Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 203 245
Rank change year-on-year +49 +42 -62
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 1,878 1,797 2,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 1.82% 1.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.48% 11.36% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,605 1,423 2,142
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,550 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,875 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +6.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £44,875
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,597 £31,500 £28,500
% change year-on-year -2.87% +10.53% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Salary trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
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 10 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +55 1,785 £32,500 -4.41% 355
UK excluding London +48 1,369 £30,597 -2.87% 298
London +38 484 £42,072 +10.71% 74
Work from Home +52 477 £38,000 -2.84% 93
South East +36 436 £32,500 +8.33% 89
North of England +22 268 £30,000 -7.69% 67
Midlands +56 211 £29,250 -10.00% 51
South West +25 203 £32,000 +2.40% 53
East of England +40 183 £30,000 +0.84% 26
West Midlands +70 166 £29,500 -9.23% 25
North West -46 110 £30,000 -7.69% 35
Yorkshire +58 104 £30,500 +3.39% 31
North East +25 54 £27,250 -16.15% 1
East Midlands +3 44 £28,165 -6.89% 26
Scotland -78 39 £31,000 -24.85% 17
Wales +13 23 £27,000 -10.00% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Northern Ireland +23 3 £105,000 +223.08% 2

Windows 10
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
1 532 (28.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 299 (15.92%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.40%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.59%) CMS
5 9 (0.48%) IIS
6 7 (0.37%) Confluence
6 7 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (0.21%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Apache
11 2 (0.11%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.053%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.053%) Moodle
Applications
1 589 (31.36%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.11%) InCopy
4 2 (0.11%) InDesign
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.053%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.27%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Eikon
4 2 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.11%) Farmplan
4 2 (0.11%) KEYPrime
4 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.11%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.053%) iTrent
5 1 (0.053%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.053%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,305 (69.49%) Microsoft 365
2 606 (32.27%) Azure
3 297 (15.81%) Entra ID
4 147 (7.83%) OneDrive
5 48 (2.56%) Mimecast
6 44 (2.34%) AWS
7 33 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 28 (1.49%) Google Workspace
8 28 (1.49%) Power Automate
9 25 (1.33%) SaaS
10 21 (1.12%) IaaS
11 20 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (0.80%) PaaS
13 13 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.69%) WhatsApp
14 12 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.64%) OCI
15 11 (0.59%) Nutanix
16 10 (0.53%) GCP
17 9 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 278 (14.80%) Firewall
2 274 (14.59%) DNS
3 255 (13.58%) WAN
4 216 (11.50%) DHCP
5 213 (11.34%) TCP/IP
6 186 (9.90%) Wireless
7 172 (9.16%) LAN
8 157 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
9 141 (7.51%) VPN
10 121 (6.44%) Cisco IOS
11 97 (5.17%) SD-WAN
12 94 (5.01%) WebEx
13 75 (3.99%) VoIP
14 68 (3.62%) VLAN
15 66 (3.51%) SAN
16 60 (3.19%) Internet
17 47 (2.50%) Skype
18 43 (2.29%) Remote Desktop
19 29 (1.54%) Telepresence
20 20 (1.06%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.42%) SQL Server
2 25 (1.33%) Power BI
3 23 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (1.17%) MySQL
5 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.48%) DB2
7 7 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.27%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.21%) UniData
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.11%) DTS
10 2 (0.11%) Metadata
10 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.11%) MS Access
10 2 (0.11%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.053%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.053%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (1.22%) Git
1 23 (1.22%) JIRA
2 15 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 13 (0.69%) Subversion
4 9 (0.48%) MSI
5 7 (0.37%) IntelliJ
5 7 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.32%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.27%) AdminStudio
7 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.053%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.053%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.053%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.053%) GitLab
9 1 (0.053%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.053%) Zephyr
General
1 765 (40.73%) Social Skills
2 219 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
3 208 (11.08%) Finance
4 117 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
5 106 (5.64%) Law
6 95 (5.06%) Legal
7 77 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 72 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 70 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (2.61%) Retail
11 41 (2.18%) Automotive
12 36 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 32 (1.70%) Banking
14 30 (1.60%) Back Office
15 28 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 26 (1.38%) Marketing
17 21 (1.12%) Advertising
18 17 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.85%) Electronics
19 16 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 587 (31.26%) IT Support
2 436 (23.22%) Analyst
3 409 (21.78%) Support Engineer
4 270 (14.38%) IT Engineer
5 222 (11.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 212 (11.29%) IT Analyst
7 211 (11.24%) Support Analyst
8 200 (10.65%) 2nd Line Support
9 168 (8.95%) IT Technician
10 135 (7.19%) Service Analyst
11 134 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 127 (6.76%) IT Support Analyst
