Windows Jobs in Leicester

Microsoft Windows
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 64 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 6.37% 10.00% 12.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.91% 70.33% 70.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 29
10th Percentile £26,500 - £30,050
25th Percentile £27,000 £24,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £36,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -22.63% +69.64%
75th Percentile £59,500 £48,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £57,350 £61,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £28,500 £33,966 £37,250
% change year-on-year -16.09% -8.82% +18.25%

All Operating Systems
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11 91 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 7.01% 14.22% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 54 38
10th Percentile £26,625 £24,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £25,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +40.74%
75th Percentile £60,813 £54,875 £57,188
90th Percentile £62,375 £61,250 £62,875
Leicestershire median annual salary £31,750 £42,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year -25.29% -6.08% +15.04%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicester over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) IT Support
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Line Management
3 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (10.00%) MCSA
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (10.00%) Isilon
4 1 (10.00%) Sophos