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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 15 30 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 3.92% 13.89% 13.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 96.77% 85.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 16
10th Percentile - £26,100 £25,875
25th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £43,688 £28,750 £37,037
90th Percentile £52,350 £30,250 £51,375
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £34,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year -11.76% -20.47% -5.00%

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 18 31 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 4.70% 14.35% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 17
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,100 £25,950
25th Percentile £28,313 £26,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £27,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50,500 £28,750 £37,037
90th Percentile £52,500 £30,250 £62,900
East Midlands median annual salary £31,500 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -26.32% +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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -2 6 £37,500 - 7
Scunthorpe -3 3 £27,000 -1.82%
Spalding -1 1 £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:

Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (6.67%) Blender
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
General
1 8 (53.33%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
3 3 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (20.00%) IT Technician
3 3 (20.00%) Support Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Business Development Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (6.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Acoustics
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) ERP
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (20.00%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Budgeting
6 1 (6.67%) Business Development
6 1 (6.67%) Preventative Maintenance
6 1 (6.67%) Videography
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Google