Microsoft Windows
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 19 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 9,334 9,924 13,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 9.77% 8.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.78% 61.20% 46.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,623 7,041 9,885
10th Percentile £25,200 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £39,900 £38,500
% change year-on-year -6.02% +3.64% -3.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,978 16,217 29,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 15.97% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,769 10,941 16,610
10th Percentile £25,760 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows in the UK

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK

Windows
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +5 8,601 £40,000 -8.57% 1,941
UK excluding London +6 7,148 £37,500 -6.02% 1,560
Work from Home +4 2,765 £49,841 -0.32% 702
South East +2 2,042 £40,000 +8.11% 390
London +10 2,001 £55,000 +4.76% 482
North of England +10 1,562 £37,500 -5.95% 339
Midlands +14 1,232 £35,000 -12.50% 281
South West +5 980 £42,500 +11.84% 235
North West -4 754 £40,000 - 182
East of England +3 753 £32,500 -15.58% 214
West Midlands +14 688 £35,000 -12.50% 159
Yorkshire +21 622 £37,000 -2.63% 123
East Midlands +9 538 £33,983 -14.83% 122
Scotland -42 379 £41,851 -7.00% 93
North East +13 188 £33,000 -17.50% 40
Wales +9 150 £32,500 -7.14% 32
Northern Ireland -8 47 £37,500 -25.00% 20
Isle of Man -3 12 £43,750 +45.83%

Windows
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 1,557 (16.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 977 (10.47%) SharePoint
3 208 (2.23%) IIS
4 128 (1.37%) Apache
5 74 (0.79%) Confluence
6 53 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 49 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
8 47 (0.50%) CMS
9 44 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
10 39 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 35 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 22 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
12 22 (0.24%) WordPress
13 19 (0.20%) SAS
14 15 (0.16%) JBoss
15 14 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
15 14 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
16 10 (0.11%) nginx
16 10 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,397 (14.97%) Microsoft Office
2 274 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.19%) Trello
8 15 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.11%) Revit
10 9 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.043%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.032%) InDesign
14 3 (0.032%) Pro Tools
14 3 (0.032%) Simulink
14 3 (0.032%) SPSS
15 2 (0.021%) InCopy
Business Applications
1 50 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.28%) NEC Housing
3 19 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 15 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.096%) Carpe Diem
7 9 (0.096%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.096%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.075%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.064%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.054%) Shopify
10 5 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.054%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.032%) assyst
12 3 (0.032%) Eikon
12 3 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
12 3 (0.032%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 4,059 (43.49%) Microsoft 365
2 3,447 (36.93%) Azure
3 1,070 (11.46%) Entra ID
4 892 (9.56%) AWS
5 416 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 317 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 304 (3.26%) SaaS
8 238 (2.55%) IBM Cloud
9 222 (2.38%) GCP
10 205 (2.20%) IaaS
11 188 (2.01%) Power Platform
12 185 (1.98%) Serverless
13 144 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 138 (1.48%) Azure Functions
15 136 (1.46%) Azure API Management
16 135 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 133 (1.42%) Google Workspace
18 132 (1.41%) Mimecast
19 128 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
20 122 (1.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,744 (18.68%) Firewall
2 1,356 (14.53%) DNS
3 984 (10.54%) DHCP
4 882 (9.45%) WAN
5 822 (8.81%) TCP/IP
6 788 (8.44%) LAN
7 747 (8.00%) VPN
8 505 (5.41%) Wireless
9 490 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
10 467 (5.00%) SAN
11 336 (3.60%) VLAN
12 326 (3.49%) VoIP
13 297 (3.18%) Internet
14 223 (2.39%) SD-WAN
15 208 (2.23%) Network Security
16 178 (1.91%) NAS
17 166 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
18 158 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
19 113 (1.21%) SNMP
