Windows Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Windows
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1,016 788 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.79% 12.13% 11.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.24% 63.91% 51.11%
Number of salaries quoted 761 497 581
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,206 £40,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% +1.27% +5.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £73,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -4.44%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,715 1,233 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.53% 18.98% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 725 1,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,850 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,063 £32,500 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Gloucestershire +2 315 £37,500 +4.17% 41
Bristol +11 257 £42,500 -10.53% 49
Wiltshire +1 157 £49,000 +22.50% 50
Dorset -4 100 £42,500 +0.59% 23
Devon -1 99 £40,000 +19.40% 18
Somerset +10 70 £29,290 -31.88% 42
Cornwall -24 12 £33,000 -7.69% 3
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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
1 157 (15.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (9.55%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.67%) Apache
4 13 (1.28%) SharePoint 2010
4 13 (1.28%) SharePoint 2013
5 10 (0.98%) IIS
6 8 (0.79%) Confluence
7 7 (0.69%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.30%) GlassFish
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.098%) CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.098%) Moodle
9 1 (0.098%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 121 (11.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.49%) Trello
4 1 (0.098%) 1Password
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 321 (31.59%) Azure
1 321 (31.59%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (13.68%) AWS
3 97 (9.55%) Entra ID
4 60 (5.91%) SaaS
5 46 (4.53%) OneDrive
5 46 (4.53%) OpenShift
6 32 (3.15%) GCP
7 17 (1.67%) IaaS
8 15 (1.48%) Nutanix
9 14 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.18%) PaaS
10 12 (1.18%) Slack
11 10 (0.98%) WhatsApp
12 8 (0.79%) GitHub
12 8 (0.79%) Mimecast
13 6 (0.59%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 143 (14.07%) Firewall
2 139 (13.68%) DNS
3 131 (12.89%) TCP/IP
4 111 (10.93%) DHCP
5 97 (9.55%) LAN
6 93 (9.15%) WAN
7 73 (7.19%) VPN
8 58 (5.71%) SAN
9 48 (4.72%) HTTP
9 48 (4.72%) Wireless
10 39 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.35%) Internet
12 21 (2.07%) VLAN
13 20 (1.97%) Network Security
14 19 (1.87%) NAS
15 18 (1.77%) SD-WAN
16 17 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
17 16 (1.57%) iSCSI
17 16 (1.57%) VoIP
18 13 (1.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 45 (4.43%) MongoDB
3 17 (1.67%) MySQL
4 10 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.69%) SQLite
8 6 (0.59%) Power BI
8 6 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.30%) DB2
10 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.20%) Tableau
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.098%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 38 (3.74%) Git
2 27 (2.66%) Visual Studio
3 20 (1.97%) JIRA
4 18 (1.77%) Subversion
5 15 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 14 (1.38%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.79%) LabVIEW
8 6 (0.59%) MSTest
8 6 (0.59%) NUnit
8 6 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.30%) JMeter
10 3 (0.30%) MSI
10 3 (0.30%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.30%) Selenium
10 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 284 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 113 (11.12%) Finance
3 94 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.40%) Aerospace
4 65 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 43 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.13%) Electronics
7 38 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (3.35%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.97%) Legal
11 19 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.57%) Automotive
13 15 (1.48%) Retail
14 14 (1.38%) Marketing
15 11 (1.08%) Publishing
16 10 (0.98%) Banking
16 10 (0.98%) Law
17 9 (0.89%) Aviation
18 7 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 182 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 168 (16.54%) Support Engineer
3 161 (15.85%) Senior
4 157 (15.45%) IT Support
5 129 (12.70%) IT Engineer
6 92 (9.06%) IT Support Engineer
7 91 (8.96%) Analyst
8 73 (7.19%) Administrator
9 72 (7.09%) Software Engineer
10 70 (6.89%) IT Technician
11 62 (6.10%) Lead
12 53 (5.22%) Developer
13 48 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
15 43 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 37 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 37 (3.64%) DBA
16 37 (3.64%) IT Analyst
16 37 (3.64%) Service Analyst
17 35 (3.44%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.04%) .NET
2 27 (2.66%) HTML
3 20 (1.97%) STL
4 19 (1.87%) CSS
4 19 (1.87%) WPF
5 16 (1.57%) .NET Framework
6 15 (1.48%) Qt
7 14 (1.38%) ASP.NET
7 14 (1.38%) XML
8 13 (1.28%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.18%) REST
9 12 (1.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 10 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (0.98%) MFC
10 10 (0.98%) React
