Windows Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 24 28 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,764 3,449 5,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.18% 8.36% 7.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.33% 54.26% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 2,722 3,841
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £34,373
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,881 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,659 6,356 12,205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.78% 15.41% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,615 4,681 7,427
10th Percentile £30,388 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,945 £41,250 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows.

Windows salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Windows salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 468 (16.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 260 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 107 (3.87%) IIS
4 88 (3.18%) Apache
5 30 (1.09%) Tomcat
6 27 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 18 (0.65%) CMS
8 17 (0.62%) Confluence
9 11 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.29%) nginx
10 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2000
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
14 3 (0.11%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 279 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.36%) Trello
6 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) SPSS
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.072%) CATIA
9 2 (0.072%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.072%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.036%) InDesign
10 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.036%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 32 (1.16%) NEC Housing
2 27 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
7 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.072%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.072%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.072%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.036%) Endur
9 1 (0.036%) Findur
9 1 (0.036%) iTrent
9 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,166 (42.19%) Azure
2 1,122 (40.59%) Microsoft 365
3 425 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 342 (12.37%) AWS
5 145 (5.25%) SaaS
6 104 (3.76%) IaaS
7 93 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (3.29%) Amazon S3
9 90 (3.26%) OneDrive
10 86 (3.11%) GCP
11 85 (3.08%) GitHub
12 82 (2.97%) Power Platform
13 65 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
14 42 (1.52%) WhatsApp
15 40 (1.45%) Nutanix
16 38 (1.37%) PaaS
17 35 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
18 32 (1.16%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.12%) Serverless
20 27 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 582 (21.06%) Firewall
2 452 (16.35%) DNS
3 299 (10.82%) DHCP
4 246 (8.90%) VPN
4 246 (8.90%) WAN
5 238 (8.61%) TCP/IP
6 218 (7.89%) LAN
7 174 (6.30%) Internet
8 149 (5.39%) SAN
9 134 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
10 109 (3.94%) Wireless
11 93 (3.36%) VLAN
12 78 (2.82%) VoIP
13 76 (2.75%) Network Security
14 72 (2.60%) SNMP
15 56 (2.03%) IPsec
15 56 (2.03%) NAS
15 56 (2.03%) Remote Desktop
16 49 (1.77%) SD-WAN
17 41 (1.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (13.06%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.65%) MongoDB
3 75 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
4 71 (2.57%) MySQL
4 71 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 69 (2.50%) Power BI
6 62 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (1.70%) Oracle Database
8 46 (1.66%) DB2
9 36 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.16%) RDBMS
12 23 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.54%) Redis
15 14 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.51%) QlikView
16 13 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.43%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 104 (3.76%) Git
2 95 (3.44%) JIRA
3 54 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 48 (1.74%) GitLab
6 28 (1.01%) Subversion
7 22 (0.80%) CMake
8 21 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.72%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
10 17 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 15 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.36%) MSI
13 10 (0.36%) Trac
14 9 (0.33%) InstallShield
14 9 (0.33%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.25%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.22%) Postman
16 6 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 799 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 585 (21.16%) Finance
3 275 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 116 (4.20%) Banking
6 108 (3.91%) Law
7 94 (3.40%) Legal
7 94 (3.40%) Retail
8 83 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 82 (2.97%) Marketing
10 81 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 67 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.88%) Electronics
13 50 (1.81%) Games
14 45 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 38 (1.37%) Military
16 37 (1.34%) Police
17 36 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
19 32 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 479 (17.33%) Senior
2 415 (15.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 340 (12.30%) Analyst
4 304 (11.00%) Support Engineer
5 271 (9.80%) IT Engineer
6 269 (9.73%) IT Support
7 198 (7.16%) Lead
8 160 (5.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 157 (5.68%) Consultant
10 153 (5.54%) Developer
11 148 (5.35%) IT Support Engineer
12 134 (4.85%) Support Analyst
13 127 (4.59%) Software Engineer
14 118 (4.27%) IT Analyst
15 112 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support
16 93 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
17 91 (3.29%) IT Manager
18 87 (3.15%) Administrator
19 80 (2.89%) Applications Support
20 78 (2.82%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (6.22%) .NET
2 104 (3.76%) HTML
3 78 (2.82%) CSS