20 110 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 847 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 384 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 326 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 295 (3.16%) DB2
5 259 (2.77%) NoSQL
6 245 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 172 (1.84%) MySQL
8 146 (1.56%) Power BI
9 144 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 71 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 52 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 52 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 50 (0.54%) Oracle Database
14 39 (0.42%) RDBMS
15 35 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (0.27%) Redis
17 23 (0.25%) InfluxDB
18 22 (0.24%) Big Data
19 21 (0.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 232 (2.49%) Git
2 231 (2.47%) JIRA
3 150 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 118 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 103 (1.10%) GitLab
6 72 (0.77%) Subversion
7 44 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 35 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.29%) CMake
9 27 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.27%) Ant
11 24 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 22 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.24%) MSI
14 17 (0.18%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.14%) Postman
16 13 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 2,915 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 1,260 (13.50%) Finance
3 855 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 504 (5.40%) Public Sector
5 369 (3.95%) Law
6 350 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 323 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 313 (3.35%) Retail
9 294 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 284 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 261 (2.80%) Legal
12 245 (2.62%) Banking
13 174 (1.86%) Marketing
14 144 (1.54%) Electronics
15 143 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
16 129 (1.38%) Aerospace
17 124 (1.33%) Games
18 100 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
19 87 (0.93%) Automotive
20 77 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,592 (17.06%) IT Support
2 1,409 (15.10%) Support Engineer
3 1,204 (12.90%) Analyst
4 1,107 (11.86%) Senior
5 1,099 (11.77%) IT Engineer
6 1,098 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 737 (7.90%) IT Support Engineer
8 537 (5.75%) IT Technician
9 521 (5.58%) Lead
10 503 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 488 (5.23%) Support Analyst
12 475 (5.09%) Developer
13 438 (4.69%) IT Analyst
14 377 (4.04%) Support Technician
15 341 (3.65%) Service Analyst
16 333 (3.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 316 (3.39%) Software Engineer
18 315 (3.37%) Service Desk Analyst
19 313 (3.35%) 1st Line Support
20 307 (3.29%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 616 (6.60%) .NET
2 456 (4.89%) HTML
3 398 (4.26%) CSS
4 340 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 340 (3.64%) REST
5 338 (3.62%) React
6 335 (3.59%) ASP.NET
7 311 (3.33%) Web Services
8 289 (3.10%) Vue
9 286 (3.06%) jQuery
10 278 (2.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 241 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
11 241 (2.58%) Ember.js
12 238 (2.55%) Backbone.js
13 162 (1.74%) Node.js
14 142 (1.52%) WPF
15 98 (1.05%) .NET Framework
16 94 (1.01%) XML
17 87 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
18 86 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 576 (6.17%) Data Centre
2 456 (4.89%) Driving Licence
3 438 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 379 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 306 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 289 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 251 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 247 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 241 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
10 238 (2.55%) Blockchain
10 238 (2.55%) Replication
11 195 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 160 (1.71%) Clustering
13 145 (1.55%) PKI
14 129 (1.38%) e-Learning
15 100 (1.07%) Wiki
16 97 (1.04%) EPoS
16 97 (1.04%) Smartphone
17 83 (0.89%) Client/Server
18 79 (0.85%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3,444 (36.90%) Windows Server
2 2,396 (25.67%) Linux
3 1,901 (20.37%) Windows 10
4 702 (7.52%) Android
5 609 (6.52%) Apple iOS
6 601 (6.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 535 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 508 (5.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 426 (4.56%) Mac OS
10 386 (4.14%) Unix
11 326 (3.49%) Windows 7
12 167 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 161 (1.72%) Ubuntu
14 158 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
