Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7,155 6,567 7,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.09% 10.92% 11.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.65% 66.48% 52.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,874 4,338 5,941
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.90% -3.75%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,576 9,878 14,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.91% 16.42% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,180 6,246 9,321
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 2,047 £40,000 +6.67% 365
North of England +10 1,566 £37,500 -5.65% 322
Midlands +13 1,235 £35,000 -12.50% 257
South West +5 979 £42,500 +11.84% 229
North West -4 758 £40,000 - 168
East of England +3 753 £32,500 -15.58% 197
West Midlands +14 689 £35,000 -12.50% 146
Yorkshire +20 621 £37,000 -2.63% 122
East Midlands +9 540 £34,000 -11.11% 111
Scotland -45 376 £42,202 -6.22% 84
North East +14 189 £33,000 -17.50% 36
Wales +6 149 £32,500 -7.14% 29
Northern Ireland -11 47 £37,500 -25.00% 20
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83% 1
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1,078 (15.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 735 (10.27%) SharePoint
3 143 (2.00%) IIS
4 113 (1.58%) Apache
5 52 (0.73%) Confluence
6 39 (0.55%) CMS
7 36 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 33 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
9 26 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 25 (0.35%) Skype for Business
11 20 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
12 19 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.21%) WordPress
14 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
14 12 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
15 10 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.11%) nginx
17 7 (0.098%) ArcGIS
17 7 (0.098%) CloudStack
18 6 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1,033 (14.44%) Microsoft Office
2 203 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 17 (0.24%) Trello
7 11 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
8 8 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.056%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.042%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.042%) Pro Tools
11 3 (0.042%) Simulink
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.028%) CATIA
12 2 (0.028%) NASTRAN
12 2 (0.028%) Sketch
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 19 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.17%) NEC Housing
3 12 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
4 10 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.084%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.070%) Shopify
7 3 (0.042%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 3 (0.042%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.028%) assyst
8 2 (0.028%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.028%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.028%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.014%) iTrent
9 1 (0.014%) Sage 300 ERP
9 1 (0.014%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.014%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.014%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,100 (43.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2,626 (36.70%) Azure
3 819 (11.45%) Entra ID
4 621 (8.68%) AWS
5 316 (4.42%) OneDrive
6 238 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (3.19%) IBM Cloud
8 218 (3.05%) SaaS
9 151 (2.11%) GCP
10 139 (1.94%) IaaS
11 136 (1.90%) Serverless
12 130 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 123 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 121 (1.69%) Azure Functions
15 119 (1.66%) Azure API Management
16 109 (1.52%) Power Platform
17 95 (1.33%) Google Workspace
18 92 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
19 84 (1.17%) Mimecast
20 73 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,365 (19.08%) Firewall
2 1,040 (14.54%) DNS
3 806 (11.26%) DHCP
4 680 (9.50%) TCP/IP
5 607 (8.48%) WAN
6 595 (8.32%) LAN
7 562 (7.85%) VPN
8 393 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
9 355 (4.96%) SAN
10 318 (4.44%) Wireless
11 285 (3.98%) VoIP
12 273 (3.82%) VLAN
13 206 (2.88%) Internet
14 153 (2.14%) Network Security
15 136 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
16 131 (1.83%) NAS
17 100 (1.40%) SD-WAN
18 97 (1.36%) SNMP
19 86 (1.20%) HTTP
20 68 (0.95%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 336 (4.70%) MongoDB
3 272 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 267 (3.73%) DB2
5 244 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 204 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 121 (1.69%) MySQL
8 114 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 84 (1.17%) Power BI
10 67 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 34 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 25 (0.35%) Redis
16 24 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.28%) InfluxDB
17 20 (0.28%) QlikView
18 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 171 (2.39%) Git
2 139 (1.94%) JIRA
3 112 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 74 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 66 (0.92%) GitLab
5 66 (0.92%) Subversion
6 35 (0.49%) Eclipse
7 24 (0.34%) Ant
8 21 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 21 (0.29%) LabVIEW
9 20 (0.28%) CMake
9 20 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
10 19 (0.27%) MSI
11 15 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.15%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.14%) Trac
15 9 (0.13%) eggPlant
15 9 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,186 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 683 (9.55%) Finance
3 581 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
4 429 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 279 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 274 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 250 (3.49%) Law
7 250 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 241 (3.37%) Retail
9 214 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 140 (1.96%) Legal
11 132 (1.84%) Marketing
12 124 (1.73%) Electronics
13 119 (1.66%) Aerospace
14 115 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
15 86 (1.20%) Games
16 79 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
17 76 (1.06%) Military
18 56 (0.78%) Automotive
19 51 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,262 (17.64%) IT Support
2 1,140 (15.93%) Support Engineer
3 937 (13.10%) IT Engineer
4 897 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 819 (11.45%) Analyst
6 779 (10.89%) Senior
7 648 (9.06%) IT Support Engineer
8 487 (6.81%) IT Technician
9 405 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
10 400 (5.59%) Developer
11 398 (5.56%) Lead
12 358 (5.00%) Support Technician
