Windows Jobs in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 29 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -22
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,998 2,915 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.46% 8.50% 7.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.08% 53.99% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,601 2,416 3,383
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,823 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.11% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,070 5,399 11,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.00% 15.73% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 4,131 6,147
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in London.

Salary trend for Windows in London

Windows
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the London 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
Central London -1 424 £55,000 +4.76% 50
West London -26 93 £34,000 -18.07% 32
South London -24 47 £37,500 -10.71% 16
East London -2 42 £51,250 +13.89% 16
North London -16 7 £35,000 +7.69% 6
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 452 (22.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 232 (11.61%) SharePoint
3 62 (3.10%) IIS
4 28 (1.40%) Skype for Business
5 21 (1.05%) Confluence
6 20 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 17 (0.85%) Apache
7 17 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
8 15 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
8 15 (0.75%) SAS
9 12 (0.60%) JBoss
10 8 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.35%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.35%) WildFly
11 7 (0.35%) WordPress
12 6 (0.30%) CMS
13 5 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
15 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.15%) Site Server
Applications
1 336 (16.82%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.45%) Revit
6 7 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.10%) InCopy
9 2 (0.10%) InDesign
9 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.050%) Trello
10 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 26 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.85%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.80%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.40%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
6 6 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.15%) Eikon
10 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.10%) Farmplan
10 2 (0.10%) KEYPrime
10 2 (0.10%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.050%) Endur
11 1 (0.050%) LabWindows
11 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.050%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 891 (44.59%) Microsoft 365
2 739 (36.99%) Azure
3 241 (12.06%) AWS
4 227 (11.36%) Entra ID
5 86 (4.30%) OneDrive
6 73 (3.65%) GCP
7 69 (3.45%) SaaS
8 68 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (3.25%) Power Platform
10 50 (2.50%) IaaS
11 49 (2.45%) GitHub
12 47 (2.35%) Mimecast
13 37 (1.85%) Serverless
14 36 (1.80%) PaaS
14 36 (1.80%) WhatsApp
15 32 (1.60%) Google Workspace
16 31 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 28 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 28 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
18 27 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 349 (17.47%) Firewall
2 298 (14.91%) DNS
3 261 (13.06%) WAN
4 183 (9.16%) LAN
5 177 (8.86%) Wireless
6 166 (8.31%) VPN
7 159 (7.96%) DHCP
8 138 (6.91%) TCP/IP
9 131 (6.56%) Cisco IOS
10 121 (6.06%) SD-WAN
11 105 (5.26%) WebEx
12 97 (4.85%) SAN
13 92 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
14 84 (4.20%) Internet
15 49 (2.45%) VLAN
16 48 (2.40%) Network Security
17 42 (2.10%) NAS
18 39 (1.95%) VoIP
19 36 (1.80%) Skype
20 29 (1.45%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 54 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (2.65%) Power BI
4 45 (2.25%) MySQL
5 42 (2.10%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (1.40%) DB2
9 22 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.60%) Data Hub
13 12 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.60%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.55%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 87 (4.35%) JIRA
2 68 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 61 (3.05%) Git
4 29 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 28 (1.40%) GitLab
6 11 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.35%) CMake
7 7 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (0.35%) Snyk
8 6 (0.30%) Subversion
9 5 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 5 (0.25%) Postman
10 4 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) MSI
11 3 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.10%) Gradle
General
1 664 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 539 (26.98%) Finance
3 244 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (9.51%) Banking
5 121 (6.06%) Legal
6 112 (5.61%) Law
7 64 (3.20%) Retail
8 62 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 55 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 51 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 35 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (1.65%) Games
13 31 (1.55%) Automotive
14 30 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (1.30%) Marketing
16 25 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (1.15%) Front Office
19 21 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 360 (18.02%) Analyst
2 314 (15.72%) Senior
3 308 (15.42%) IT Support
4 263 (13.16%) Support Engineer
5 182 (9.11%) Support Analyst
6 180 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 141 (7.06%) IT Engineer
8 134 (6.71%) Support Specialist
9 131 (6.56%) IT Analyst
10 107 (5.36%) Lead
11 100 (5.01%) IT Support Specialist
12 91 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
13 86 (4.30%) IT Support Analyst
14 85 (4.25%) Applications Support
15 84 (4.20%) Desktop Support
15 84 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
15 84 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
16 81 (4.05%) Consultant
