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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,558 8,673 12,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.76% 9.95% 8.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.65% 61.56% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,998 6,251 8,912
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,304 £31,250 £30,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,833 £43,500
% change year-on-year -10.78% +3.06% -3.33%

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 12,467 14,088 26,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.22% 16.16% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,811 9,655 14,863
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,870 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £87,500
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 24 May 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 24 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
South East +3 2,031 £40,000 +6.67% 560
London +6 1,961 £55,000 +4.61% 569
North of England +6 1,557 £37,500 -6.25% 376
Midlands +10 1,236 £35,000 -12.50% 291
South West +5 997 £42,000 +5.00% 258
North West -5 758 £40,000 -3.61% 190
East of England +2 746 £32,500 -14.47% 235
West Midlands +14 695 £35,000 -12.50% 162
Yorkshire +19 610 £36,064 -3.83% 155
East Midlands +8 535 £35,000 -12.39% 124
North East +13 191 £33,000 -17.50% 37
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 1,437 (16.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 918 (10.73%) SharePoint
3 207 (2.42%) IIS
4 118 (1.38%) Apache
5 62 (0.72%) Confluence
6 55 (0.64%) Skype for Business
7 47 (0.55%) CMS
8 46 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
8 46 (0.54%) 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 19 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
13 18 (0.21%) SAS
13 18 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
14 15 (0.18%) JBoss
15 11 (0.13%) Umbraco
16 9 (0.11%) nginx
16 9 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,295 (15.13%) Microsoft Office
2 252 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.20%) Trello
8 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.093%) 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 47 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 17 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.11%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.082%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.082%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.082%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.058%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.058%) Shopify
6 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.047%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.035%) Eikon
8 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
9 2 (0.023%) assyst
9 2 (0.023%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3,700 (43.23%) Microsoft 365
2 3,181 (37.17%) Azure
3 985 (11.51%) Entra ID
4 793 (9.27%) AWS
5 374 (4.37%) OneDrive
6 294 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 257 (3.00%) SaaS
8 238 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
9 189 (2.21%) GCP
10 177 (2.07%) Serverless
11 174 (2.03%) IaaS
12 169 (1.97%) Power Platform
13 141 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (1.62%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.59%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (1.47%) Mimecast
18 125 (1.46%) Google Workspace
19 102 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
20 97 (1.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,598 (18.67%) Firewall
2 1,292 (15.10%) DNS
3 916 (10.70%) DHCP
4 805 (9.41%) WAN
5 768 (8.97%) TCP/IP
6 741 (8.66%) LAN
7 657 (7.68%) VPN
8 466 (5.45%) Wireless
9 460 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
10 418 (4.88%) SAN
11 299 (3.49%) VLAN
12 281 (3.28%) VoIP
13 256 (2.99%) Internet
14 191 (2.23%) SD-WAN
15 184 (2.15%) Network Security
16 161 (1.88%) NAS
17 148 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
18 133 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
19 96 (1.12%) WebEx
20 94 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 783 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 359 (4.19%) MongoDB
3 324 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 286 (3.34%) DB2
5 255 (2.98%) NoSQL
6 227 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 153 (1.79%) MySQL
8 132 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 131 (1.53%) Power BI
10 64 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 62 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 56 (0.65%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 50 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 25 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (0.29%) Redis
17 20 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 20 (0.23%) QlikView
18 17 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 228 (2.66%) Git
2 194 (2.27%) JIRA
3 137 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 97 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 73 (0.85%) GitLab
6 69 (0.81%) Subversion
7 42 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.42%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.33%) CMake
10 23 (0.27%) Ant
11 22 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 22 (0.26%) MSI
11 22 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (0.25%) TeamCity
13 19 (0.22%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.16%) eggPlant
15 14 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
16 10 (0.12%) InstallShield
16 10 (0.12%) Trac
General
1 2,688 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 1,139 (13.31%) Finance
3 803 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 470 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 326 (3.81%) Law
6 297 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 287 (3.35%) Retail
8 281 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 257 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 257 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 232 (2.71%) Legal
11 226 (2.64%) Banking
12 154 (1.80%) Marketing
13 138 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 130 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 124 (1.45%) Electronics
16 113 (1.32%) Games
17 92 (1.08%) Automotive
17 92 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
18 63 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,482 (17.32%) IT Support
2 1,300 (15.19%) Support Engineer
3 1,109 (12.96%) Analyst
4 1,032 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,019 (11.91%) IT Engineer
6 979 (11.44%) Senior
7 700 (8.18%) IT Support Engineer
8 505 (5.90%) IT Technician
9 501 (5.85%) Lead
10 461 (5.39%) Developer
11 449 (5.25%) Support Analyst
12 448 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support
13 403 (4.71%) IT Analyst