11 9 (0.89%) Web Services
12 8 (0.79%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.79%) Blazor
12 8 (0.79%) pytest
13 6 (0.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.17%) Driving Licence
2 66 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
3 39 (3.84%) Data Centre
4 36 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.66%) Replication
6 23 (2.26%) Clustering
7 21 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 20 (1.97%) PKI
9 19 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.77%) iPhone
11 16 (1.57%) GNSS
12 15 (1.48%) EMC VNX
12 15 (1.48%) Smartphone
13 14 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
14 12 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.18%) Fat Client
14 12 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.18%) Thin Client
15 11 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 347 (34.15%) Linux
2 304 (29.92%) Windows Server
3 200 (19.69%) Windows 10
4 106 (10.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 87 (8.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 80 (7.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 67 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 42 (4.13%) Apple iOS
8 42 (4.13%) Windows 7
9 40 (3.94%) Android
9 40 (3.94%) Mac OS
10 36 (3.54%) CentOS
11 34 (3.35%) Unix
12 20 (1.97%) AIX
13 17 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (0.89%) VMS
15 7 (0.69%) Solaris
16 6 (0.59%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.49%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.39%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
2 199 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 164 (16.14%) ITIL
4 159 (15.65%) Customer Service
5 116 (11.42%) Software Engineering
6 90 (8.86%) Mentoring
7 78 (7.68%) DevOps
8 71 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
9 70 (6.89%) Service Management
10 69 (6.79%) Agile
11 67 (6.59%) User Experience
12 65 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (6.30%) Actionable Insight
14 58 (5.71%) Service Delivery
15 54 (5.31%) Time Management
16 53 (5.22%) Computer Science
17 52 (5.12%) Change Management
18 46 (4.53%) Configuration Management
18 46 (4.53%) Software Architecture
19 43 (4.23%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 205 (20.18%) PowerShell
2 134 (13.19%) Python
3 126 (12.40%) Bash
4 118 (11.61%) SQL
5 78 (7.68%) C#
5 78 (7.68%) Java
6 65 (6.40%) C++
7 31 (3.05%) C
8 28 (2.76%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.77%) VB
10 16 (1.57%) MATLAB
10 16 (1.57%) Perl
11 12 (1.18%) Tcl
12 11 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.79%) PHP
13 8 (0.79%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.49%) Ruby
16 4 (0.39%) Ada
16 4 (0.39%) Lua
Qualifications
1 284 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 159 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 156 (15.35%) DV Cleared
4 139 (13.68%) Degree
5 46 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (4.43%) DBS Check
7 39 (3.84%) A+ Certification
8 24 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (2.17%) MCP
10 17 (1.67%) CCNA
10 17 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.67%) MCSE
11 16 (1.57%) MCITP
12 12 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.08%) HND
14 8 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.59%) CCA
15 6 (0.59%) Citrix Certification
15 6 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.61%) SLA
2 23 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.07%) GDPR
4 18 (1.77%) QA
5 15 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.49%) SOC 1
6 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.30%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.098%) NIST
9 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 409 (40.26%) Active Directory
2 237 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 153 (15.06%) Hyper-V
4 59 (5.81%) Docker
5 41 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (2.66%) vSphere
7 24 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.36%) XenApp
8 22 (2.17%) XenDesktop
9 21 (2.07%) Firmware
10 16 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.59%) KVM
13 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.30%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.30%) Ceph
14 3 (0.30%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.30%) Gluster
14 3 (0.30%) oVirt
15 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (11.22%) SCCM
2 79 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 69 (6.79%) Ansible
4 61 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 50 (4.92%) Puppet
6 30 (2.95%) vCenter Server
7 23 (2.26%) Nagios
8 18 (1.77%) EMC NetWorker
9 17 (1.67%) Backup Exec
10 15 (1.48%) WSUS
11 12 (1.18%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.18%) ZABBIX
12 11 (1.08%) Terraform
13 10 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.98%) McAfee ePO
14 9 (0.89%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
15 7 (0.69%) Icinga
15 7 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 517 (50.89%) Microsoft
2 306 (30.12%) VMware
3 109 (10.73%) Red Hat
4 83 (8.17%) Cisco
5 72 (7.09%) Oracle
6 61 (6.00%) HP
7 57 (5.61%) Citrix
8 55 (5.41%) Veeam
9 39 (3.84%) Google
10 36 (3.54%) Dell
11 29 (2.85%) SolarWinds
12 27 (2.66%) NetApp
13 26 (2.56%) Apple
14 25 (2.46%) EMC
14 25 (2.46%) ServiceNow
15 23 (2.26%) Symantec
16 20 (1.97%) McAfee
17 17 (1.67%) Veritas
17 17 (1.67%) Xamarin
18 15 (1.48%) Aruba