Windows Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 23 25 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 4.63% 14.53% 11.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 82.14% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 36
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,050 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £27,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £36,563 £31,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £55,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £33,983
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.36% -20.04%

All Operating Systems
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 25 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 5.63% 14.53% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 38
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,050 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £27,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £48,438
90th Percentile - £35,750 £59,675
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -18.75% -11.11%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Windows

Windows
Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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
Spalding -2 6 £32,500 - 2
Lincoln -10 6 £37,500 -
Scunthorpe -4 3 £27,000 -1.82%
Grimsby - 2 £35,000 - 1
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.35%) Blender
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DHCP
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
1 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
1 11 (47.83%) VPN
2 6 (26.09%) VLAN
2 6 (26.09%) VoIP
3 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
3 5 (21.74%) WAN
3 5 (21.74%) Wireless
4 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Legal
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (8.70%) Automotive
5 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) IT Support
2 6 (26.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 6 (26.09%) 3rd Line Support
2 6 (26.09%) IT Support Technician
2 6 (26.09%) IT Technician
2 6 (26.09%) Support Technician
3 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (4.35%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Driving Licence
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Acoustics
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Mac OS
2 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (47.83%) ITSM
3 8 (34.78%) ERP
4 6 (26.09%) Application Packaging
4 6 (26.09%) CRM
4 6 (26.09%) Data Cleansing
4 6 (26.09%) E-Commerce
4 6 (26.09%) Identity Management
4 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) Service Delivery
4 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Logistics
5 5 (21.74%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
5 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) Time Management
6 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (26.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Apple
2 6 (26.09%) Logitech
2 6 (26.09%) Yealink
3 3 (13.04%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Epicor
4 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.70%) TP-LINK
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe
5 1 (4.35%) Google