14 360 (4.21%) Support Technician
15 309 (3.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 309 (3.61%) Service Analyst
16 300 (3.51%) Administrator
17 297 (3.47%) Software Engineer
18 296 (3.46%) IT Support Technician
19 285 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 588 (6.87%) .NET
2 436 (5.09%) HTML
3 387 (4.52%) CSS
4 340 (3.97%) REST
5 337 (3.94%) React
6 332 (3.88%) AngularJS
7 331 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 319 (3.73%) Web Services
9 290 (3.39%) Vue
10 287 (3.35%) jQuery
11 279 (3.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 240 (2.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.78%) Backbone.js
13 238 (2.78%) Ember.js
14 161 (1.88%) Node.js
15 125 (1.46%) WPF
16 94 (1.10%) XML
17 85 (0.99%) .NET Framework
18 66 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 66 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 506 (5.91%) Data Centre
2 419 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 410 (4.79%) Driving Licence
4 347 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 304 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 288 (3.37%) Algorithms
7 248 (2.90%) Data Structures
8 238 (2.78%) Blockchain
9 226 (2.64%) Public Cloud
10 222 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
11 206 (2.41%) Replication
12 169 (1.97%) Onboarding
13 159 (1.86%) Clustering
14 153 (1.79%) PKI
15 126 (1.47%) e-Learning
16 94 (1.10%) Smartphone
17 87 (1.02%) Wiki
18 86 (1.00%) Client/Server
19 83 (0.97%) EPoS
20 72 (0.84%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,120 (36.46%) Windows Server
2 2,198 (25.68%) Linux
3 1,782 (20.82%) Windows 10
4 658 (7.69%) Android
5 584 (6.82%) Apple iOS
6 567 (6.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 516 (6.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 473 (5.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 364 (4.25%) Mac OS
10 334 (3.90%) Unix
11 309 (3.61%) Windows 7
12 161 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 151 (1.76%) Ubuntu
13 151 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
14 117 (1.37%) Windows 8
15 115 (1.34%) CentOS
16 111 (1.30%) VMS
17 75 (0.88%) Mac OS X
18 69 (0.81%) Solaris
19 39 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,921 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
2 1,472 (17.20%) ITIL
3 1,324 (15.47%) Customer Service
4 1,317 (15.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 899 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
6 768 (8.97%) Agile
7 715 (8.35%) DevOps
8 666 (7.78%) Mentoring
9 519 (6.06%) Computer Science
10 458 (5.35%) Software Engineering
11 449 (5.25%) Service Management
12 425 (4.97%) Disaster Recovery
13 402 (4.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 399 (4.66%) User Experience
15 397 (4.64%) Project Management
16 360 (4.21%) ITSM
17 355 (4.15%) Change Management
18 352 (4.11%) MVC
19 349 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence
20 344 (4.02%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,258 (14.70%) SQL
2 1,218 (14.23%) PowerShell
3 738 (8.62%) Python
4 714 (8.34%) C#
5 501 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 394 (4.60%) Java
7 374 (4.37%) Bash
8 290 (3.39%) C++
9 182 (2.13%) C
10 107 (1.25%) Perl
10 107 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 84 (0.98%) VB
12 57 (0.67%) VBScript
13 53 (0.62%) XAML
14 49 (0.57%) Ruby
15 44 (0.51%) TypeScript
16 41 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 40 (0.47%) PHP
18 30 (0.35%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,381 (16.14%) Degree
2 1,015 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 577 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 515 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 463 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 339 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 274 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
8 249 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 211 (2.47%) CCNA
10 188 (2.20%) MCSE
11 173 (2.02%) A+ Certification
12 153 (1.79%) MCP
13 149 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 126 (1.47%) Azure Certification
15 111 (1.30%) MCSA
16 101 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
17 91 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 82 (0.96%) CISSP
19 79 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 72 (0.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (6.37%) SLA
2 183 (2.14%) GDPR
3 170 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 138 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 121 (1.41%) QA
6 69 (0.81%) NIST
7 66 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 62 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.27%) COBIT
10 22 (0.26%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.25%) PMO
12 18 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.19%) GRC
15 12 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 12 (0.14%) NCSC
16 9 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.11%) ITGC
17 8 (0.093%) ISO 13485
17 8 (0.093%) MISRA
System Software
1 3,846 (44.94%) Active Directory
2 1,381 (16.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,046 (12.22%) Hyper-V
4 375 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
5 251 (2.93%) Docker
6 238 (2.78%) vSphere
7 212 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 200 (2.34%) XenApp
9 177 (2.07%) XenDesktop
10 150 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 114 (1.33%) Firmware
12 94 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 83 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
14 52 (0.61%) KVM
15 50 (0.58%) Terminal Services
16 47 (0.55%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 21 (0.25%) VMware Server
19 20 (0.23%) NFS
19 20 (0.23%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 906 (10.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 678 (7.92%) SCCM
3 341 (3.98%) Ansible
4 293 (3.42%) Kubernetes
5 260 (3.04%) Terraform
6 226 (2.64%) vCenter Server
7 174 (2.03%) WSUS
8 134 (1.57%) SCOM
9 118 (1.38%) Puppet
10 99 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 98 (1.15%) AirWatch
12 92 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 72 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 61 (0.71%) Nagios
15 59 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
16 57 (0.67%) Prometheus
17 53 (0.62%) Grafana
18 45 (0.53%) FortiGate
19 43 (0.50%) ZABBIX
20 42 (0.49%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4,363 (50.98%) Microsoft
2 2,070 (24.19%) VMware
3 755 (8.82%) Cisco
4 602 (7.03%) Citrix
5 488 (5.70%) Red Hat
6 405 (4.73%) Veeam
7 372 (4.35%) IBM
8 361 (4.22%) Apple
9 295 (3.45%) Oracle
10 287 (3.35%) HP
11 270 (3.15%) Dell
12 265 (3.10%) Google
13 189 (2.21%) ServiceNow
14 171 (2.00%) NetApp
15 156 (1.82%) Meraki
16 123 (1.44%) Adobe
17 119 (1.39%) Splunk
18 112 (1.31%) Sophos
19 109 (1.27%) SolarWinds
20 106 (1.24%) Palo Alto