Windows Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 12 23 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 4.51% 12.43% 13.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.71% 79.31% 58.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 32
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £33,625 £54,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +55.56% -
75th Percentile £51,075 £72,500 £53,858
90th Percentile £63,400 £95,000 £57,347
West Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £40,354 £40,000
% change year-on-year -19.46% +0.88% -5.88%

All Operating Systems
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 29 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 5.26% 15.68% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 55
10th Percentile £31,500 £44,000 -
25th Percentile £35,750 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +11.11% +6.15%
75th Percentile £63,400 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £73,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £47,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.63% +11.18% -5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Coventry

Windows
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Coventry

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Coventry over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Coventry

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (25.00%) VLAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (16.67%) FTP
4 2 (16.67%) HTTP
4 2 (16.67%) SMTP
4 2 (16.67%) SNMP
4 2 (16.67%) SSH
4 2 (16.67%) SSL
4 2 (16.67%) Telnet
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) IT Support
3 3 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Server Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Windows Server Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Server Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Support
4 2 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) ConnectWise
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Sophos