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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -13
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Windows 4 48 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 2.17% 10.43% 10.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 77.42% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 31
10th Percentile £36,200 £24,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £24,625 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -19.05% +33.47%
75th Percentile £48,750 £55,938 £58,750
90th Percentile £53,400 £58,500 £62,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -4.41% -26.49% +32.14%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 62 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 3.80% 13.48% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 34
10th Percentile £37,400 £24,500 £28,550
25th Percentile £41,000 £28,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% +33.47%
75th Percentile £56,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,100 £61,250 £62,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £49,944
% change year-on-year -12.50% -19.91% +27.58%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicester over the 6 months to 21 August 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Isilon
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos