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 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 14 19 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,597 8,871 12,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 9.86% 9.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.70% 61.37% 47.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,057 6,429 8,940
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,290 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,823 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +3.11% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,275
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -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 12,513 14,456 25,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.57% 16.07% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 9,964 14,951
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £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 £95,000 £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 10 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 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
South East +2 2,042 £40,000 +6.67% 388
London +10 1,998 £55,000 +4.76% 433
North of England +9 1,562 £37,500 -6.25% 323
Midlands +13 1,230 £35,000 -12.50% 273
South West +6 981 £42,500 +11.84% 237
North West -5 754 £40,000 - 169
East of England +3 751 £32,500 -15.58% 195
West Midlands +13 688 £35,000 -12.50% 157
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 123
East Midlands +8 536 £35,000 -7.89% 116
North East +14 189 £33,000 -17.50% 35
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 1,478 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 930 (10.82%) SharePoint
3 202 (2.35%) IIS
4 112 (1.30%) Apache
5 62 (0.72%) Confluence
6 54 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 48 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2013
8 46 (0.54%) CMS
9 43 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 26 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
12 22 (0.26%) WordPress
13 18 (0.21%) SAS
14 17 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
15 16 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.17%) JBoss
17 10 (0.12%) nginx
17 10 (0.12%) Umbraco
18 9 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,309 (15.23%) Microsoft Office
2 245 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.21%) Trello
8 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.10%) Revit
11 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.035%) InDesign
13 3 (0.035%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.035%) Simulink
13 3 (0.035%) SPSS
14 2 (0.023%) InCopy
14 2 (0.023%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 49 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.34%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.093%) Carpe Diem
6 8 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
8 5 (0.058%) Shopify
8 5 (0.058%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.047%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.035%) Eikon
10 3 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.035%) Sage 50
11 2 (0.023%) assyst
11 2 (0.023%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3,777 (43.93%) Microsoft 365
2 3,185 (37.05%) Azure
3 983 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 806 (9.38%) AWS
5 374 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 289 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 257 (2.99%) SaaS
8 238 (2.77%) IBM Cloud
9 191 (2.22%) GCP
10 181 (2.11%) Serverless
11 175 (2.04%) IaaS
11 175 (2.04%) Power Platform
12 143 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 138 (1.61%) Azure Functions
14 136 (1.58%) Azure API Management
15 135 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
16 124 (1.44%) Google Workspace
16 124 (1.44%) Mimecast
17 105 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
18 102 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (18.79%) Firewall
2 1,292 (15.03%) DNS
3 925 (10.76%) DHCP
4 818 (9.51%) WAN
5 768 (8.93%) TCP/IP
6 745 (8.67%) LAN
7 671 (7.81%) VPN
8 476 (5.54%) Wireless
9 459 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
10 426 (4.96%) SAN
11 306 (3.56%) VLAN
12 292 (3.40%) VoIP
13 248 (2.88%) Internet
14 207 (2.41%) SD-WAN
15 186 (2.16%) Network Security
16 162 (1.88%) NAS
17 145 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
18 144 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
19 107 (1.24%) WebEx
20 93 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 785 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 354 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 325 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 284 (3.30%) DB2
5 255 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 229 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 154 (1.79%) MySQL
8 137 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 136 (1.58%) Power BI
10 69 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 54 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 52 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 48 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
15 28 (0.33%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (0.28%) Redis
18 20 (0.23%) MariaDB
18 20 (0.23%) QlikView
19 17 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 229 (2.66%) Git
2 196 (2.28%) JIRA
3 134 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 72 (0.84%) GitLab
6 71 (0.83%) Subversion
7 44 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 35 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.31%) CMake
10 25 (0.29%) Ant
11 24 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.26%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.26%) LabVIEW
14 21 (0.24%) MSI
15 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 14 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
17 10 (0.12%) Trac
18 9 (0.10%) eggPlant
18 9 (0.10%) InstallShield
General
1 2,695 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 1,121 (13.04%) Finance
3 804 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 472 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 338 (3.93%) Law
6 299 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 294 (3.42%) Retail
8 287 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 257 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 256 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 244 (2.84%) Legal
12 227 (2.64%) Banking
13 159 (1.85%) Marketing
14 132 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 128 (1.49%) Aerospace
16 122 (1.42%) Electronics
17 116 (1.35%) Games
18 94 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
19 88 (1.02%) Automotive
20 63 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,485 (17.27%) IT Support
2 1,309 (15.23%) Support Engineer
3 1,111 (12.92%) Analyst
4 1,036 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,021 (11.88%) IT Engineer
6 982 (11.42%) Senior
7 697 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
8 502 (5.84%) Lead
