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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 19 34 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 6.40% 9.34% 23.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 86.36% 97.14% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 18
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,150 £23,220
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £48,750 £28,750 £34,250
90th Percentile £52,200 £29,750 £39,051
East Midlands median annual salary £31,500 £34,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.35% -24.44% +3.45%

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 22 35 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 7.41% 9.62% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 20
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,150 £23,355
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £26,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £28,750 £35,509
90th Percentile £52,500 £29,750 £45,275
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -21.05% -

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
Salary Histogram in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Lincolnshire

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 9 November 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
Lincoln +4 5 £37,500 - 7
Scunthorpe -6 4 £27,000 -1.82% 1
Spalding +4 2 £55,000 -
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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
General
1 10 (52.63%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Retail
3 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) IT Support
2 7 (36.84%) IT Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (15.79%) 1st Line Support Technician
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (15.79%) IT Technician
4 3 (15.79%) Support Technician
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Information Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Information Security Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) ERP
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 5 (26.32%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Time Management
4 5 (26.32%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Validation
5 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Order to Cash
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
7 1 (5.26%) Business Development
7 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.26%) Information Security
7 1 (5.26%) Server Management
7 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) CEH
1 1 (5.26%) CISSP
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) GIAC
1 1 (5.26%) SANS
1 1 (5.26%) SSCP
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam