Windows Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,601 8,642 12,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.41% 10.28% 8.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.26% 62.51% 46.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,966 6,191 8,985
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,290 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,601 13,824 27,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.79% 16.44% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,807 9,532 14,932
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,652 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £88,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows in England

Windows
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 2,027 £40,000 +5.26% 381
London +5 1,948 £55,000 +4.76% 398
North of England +1 1,569 £37,500 -6.25% 357
Midlands +6 1,266 £35,000 -12.50% 271
South West +5 1,000 £41,750 +4.38% 218
North West -6 774 £40,000 -5.88% 191
East of England +1 762 £32,500 -14.47% 167
West Midlands +10 711 £35,000 -12.50% 159
Yorkshire +13 607 £36,128 -3.01% 141
East Midlands +3 550 £33,966 -15.09% 112
North East +10 190 £33,000 -17.50% 29
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1,418 (16.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 917 (10.66%) SharePoint
3 205 (2.38%) IIS
4 115 (1.34%) Apache
5 61 (0.71%) Confluence
6 56 (0.65%) Skype for Business
7 47 (0.55%) CMS
8 46 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
8 46 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 42 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
10 23 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.26%) WordPress
12 20 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
13 19 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
14 18 (0.21%) SAS
15 15 (0.17%) JBoss
16 11 (0.13%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.10%) nginx
18 8 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,286 (14.95%) Microsoft Office
2 265 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.20%) Trello
8 15 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.081%) Revit
12 6 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.058%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.035%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.035%) Simulink
14 3 (0.035%) SPSS
15 2 (0.023%) CATIA
15 2 (0.023%) InDesign
15 2 (0.023%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 44 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 17 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.10%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.070%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.070%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.058%) Carpe Diem
7 5 (0.058%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.058%) Shopify
7 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.047%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.035%) Eikon
9 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.023%) assyst
10 2 (0.023%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3,689 (42.89%) Microsoft 365
2 3,196 (37.16%) Azure
3 995 (11.57%) Entra ID
4 798 (9.28%) AWS
5 373 (4.34%) OneDrive
6 292 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 261 (3.03%) SaaS
8 238 (2.77%) IBM Cloud
9 187 (2.17%) GCP
10 176 (2.05%) Serverless
11 174 (2.02%) IaaS
12 165 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 141 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (1.62%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.58%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 129 (1.50%) Google Workspace
18 125 (1.45%) Mimecast
19 100 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
20 94 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,603 (18.64%) Firewall
2 1,298 (15.09%) DNS
3 925 (10.75%) DHCP
4 791 (9.20%) WAN
5 771 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 748 (8.70%) LAN
7 648 (7.53%) VPN
8 457 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
9 447 (5.20%) Wireless
10 421 (4.89%) SAN
11 299 (3.48%) VLAN
12 278 (3.23%) VoIP
13 255 (2.96%) Internet
14 186 (2.16%) Network Security
15 169 (1.96%) SD-WAN
16 161 (1.87%) NAS
17 150 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
18 111 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
19 96 (1.12%) HTTP
20 87 (1.01%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 785 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 359 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 323 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 289 (3.36%) DB2
5 255 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 227 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 151 (1.76%) MySQL
8 132 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
9 129 (1.50%) Power BI
10 60 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 60 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 59 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 55 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 49 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 25 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (0.29%) Redis
16 24 (0.28%) QlikView
17 20 (0.23%) MariaDB
18 18 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 227 (2.64%) Git
2 191 (2.22%) JIRA
3 135 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 71 (0.83%) GitLab
6 67 (0.78%) Subversion
7 38 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.42%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.31%) CMake
10 24 (0.28%) MSI
11 22 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 22 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (0.24%) Ant
13 19 (0.22%) TeamCity
14 18 (0.21%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.14%) eggPlant
17 11 (0.13%) AdminStudio
17 11 (0.13%) InstallShield
18 10 (0.12%) Trac
General
1 2,668 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 1,141 (13.27%) Finance
3 807 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 470 (5.46%) Public Sector
5 329 (3.83%) Law
6 295 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 283 (3.29%) Retail
8 280 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 259 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 254 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 232 (2.70%) Legal
12 223 (2.59%) Banking
13 150 (1.74%) Marketing
14 139 (1.62%) Aerospace
15 129 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 126 (1.46%) Electronics
17 114 (1.33%) Games
18 95 (1.10%) Automotive
19 92 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
20 63 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,475 (17.15%) IT Support
2 1,299 (15.10%) Support Engineer
3 1,118 (13.00%) Analyst
4 1,049 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,021 (11.87%) IT Engineer
6 971 (11.29%) Senior
7 700 (8.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 519 (6.03%) IT Technician
9 504 (5.86%) Lead
10 466 (5.42%) Developer
11 450 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support
