Windows Jobs in Blackburn

Microsoft Windows
Lancashire > Blackburn

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Blackburn requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 20 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 2.81% 20.00% 16.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 86.96% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 4
10th Percentile £34,625 £21,000 £21,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,489 £23,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £23,076 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.17% -3.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £50,688 £29,375 £29,875
90th Percentile £54,000 £37,500 £40,450
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £32,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -32.63% +63.79%

All Operating Systems
Blackburn

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Blackburn.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 23 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 5.61% 23.00% 24.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 5
10th Percentile £38,600 £21,000 £21,428
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,489 £23,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £23,076 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +129.68% -3.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £34,750 -
90th Percentile - £37,900 £38,100
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +58.33%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Blackburn

Windows
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Windows in Blackburn

Windows
Salary Histogram in Blackburn

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Blackburn over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Blackburn

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) IPv4
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Line Management
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Server Building
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Veeam
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (25.00%) Meraki
4 2 (25.00%) Sophos
4 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 2 (25.00%) Synology