
19 85 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 583 (6.17%) Data Centre
2 458 (4.85%) Driving Licence
3 441 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
4 382 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 290 (3.07%) Algorithms
7 252 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 248 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 247 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
10 238 (2.52%) Blockchain
10 238 (2.52%) Replication
11 198 (2.10%) Onboarding
12 165 (1.75%) Clustering
13 153 (1.62%) PKI
14 129 (1.37%) e-Learning
15 105 (1.11%) Wiki
16 99 (1.05%) Smartphone
17 95 (1.01%) EPoS
18 83 (0.88%) Client/Server
19 79 (0.84%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,507 (37.12%) Windows Server
2 2,411 (25.52%) Linux
3 1,928 (20.41%) Windows 10
4 707 (7.48%) Android
5 612 (6.48%) Apple iOS
6 611 (6.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 544 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 521 (5.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 431 (4.56%) Mac OS
10 390 (4.13%) Unix
11 334 (3.54%) Windows 7
12 171 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 163 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
14 161 (1.70%) Ubuntu
15 135 (1.43%) Windows 8
16 121 (1.28%) CentOS
16 121 (1.28%) VMS
17 94 (1.00%) Mac OS X
18 59 (0.62%) Solaris
19 55 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,080 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
2 1,596 (16.89%) ITIL
3 1,493 (15.80%) Customer Service
4 1,438 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1,016 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
6 847 (8.97%) Agile
7 797 (8.44%) DevOps
8 733 (7.76%) Mentoring
9 575 (6.09%) Computer Science
10 486 (5.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 486 (5.14%) Software Engineering
11 473 (5.01%) Service Management
12 472 (5.00%) Project Management
13 433 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 421 (4.46%) Service Delivery
15 414 (4.38%) User Experience
16 405 (4.29%) ITSM
17 399 (4.22%) Change Management
18 382 (4.04%) Migration
19 372 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,374 (14.54%) SQL
2 1,338 (14.16%) PowerShell
3 802 (8.49%) Python
4 755 (7.99%) C#
5 515 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 419 (4.44%) Bash
7 408 (4.32%) Java
8 306 (3.24%) C++
9 178 (1.88%) C
10 116 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 112 (1.19%) Perl
12 87 (0.92%) VB
13 60 (0.64%) VBScript
14 55 (0.58%) Ruby
15 52 (0.55%) XAML
16 46 (0.49%) TypeScript
17 39 (0.41%) PHP
18 36 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 35 (0.37%) Shell Script
20 28 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,538 (16.28%) Degree
2 1,076 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 614 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 566 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 471 (4.99%) DV Cleared
6 408 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 334 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 264 (2.79%) CCNA
9 252 (2.67%) DBS Check
10 201 (2.13%) MCSE
11 186 (1.97%) A+ Certification
12 172 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 151 (1.60%) MCP
14 140 (1.48%) Azure Certification
15 124 (1.31%) MCSA
16 107 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
17 96 (1.02%) CISSP
17 96 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 88 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
18 88 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 628 (6.65%) SLA
2 205 (2.17%) GDPR
3 190 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 155 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 142 (1.50%) QA
6 75 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 69 (0.73%) NIST
8 52 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 34 (0.36%) PMO
10 22 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.22%) ITGC
11 21 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.20%) COBIT
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 15 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 13 (0.14%) NCSC
15 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.085%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,247 (44.96%) Active Directory
2 1,610 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,154 (12.22%) Hyper-V
4 411 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 316 (3.34%) Docker
6 252 (2.67%) vSphere
7 234 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 202 (2.14%) XenApp
9 184 (1.95%) XenDesktop
10 165 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 118 (1.25%) Firmware
12 112 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
13 89 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
14 64 (0.68%) KVM
15 52 (0.55%) Terminal Services
16 50 (0.53%) VirtualBox
17 27 (0.29%) VMware NSX
18 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
19 22 (0.23%) pfSense
19 22 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 976 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 764 (8.09%) SCCM
3 422 (4.47%) Ansible
4 371 (3.93%) Kubernetes
5 313 (3.31%) Terraform
6 249 (2.64%) vCenter Server
7 187 (1.98%) WSUS
8 142 (1.50%) SCOM
9 133 (1.41%) Puppet
10 120 (1.27%) AirWatch
11 102 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 95 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
13 94 (1.00%) Prometheus
14 76 (0.80%) Grafana
15 73 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 66 (0.70%) FortiGate
17 61 (0.65%) Nagios
18 59 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
19 57 (0.60%) Progress Chef
20 52 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,752 (50.30%) Microsoft
2 2,356 (24.94%) VMware
3 866 (9.17%) Cisco
4 642 (6.80%) Citrix
5 516 (5.46%) Red Hat
6 444 (4.70%) Veeam
7 400 (4.23%) Apple
8 379 (4.01%) IBM
9 335 (3.55%) HP
10 331 (3.50%) Dell
11 304 (3.22%) Oracle
12 300 (3.18%) Google
13 212 (2.24%) NetApp
14 202 (2.14%) ServiceNow
15 177 (1.87%) Meraki
16 141 (1.49%) Palo Alto
17 136 (1.44%) Adobe
18 128 (1.35%) Sophos
19 120 (1.27%) SolarWinds
19 120 (1.27%) Splunk