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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 16 33 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 5.99% 9.04% 25.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.21% 97.06% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 19
10th Percentile £26,500 - £23,288
25th Percentile £28,313 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,250 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.73% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £50,438 £28,750 £34,250
90th Percentile £52,750 £30,250 £38,379
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £34,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -4.41% -21.39% +2.98%

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 19 34 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 7.12% 9.32% 28.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 21
10th Percentile £26,500 - £23,422
25th Percentile £31,938 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £51,375 £28,750 £35,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £30,250 £43,750
East Midlands median annual salary £33,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.25% -15.79% +2.70%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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
Scunthorpe -5 4 £27,000 -1.82%
Spalding +4 2 £55,000 -
Lincoln +4 2 £37,500 - 7
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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (43.75%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Retail
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Health
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support
2 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (18.75%) IT Technician
3 3 (18.75%) Support Technician
4 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 5 (31.25%) ERP
3 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
3 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Validation
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Order to Cash
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Business Development
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security
6 1 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CEH
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) GIAC
1 1 (6.25%) SANS
1 1 (6.25%) SSCP
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam