Microsoft Windows 7
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 7 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 7 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 591 638 702
Rank change year-on-year +47 +64 -241
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 325 357 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.32% 2.21% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 269 236 532
10th Percentile £23,500 £22,875 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,500 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.62% -10.77%
75th Percentile £39,000 £36,000 £37,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £42,875 £51,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £31,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +14.55% -5.17%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 7 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 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the UK

Windows 7
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 7.

Salary trend for Windows 7 in the UK

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows 7 in the UK

Windows 7
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the UK 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
England +86 316 £30,000 -4.76% 41
UK excluding London -16 273 £30,000 -4.76% 39
South East -8 115 £34,500 +9.52% 6
Work from Home +107 92 £30,500 -6.15% 6
London +95 51 £38,000 +11.76% 8
Midlands +26 51 £26,500 -3.64%
West Midlands +43 42 £26,500 +10.42%
South West -19 39 £30,000 -14.29% 11
North of England +23 32 £24,500 +8.89% 8
East of England +13 28 £33,000 -3.65% 6
Yorkshire +75 20 £29,500 +47.50% 5
North East 0 10 £24,500 +13.95% 1
East Midlands -11 9 £28,165 -0.30%
Scotland -63 5 £33,000 +1.54% 7
Wales -2 3 £27,500 -8.33% 1
North West -6 2 £250,000 +941.67% 2

Windows 7
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
1 113 (34.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (11.38%) SharePoint
3 25 (7.69%) Skype for Business
4 20 (6.15%) Exchange Server 2010
5 17 (5.23%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (3.38%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (1.54%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (1.54%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (1.23%) Confluence
8 4 (1.23%) IIS
8 4 (1.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.31%) JOnAS
Applications
1 123 (37.85%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.62%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 195 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (10.77%) Azure
3 10 (3.08%) AWS
4 8 (2.46%) GCP
5 6 (1.85%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.85%) IaaS
5 6 (1.85%) Mimecast
5 6 (1.85%) OneDrive
5 6 (1.85%) PaaS
5 6 (1.85%) SaaS
6 5 (1.54%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.92%) LAN
2 37 (11.38%) DNS
3 32 (9.85%) WAN
4 29 (8.92%) Skype
5 28 (8.62%) TCP/IP
6 27 (8.31%) Cisco IOS
7 26 (8.00%) Firewall
8 25 (7.69%) Telepresence
9 22 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (6.15%) VPN
11 18 (5.54%) SAN
11 18 (5.54%) VoIP
11 18 (5.54%) Wireless
12 16 (4.92%) DHCP
13 12 (3.69%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (2.15%) VLAN
14 7 (2.15%) WLAN
15 6 (1.85%) Internet
16 5 (1.54%) PSTN
17 3 (0.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.38%) MySQL
3 4 (1.23%) Metabase
4 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.62%) MS Access
5 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.54%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) AdminStudio
2 4 (1.23%) InstallShield
2 4 (1.23%) MSI
2 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 118 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.31%) Organisational Skills
3 61 (18.77%) Finance
4 31 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.92%) Telecoms
6 25 (7.69%) Automotive
6 25 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (4.31%) Back Office
7 14 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.00%) Retail
9 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Advertising
13 3 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.62%) Games
14 2 (0.62%) Local Government
14 2 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (26.46%) Support Engineer
2 56 (17.23%) IT Support
3 42 (12.92%) Analyst
4 39 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 38 (11.69%) IT Engineer
6 30 (9.23%) 1st Line Support
6 30 (9.23%) Desktop Support
6 30 (9.23%) IT Support Engineer
7 29 (8.92%) Desktop Engineer
7 29 (8.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 26 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (7.38%) IT Technician
10 23 (7.08%) Senior
11 21 (6.46%) 3rd Line Support
12 20 (6.15%) Support Analyst
13 18 (5.54%) Administrator
13 18 (5.54%) Systems Administrator
14 16 (4.92%) Support Technician
15 14 (4.31%) IT Analyst
15 14 (4.31%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.15%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.69%) Driving Licence
2 33 (10.15%) Video Conferencing
3 24 (7.38%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.38%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.46%) VAX
7 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.85%) Blackberry
9 5 (1.54%) Fat Client
9 5 (1.54%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (1.23%) Shadow IT
11 3 (0.92%) CCTV
12 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.62%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.62%) NHS
13 1 (0.31%) CMDB
13 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
13 1 (0.31%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 325 (100.00%) Windows
2 266 (81.85%) Windows 10
3 127 (39.08%) Windows Server
4 98 (30.15%) Windows 8
5 66 (20.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 49 (15.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 46 (14.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (10.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (9.23%) Linux
10 17 (5.23%) Apple iOS
11 15 (4.62%) Android
11 15 (4.62%) Mac OS X
12 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.23%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.92%) Unix
14 3 (0.92%) VMS
15 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.62%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.31%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.00%) ITIL
2 109 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (26.77%) Customer Service
4 32 (9.85%) Service Management
5 30 (9.23%) Asset Management
6 28 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (8.31%) Problem Management
8 26 (8.00%) Service Delivery
9 25 (7.69%) Change Management
9 25 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (7.38%) Migration
11 18 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (5.54%) Customer Requirements
11 18 (5.54%) Roadmaps
12 17 (5.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 17 (5.23%) Decision-Making
13 16 (4.92%) Software Deployment
14 15 (4.62%) Break/Fix
15 14 (4.31%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.77%) SQL
2 46 (14.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.08%) VB
4 4 (1.23%) C#
5 2 (0.62%) Python
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Swift
6 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (22.77%) Degree
2 62 (19.08%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.15%) DV Cleared
4 29 (8.92%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 25 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 25 (7.69%) MBA
6 19 (5.85%) DBS Check
7 17 (5.23%) HNC
8 13 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.92%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.92%) MCSE
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) MCP
10 1 (0.31%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.23%) SLA
2 2 (0.62%) GDPR
System Software
1 187 (57.54%) Active Directory
2 99 (30.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (16.31%) Hyper-V
3 53 (16.31%) XenApp
4 45 (13.85%) VirtualBox
4 45 (13.85%) XenDesktop
5 14 (4.31%) KVM
6 13 (4.00%) vSphere
7 10 (3.08%) Firmware
8 7 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (20.92%) SCCM
2 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.77%) WSUS
4 8 (2.46%) EMC VPLEX
4 8 (2.46%) Nagios
5 7 (2.15%) AirWatch
6 6 (1.85%) NetCrunch
7 5 (1.54%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.54%) SCOM
8 4 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.92%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.31%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.31%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 236 (72.62%) Microsoft
2 114 (35.08%) VMware
3 72 (22.15%) Citrix
4 51 (15.69%) Apple
5 41 (12.62%) Cisco
6 25 (7.69%) Polycom
7 19 (5.85%) Veeam
8 18 (5.54%) HP
9 15 (4.62%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.00%) Symantec
11 11 (3.38%) Palo Alto
12 9 (2.77%) EMC
12 9 (2.77%) McAfee
13 8 (2.46%) Centreon
13 8 (2.46%) MobileIron
13 8 (2.46%) Sybase
14 7 (2.15%) Dell
14 7 (2.15%) Meraki
14 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
14 7 (2.15%) Toshiba