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 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 24 29 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 2,728 3,238 5,636
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.84% 8.40% 7.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.58% 54.26% 42.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 2,542 3,877
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%

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 4,657 5,968 13,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.38% 15.49% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,552 4,406 7,455
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,998 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £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

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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 2 June 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
1 439 (16.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 253 (9.27%) SharePoint
3 113 (4.14%) IIS
4 95 (3.48%) Apache
5 37 (1.36%) Tomcat
6 25 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.70%) CMS
8 18 (0.66%) 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 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.11%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.11%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 270 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.33%) Trello
6 5 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.15%) 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 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.073%) CATIA
9 2 (0.073%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.037%) 1Password
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) InDesign
10 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (1.36%) NEC Housing
2 25 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 9 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.073%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.073%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.037%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.037%) Endur
8 1 (0.037%) Findur
8 1 (0.037%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1,170 (42.89%) Azure
2 1,090 (39.96%) Microsoft 365
3 431 (15.80%) Entra ID
4 320 (11.73%) AWS
5 128 (4.69%) SaaS
6 104 (3.81%) IaaS
7 93 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (3.12%) Amazon S3
9 84 (3.08%) OneDrive
10 79 (2.90%) GCP
11 78 (2.86%) GitHub
12 76 (2.79%) Power Platform
13 61 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
14 43 (1.58%) Nutanix
15 41 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
16 38 (1.39%) PaaS
17 34 (1.25%) WhatsApp
18 32 (1.17%) Azure Storage
19 27 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
19 27 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 587 (21.52%) Firewall
2 447 (16.39%) DNS
3 294 (10.78%) DHCP
4 246 (9.02%) WAN
5 244 (8.94%) VPN
6 232 (8.50%) TCP/IP
7 216 (7.92%) LAN
8 179 (6.56%) Internet
9 151 (5.54%) SAN
10 134 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
11 109 (4.00%) Wireless
12 91 (3.34%) VLAN
13 79 (2.90%) Network Security
14 73 (2.68%) VoIP
15 70 (2.57%) SNMP
16 55 (2.02%) IPsec
16 55 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
17 52 (1.91%) NAS
18 48 (1.76%) SD-WAN
19 39 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (13.05%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.67%) MongoDB
3 73 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
4 70 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 67 (2.46%) MySQL
6 64 (2.35%) Power BI
7 57 (2.09%) Oracle Database
8 56 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
9 51 (1.87%) DB2
10 34 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 31 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (0.55%) Redis
17 14 (0.51%) QlikView
18 13 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
19 12 (0.44%) BigQuery
19 12 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 99 (3.63%) Git
2 95 (3.48%) JIRA
3 55 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 42 (1.54%) GitLab
6 26 (0.95%) Subversion
7 21 (0.77%) Artifactory
7 21 (0.77%) CMake
7 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 16 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
9 15 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.37%) MSI
11 10 (0.37%) Trac
12 9 (0.33%) InstallShield
13 8 (0.29%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.26%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.26%) Postman
14 7 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 795 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 580 (21.26%) Finance
3 287 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 105 (3.85%) Banking
6 95 (3.48%) Law
7 94 (3.45%) Retail
8 90 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 85 (3.12%) Legal
10 73 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 72 (2.64%) Marketing
12 60 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.83%) Electronics
13 50 (1.83%) Games
14 43 (1.58%) Police
15 41 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 37 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (1.36%) Military
17 34 (1.25%) Local Government
18 33 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 464 (17.01%) Senior
2 411 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 339 (12.43%) Analyst
4 296 (10.85%) Support Engineer
5 279 (10.23%) IT Engineer
6 274 (10.04%) IT Support
7 194 (7.11%) Lead
8 158 (5.79%) Developer
8 158 (5.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 156 (5.72%) Consultant
10 153 (5.61%) IT Support Engineer
11 131 (4.80%) Support Analyst
12 126 (4.62%) Software Engineer
13 119 (4.36%) IT Analyst
14 110 (4.03%) 3rd Line Support
15 88 (3.23%) IT Manager
16 83 (3.04%) Applications Support
17 82 (3.01%) Administrator
18 80 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
19 77 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (6.27%) .NET
2 103 (3.78%) HTML
3 78 (2.86%) CSS
4 76 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
5 62 (2.27%) YAML
6 61 (2.24%) .NET Framework
7 59 (2.16%) ASP.NET
8 55 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 54 (1.98%) WPF
