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 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 14 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8,575 8,791 12,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.92% 9.94% 9.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.70% 61.45% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,011 6,355 8,992
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,290 £31,250 £30,495
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 £77,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

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 12,482 14,305 26,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.43% 16.17% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,828 9,827 15,002
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,233
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 20 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 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
South East +3 2,034 £40,000 +6.67% 466
London +7 1,973 £55,000 +4.76% 528
North of England +5 1,560 £37,500 -6.25% 377
Midlands +11 1,233 £35,000 -12.50% 293
South West +5 998 £42,500 +6.25% 253
North West -4 758 £40,000 -0.62% 177
East of England +3 745 £32,500 -15.58% 223
West Midlands +13 692 £35,000 -12.50% 168
Yorkshire +16 614 £37,000 -1.33% 172
East Midlands +8 535 £35,000 -12.28% 125
North East +14 190 £33,000 -17.50% 32
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 1,448 (16.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 925 (10.79%) SharePoint
3 206 (2.40%) IIS
4 117 (1.36%) Apache
5 63 (0.73%) Confluence
6 54 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 46 (0.54%) CMS
7 46 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
8 45 (0.52%) 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 18 (0.21%) SAS
12 18 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
13 17 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
14 15 (0.17%) JBoss
15 10 (0.12%) Umbraco
16 9 (0.10%) nginx
16 9 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,300 (15.16%) Microsoft Office
2 249 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.21%) Trello
8 14 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.093%) Revit
12 7 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.035%) InDesign
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%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 49 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 16 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.10%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.082%) Carpe Diem
7 7 (0.082%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.082%) 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 3,731 (43.51%) Microsoft 365
2 3,179 (37.07%) Azure
3 985 (11.49%) Entra ID
4 799 (9.32%) AWS
5 378 (4.41%) OneDrive
6 289 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 259 (3.02%) SaaS
8 238 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
9 189 (2.20%) GCP
10 178 (2.08%) Serverless
11 173 (2.02%) IaaS
12 170 (1.98%) Power Platform
13 141 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (1.62%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.59%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 126 (1.47%) Google Workspace
18 124 (1.45%) Mimecast
19 103 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
20 98 (1.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,600 (18.66%) Firewall
2 1,290 (15.04%) DNS
3 917 (10.69%) DHCP
4 811 (9.46%) WAN
5 767 (8.94%) TCP/IP
6 742 (8.65%) LAN
7 668 (7.79%) VPN
8 469 (5.47%) Wireless
9 465 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
10 420 (4.90%) SAN
11 302 (3.52%) VLAN
12 283 (3.30%) VoIP
13 252 (2.94%) Internet
14 198 (2.31%) SD-WAN
15 185 (2.16%) Network Security
16 163 (1.90%) NAS
17 144 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
18 140 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
19 102 (1.19%) WebEx
20 91 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 784 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 356 (4.15%) MongoDB
3 323 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 285 (3.32%) DB2
5 255 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 227 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 152 (1.77%) MySQL
8 134 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 133 (1.55%) Power BI
10 68 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 62 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 58 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 49 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 25 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (0.28%) Redis
18 20 (0.23%) QlikView
19 19 (0.22%) MariaDB
20 17 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 225 (2.62%) Git
2 196 (2.29%) JIRA
3 135 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 71 (0.83%) Subversion
6 70 (0.82%) GitLab
7 43 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.42%) Eclipse
9 28 (0.33%) CMake
10 24 (0.28%) Ant
11 22 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 22 (0.26%) MSI
12 21 (0.24%) LabVIEW
12 21 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (0.24%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
15 13 (0.15%) eggPlant
16 10 (0.12%) InstallShield
16 10 (0.12%) Trac
General
1 2,699 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 1,137 (13.26%) Finance
3 807 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 474 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 332 (3.87%) Law
6 298 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 287 (3.35%) Retail
8 282 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
9 258 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 256 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 238 (2.78%) Legal
12 227 (2.65%) Banking
13 158 (1.84%) Marketing
14 134 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 130 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 124 (1.45%) Electronics
17 114 (1.33%) Games
18 94 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
19 90 (1.05%) Automotive
20 63 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,481 (17.27%) IT Support
2 1,304 (15.21%) Support Engineer
3 1,107 (12.91%) Analyst
4 1,027 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1,024 (11.94%) IT Engineer
6 975 (11.37%) Senior
7 699 (8.15%) IT Support Engineer
8 504 (5.88%) Lead
9 499 (5.82%) IT Technician
10 461 (5.38%) Developer
11 451 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
12 444 (5.18%) Support Analyst
13 398 (4.64%) IT Analyst
14 356 (4.15%) Support Technician
