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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,287 9,914 13,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 9.79% 8.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.51% 61.19% 46.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,577 7,044 9,921
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 £56,224 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -3.75%

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 13,964 16,203 30,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.10% 16.01% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 10,941 16,625
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 13 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 13 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 +5 8,569 £40,000 -9.09% 1,906
UK excluding London +6 7,119 £37,500 -6.25% 1,539
Work from Home +5 2,755 £49,881 -0.24% 697
South East +3 2,035 £40,000 +6.67% 400
London +8 1,984 £55,000 +4.76% 463
North of England +7 1,560 £37,500 -6.25% 335
Midlands +13 1,230 £35,000 -12.50% 281
South West +4 978 £42,500 +11.84% 235
North West -5 757 £40,000 - 169
East of England +3 749 £32,500 -15.58% 202
West Midlands +14 689 £35,000 -12.50% 162
Yorkshire +19 618 £37,250 -1.97% 134
East Midlands +8 535 £35,000 -9.09% 119
Scotland -44 370 £42,202 -6.22% 87
North East +17 187 £33,000 -17.50% 36
Wales +10 147 £32,500 -7.14% 29
Northern Ireland -12 47 £37,500 -25.00% 18
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1

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 1,541 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 979 (10.54%) SharePoint
3 218 (2.35%) IIS
4 138 (1.49%) Apache
5 72 (0.78%) Confluence
6 54 (0.58%) Skype for Business
7 48 (0.52%) CMS
7 48 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
8 45 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 43 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 22 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (0.24%) WordPress
12 19 (0.20%) SAS
13 17 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
14 16 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
15 15 (0.16%) JBoss
16 10 (0.11%) nginx
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,382 (14.88%) Microsoft Office
2 276 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 14 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.097%) Revit
11 8 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.032%) InDesign
14 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.032%) Simulink
14 3 (0.032%) SPSS
15 2 (0.022%) InCopy
Business Applications
1 50 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.38%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 17 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.097%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
9 7 (0.075%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.065%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.054%) Shopify
11 5 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.054%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.043%) Oracle Cash Management
12 4 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.032%) Eikon
13 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
14 2 (0.022%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4,028 (43.37%) Microsoft 365
2 3,419 (36.81%) Azure
3 1,067 (11.49%) Entra ID
4 882 (9.50%) AWS
5 414 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 304 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 301 (3.24%) SaaS
8 238 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
9 226 (2.43%) GCP
10 205 (2.21%) IaaS
11 185 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 184 (1.98%) Serverless
13 143 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.49%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.46%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 129 (1.39%) Google Workspace
17 129 (1.39%) Mimecast
18 128 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
19 123 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,741 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1,355 (14.59%) DNS
3 978 (10.53%) DHCP
4 869 (9.36%) WAN
5 819 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 780 (8.40%) LAN
7 737 (7.94%) VPN
8 489 (5.27%) Wireless
9 488 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
10 463 (4.99%) SAN
11 326 (3.51%) VLAN
12 320 (3.45%) VoIP
13 293 (3.15%) Internet
14 220 (2.37%) SD-WAN
15 207 (2.23%) Network Security
16 176 (1.90%) NAS
17 166 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
18 152 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
19 114 (1.23%) SNMP
20 105 (1.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 849 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 384 (4.13%) MongoDB
3 325 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 295 (3.18%) DB2
5 259 (2.79%) NoSQL
6 245 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 170 (1.83%) MySQL
8 144 (1.55%) Power BI
9 143 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 72 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 63 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 54 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (0.42%) RDBMS
16 34 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (0.27%) Redis
18 22 (0.24%) Big Data
19 21 (0.23%) QlikView
20 20 (0.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 231 (2.49%) Git
2 229 (2.47%) JIRA
3 139 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 119 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 89 (0.96%) GitLab
6 72 (0.78%) Subversion
7 44 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.39%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.29%) CMake
10 25 (0.27%) Ant
11 24 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.24%) MSI
14 20 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
15 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.14%) Postman
17 12 (0.13%) IntelliJ
18 11 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 2,891 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 1,258 (13.55%) Finance
3 855 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 514 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 365 (3.93%) Law
6 350 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 318 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 309 (3.33%) Retail
9 293 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 286 (3.08%) Manufacturing
11 263 (2.83%) Legal
12 240 (2.58%) Banking
13 176 (1.90%) Marketing
14 145 (1.56%) Electronics
15 141 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 135 (1.45%) Aerospace
17 124 (1.34%) Games
18 102 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
19 88 (0.95%) Automotive
20 77 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,582 (17.03%) IT Support
2 1,400 (15.07%) Support Engineer
3 1,198 (12.90%) Analyst
4 1,110 (11.95%) Senior
5 1,088 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1,086 (11.69%) IT Engineer
7 731 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 541 (5.83%) IT Technician