13 124 (6.60%) Senior
14 122 (6.50%) Support Technician
15 120 (6.39%) Support Specialist
16 118 (6.28%) 1st Line Support
17 116 (6.18%) Service Desk Analyst
18 112 (5.96%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 112 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 102 (5.43%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.22%) .NET
2 11 (0.59%) .NET Framework
2 11 (0.59%) Qt
3 9 (0.48%) X-Windows
4 8 (0.43%) REST
5 5 (0.27%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.27%) ADO
5 5 (0.27%) EDI
5 5 (0.27%) React
6 4 (0.21%) XMPP
7 3 (0.16%) HTML
8 2 (0.11%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.11%) JSON
8 2 (0.11%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (0.11%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.11%) Spring
8 2 (0.11%) TAPI
9 1 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.053%) Kafka
9 1 (0.053%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.68%) Video Conferencing
2 139 (7.40%) Driving Licence
3 96 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (4.42%) Wiki
5 76 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 65 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 65 (3.46%) Smartphone
7 61 (3.25%) Replication
8 56 (2.98%) iPhone
9 35 (1.86%) iPad
10 29 (1.54%) CCTV
11 28 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.33%) Blackberry
13 25 (1.33%) Clustering
13 25 (1.33%) EPoS
14 18 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (0.91%) NHS
16 14 (0.75%) Fat Client
16 14 (0.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,873 (99.73%) Windows
2 609 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 261 (13.90%) Windows 7
4 243 (12.94%) Android
5 227 (12.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 226 (12.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 200 (10.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 142 (7.56%) Apple iOS
9 122 (6.50%) Linux
10 103 (5.48%) Mac OS
11 89 (4.74%) Windows 8
12 60 (3.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 37 (1.97%) Mac OS X
14 25 (1.33%) Windows XP
15 24 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 20 (1.06%) Ubuntu
17 18 (0.96%) CentOS
18 16 (0.85%) Windows NT
18 16 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
19 15 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (26.94%) ITIL
2 480 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
3 467 (24.87%) Customer Service
4 143 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
5 139 (7.40%) ITSM
6 136 (7.24%) Service Management
7 135 (7.19%) Mobile Device Management
8 130 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 127 (6.76%) Time Management
10 125 (6.66%) Computer Science
11 119 (6.34%) Service Delivery
12 91 (4.85%) Business Continuity
13 89 (4.74%) Change Management
13 89 (4.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (4.63%) Application Virtualisation
15 86 (4.58%) Project Management
16 84 (4.47%) BCP
16 84 (4.47%) Incident Management
17 82 (4.37%) Business Continuity Planning
17 82 (4.37%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 203 (10.81%) PowerShell
2 158 (8.41%) SQL
3 20 (1.06%) Python
4 17 (0.91%) Bash
5 13 (0.69%) C#
5 13 (0.69%) Perl
6 12 (0.64%) C
6 12 (0.64%) C++
6 12 (0.64%) VB
7 9 (0.48%) Java
8 6 (0.32%) Ruby
9 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.11%) PHP
12 2 (0.11%) Scala
13 1 (0.053%) Go
13 1 (0.053%) Swift
Qualifications
1 371 (19.76%) Degree
2 149 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 124 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 110 (5.86%) Master's Degree
5 108 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 90 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 68 (3.62%) DBS Check
8 64 (3.41%) DV Cleared
9 56 (2.98%) A+ Certification
10 54 (2.88%) MCP
11 51 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 34 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.44%) MCSA
14 25 (1.33%) CCNP
14 25 (1.33%) MBA
15 24 (1.28%) HNC
15 24 (1.28%) MCSE
16 23 (1.22%) CCNA
17 22 (1.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (8.73%) SLA
2 53 (2.82%) GDPR
3 37 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.69%) NIST
6 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.21%) QA
8 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.16%) PMO
8 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.053%) NCSC
10 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,256 (66.88%) Active Directory
2 328 (17.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 228 (12.14%) Hyper-V
4 155 (8.25%) XenApp
5 142 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
5 142 (7.56%) XenDesktop
6 91 (4.85%) Microsoft App-V
7 52 (2.77%) vSphere
8 42 (2.24%) VirtualBox
9 37 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 28 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
11 22 (1.17%) Firmware
12 16 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.75%) Terminal Services
14 13 (0.69%) KVM
15 11 (0.59%) Docker
16 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
18 6 (0.32%) pfSense
19 5 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 349 (18.58%) SCCM
2 304 (16.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 82 (4.37%) AirWatch
4 48 (2.56%) WSUS
5 44 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
6 27 (1.44%) SCOM
7 20 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.06%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
8 18 (0.96%) Terraform
9 13 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (0.69%) NetBackup
10 12 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
11 11 (0.59%) Ansible
11 11 (0.59%) Sysprep
12 9 (0.48%) Autotask
12 9 (0.48%) Backup Exec
12 9 (0.48%) SmoothWall
13 8 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (0.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,379 (73.43%) Microsoft
2 446 (23.75%) VMware
3 286 (15.23%) Cisco
4 273 (14.54%) Citrix
5 159 (8.47%) Apple
6 96 (5.11%) Veeam
7 57 (3.04%) HP
8 56 (2.98%) Dell
9 54 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.72%) Adobe
11 39 (2.08%) iManage
11 39 (2.08%) Sophos
12 35 (1.86%) Google
13 28 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.49%) Polycom
13 28 (1.49%) SolarWinds
14 27 (1.44%) Bloomberg
15 25 (1.33%) MobileIron
16 24 (1.28%) Ivanti
16 24 (1.28%) McAfee