15 131 (1.40%) Windows 8
16 121 (1.30%) CentOS
17 119 (1.27%) VMS
18 93 (1.00%) Mac OS X
19 58 (0.62%) Solaris
20 55 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,061 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
2 1,584 (16.97%) ITIL
3 1,484 (15.90%) Customer Service
4 1,405 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 996 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
6 842 (9.02%) Agile
7 791 (8.47%) DevOps
8 729 (7.81%) Mentoring
9 565 (6.05%) Computer Science
10 489 (5.24%) Software Engineering
11 477 (5.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 464 (4.97%) Project Management
12 464 (4.97%) Service Management
13 429 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 415 (4.45%) Service Delivery
15 411 (4.40%) User Experience
16 400 (4.29%) ITSM
17 391 (4.19%) Change Management
18 374 (4.01%) Migration
19 371 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,361 (14.58%) SQL
2 1,308 (14.01%) PowerShell
3 792 (8.49%) Python
4 755 (8.09%) C#
5 516 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 413 (4.42%) Java
7 410 (4.39%) Bash
8 308 (3.30%) C++
9 179 (1.92%) C
10 116 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 107 (1.15%) Perl
12 86 (0.92%) VB
13 60 (0.64%) VBScript
14 53 (0.57%) Ruby
15 52 (0.56%) XAML
16 47 (0.50%) TypeScript
17 39 (0.42%) PHP
18 36 (0.39%) Shell Script
19 35 (0.37%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,523 (16.32%) Degree
2 1,053 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 597 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 557 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 459 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 399 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 328 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
8 258 (2.76%) CCNA
9 246 (2.64%) DBS Check
10 201 (2.15%) MCSE
11 184 (1.97%) A+ Certification
12 166 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 153 (1.64%) MCP
14 139 (1.49%) Azure Certification
15 125 (1.34%) MCSA
16 107 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
17 97 (1.04%) CISSP
18 96 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 87 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 81 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 620 (6.64%) SLA
2 204 (2.19%) GDPR
3 184 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 150 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 142 (1.52%) QA
6 75 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 68 (0.73%) NIST
8 53 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 33 (0.35%) PMO
10 21 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.21%) ITGC
12 19 (0.20%) COBIT
12 19 (0.20%) Data Quality
12 19 (0.20%) GRC
13 18 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 13 (0.14%) NCSC
16 11 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.086%) ISO 13485
17 8 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4,176 (44.74%) Active Directory
2 1,566 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1,129 (12.10%) Hyper-V
4 401 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
5 314 (3.36%) Docker
6 247 (2.65%) vSphere
7 229 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 195 (2.09%) XenApp
9 177 (1.90%) XenDesktop
10 159 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
11 121 (1.30%) Firmware
12 107 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
13 87 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
14 65 (0.70%) KVM
15 52 (0.56%) Terminal Services
16 48 (0.51%) VirtualBox
17 26 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
18 24 (0.26%) VMware NSX
19 22 (0.24%) pfSense
19 22 (0.24%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 965 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 745 (7.98%) SCCM
3 418 (4.48%) Ansible
4 368 (3.94%) Kubernetes
5 309 (3.31%) Terraform
6 246 (2.64%) vCenter Server
7 182 (1.95%) WSUS
8 142 (1.52%) SCOM
9 129 (1.38%) Puppet
10 114 (1.22%) AirWatch
11 101 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 98 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
13 94 (1.01%) Prometheus
14 74 (0.79%) Grafana
15 71 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 65 (0.70%) FortiGate
17 59 (0.63%) Nagios
18 57 (0.61%) Progress Chef
19 54 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
20 51 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,688 (50.22%) Microsoft
2 2,308 (24.73%) VMware
3 848 (9.09%) Cisco
4 631 (6.76%) Citrix
5 513 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 441 (4.72%) Veeam
7 397 (4.25%) Apple
8 380 (4.07%) IBM
9 330 (3.54%) Dell
10 328 (3.51%) HP
11 301 (3.22%) Oracle
12 298 (3.19%) Google
13 214 (2.29%) NetApp
14 201 (2.15%) ServiceNow
15 174 (1.86%) Meraki
16 139 (1.49%) Palo Alto
17 135 (1.45%) Adobe
18 126 (1.35%) Sophos
19 120 (1.29%) Splunk
20 114 (1.22%) SolarWinds