9 513 (5.52%) Lead
10 497 (5.35%) 2nd Line Support
11 484 (5.21%) Support Analyst
12 478 (5.15%) Developer
13 438 (4.72%) IT Analyst
14 382 (4.11%) Support Technician
15 338 (3.64%) Service Analyst
16 331 (3.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 320 (3.45%) Software Engineer
18 312 (3.36%) Service Desk Analyst
19 311 (3.35%) Administrator
20 309 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 620 (6.68%) .NET
2 457 (4.92%) HTML
3 400 (4.31%) CSS
4 341 (3.67%) AngularJS
4 341 (3.67%) REST
5 340 (3.66%) React
6 335 (3.61%) ASP.NET
7 323 (3.48%) Web Services
8 289 (3.11%) Vue
9 288 (3.10%) jQuery
10 279 (3.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 241 (2.60%) Ember.js
12 240 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.56%) Backbone.js
14 162 (1.74%) Node.js
15 142 (1.53%) WPF
16 99 (1.07%) .NET Framework
17 93 (1.00%) XML
18 88 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
19 86 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 577 (6.21%) Data Centre
2 446 (4.80%) Driving Licence
3 437 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 378 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 289 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 250 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 248 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 238 (2.56%) Blockchain
10 237 (2.55%) Replication
11 234 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
12 194 (2.09%) Onboarding
13 161 (1.73%) Clustering
14 148 (1.59%) PKI
15 127 (1.37%) e-Learning
16 99 (1.07%) Smartphone
17 96 (1.03%) EPoS
18 95 (1.02%) Wiki
19 86 (0.93%) Client/Server
20 80 (0.86%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,419 (36.81%) Windows Server
2 2,379 (25.62%) Linux
3 1,887 (20.32%) Windows 10
4 701 (7.55%) Android
5 614 (6.61%) Apple iOS
6 592 (6.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 530 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 500 (5.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 420 (4.52%) Mac OS
10 396 (4.26%) Unix
11 323 (3.48%) Windows 7
12 159 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 159 (1.71%) Ubuntu
13 156 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
14 130 (1.40%) Windows 8
15 122 (1.31%) CentOS
16 116 (1.25%) VMS
17 93 (1.00%) Mac OS X
18 69 (0.74%) Solaris
19 55 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,053 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1,585 (17.07%) ITIL
3 1,470 (15.83%) Customer Service
4 1,395 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 999 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 822 (8.85%) Agile
7 767 (8.26%) DevOps
8 718 (7.73%) Mentoring
9 565 (6.08%) Computer Science
10 484 (5.21%) Software Engineering
11 476 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
12 463 (4.99%) Project Management
13 462 (4.97%) Service Management
14 431 (4.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 411 (4.43%) Service Delivery
16 409 (4.40%) User Experience
17 393 (4.23%) ITSM
18 388 (4.18%) Change Management
19 373 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence
20 370 (3.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,364 (14.69%) SQL
2 1,277 (13.75%) PowerShell
3 784 (8.44%) Python
4 758 (8.16%) C#
5 520 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 411 (4.43%) Java
7 393 (4.23%) Bash
8 315 (3.39%) C++
9 183 (1.97%) C
10 115 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 106 (1.14%) Perl
12 85 (0.92%) VB
13 58 (0.62%) VBScript
14 52 (0.56%) Ruby
14 52 (0.56%) XAML
15 48 (0.52%) TypeScript
16 46 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 39 (0.42%) PHP
18 34 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,528 (16.45%) Degree
2 1,056 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 595 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 558 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 457 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 393 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 323 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
8 254 (2.74%) CCNA
9 250 (2.69%) DBS Check
10 206 (2.22%) MCSE
11 184 (1.98%) A+ Certification
12 161 (1.73%) Master's Degree
13 155 (1.67%) MCP
14 140 (1.51%) Azure Certification
15 126 (1.36%) MCSA
16 108 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
17 98 (1.06%) CISSP
18 96 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 88 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 78 (0.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (6.55%) SLA
2 206 (2.22%) GDPR
3 186 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 152 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 143 (1.54%) QA
6 75 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 71 (0.76%) NIST
8 63 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 33 (0.36%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) COBIT
10 21 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.22%) ITGC
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 18 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 13 (0.14%) NCSC
16 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.086%) MISRA
System Software
1 4,148 (44.66%) Active Directory
2 1,551 (16.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,127 (12.14%) Hyper-V
4 394 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
5 295 (3.18%) Docker
6 247 (2.66%) vSphere
7 228 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 196 (2.11%) XenApp
9 178 (1.92%) XenDesktop
10 157 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
11 119 (1.28%) Firmware
12 102 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 88 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
14 64 (0.69%) KVM
15 52 (0.56%) Terminal Services
16 49 (0.53%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 24 (0.26%) VMware NSX
19 23 (0.25%) VMware Server
20 22 (0.24%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 960 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 736 (7.93%) SCCM
3 403 (4.34%) Ansible
4 348 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 297 (3.20%) Terraform
6 246 (2.65%) vCenter Server
7 181 (1.95%) WSUS
8 140 (1.51%) SCOM
9 124 (1.34%) Puppet
10 107 (1.15%) AirWatch
11 103 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 97 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
13 82 (0.88%) Prometheus
14 72 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 63 (0.68%) FortiGate
16 62 (0.67%) Grafana
17 60 (0.65%) Nagios
18 57 (0.61%) Progress Chef
19 55 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
20 52 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,687 (50.47%) Microsoft
2 2,295 (24.71%) VMware
3 836 (9.00%) Cisco
4 634 (6.83%) Citrix
5 508 (5.47%) Red Hat
6 437 (4.71%) Veeam
7 394 (4.24%) Apple
8 380 (4.09%) IBM
9 326 (3.51%) Dell
10 320 (3.45%) HP
11 316 (3.40%) Oracle
12 289 (3.11%) Google
13 214 (2.30%) NetApp
14 197 (2.12%) ServiceNow
15 170 (1.83%) Meraki
16 135 (1.45%) Palo Alto
17 133 (1.43%) Adobe
18 126 (1.36%) Sophos
19 121 (1.30%) Splunk
20 113 (1.22%) SolarWinds