Windows Jobs in Lancashire

Microsoft Windows
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 19 11
Rank change year-on-year -31 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Windows 206 97 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.83% 6.76% 13.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.15% 77.60% 89.91%
Number of salaries quoted 36 85 63
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £24,200
25th Percentile £31,082 £26,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -32.63% +71.17%
75th Percentile £43,787 £47,500 £54,500
90th Percentile £51,240 £61,250 £61,250
North West median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +21.43%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 586 125 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.12% 8.71% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 40 112 72
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £24,100
25th Percentile £32,110 £26,250 £35,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +58.33%
75th Percentile £49,373 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £53,875 £67,968 £60,875
North West median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.23% +9.41%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. 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
Blackburn -42 8 £42,500 +84.17% 7
Lancaster +14 6 £38,049 +38.36% 6
Preston -48 3 £40,101 +45.82% 116
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Accrington - 3 - -
Newton-le-Willows +2 2 - - 1
Rossendale - 2 - -
Darwen - 2 - - 2
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Chorley - 2 - - 3
Blackpool -44 1 - - 2
Poulton-le-Fylde - 1 - -
Ormskirk - 1 - - 3
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 7 (3.40%) Apache
2 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (2.91%) Azure
3 5 (2.43%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.49%) AWS
4 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 171 (83.01%) VPN
2 163 (79.13%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (3.88%) LAN
4 5 (2.43%) DHCP
4 5 (2.43%) DNS
4 5 (2.43%) Firewall
4 5 (2.43%) WAN
5 3 (1.46%) IPv4
5 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.46%) VLAN
6 2 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.97%) SAN
6 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
1 3 (1.46%) Git
1 3 (1.46%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.49%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 167 (81.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 166 (80.58%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.80%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.46%) Military
5 3 (1.46%) Retail
5 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.97%) Finance
7 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (81.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (8.25%) IT Support
3 13 (6.31%) Analyst
4 8 (3.88%) IT Analyst
5 7 (3.40%) Developer
5 7 (3.40%) IT Engineer
5 7 (3.40%) IT Support Analyst
5 7 (3.40%) Support Analyst
6 6 (2.91%) PHP Developer
7 4 (1.94%) Software Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) Help Desk Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) Help Desk Support
8 3 (1.46%) Help Desk Support Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (1.46%) Service Analyst
8 3 (1.46%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (1.46%) Support Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.46%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (79.13%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.46%) SOAP
2 3 (1.46%) XML
3 1 (0.49%) .NET
3 1 (0.49%) CSS
3 1 (0.49%) HTML
3 1 (0.49%) JSP
3 1 (0.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 163 (79.13%) Cyberattack
2 5 (2.43%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.94%) Social Media
4 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 175 (84.95%) Linux
2 163 (79.13%) Android
3 9 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.94%) Windows Vista
5 3 (1.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (90.29%) Problem-Solving
2 168 (81.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 166 (80.58%) DevOps
4 165 (80.10%) Task Automation
5 164 (79.61%) Mathematics
6 163 (79.13%) Line Management
6 163 (79.13%) Platform Engineering
6 163 (79.13%) Risk Management
6 163 (79.13%) Storage Management
7 6 (2.91%) ITIL
7 6 (2.91%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (2.91%) Test Automation
8 5 (2.43%) Asset Management
8 5 (2.43%) Data Protection
8 5 (2.43%) IT Asset Management
8 5 (2.43%) Unit Testing
9 4 (1.94%) Customer Service
9 4 (1.94%) Mentoring
9 4 (1.94%) SDLC
9 4 (1.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 170 (82.52%) Python
2 169 (82.04%) PowerShell
3 166 (80.58%) Bash
4 9 (4.37%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.91%) PHP
6 5 (2.43%) SQL
7 4 (1.94%) Java
8 2 (0.97%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) Ada
9 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (4.85%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.94%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.46%) MOS
5 1 (0.49%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) QA
System Software
1 166 (80.58%) Hyper-V
2 163 (79.13%) Docker
2 163 (79.13%) VMware NSX
2 163 (79.13%) vSphere
3 14 (6.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (79.13%) Ansible
1 163 (79.13%) Terraform
2 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 165 (80.10%) Cisco
2 163 (79.13%) 3PAR
2 163 (79.13%) Juniper
2 163 (79.13%) Splunk
3 25 (12.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.88%) Veeam
5 7 (3.40%) VMware
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle
7 2 (0.97%) Meraki
7 2 (0.97%) Sophos
7 2 (0.97%) Synology