Windows Jobs in Dorset

Microsoft Windows
South West > Dorset

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 99 90 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 7.85% 14.04% 13.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.49% 56.60% 55.15%
Number of salaries quoted 83 69 96
10th Percentile £28,833 £32,400 £27,625
25th Percentile £36,625 £36,250 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -15.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £61,875 £53,750 £57,813
90th Percentile £63,750 £69,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.90% +2.67%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 161 159 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 12.77% 24.80% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 139 116 171
10th Percentile £30,675 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £61,875 £59,063 £68,125
90th Percentile £64,000 £69,375 £75,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% +17.65%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Dorset over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Dorset

Windows
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Bournemouth -26 32 £57,500 +29.21% 7
Poole +26 29 £45,000 +28.57% 5
Dorchester -9 7 £24,500 -34.67% 1
Weymouth -14 3 £31,350 -
Ferndown -4 2 £24,500 -43.68%
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 30 (30.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.07%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (7.07%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.46%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (39.39%) Azure
3 24 (24.24%) AWS
4 22 (22.22%) GCP
5 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.02%) IaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.01%) Dropbox
8 1 (1.01%) Google Drive
8 1 (1.01%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.23%) Firewall
2 20 (20.20%) WAN
3 19 (19.19%) LAN
4 6 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (5.05%) SAN
6 4 (4.04%) DNS
6 4 (4.04%) VPN
7 3 (3.03%) 4G
7 3 (3.03%) 5G
7 3 (3.03%) NAS
7 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.02%) DHCP
8 2 (2.02%) Network Security
8 2 (2.02%) VoIP
8 2 (2.02%) Wireless
9 1 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.01%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.02%) Power BI
2 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.02%) Tableau
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
1 8 (8.08%) Subversion
2 4 (4.04%) JIRA
3 2 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 15 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.05%) Aviation
4 4 (4.04%) Finance
5 3 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.03%) Games
5 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Software Engineer
2 26 (26.26%) Support Engineer
3 23 (23.23%) Senior
4 22 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
5 18 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 18 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 17 (17.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (14.14%) IT Support
8 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (13.13%) IT Engineer
9 8 (8.08%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Analyst
11 6 (6.06%) Lead
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Windows Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Support Technician
12 5 (5.05%) IT Support Technician
12 5 (5.05%) IT Technician
12 5 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) MFC
1 10 (10.10%) Qt
1 10 (10.10%) STL
2 2 (2.02%) XML
3 1 (1.01%) .NET
3 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.01%) Web Services
3 1 (1.01%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Hackathon
2 7 (7.07%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.02%) BYOD
3 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.02%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.02%) iPad
3 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.01%) Clustering
4 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.01%) PKI
4 1 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.36%) Windows Server
2 20 (20.20%) Linux
3 11 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 10 (10.10%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.03%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.01%) Android
8 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 20 (20.20%) Multithreading
3 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 11 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
5 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 11 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
6 10 (10.10%) Code Quality
6 10 (10.10%) Multithreaded Programming
6 10 (10.10%) Technology Roadmap
7 9 (9.09%) Change Management
8 8 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.08%) Defect Tracking
8 8 (8.08%) Time Management
9 7 (7.07%) Agile
10 6 (6.06%) Scrum
11 5 (5.05%) Security Hardening
11 5 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) C++
2 9 (9.09%) C#
2 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.04%) Java
4 4 (4.04%) SQL
5 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.02%) Python
7 1 (1.01%) C
7 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 7 (7.07%) MCITP
4 7 (7.07%) MCSE
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) GDPR
2 4 (4.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (43.43%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (25.25%) Hyper-V
4 11 (11.11%) XenDesktop
5 8 (8.08%) XenApp
6 4 (4.04%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.02%) Docker
8 1 (1.01%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (19.19%) SCCM
2 16 (16.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.03%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.02%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.01%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.01%) SCOM
5 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 36 (36.36%) VMware
3 26 (26.26%) Google
4 17 (17.17%) Cisco
5 14 (14.14%) HP
6 11 (11.11%) Citrix
6 11 (11.11%) Dell
6 11 (11.11%) Symantec
7 6 (6.06%) Veeam
8 3 (3.03%) Apple
8 3 (3.03%) Aruba
8 3 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.02%) Oracle
9 2 (2.02%) Sparx
10 1 (1.01%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.01%) Databricks
10 1 (1.01%) Juniper
10 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.01%) Splunk
10 1 (1.01%) Xamarin