13 302 (4.22%) Software Engineer
14 301 (4.21%) Support Analyst
15 295 (4.12%) IT Analyst
16 291 (4.07%) IT Support Technician
17 268 (3.75%) 1st Line Support
18 258 (3.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 251 (3.51%) Service Analyst
20 250 (3.49%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (7.27%) .NET
2 396 (5.53%) HTML
3 347 (4.85%) CSS
4 317 (4.43%) AngularJS
5 311 (4.35%) ASP.NET
6 310 (4.33%) React
7 304 (4.25%) REST
8 289 (4.04%) Web Services
9 277 (3.87%) Vue
10 276 (3.86%) jQuery
11 268 (3.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 230 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (3.19%) Backbone.js
13 228 (3.19%) Ember.js
14 151 (2.11%) Node.js
15 114 (1.59%) WPF
16 85 (1.19%) .NET Framework
17 84 (1.17%) XML
18 75 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
19 58 (0.81%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 465 (6.50%) Data Centre
2 438 (6.12%) Driving Licence
3 357 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
4 282 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 277 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 273 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 235 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 228 (3.19%) Blockchain
9 194 (2.71%) Public Cloud
10 166 (2.32%) Replication
11 147 (2.05%) Onboarding
12 115 (1.61%) e-Learning
13 108 (1.51%) Clustering
14 106 (1.48%) PKI
15 78 (1.09%) EPoS
16 62 (0.87%) Smartphone
17 61 (0.85%) Client/Server
18 60 (0.84%) CMDB
19 55 (0.77%) NHS
20 54 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2,755 (38.50%) Windows Server
2 1,880 (26.28%) Linux
3 1,364 (19.06%) Windows 10
4 522 (7.30%) Android
5 508 (7.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 488 (6.82%) Apple iOS
7 455 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 415 (5.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 302 (4.22%) Mac OS
10 273 (3.82%) Windows 7
11 250 (3.49%) Unix
12 130 (1.82%) Windows 8
13 126 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 113 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 85 (1.19%) CentOS
16 75 (1.05%) Ubuntu
17 60 (0.84%) VMS
18 57 (0.80%) Mac OS X
19 50 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
20 33 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
2 1,232 (17.22%) ITIL
3 1,216 (17.00%) Customer Service
4 1,153 (16.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 740 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
6 625 (8.74%) Agile
7 605 (8.46%) Mentoring
8 576 (8.05%) DevOps
9 434 (6.07%) Software Engineering
10 373 (5.21%) User Experience
11 366 (5.12%) Computer Science
12 354 (4.95%) Project Management
13 343 (4.79%) Service Management
14 326 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 319 (4.46%) MVC
15 319 (4.46%) OO
16 317 (4.43%) Service Delivery
17 310 (4.33%) Disaster Recovery
18 301 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 290 (4.05%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (14.02%) SQL
2 897 (12.54%) PowerShell
3 620 (8.67%) C#
4 601 (8.40%) Python
5 427 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 359 (5.02%) Java
7 296 (4.14%) C++
8 249 (3.48%) Bash
9 170 (2.38%) C
10 81 (1.13%) VB
11 58 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 57 (0.80%) VBScript
13 52 (0.73%) Perl
14 50 (0.70%) XAML
15 34 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 31 (0.43%) PHP
17 29 (0.41%) Shell Script
18 27 (0.38%) R
19 25 (0.35%) VB.NET
20 23 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,059 (14.80%) Degree
2 879 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 516 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 447 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 375 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 263 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 260 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
8 223 (3.12%) CCNA
9 217 (3.03%) DBS Check
10 149 (2.08%) A+ Certification
11 147 (2.05%) MCSE
12 144 (2.01%) MCP
13 96 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 85 (1.19%) MCSA
15 84 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
16 73 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
17 66 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 62 (0.87%) CCNP
19 59 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
20 58 (0.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (6.60%) SLA
2 167 (2.33%) GDPR
3 125 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 111 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 109 (1.52%) QA
6 55 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 44 (0.61%) NIST
8 29 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 17 (0.24%) PMO
10 14 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.17%) ITGC
13 8 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 8 (0.11%) MISRA
14 7 (0.098%) GRC
14 7 (0.098%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.084%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.084%) ISO 9000
16 5 (0.070%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3,137 (43.84%) Active Directory
2 1,214 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,041 (14.55%) Hyper-V
4 232 (3.24%) Docker
5 210 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 194 (2.71%) vSphere
7 182 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
8 112 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 100 (1.40%) Firmware
10 87 (1.22%) XenApp
11 70 (0.98%) XenDesktop
12 63 (0.88%) KVM
13 48 (0.67%) VirtualBox
14 46 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
15 44 (0.61%) Terminal Services
16 22 (0.31%) VMware Server
17 21 (0.29%) pfSense
18 20 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
18 20 (0.28%) VMware NSX
18 20 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 734 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 471 (6.58%) SCCM
3 276 (3.86%) Ansible
4 258 (3.61%) Kubernetes
5 180 (2.52%) vCenter Server
6 162 (2.26%) Terraform
7 159 (2.22%) WSUS
8 119 (1.66%) SCOM
9 80 (1.12%) Puppet
10 79 (1.10%) Prometheus
11 55 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 54 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
13 46 (0.64%) ZABBIX
14 44 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 44 (0.61%) Grafana
15 41 (0.57%) Progress Chef
16 40 (0.56%) Nagios
17 39 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
18 36 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
18 36 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3,614 (50.51%) Microsoft
2 1,806 (25.24%) VMware
3 537 (7.51%) Cisco
4 436 (6.09%) Red Hat
5 406 (5.67%) Citrix
6 347 (4.85%) Veeam
7 334 (4.67%) IBM
8 293 (4.10%) Dell
9 281 (3.93%) Apple
10 252 (3.52%) HP
11 219 (3.06%) Google
12 186 (2.60%) Oracle
13 168 (2.35%) NetApp
14 131 (1.83%) Meraki
15 124 (1.73%) ServiceNow
16 115 (1.61%) Sophos
17 100 (1.40%) Adobe
18 84 (1.17%) SolarWinds
19 83 (1.16%) Splunk
20 81 (1.13%) Palo Alto