17 79 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 75 (3.75%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (4.05%) .NET
2 57 (2.85%) HTML
3 48 (2.40%) CSS
4 36 (1.80%) REST
5 31 (1.55%) YAML
6 28 (1.40%) HTML5
6 28 (1.40%) LDAP
7 27 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
7 27 (1.35%) React
7 27 (1.35%) WPF
8 26 (1.30%) Web Services
9 22 (1.10%) ASP.NET
10 21 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 17 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (0.85%) Middleware
12 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (0.65%) RESTful
14 12 (0.60%) jQuery
14 12 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 182 (9.11%) Video Conferencing
2 102 (5.11%) Data Centre
3 92 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 91 (4.55%) Wiki
5 76 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 61 (3.05%) Replication
7 56 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 54 (2.70%) Clustering
9 46 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 44 (2.20%) PKI
11 40 (2.00%) Cyberattack
12 38 (1.90%) iPad
13 36 (1.80%) Smartphone
14 35 (1.75%) Blackberry
15 33 (1.65%) iPhone
16 31 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (1.35%) Security Posture
19 24 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 633 (31.68%) Windows Server
2 506 (25.33%) Windows 10
3 467 (23.37%) Linux
4 161 (8.06%) Android
5 129 (6.46%) Unix
6 115 (5.76%) Mac OS
7 101 (5.06%) Apple iOS
8 87 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 86 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 78 (3.90%) Ubuntu
11 73 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
12 51 (2.55%) Windows 7
13 49 (2.45%) VMS
14 40 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
15 37 (1.85%) Mac OS X
16 35 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 33 (1.65%) CentOS
18 28 (1.40%) Solaris
19 20 (1.00%) zOS
20 12 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (17.12%) ITIL
2 332 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
3 240 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
4 231 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 228 (11.41%) Customer Service
6 195 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 186 (9.31%) DevOps
8 184 (9.21%) Agile
9 158 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
10 157 (7.86%) Business Continuity
11 149 (7.46%) ITSM
12 135 (6.76%) Mobile Device Management
13 125 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (5.96%) Service Management
15 110 (5.51%) BCP
16 108 (5.41%) Information Security
17 107 (5.36%) CI/CD
18 104 (5.21%) Change Management
19 103 (5.16%) Mentoring
20 102 (5.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 391 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 336 (16.82%) SQL
3 187 (9.36%) Python
4 150 (7.51%) Bash
5 114 (5.71%) C#
6 77 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 54 (2.70%) Perl
7 54 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 52 (2.60%) Java
9 36 (1.80%) Ruby
10 22 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.90%) C++
12 12 (0.60%) C
13 10 (0.50%) Korn
13 10 (0.50%) RPG
14 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.40%) PHP
15 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.25%) SAS Macro
17 3 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 437 (21.87%) Degree
2 143 (7.16%) Security Cleared
3 130 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 123 (6.16%) Master's Degree
5 99 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (2.85%) SC Cleared
9 55 (2.75%) MCSE
10 42 (2.10%) MCSA
10 42 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 38 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.90%) CISSP
12 35 (1.75%) A+ Certification
13 31 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 29 (1.45%) CCNA
14 29 (1.45%) DBS Check
15 25 (1.25%) CISM
15 25 (1.25%) MBA
16 23 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.56%) SLA
2 55 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (1.85%) GDPR
4 32 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.25%) NIST
7 20 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.95%) QA
9 17 (0.85%) COBIT
10 15 (0.75%) PMO
11 11 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.50%) GRC
13 8 (0.40%) ITGC
14 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.15%) NCSC
16 2 (0.10%) EMIR
16 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 31000
16 2 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 985 (49.30%) Active Directory
2 322 (16.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 187 (9.36%) VMware ESXi
4 111 (5.56%) XenApp
5 110 (5.51%) XenDesktop
6 91 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
7 76 (3.80%) Hyper-V
8 62 (3.10%) Docker
9 54 (2.70%) vSphere
10 41 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
11 39 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
11 39 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
12 21 (1.05%) Firmware
13 13 (0.65%) vCloud
14 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.30%) Forefront TMG
14 6 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.20%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 262 (13.11%) SCCM
2 217 (10.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 137 (6.86%) Ansible
4 132 (6.61%) Terraform
5 94 (4.70%) AirWatch
6 85 (4.25%) Kubernetes
7 66 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
8 64 (3.20%) vCenter Server
9 46 (2.30%) Puppet
10 44 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
11 34 (1.70%) Microsoft Clustering
12 28 (1.40%) Grafana
13 23 (1.15%) SCOM
14 22 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (1.00%) Nagios
15 20 (1.00%) WSUS
16 15 (0.75%) Progress Chef
17 14 (0.70%) Nessus
17 14 (0.70%) NetBackup
18 13 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 994 (49.75%) Microsoft
2 462 (23.12%) VMware
3 286 (14.31%) Cisco
4 221 (11.06%) Citrix
5 115 (5.76%) Apple
6 114 (5.71%) Oracle
7 82 (4.10%) Veeam
8 76 (3.80%) Bloomberg
9 75 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 73 (3.65%) HP
11 69 (3.45%) Red Hat
12 65 (3.25%) Google
13 50 (2.50%) Commvault
13 50 (2.50%) Palo Alto
14 42 (2.10%) IBM
14 42 (2.10%) iManage
14 42 (2.10%) NetApp
15 40 (2.00%) Meraki
15 40 (2.00%) Qualys
16 37 (1.85%) Sun