9 500 (5.82%) IT Technician
10 459 (5.34%) Developer
11 456 (5.30%) 2nd Line Support
12 444 (5.16%) Support Analyst
13 397 (4.62%) IT Analyst
14 357 (4.15%) Support Technician
15 322 (3.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 312 (3.63%) Service Analyst
17 294 (3.42%) Administrator
17 294 (3.42%) IT Support Technician
18 291 (3.38%) Software Engineer
19 290 (3.37%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (6.75%) .NET
2 434 (5.05%) HTML
3 383 (4.46%) CSS
4 338 (3.93%) REST
5 337 (3.92%) React
6 333 (3.87%) AngularJS
7 331 (3.85%) ASP.NET
8 315 (3.66%) Web Services
9 289 (3.36%) Vue
10 288 (3.35%) jQuery
11 279 (3.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 240 (2.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (2.77%) Backbone.js
13 238 (2.77%) Ember.js
14 162 (1.88%) Node.js
15 126 (1.47%) WPF
16 92 (1.07%) XML
17 80 (0.93%) .NET Framework
18 68 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
19 66 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 510 (5.93%) Data Centre
2 419 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
3 405 (4.71%) Driving Licence
4 352 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 304 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 287 (3.34%) Algorithms
7 248 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 238 (2.77%) Blockchain
9 229 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
10 214 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 206 (2.40%) Replication
12 170 (1.98%) Onboarding
13 155 (1.80%) Clustering
14 148 (1.72%) PKI
15 128 (1.49%) e-Learning
16 97 (1.13%) Wiki
17 95 (1.11%) Smartphone
18 83 (0.97%) Client/Server
18 83 (0.97%) EPoS
19 72 (0.84%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,167 (36.84%) Windows Server
2 2,165 (25.18%) Linux
3 1,799 (20.93%) Windows 10
4 665 (7.74%) Android
5 584 (6.79%) Apple iOS
6 573 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 508 (5.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 474 (5.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 374 (4.35%) Mac OS
10 322 (3.75%) Unix
11 315 (3.66%) Windows 7
12 161 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 151 (1.76%) Ubuntu
14 149 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
15 128 (1.49%) Windows 8
16 111 (1.29%) CentOS
17 108 (1.26%) VMS
18 77 (0.90%) Mac OS X
19 61 (0.71%) Solaris
20 39 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,912 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
2 1,488 (17.31%) ITIL
3 1,329 (15.46%) Customer Service
4 1,324 (15.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 918 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
6 752 (8.75%) Agile
7 710 (8.26%) DevOps
8 666 (7.75%) Mentoring
9 531 (6.18%) Computer Science
10 450 (5.23%) Software Engineering
11 448 (5.21%) Service Management
12 433 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 403 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 403 (4.69%) Project Management
14 402 (4.68%) User Experience
15 369 (4.29%) ITSM
16 356 (4.14%) Change Management
17 352 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence
18 347 (4.04%) Service Delivery
19 346 (4.02%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,268 (14.75%) SQL
2 1,242 (14.45%) PowerShell
3 750 (8.72%) Python
4 715 (8.32%) C#
5 498 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 390 (4.54%) Java
7 372 (4.33%) Bash
8 287 (3.34%) C++
9 180 (2.09%) C
10 107 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 105 (1.22%) Perl
12 79 (0.92%) VB
13 59 (0.69%) VBScript
14 52 (0.60%) XAML
15 49 (0.57%) Ruby
16 43 (0.50%) TypeScript
17 37 (0.43%) PHP
18 36 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 30 (0.35%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,391 (16.18%) Degree
2 981 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 559 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 527 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 436 (5.07%) DV Cleared
6 354 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 280 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 247 (2.87%) DBS Check
9 215 (2.50%) CCNA
10 192 (2.23%) MCSE
11 175 (2.04%) A+ Certification
12 161 (1.87%) Master's Degree
13 150 (1.74%) MCP
14 125 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 121 (1.41%) MCSA
16 103 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
17 92 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 85 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 80 (0.93%) CISSP
20 76 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (6.62%) SLA
2 184 (2.14%) GDPR
3 170 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 138 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 115 (1.34%) QA
6 67 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 64 (0.74%) NIST
8 57 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 21 (0.24%) COBIT
9 21 (0.24%) PMO
10 20 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (0.20%) GRC
11 17 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.14%) NCSC
14 9 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.10%) ITGC
15 8 (0.093%) ISO 13485
15 8 (0.093%) MISRA
System Software
1 3,920 (45.60%) Active Directory
2 1,428 (16.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,067 (12.41%) Hyper-V
4 389 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
5 244 (2.84%) Docker
6 235 (2.73%) vSphere
7 214 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
8 198 (2.30%) XenApp
9 178 (2.07%) XenDesktop
10 146 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
11 110 (1.28%) Firmware
12 103 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
13 88 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
14 53 (0.62%) KVM
15 49 (0.57%) VirtualBox
16 48 (0.56%) Terminal Services
17 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 23 (0.27%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
19 19 (0.22%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 898 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 700 (8.14%) SCCM
3 334 (3.89%) Ansible
4 292 (3.40%) Kubernetes
5 254 (2.95%) Terraform
6 224 (2.61%) vCenter Server
7 175 (2.04%) WSUS
8 135 (1.57%) SCOM
9 117 (1.36%) Puppet
10 109 (1.27%) AirWatch
11 97 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 93 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 71 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 60 (0.70%) Nagios
15 56 (0.65%) Prometheus
16 55 (0.64%) Grafana
17 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
18 49 (0.57%) FortiGate
19 44 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
20 42 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,395 (51.12%) Microsoft
2 2,113 (24.58%) VMware
3 770 (8.96%) Cisco
4 608 (7.07%) Citrix
5 483 (5.62%) Red Hat
6 410 (4.77%) Veeam
7 368 (4.28%) Apple
7 368 (4.28%) IBM
8 305 (3.55%) HP
9 281 (3.27%) Oracle
10 277 (3.22%) Dell
11 266 (3.09%) Google
12 186 (2.16%) ServiceNow
13 166 (1.93%) NetApp
14 163 (1.90%) Meraki
15 127 (1.48%) Adobe
16 119 (1.38%) Splunk
17 115 (1.34%) Sophos
18 114 (1.33%) SolarWinds
19 112 (1.30%) Palo Alto