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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 32 56 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 5.13% 7.21% 9.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.05% 75.68% 56.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 53
10th Percentile - £29,100 £19,450
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,563 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -30.23%
75th Percentile £38,750 £56,563 £53,750
90th Percentile £42,500 £77,500 £62,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £36,310
% change year-on-year -7.69% -10.49% -14.56%

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 41 74 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 6.57% 9.52% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 33 32 93
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,125 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.63% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £38,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £45,750 £76,000 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £34,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -18.82% -5.56%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -19 10 £27,500 -45.00% 14
Worksop - 3 £40,000 -
Mansfield -3 1 £27,500 - 2
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 8 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (21.88%) Skype for Business
3 3 (9.38%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (9.38%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) DHCP
1 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
2 10 (31.25%) DNS
3 9 (28.13%) Firewall
4 7 (21.88%) Skype
4 7 (21.88%) VPN
5 4 (12.50%) PBX
5 4 (12.50%) VoIP
6 3 (9.38%) Intranet
7 2 (6.25%) IP Telephony
8 1 (3.13%) Internet
8 1 (3.13%) VLAN
8 1 (3.13%) WebEx
8 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) DTS
2 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
General
1 8 (25.00%) Retail
2 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Local Government
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Support Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) IT Support
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 5 (15.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
5 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (15.63%) Consultant
5 5 (15.63%) Support Consultant
5 5 (15.63%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Developer
6 3 (9.38%) PHP Developer
6 3 (9.38%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Support Technician
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Support
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) CSS
1 3 (9.38%) HTML
1 3 (9.38%) jQuery
1 3 (9.38%) Laravel
1 3 (9.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Onboarding
2 7 (21.88%) CMDB
2 7 (21.88%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
4 3 (9.38%) Legacy Code
4 3 (9.38%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.13%) iPhone
5 1 (3.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (56.25%) Windows Server
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Management
3 7 (21.88%) Problem Management
3 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (21.88%) Server Management
3 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
3 7 (21.88%) Service Management
4 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.50%) ITSM
5 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 4 (12.50%) Time Management
6 3 (9.38%) Agile
6 3 (9.38%) Asset Management
6 3 (9.38%) Migration
6 3 (9.38%) MVC
6 3 (9.38%) OO
6 3 (9.38%) OOP
6 3 (9.38%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (12.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Nagios
1 7 (21.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) BMC
3 7 (21.88%) Citrix
3 7 (21.88%) Darktrace
3 7 (21.88%) Google
3 7 (21.88%) Proofpoint
3 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 7 (21.88%) SolarWinds
3 7 (21.88%) Tanium
3 7 (21.88%) Trend Micro
4 3 (9.38%) OpenAI
4 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) iManage