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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 15 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 5.81% 8.00% 22.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 96.97% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 21
10th Percentile £42,800 £21,750 £23,422
25th Percentile £46,250 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £33,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.48% +1.54% +16.07%
75th Percentile £52,500 £35,250 £38,750
90th Percentile £54,000 £41,775 £70,000
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +1.69%

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 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 6.98% 8.25% 25.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 23
10th Percentile £43,375 £21,750 £23,738
25th Percentile £46,438 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £33,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £35,250 £39,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £41,775 £70,000
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Spalding +3 2 £55,000 - 1
Grimsby -5 2 - -
Scunthorpe -3 1 £47,500 +72.73%
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (46.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (13.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Retail
3 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
6 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Senior
1 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Information Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Data Cleansing
2 7 (46.67%) ERP
2 7 (46.67%) Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (46.67%) Time Management
2 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Validation
3 4 (26.67%) Order to Cash
4 2 (13.33%) Coaching
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Record to Report
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) System Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Management
5 1 (6.67%) Business Development
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) GIAC
2 1 (6.67%) SANS
2 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam