Windows Jobs in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 142 171 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.27% 18.41% 9.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.74% 90.00% 57.83%
Number of salaries quoted 101 113 77
10th Percentile £24,500 £21,000 £21,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £25,420 £22,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +29.31% -22.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
North West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,149
% change year-on-year - +10.65% -14.94%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 190 190 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.41% 20.45% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 129 125 91
10th Percentile £24,807 £22,300 £21,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £22,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +15.38% -20.99%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cheshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Cheshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Cheshire

Windows
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Warrington -4 67 £43,500 +26.09% 13
Winsford -6 11 £52,500 +105.88%
Northwich 0 9 £27,500 -35.29% 3
Alderley Edge -1 8 £27,750 -48.37% 1
Chester -6 8 £35,000 +35.45% 10
Knutsford -9 7 £22,500 -70.68% 1
Runcorn -6 3 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Middlewich - 3 £26,000 - 3
Macclesfield -5 2 £24,000 -61.60% 4
Neston - 2 £55,000 -
Daresbury 0 1 £34,000 -9.33%
Crewe -9 1 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Lymm - 1 £25,000 -
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 29 (20.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 77 (54.23%) Azure
2 46 (32.39%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (26.76%) AWS
4 20 (14.08%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.15%) IBM Cloud
7 11 (7.75%) SaaS
8 7 (4.93%) Azure API Management
8 7 (4.93%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (4.93%) Serverless
9 5 (3.52%) GCP
9 5 (3.52%) GitHub
10 4 (2.82%) Google Workspace
11 3 (2.11%) Commercetools
11 3 (2.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.41%) Figma
13 1 (0.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.68%) DHCP
1 18 (12.68%) DNS
1 18 (12.68%) LAN
2 14 (9.86%) WAN
3 12 (8.45%) Firewall
4 7 (4.93%) VPN
4 7 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (3.52%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.52%) WLAN
6 4 (2.82%) NAS
6 4 (2.82%) SAN
6 4 (2.82%) VoIP
7 3 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.11%) VLAN
8 2 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.41%) Internet
8 2 (1.41%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.70%) DMZ
9 1 (0.70%) Network Security
9 1 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.01%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.15%) DB2
3 13 (9.15%) MongoDB
3 13 (9.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.63%) MySQL
5 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.52%) MS Access
7 4 (2.82%) QlikView
8 2 (1.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.70%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Git
2 5 (3.52%) InstallShield
2 5 (3.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) MSI
General
1 38 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.15%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.75%) Retail
4 10 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.23%) Law
7 4 (2.82%) Finance
8 3 (2.11%) Games
8 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.41%) Billing
9 2 (1.41%) Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (18.31%) Analyst
2 21 (14.79%) IT Support
3 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (12.68%) Software Engineer
4 16 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (10.56%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 12 (8.45%) Support Technician
9 11 (7.75%) Support Analyst
9 11 (7.75%) Technical Support
10 10 (7.04%) IT Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) IT Technician
11 9 (6.34%) 1st Line Support
11 9 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) Developer
11 9 (6.34%) Full Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (5.63%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.31%) .NET
2 18 (12.68%) REST
3 15 (10.56%) CSS
3 15 (10.56%) HTML
3 15 (10.56%) Web Services
4 14 (9.86%) ASP.NET
5 13 (9.15%) AngularJS
5 13 (9.15%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (9.15%) Backbone.js
5 13 (9.15%) Ember.js
5 13 (9.15%) jQuery
5 13 (9.15%) React
5 13 (9.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 13 (9.15%) Vue
6 7 (4.93%) Node.js
7 5 (3.52%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.82%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.41%) WinForms
9 2 (1.41%) WPF
10 1 (0.70%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Algorithms
2 13 (9.15%) Blockchain
2 13 (9.15%) Data Structures
2 13 (9.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (8.45%) Driving Licence
4 10 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.93%) Life Science
7 6 (4.23%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.11%) Fat Client
9 3 (2.11%) FMCG
9 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.11%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.06%) Linux
1 37 (26.06%) Windows Server
2 22 (15.49%) Windows 10
3 17 (11.97%) Apple iOS
4 13 (9.15%) Android
5 6 (4.23%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.82%) VMS
6 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.11%) Unix
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.24%) ITIL
2 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (16.90%) DevOps
3 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (13.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (13.38%) Incident Management
6 18 (12.68%) OO
6 18 (12.68%) OOP
6 18 (12.68%) Software Engineering
6 18 (12.68%) User Experience
7 17 (11.97%) Design Patterns
7 17 (11.97%) Proactive Monitoring
7 17 (11.97%) SDLC
8 16 (11.27%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (9.15%) Co-Creation
9 13 (9.15%) Customer Service
9 13 (9.15%) Design Thinking
9 13 (9.15%) Server Management
9 13 (9.15%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.28%) SQL
2 25 (17.61%) C#
3 17 (11.97%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.97%) Python
4 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.04%) C++
6 8 (5.63%) Bash
7 7 (4.93%) Java
8 6 (4.23%) VB
9 2 (1.41%) PHP
9 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (15.49%) Degree
2 13 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.52%) MCP
6 4 (2.82%) HNC
6 4 (2.82%) HND
6 4 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.41%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.41%) SAS Certification
8 2 (1.41%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) CCNA
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) SLA
2 10 (7.04%) PCI DSS
3 9 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.23%) ISO 9000
5 5 (3.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 68 (47.89%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.49%) Hyper-V
3 13 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.93%) KVM
5 5 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.41%) Firmware
7 2 (1.41%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.41%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.70%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (11.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.11%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
2 3 (2.11%) SCCM
3 2 (1.41%) WSUS
4 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 77 (54.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.97%) VMware
3 16 (11.27%) Citrix
3 16 (11.27%) IBM
4 15 (10.56%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.93%) Dell
6 6 (4.23%) Veeam
7 5 (3.52%) Oracle
7 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.82%) Apple
9 3 (2.11%) Cisco
9 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.41%) Adobe
10 2 (1.41%) Facebook
10 2 (1.41%) Verint
11 1 (0.70%) CA
11 1 (0.70%) SAP