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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 209 233
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 -54
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 1,900 1,861 2,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.84% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.57% 11.54% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 1,479 2,173
10th Percentile £23,500 £24,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +9.52% -3.08%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £44,500
90th Percentile £55,675 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £31,500 £28,500
% change year-on-year -3.17% +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 14,005 16,129 29,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.97% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,789 10,915 16,509
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 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 10 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 10 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 +59 1,804 £32,500 -4.41% 327
UK excluding London +32 1,367 £30,500 -3.17% 267
London +43 506 £42,286 +11.28% 76
Work from Home +44 487 £38,000 - 81
South East +32 438 £32,500 +4.84% 71
North of England +22 263 £30,000 -6.25% 52
Midlands +57 212 £29,000 -10.77% 46
South West +18 200 £32,000 +3.23% 50
East of England +55 183 £30,000 -7.69% 30
West Midlands +66 166 £29,500 -9.23% 24
North West -46 107 £30,000 -6.25% 24
Yorkshire +70 104 £30,500 -4.69% 25
North East +26 52 £27,500 -8.33% 3
East Midlands -5 45 £28,165 +0.59% 22
Scotland -76 41 £31,000 -24.85% 17
Wales +8 23 £27,000 -10.00% 3
Northern Ireland +18 4 £90,000 +179.07% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 558 (29.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 305 (16.05%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.32%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.63%) CMS
5 9 (0.47%) IIS
6 7 (0.37%) Confluence
6 7 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (0.21%) WordPress
10 3 (0.16%) Apache
10 3 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.053%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.053%) Moodle
Applications
1 598 (31.47%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.11%) InCopy
5 2 (0.11%) InDesign
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.16%) Eikon
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%) Remedy ITSM
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 1,335 (70.26%) Microsoft 365
2 602 (31.68%) Azure
3 288 (15.16%) Entra ID
4 148 (7.79%) OneDrive
5 50 (2.63%) Mimecast
6 47 (2.47%) AWS
7 33 (1.74%) Power Platform
8 29 (1.53%) Power Automate
9 28 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 27 (1.42%) SaaS
11 24 (1.26%) IaaS
12 20 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (0.89%) PaaS
14 13 (0.68%) WhatsApp
15 12 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.63%) OCI
16 11 (0.58%) Nutanix
17 10 (0.53%) GCP
18 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 281 (14.79%) Firewall
2 271 (14.26%) DNS
3 266 (14.00%) WAN
4 218 (11.47%) DHCP
5 215 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 193 (10.16%) Wireless
7 175 (9.21%) LAN
8 159 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
9 141 (7.42%) VPN
10 128 (6.74%) Cisco IOS
11 106 (5.58%) SD-WAN
12 103 (5.42%) WebEx
13 80 (4.21%) VoIP
14 75 (3.95%) VLAN
15 66 (3.47%) SAN
16 57 (3.00%) Internet
17 45 (2.37%) Remote Desktop
18 44 (2.32%) Skype
19 29 (1.53%) Telepresence
20 21 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.26%) MySQL
2 24 (1.26%) Power BI
3 22 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.47%) DB2
6 8 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.21%) UniData
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.11%) DTS
9 2 (0.11%) Metadata
9 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.11%) MS Access
9 2 (0.11%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.053%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (1.26%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 15 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 13 (0.68%) Subversion
5 8 (0.42%) IntelliJ
5 8 (0.42%) MSI
6 7 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.053%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.053%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.053%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.053%) GitLab
10 1 (0.053%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.053%) Zephyr
General
1 772 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 221 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 206 (10.84%) Finance
4 119 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
5 110 (5.79%) Law
6 96 (5.05%) Legal
7 77 (4.05%) Manufacturing
8 73 (3.84%) Telecoms
9 70 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (2.74%) Retail
11 40 (2.11%) Automotive
12 36 (1.89%) Banking
13 34 (1.79%) Public Sector
14 30 (1.58%) Back Office
15 28 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.32%) Marketing
17 21 (1.11%) Advertising
18 16 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.84%) Electronics
18 16 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 593 (31.21%) IT Support
2 425 (22.37%) Analyst
3 412 (21.68%) Support Engineer
4 277 (14.58%) IT Engineer
5 223 (11.74%) IT Support Engineer
6 205 (10.79%) Support Analyst
7 203 (10.68%) 2nd Line Support
7 203 (10.68%) IT Analyst
8 167 (8.79%) IT Technician
9 135 (7.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 135 (7.11%) Service Analyst
10 130 (6.84%) Support Specialist
11 129 (6.79%) Senior
12 125 (6.58%) 1st Line Support
13 121 (6.37%) IT Support Analyst
13 121 (6.37%) Support Technician
14 116 (6.11%) Service Desk Analyst
15 113 (5.95%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 112 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 110 (5.79%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.26%) .NET