10 51 (1.87%) REST
10 51 (1.87%) Web Services
11 47 (1.72%) React
11 47 (1.72%) WinForms
12 38 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
12 38 (1.39%) XML
13 33 (1.21%) RESTful
14 32 (1.17%) Vue
15 31 (1.14%) jQuery
15 31 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 30 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 257 (9.42%) Data Centre
2 189 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
3 147 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 131 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 72 (2.64%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.57%) PKI
8 63 (2.31%) Clustering
9 57 (2.09%) Replication
10 48 (1.76%) Cyberattack
11 40 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.39%) Client/Server
13 36 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
13 36 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.32%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.25%) Cloud Native
15 33 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
16 32 (1.17%) IoT
17 28 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
18 27 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,080 (39.59%) Windows Server
2 832 (30.50%) Linux
3 473 (17.34%) Windows 10
4 212 (7.77%) Unix
5 192 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 167 (6.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 160 (5.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 147 (5.39%) Apple iOS
9 117 (4.29%) Android
10 84 (3.08%) Mac OS
10 84 (3.08%) Windows 7
11 68 (2.49%) VMS
12 64 (2.35%) Ubuntu
13 54 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
14 53 (1.94%) Windows 8
15 48 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
16 46 (1.69%) Solaris
17 43 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 31 (1.14%) Mac OS X
19 24 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (19.10%) ITIL
1 521 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
2 504 (18.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 357 (13.09%) Agile
4 344 (12.61%) Customer Service
5 325 (11.91%) DevOps
6 310 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
7 260 (9.53%) Mentoring
8 189 (6.93%) Software Engineering
9 183 (6.71%) CI/CD
10 182 (6.67%) Project Management
11 178 (6.52%) Change Management
12 168 (6.16%) Migration
13 166 (6.09%) Service Management
14 163 (5.98%) Disaster Recovery
15 160 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 151 (5.54%) Roadmaps
17 144 (5.28%) Actionable Insight
17 144 (5.28%) Computer Science
18 133 (4.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 448 (16.42%) PowerShell
2 413 (15.14%) SQL
3 234 (8.58%) Python
4 230 (8.43%) C#
5 114 (4.18%) Bash
6 90 (3.30%) C++
7 89 (3.26%) Java
8 76 (2.79%) JavaScript
9 63 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 52 (1.91%) VB
11 42 (1.54%) VBScript
12 40 (1.47%) C
13 36 (1.32%) Perl
14 33 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.99%) TypeScript
16 25 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.81%) PHP
17 22 (0.81%) VB.NET
18 21 (0.77%) Bicep
19 19 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 511 (18.73%) Degree
2 294 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 154 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 148 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 106 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 92 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 62 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 56 (2.05%) CISSP
10 51 (1.87%) MCP
11 49 (1.80%) CCNA
12 42 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 37 (1.36%) MCSE
14 32 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 30 (1.10%) CISM
16 26 (0.95%) A+ Certification
17 25 (0.92%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
18 17 (0.62%) CCSP
18 17 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (3.23%) SLA
3 73 (2.68%) QA
4 64 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 42 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 36 (1.32%) NIST
7 23 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 16 (0.59%) PMO
9 15 (0.55%) ITGC
10 14 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.48%) GDPR
12 11 (0.40%) GRC
13 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.29%) MISRA
16 6 (0.22%) ISO 9000
16 6 (0.22%) NCSC
17 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
17 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,228 (45.01%) Active Directory
2 554 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 380 (13.93%) Hyper-V
4 174 (6.38%) Docker
5 131 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
6 105 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 96 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
8 87 (3.19%) vSphere
9 55 (2.02%) XenApp
10 43 (1.58%) XenDesktop
11 27 (0.99%) VirtualBox
12 25 (0.92%) Firmware
13 19 (0.70%) NFS
14 17 (0.62%) Terminal Services
15 15 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
17 12 (0.44%) OpenSSH
18 11 (0.40%) pfSense
19 9 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
20 8 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 374 (13.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 238 (8.72%) Ansible
3 213 (7.81%) SCCM
4 198 (7.26%) Kubernetes
5 181 (6.63%) Terraform
6 130 (4.77%) vCenter Server
7 84 (3.08%) WSUS
8 66 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 60 (2.20%) SCOM
9 60 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
10 56 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 43 (1.58%) Grafana
12 40 (1.47%) Puppet
13 36 (1.32%) Nagios
14 34 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
15 27 (0.99%) ZABBIX
16 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 18 (0.66%) Progress Chef
17 17 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1,341 (49.16%) Microsoft
2 806 (29.55%) VMware
3 173 (6.34%) Citrix
4 162 (5.94%) Cisco
5 148 (5.43%) Oracle
6 113 (4.14%) Apple
7 98 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 93 (3.41%) Veeam
9 91 (3.34%) NetApp
10 79 (2.90%) Dell
11 73 (2.68%) ServiceNow
12 71 (2.60%) HP
12 71 (2.60%) IBM
13 65 (2.38%) Palo Alto
14 64 (2.35%) Adobe
14 64 (2.35%) Meraki
15 61 (2.24%) Google
16 54 (1.98%) SolidFire
17 48 (1.76%) Splunk
18 47 (1.72%) SAP