15 315 (3.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 308 (3.59%) Service Analyst
17 297 (3.46%) Administrator
18 295 (3.44%) Software Engineer
19 293 (3.42%) IT Support Technician
20 289 (3.37%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 583 (6.80%) .NET
2 435 (5.07%) HTML
3 384 (4.48%) CSS
4 338 (3.94%) REST
5 337 (3.93%) React
6 333 (3.88%) AngularJS
7 332 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 321 (3.74%) Web Services
9 289 (3.37%) Vue
10 288 (3.36%) jQuery
11 279 (3.25%) 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
15 126 (1.47%) WPF
16 94 (1.10%) XML
17 82 (0.96%) .NET Framework
18 65 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
18 65 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 505 (5.89%) Data Centre
2 417 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 408 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 352 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 305 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 288 (3.36%) Algorithms
7 248 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 238 (2.78%) Blockchain
9 226 (2.64%) Video Conferencing
10 224 (2.61%) Public Cloud
11 207 (2.41%) Replication
12 169 (1.97%) Onboarding
13 154 (1.80%) Clustering
14 150 (1.75%) PKI
15 126 (1.47%) e-Learning
16 95 (1.11%) Smartphone
17 93 (1.08%) Wiki
18 85 (0.99%) Client/Server
19 82 (0.96%) EPoS
20 72 (0.84%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,135 (36.56%) Windows Server
2 2,184 (25.47%) Linux
3 1,795 (20.93%) Windows 10
4 663 (7.73%) Android
5 588 (6.86%) Apple iOS
6 571 (6.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 512 (5.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 475 (5.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 371 (4.33%) Mac OS
10 332 (3.87%) Unix
11 313 (3.65%) Windows 7
12 158 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 151 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
14 149 (1.74%) Ubuntu
15 122 (1.42%) Windows 8
16 112 (1.31%) CentOS
17 107 (1.25%) VMS
18 76 (0.89%) Mac OS X
19 67 (0.78%) Solaris
20 38 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,923 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,478 (17.24%) ITIL
3 1,327 (15.48%) Customer Service
4 1,315 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 912 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
6 759 (8.85%) Agile
7 707 (8.24%) DevOps
8 668 (7.79%) Mentoring
9 529 (6.17%) Computer Science
10 455 (5.31%) Software Engineering
11 454 (5.29%) Service Management
12 426 (4.97%) Disaster Recovery
13 404 (4.71%) User Experience
14 401 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 401 (4.68%) Project Management
15 367 (4.28%) ITSM
16 355 (4.14%) Change Management
17 351 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence
18 347 (4.05%) MVC
19 346 (4.03%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,267 (14.78%) SQL
2 1,212 (14.13%) PowerShell
3 737 (8.59%) Python
4 714 (8.33%) C#
5 498 (5.81%) JavaScript
6 392 (4.57%) Java
7 369 (4.30%) Bash
8 291 (3.39%) C++
9 182 (2.12%) C
10 109 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 105 (1.22%) Perl
12 81 (0.94%) VB
13 58 (0.68%) VBScript
14 52 (0.61%) XAML
15 45 (0.52%) Ruby
16 43 (0.50%) TypeScript
17 42 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 39 (0.45%) PHP
19 31 (0.36%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,393 (16.24%) Degree
2 1,005 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 574 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 524 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 455 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 350 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 275 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
8 245 (2.86%) DBS Check
9 211 (2.46%) CCNA
10 195 (2.27%) MCSE
11 172 (2.01%) A+ Certification
12 156 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 150 (1.75%) MCP
14 123 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 117 (1.36%) MCSA
16 105 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
17 92 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 84 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 81 (0.94%) CISSP
20 71 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (6.51%) SLA
2 184 (2.15%) GDPR
3 170 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 139 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 120 (1.40%) QA
6 68 (0.79%) NIST
7 67 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 63 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.26%) COBIT
9 22 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 21 (0.24%) PMO
11 17 (0.20%) GRC
11 17 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.15%) 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 3,873 (45.17%) Active Directory
2 1,391 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,049 (12.23%) Hyper-V
4 383 (4.47%) VMware ESXi
5 244 (2.85%) Docker
6 234 (2.73%) vSphere
7 211 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 200 (2.33%) XenApp
9 179 (2.09%) XenDesktop
10 148 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
11 112 (1.31%) Firmware
12 100 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 86 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
14 52 (0.61%) KVM
15 49 (0.57%) Terminal Services
16 48 (0.56%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 20 (0.23%) VMware Server
19 19 (0.22%) NFS
19 19 (0.22%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 901 (10.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 695 (8.10%) SCCM
3 334 (3.90%) Ansible
4 287 (3.35%) Kubernetes
5 252 (2.94%) Terraform
6 222 (2.59%) vCenter Server
7 174 (2.03%) WSUS
8 135 (1.57%) SCOM
9 114 (1.33%) Puppet
10 104 (1.21%) AirWatch
11 102 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
12 94 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
13 69 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 60 (0.70%) Nagios
15 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
15 57 (0.66%) Prometheus
16 54 (0.63%) Grafana
17 48 (0.56%) FortiGate
18 43 (0.50%) ZABBIX
19 42 (0.49%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4,375 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 2,079 (24.24%) VMware
3 761 (8.87%) Cisco
4 603 (7.03%) Citrix
5 482 (5.62%) Red Hat
6 407 (4.75%) Veeam
7 369 (4.30%) IBM
8 366 (4.27%) Apple
9 293 (3.42%) HP
10 292 (3.41%) Oracle
11 269 (3.14%) Dell
12 267 (3.11%) Google
13 187 (2.18%) ServiceNow
14 168 (1.96%) NetApp
15 157 (1.83%) Meraki
16 126 (1.47%) Adobe
17 117 (1.36%) Splunk
18 113 (1.32%) Sophos
19 111 (1.29%) SolarWinds
20 109 (1.27%) Palo Alto