4 77 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
5 64 (2.32%) YAML
6 58 (2.10%) .NET Framework
7 57 (2.06%) ASP.NET
8 55 (1.99%) AngularJS
8 55 (1.99%) WPF
9 50 (1.81%) REST
10 46 (1.66%) React
11 44 (1.59%) Web Services
11 44 (1.59%) WinForms
12 42 (1.52%) XML
13 36 (1.30%) ASP.NET MVC
14 33 (1.19%) Middleware
14 33 (1.19%) RESTful
15 32 (1.16%) Vue
16 31 (1.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 30 (1.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 261 (9.44%) Data Centre
2 190 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (5.07%) Public Cloud
4 135 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 77 (2.79%) Driving Licence
6 68 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.39%) PKI
8 63 (2.28%) Clustering
9 55 (1.99%) Replication
10 48 (1.74%) Cyberattack
11 41 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 38 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 38 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 37 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
14 36 (1.30%) Mobile App
15 35 (1.27%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 32 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
18 30 (1.09%) IoT
19 29 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,110 (40.16%) Windows Server
2 822 (29.74%) Linux
3 483 (17.47%) Windows 10
4 211 (7.63%) Unix
5 194 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 170 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 158 (5.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 143 (5.17%) Apple iOS
9 112 (4.05%) Android
10 95 (3.44%) Mac OS
11 90 (3.26%) Windows 7
12 66 (2.39%) VMS
13 60 (2.17%) Ubuntu
14 59 (2.13%) Windows 8
15 54 (1.95%) Data ONTAP
16 49 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
17 44 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 39 (1.41%) Solaris
19 32 (1.16%) Mac OS X
20 24 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (19.10%) ITIL
2 515 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
3 509 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 369 (13.35%) Agile
5 346 (12.52%) Customer Service
6 337 (12.19%) Cybersecurity
7 333 (12.05%) DevOps
8 266 (9.62%) Mentoring
9 189 (6.84%) CI/CD
10 188 (6.80%) Software Engineering
11 181 (6.55%) Change Management
12 180 (6.51%) Project Management
13 176 (6.37%) Migration
14 168 (6.08%) Service Management
15 167 (6.04%) Disaster Recovery
16 162 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 151 (5.46%) Roadmaps
18 146 (5.28%) Actionable Insight
19 143 (5.17%) Computer Science
20 129 (4.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 459 (16.61%) PowerShell
2 428 (15.48%) SQL
3 248 (8.97%) Python
4 235 (8.50%) C#
5 125 (4.52%) Bash
6 88 (3.18%) Java
7 81 (2.93%) C++
8 77 (2.79%) JavaScript
9 66 (2.39%) T-SQL
10 46 (1.66%) VB
11 41 (1.48%) Perl
12 39 (1.41%) VBScript
13 36 (1.30%) C
14 29 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.98%) TypeScript
16 26 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.80%) PHP
18 20 (0.72%) Ruby
18 20 (0.72%) VB.NET
19 19 (0.69%) XAML
Qualifications
1 507 (18.34%) Degree
2 278 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 150 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 146 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 101 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 92 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (2.13%) CISSP
9 57 (2.06%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.85%) CCNA
11 46 (1.66%) MCP
12 43 (1.56%) MCSE
13 41 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 33 (1.19%) CISM
15 32 (1.16%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.87%) A+ Certification
16 24 (0.87%) DBS Check
16 24 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.65%) CCSP
18 17 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.80%) SLA
2 91 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (2.64%) QA
4 62 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (1.41%) NIST
6 36 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 23 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.58%) PMO
9 15 (0.54%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.54%) GDPR
9 15 (0.54%) ITGC
10 12 (0.43%) GRC
10 12 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.29%) MISRA
14 6 (0.22%) ISO 9000
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,249 (45.19%) Active Directory
2 568 (20.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 391 (14.15%) Hyper-V
4 172 (6.22%) Docker
5 128 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
6 100 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
7 98 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 74 (2.68%) vSphere
9 50 (1.81%) XenApp
10 41 (1.48%) XenDesktop
11 30 (1.09%) VirtualBox
12 24 (0.87%) Firmware
13 17 (0.62%) NFS
13 17 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
14 15 (0.54%) Terminal Services
15 14 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
16 10 (0.36%) pfSense
17 9 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.33%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 372 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 243 (8.79%) Ansible
3 219 (7.92%) SCCM
4 197 (7.13%) Kubernetes
5 186 (6.73%) Terraform
6 129 (4.67%) vCenter Server
7 89 (3.22%) WSUS
8 65 (2.35%) Prometheus
9 60 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (2.10%) SCOM
11 57 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 48 (1.74%) Grafana
12 48 (1.74%) Puppet
13 36 (1.30%) Nagios
14 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
15 27 (0.98%) ZABBIX
16 24 (0.87%) Progress Chef
17 18 (0.65%) FortiGate
18 17 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
18 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1,357 (49.10%) Microsoft
2 823 (29.78%) VMware
3 174 (6.30%) Citrix
4 169 (6.11%) Cisco
5 138 (4.99%) Oracle
6 124 (4.49%) Apple
7 100 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 94 (3.40%) Dell
9 93 (3.36%) NetApp
10 90 (3.26%) Veeam
11 81 (2.93%) HP
12 71 (2.57%) IBM
12 71 (2.57%) ServiceNow
13 70 (2.53%) Adobe
14 67 (2.42%) Meraki
15 63 (2.28%) Palo Alto
16 62 (2.24%) Google
17 54 (1.95%) SolidFire
18 51 (1.85%) SAP
19 49 (1.77%) Splunk