Windows Job Trends in Dorchester

Microsoft Windows
Dorset > Dorchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorchester requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorchester 17.39% - 1.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £36,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.70%
75th Percentile £38,750 - £36,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £37,500 £31,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +20.97% -17.33% -21.05%

All Operating Systems
Dorchester

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 Dorchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorchester 17.39% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £36,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.70%
75th Percentile £38,750 - £36,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £37,500 £30,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -38.46% -7.14%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorchester

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Dorchester

Windows
Salary Trend in Dorchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorchester 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
1 2 (50.00%) IT Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) Senior IT Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Support Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (50.00%) ISMS
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware