Windows Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 35 55 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 5.36% 7.38% 9.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 79.55% 74.32% 56.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 21 56
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £20,125
25th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £45,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +21.62% -26.00%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile - £77,500 £58,750
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -17.65%

All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 44 74 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 6.74% 9.93% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39 32 100
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,125 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £38,750 £62,500 £57,563
90th Percentile £44,250 £76,000 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £34,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% -11.11%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Nottingham -21 11 £27,500 -45.00% 9
Mansfield 0 3 £27,500 -
Worksop - 2 £41,250 - 1
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) Skype for Business
3 2 (5.71%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (5.71%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) DHCP
1 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
2 10 (28.57%) DNS
3 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 9 (25.71%) VPN
4 4 (11.43%) IP Telephony
4 4 (11.43%) PBX
4 4 (11.43%) Skype
4 4 (11.43%) VoIP
5 3 (8.57%) Internet
5 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.71%) Intranet
7 1 (2.86%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) DTS
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Retail
3 4 (11.43%) Local Government
3 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) IT Support
1 12 (34.29%) Support Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 5 (14.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (14.29%) Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Support Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Support Technician
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) ICT Support
4 4 (11.43%) ICT Support Technician
4 4 (11.43%) ICT Technician
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Applications Support
5 3 (8.57%) Break Fix Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) CSS
1 2 (5.71%) HTML
1 2 (5.71%) jQuery
1 2 (5.71%) Laravel
1 2 (5.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
3 4 (11.43%) CMDB
3 4 (11.43%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (8.57%) Smartphone
5 2 (5.71%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.86%) iPhone
6 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
2 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
3 4 (11.43%) Android
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 11 (31.43%) ITIL
3 10 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 7 (20.00%) Service Management
5 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.43%) Asset Management
6 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) ERP
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (11.43%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (11.43%) ITSM
6 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
6 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) Server Management
6 4 (11.43%) Server Monitoring
6 4 (11.43%) Time Management
7 3 (8.57%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.71%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (74.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.43%) Terminal Services
3 4 (11.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Nagios
1 4 (11.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) VMware
3 4 (11.43%) BMC
3 4 (11.43%) Citrix
3 4 (11.43%) Darktrace
3 4 (11.43%) Google
3 4 (11.43%) Proofpoint
3 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds
3 4 (11.43%) Tanium
3 4 (11.43%) Trend Micro
4 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.71%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) iManage