Windows Job Trends in Blackpool

Microsoft Windows
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackpool 3.57% 25.00% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.50% 100.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile - £42,238 -
25th Percentile £44,972 £49,917 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £62,783 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.53% - -
75th Percentile £46,022 £69,979 -
90th Percentile - £71,991 -
Lancashire median annual salary £30,250 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -28.82% -10.53% +54.47%

All Operating Systems
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackpool 9.52% 25.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £44,972 £42,238 -
25th Percentile £48,878 £49,917 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,864 £62,783 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% - -
75th Percentile £65,673 £69,979 -
90th Percentile £66,823 £71,991 -
Lancashire median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +53.23%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Windows job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Windows
Salary Trend in Blackpool

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) 3PAR
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk