Windows Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,034 1,786 2,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.05% 12.46% 10.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.80% 65.28% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 1,214 1,713
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,625 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £58,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,823 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.11% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,833 2,736 4,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.78% 19.08% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 1,902 2,807
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,694 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,350
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +3 655 £40,000 +16.54% 125
Hampshire +5 651 £45,000 +28.57% 102
Berkshire +1 292 £45,000 +28.57% 53
Surrey -3 265 £43,750 +15.13% 44
Oxfordshire +11 204 £42,000 +20.00% 44
Buckinghamshire -15 159 £38,000 +11.76% 28
Kent -7 151 £37,500 +10.29% 31
East Sussex +19 145 £37,500 -31.82% 19
West Sussex +11 121 £35,000 -30.00% 29
Middlesex +4 26 £42,500 -51.43% 1
Sussex - 21 £35,000 - 1
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 267 (13.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 183 (9.00%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.36%) IIS
4 31 (1.52%) Apache
5 21 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.59%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) WordPress
8 8 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 6 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.20%) TWiki
13 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.15%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
15 1 (0.049%) WebSphere
Applications
1 290 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.84%) AutoCAD
5 16 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.34%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.049%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.098%) assyst
3 1 (0.049%) iTrent
3 1 (0.049%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 861 (42.33%) Microsoft 365
2 739 (36.33%) Azure
3 191 (9.39%) Entra ID
4 138 (6.78%) AWS
5 102 (5.01%) OneDrive
6 88 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.79%) Serverless
8 76 (3.74%) Azure Functions
8 76 (3.74%) IBM Cloud
9 75 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 74 (3.64%) Azure API Management
10 74 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 61 (3.00%) SaaS
12 44 (2.16%) IaaS
13 30 (1.47%) Power Platform
14 24 (1.18%) Mimecast
15 23 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 436 (21.44%) Firewall
2 314 (15.44%) DNS
3 207 (10.18%) DHCP
4 170 (8.36%) TCP/IP
5 167 (8.21%) VPN
6 120 (5.90%) LAN
6 120 (5.90%) Wireless
7 118 (5.80%) WAN
8 101 (4.97%) VoIP
9 87 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
10 86 (4.23%) VLAN
11 75 (3.69%) SAN
12 35 (1.72%) SNMP
13 34 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
14 32 (1.57%) NAS
15 30 (1.47%) Network Security
16 29 (1.43%) Internet
17 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
18 22 (1.08%) Unified Communications
19 21 (1.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 101 (4.97%) Relational Database
3 91 (4.47%) DB2
3 91 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 86 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 37 (1.82%) MySQL
7 34 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (0.93%) Power BI
9 8 (0.39%) GIS
10 7 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.34%) Redis
11 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.25%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.25%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.098%) Tableau
15 1 (0.049%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 77 (3.79%) Git
2 52 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 37 (1.82%) Subversion
4 32 (1.57%) JIRA
5 24 (1.18%) Ant
6 23 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.79%) CMake
8 13 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 13 (0.64%) eggPlant
9 12 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.54%) MSI
11 10 (0.49%) GitLab
11 10 (0.49%) Trac
12 6 (0.29%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.25%) AdminStudio
13 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.25%) InstallShield
14 4 (0.20%) Hudson
14 4 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 632 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 160 (7.87%) Finance
3 139 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (4.77%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
6 73 (3.59%) Telecoms
7 51 (2.51%) Legal
8 48 (2.36%) Law
9 45 (2.21%) Retail
10 44 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 39 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (1.92%) Military
12 37 (1.82%) Electronics
13 36 (1.77%) Games
14 35 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.38%) Marketing
15 28 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.18%) Back Office
17 15 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 338 (16.62%) IT Support
2 320 (15.73%) Support Engineer
3 250 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 245 (12.05%) IT Engineer
5 238 (11.70%) Analyst
6 195 (9.59%) IT Support Engineer
7 186 (9.14%) Senior
8 151 (7.42%) Developer
9 145 (7.13%) Lead
10 143 (7.03%) Software Engineer
11 115 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 112 (5.51%) 3rd Line Support
13 103 (5.06%) Support Analyst
14 97 (4.77%) IT Technician
15 93 (4.57%) IT Analyst
16 87 (4.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 85 (4.18%) 1st Line Support
18 82 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
19 80 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
20 79 (3.88%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (8.51%) .NET
2 124 (6.10%) HTML
3 120 (5.90%) AngularJS
4 116 (5.70%) CSS
5 111 (5.46%) React
6 101 (4.97%) Web Services
7 98 (4.82%) jQuery
7 98 (4.82%) REST
8 93 (4.57%) Vue
9 92 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 87 (4.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 83 (4.08%) Node.js
12 76 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
12 76 (3.74%) Backbone.js
12 76 (3.74%) Ember.js
13 54 (2.65%) XML
14 39 (1.92%) WPF
15 38 (1.87%) Qt
16 30 (1.47%) Hibernate
17 28 (1.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.65%) Data Centre
2 113 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 84 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 82 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (3.83%) Driving Licence
6 77 (3.79%) Data Structures
7 76 (3.74%) Blockchain
8 70 (3.44%) Management Information System
9 55 (2.70%) PKI
10 48 (2.36%) Onboarding
11 46 (2.26%) Replication
12 41 (2.02%) CMDB
13 38 (1.87%) Client/Server
14 33 (1.62%) IoT
15 30 (1.47%) Clustering
16 28 (1.38%) NHS
17 21 (1.03%) Digital Signage
18 19 (0.93%) Smartphone
19 18 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
20 17 (0.84%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 761 (37.41%) Windows Server
2 538 (26.45%) Linux
3 435 (21.39%) Windows 10
4 165 (8.11%) Apple iOS
5 163 (8.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 159 (7.82%) Android
7 141 (6.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 110 (5.41%) Windows 7
9 107 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 59 (2.90%) Windows 8
11 58 (2.85%) Mac OS
12 37 (1.82%) Unix
13 34 (1.67%) Ubuntu
14 25 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 25 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (1.18%) CentOS
16 17 (0.84%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.74%) Mac OS X
18 12 (0.59%) Windows NT
19 11 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
2 351 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 346 (17.01%) ITIL
4 343 (16.86%) Customer Service
5 222 (10.91%) DevOps
6 219 (10.77%) Agile
7 216 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
8 182 (8.95%) Software Engineering
9 135 (6.64%) Computer Science
10 129 (6.34%) Mentoring
11 122 (6.00%) OO
12 114 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 106 (5.21%) MVC
13 106 (5.21%) Service Delivery
14 104 (5.11%) Project Management
15 102 (5.01%) MVVM
16 100 (4.92%) Service Management
17 98 (4.82%) OOP
18 92 (4.52%) SOLID
19 91 (4.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 306 (15.04%) SQL
2 280 (13.77%) PowerShell
3 230 (11.31%) C#
4 224 (11.01%) Python
5 171 (8.41%) Java
6 167 (8.21%) JavaScript
7 157 (7.72%) C++
8 93 (4.57%) C
9 41 (2.02%) VB
10 35 (1.72%) Bash
11 33 (1.62%) Perl
12 31 (1.52%) VBScript
13 19 (0.93%) XAML
14 18 (0.88%) R
15 15 (0.74%) ActionScript
15 15 (0.74%) Haskell
16 14 (0.69%) Bicep
17 12 (0.59%) Go
18 9 (0.44%) PHP
19 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 374 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 353 (17.35%) Degree
3 263 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 183 (9.00%) DV Cleared
5 109 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 74 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (2.70%) CCNA
9 42 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 42 (2.06%) MCP
10 36 (1.77%) MCSE
11 34 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 29 (1.43%) CCNP
13 25 (1.23%) A+ Certification
13 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 20 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
15 19 (0.93%) HNC
16 18 (0.88%) MCSA
17 17 (0.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.13%) SLA
2 66 (3.24%) GDPR
3 43 (2.11%) QA
4 38 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.34%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.29%) GRC
10 5 (0.25%) NIST
11 4 (0.20%) COBIT
11 4 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.15%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.098%) PMO
14 1 (0.049%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 891 (43.81%) Active Directory
2 320 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 272 (13.37%) Hyper-V
4 70 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
5 62 (3.05%) vSphere
6 61 (3.00%) XenApp
7 51 (2.51%) Docker
7 51 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
8 48 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 48 (2.36%) VirtualBox
9 44 (2.16%) XenDesktop
10 34 (1.67%) Firmware
11 17 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (0.74%) KVM
13 11 (0.54%) NFS
13 11 (0.54%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.49%) pfSense
15 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 6 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 196 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 139 (6.83%) SCCM
3 90 (4.42%) WSUS
4 72 (3.54%) vCenter Server
5 64 (3.15%) Kubernetes
6 54 (2.65%) SCOM
7 53 (2.61%) Ansible
8 32 (1.57%) Terraform
9 26 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.13%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
12 18 (0.88%) Puppet
12 18 (0.88%) WMI
13 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (0.79%) SCDPM
14 15 (0.74%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.74%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.69%) Grafana
16 12 (0.59%) IBM BigFix
16 12 (0.59%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,015 (49.90%) Microsoft
2 467 (22.96%) VMware
3 163 (8.01%) Cisco
4 146 (7.18%) Citrix
5 117 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 95 (4.67%) Veeam
7 91 (4.47%) IBM
8 59 (2.90%) Apple
9 53 (2.61%) Dell
10 44 (2.16%) Google
10 44 (2.16%) Oracle
11 43 (2.11%) Adobe
12 41 (2.02%) HP
12 41 (2.02%) Juniper
13 32 (1.57%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.47%) Draytek
14 30 (1.47%) Meraki
14 30 (1.47%) Sophos
15 29 (1.43%) Fortinet
16 27 (1.33%) Splunk