2 11 (0.58%) .NET Framework
2 11 (0.58%) Qt
3 9 (0.47%) X-Windows
4 8 (0.42%) REST
5 5 (0.26%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.26%) EDI
5 5 (0.26%) React
6 4 (0.21%) XMPP
7 3 (0.16%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.16%) HTML
7 3 (0.16%) JSON
7 3 (0.16%) Spring
8 2 (0.11%) ADO
8 2 (0.11%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (0.11%) TAPI
9 1 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.053%) Kafka
9 1 (0.053%) RESTEasy
9 1 (0.053%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (8.95%) Video Conferencing
2 135 (7.11%) Driving Licence
3 96 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 91 (4.79%) Wiki
5 78 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 65 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 63 (3.32%) Smartphone
8 62 (3.26%) Replication
9 55 (2.89%) iPhone
10 33 (1.74%) iPad
11 30 (1.58%) CCTV
12 29 (1.53%) Blackberry
13 28 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.32%) Clustering
15 25 (1.32%) EPoS
16 19 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (0.89%) NHS
18 14 (0.74%) Fat Client
18 14 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,895 (99.74%) Windows
2 613 (32.26%) Windows Server
3 267 (14.05%) Windows 7
4 251 (13.21%) Android
5 238 (12.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 228 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 200 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 142 (7.47%) Apple iOS
9 123 (6.47%) Linux
10 108 (5.68%) Mac OS
11 98 (5.16%) Windows 8
12 63 (3.32%) Windows Server 2008
13 39 (2.05%) Mac OS X
14 24 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 24 (1.26%) Windows XP
15 22 (1.16%) Ubuntu
16 19 (1.00%) CentOS
17 16 (0.84%) Windows NT
18 15 (0.79%) VMS
18 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (27.11%) ITIL
2 487 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
3 473 (24.89%) Customer Service
4 148 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
5 147 (7.74%) ITSM
6 142 (7.47%) Mobile Device Management
7 138 (7.26%) Computer Science
8 135 (7.11%) Service Management
9 133 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 124 (6.53%) Time Management
11 119 (6.26%) Service Delivery
12 99 (5.21%) Business Continuity
13 94 (4.95%) Application Virtualisation
14 91 (4.79%) BCP
15 90 (4.74%) Business Continuity Planning
15 90 (4.74%) Contract Negotiation
16 88 (4.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 86 (4.53%) Project Management
18 85 (4.47%) Change Management
19 81 (4.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (10.79%) PowerShell
2 162 (8.53%) SQL
3 21 (1.11%) Python
4 18 (0.95%) Bash
5 13 (0.68%) C#
5 13 (0.68%) Perl
6 12 (0.63%) C
6 12 (0.63%) C++
7 11 (0.58%) VB
8 10 (0.53%) Java
9 6 (0.32%) Ruby
10 5 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.16%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.11%) PHP
13 2 (0.11%) Scala
14 1 (0.053%) Go
14 1 (0.053%) Swift
Qualifications
1 382 (20.11%) Degree
2 148 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 132 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 120 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (6.21%) Master's Degree
6 87 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 68 (3.58%) DBS Check
8 66 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 56 (2.95%) A+ Certification
10 53 (2.79%) MCP
11 51 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 38 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (1.53%) MCSA
14 27 (1.42%) CCNA
15 25 (1.32%) CCNP
15 25 (1.32%) MBA
16 24 (1.26%) Azure Certification
16 24 (1.26%) HNC
17 23 (1.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (9.26%) SLA
2 54 (2.84%) GDPR
3 38 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.68%) NIST
6 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.16%) PMO
7 3 (0.16%) QA
7 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.053%) DICOM
9 1 (0.053%) HL7
9 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.053%) NCSC
9 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,276 (67.16%) Active Directory
2 345 (18.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 236 (12.42%) Hyper-V
4 162 (8.53%) XenApp
5 151 (7.95%) VMware ESXi
6 149 (7.84%) XenDesktop
7 98 (5.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 53 (2.79%) vSphere
9 45 (2.37%) VirtualBox
10 36 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
12 25 (1.32%) Firmware
13 16 (0.84%) Terminal Services
13 16 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
14 14 (0.74%) KVM
15 11 (0.58%) Docker
16 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
18 6 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 6 (0.32%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 356 (18.74%) SCCM
2 294 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 90 (4.74%) AirWatch
4 47 (2.47%) WSUS
5 44 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
6 26 (1.37%) SCOM
7 20 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
8 18 (0.95%) Terraform
9 17 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (0.68%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.63%) Ansible
11 12 (0.63%) Sysprep
12 11 (0.58%) McAfee ePO
13 9 (0.47%) Autotask
13 9 (0.47%) Backup Exec
13 9 (0.47%) SmoothWall
14 8 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
14 8 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,396 (73.47%) Microsoft
2 462 (24.32%) VMware
3 296 (15.58%) Cisco
4 281 (14.79%) Citrix
5 162 (8.53%) Apple
6 99 (5.21%) Veeam
7 58 (3.05%) HP
8 56 (2.95%) Dell
9 52 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.68%) Adobe
11 43 (2.26%) Sophos
12 39 (2.05%) iManage
13 35 (1.84%) Google
14 31 (1.63%) SolarWinds
15 30 (1.58%) Palo Alto
16 29 (1.53%) Polycom
17 28 (1.47%) Bloomberg
18 24 (1.26%) MobileIron
19 23 (1.21%) Oracle
19 23 (1.21%) Symantec