12 447 (5.20%) Support Analyst
13 401 (4.66%) IT Analyst
14 368 (4.28%) Support Technician
15 315 (3.66%) Service Analyst
16 311 (3.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 306 (3.56%) Software Engineer
18 302 (3.51%) IT Support Technician
19 299 (3.48%) Administrator
20 289 (3.36%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 592 (6.88%) .NET
2 436 (5.07%) HTML
3 385 (4.48%) CSS
4 340 (3.95%) REST
5 337 (3.92%) React
6 332 (3.86%) ASP.NET
7 331 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 320 (3.72%) Web Services
9 291 (3.38%) Vue
10 287 (3.34%) jQuery
11 278 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 240 (2.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.77%) Backbone.js
13 238 (2.77%) Ember.js
14 160 (1.86%) Node.js
15 130 (1.51%) WPF
16 91 (1.06%) XML
17 88 (1.02%) .NET Framework
18 67 (0.78%) .NET Core
19 65 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 508 (5.91%) Data Centre
2 424 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
3 406 (4.72%) Driving Licence
4 348 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 309 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 287 (3.34%) Algorithms
7 248 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 238 (2.77%) Blockchain
9 223 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 206 (2.40%) Replication
11 202 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
12 176 (2.05%) Onboarding
13 158 (1.84%) Clustering
14 156 (1.81%) PKI
15 126 (1.46%) e-Learning
16 93 (1.08%) Smartphone
17 88 (1.02%) Client/Server
18 83 (0.97%) EPoS
19 72 (0.84%) Cyberattack
20 70 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3,137 (36.47%) Windows Server
2 2,217 (25.78%) Linux
3 1,772 (20.60%) Windows 10
4 645 (7.50%) Android
5 583 (6.78%) Apple iOS
6 578 (6.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 528 (6.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 472 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 360 (4.19%) Mac OS
10 332 (3.86%) Unix
11 303 (3.52%) Windows 7
12 162 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 150 (1.74%) Ubuntu
13 150 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
14 120 (1.40%) CentOS
15 113 (1.31%) Windows 8
16 111 (1.29%) VMS
17 73 (0.85%) Mac OS X
18 68 (0.79%) Solaris
19 39 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,923 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,464 (17.02%) ITIL
3 1,346 (15.65%) Customer Service
4 1,336 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 889 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
6 763 (8.87%) Agile
7 708 (8.23%) DevOps
8 659 (7.66%) Mentoring
9 507 (5.89%) Computer Science
10 469 (5.45%) Software Engineering
11 448 (5.21%) Service Management
12 422 (4.91%) Disaster Recovery
13 403 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 395 (4.59%) Project Management
14 395 (4.59%) User Experience
15 360 (4.19%) ITSM
16 355 (4.13%) MVC
17 349 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 346 (4.02%) Change Management
19 343 (3.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,259 (14.64%) SQL
2 1,207 (14.03%) PowerShell
3 732 (8.51%) Python
4 719 (8.36%) C#
5 499 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 398 (4.63%) Java
7 367 (4.27%) Bash
8 295 (3.43%) C++
9 185 (2.15%) C
10 107 (1.24%) Perl
11 103 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 86 (1.00%) VB
13 57 (0.66%) VBScript
14 55 (0.64%) XAML
15 50 (0.58%) Ruby
16 44 (0.51%) TypeScript
17 42 (0.49%) PHP
18 39 (0.45%) Shell Script
19 30 (0.35%) VB.NET
20 29 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,379 (16.03%) Degree
2 1,021 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 576 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 517 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 465 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 322 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 264 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 251 (2.92%) DBS Check
9 206 (2.40%) CCNA
10 185 (2.15%) MCSE
11 175 (2.03%) A+ Certification
12 155 (1.80%) MCP
13 133 (1.55%) Master's Degree
14 129 (1.50%) Azure Certification
15 110 (1.28%) MCSA
16 103 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
17 94 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 80 (0.93%) CISSP
18 80 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 72 (0.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (6.31%) SLA
2 187 (2.17%) GDPR
3 174 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 141 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 123 (1.43%) QA
6 70 (0.81%) NIST
7 65 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 61 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 24 (0.28%) COBIT
10 22 (0.26%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.23%) PMO
12 19 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.19%) GRC
14 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 13 (0.15%) NCSC
15 9 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.10%) ITGC
16 8 (0.093%) ISO 13485
16 8 (0.093%) MISRA
System Software
1 3,828 (44.51%) Active Directory
2 1,395 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,044 (12.14%) Hyper-V
4 355 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
5 255 (2.96%) Docker
6 245 (2.85%) vSphere
7 212 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 190 (2.21%) XenApp
9 167 (1.94%) XenDesktop
10 151 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
11 114 (1.33%) Firmware
12 82 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
13 77 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
14 51 (0.59%) Terminal Services
15 50 (0.58%) KVM
16 48 (0.56%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 21 (0.24%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.23%) NFS
19 20 (0.23%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 912 (10.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 660 (7.67%) SCCM
3 343 (3.99%) Ansible
4 301 (3.50%) Kubernetes
5 264 (3.07%) Terraform
6 226 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 177 (2.06%) WSUS
8 133 (1.55%) SCOM
9 119 (1.38%) Puppet
10 99 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 93 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
12 79 (0.92%) AirWatch
13 73 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 62 (0.72%) Nagios
15 58 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
15 58 (0.67%) Prometheus
16 51 (0.59%) Grafana
17 44 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 44 (0.51%) ZABBIX
18 43 (0.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4,367 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 2,095 (24.36%) VMware
3 736 (8.56%) Cisco
4 601 (6.99%) Citrix
5 494 (5.74%) Red Hat
6 405 (4.71%) Veeam
7 369 (4.29%) IBM
8 356 (4.14%) Apple
9 303 (3.52%) Oracle
10 288 (3.35%) HP
11 271 (3.15%) Dell
12 269 (3.13%) Google
13 188 (2.19%) ServiceNow
14 173 (2.01%) NetApp
15 157 (1.83%) Meraki
16 118 (1.37%) Adobe
17 116 (1.35%) Splunk
18 111 (1.29%) SolarWinds
18 111 (1.29%) Sophos
19 106 (1.23%) Palo Alto