Windows 10 Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows 10
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 17 21 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.34% 3.52% 2.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.00% 22.58% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile - £25,725 £22,975
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,125 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £32,500 £26,216
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +23.97% +7.00%
75th Percentile - £36,875 £29,938
90th Percentile £37,400 £53,750 £33,575
North West median annual salary £29,750 £32,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +3.17% +3.28%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Windows 10 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 93 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.95% 15.60% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 42 52 47
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,025 £25,600
25th Percentile £30,125 £32,500 £26,858
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £61,875 £45,827 £48,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £52,500
North West median annual salary £40,500 £44,274 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.52% -1.61% +4.65%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows 10 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Windows 10
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Windows 10.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Warrington +8 14 £31,000 -40.95%
Chester -8 1 £37,500 +8.70%
Macclesfield -9 1 - -
Crewe - 1 £38,000 - 1
Windows 10
North West

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.88%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DHCP
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) IT Support
2 10 (58.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 10 (58.82%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (29.41%) IT Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Mobile Device Management
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
6 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.88%) BCP
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
6 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.88%) Inventory Management
6 1 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (5.88%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) MCP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
2 5 (29.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Apple