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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 24 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -25
Permanent jobs citing Windows 57 55 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 3.52% 8.51% 3.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.06% 88.71% 48.94%
Number of salaries quoted 48 47 39
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £25,225
25th Percentile £29,625 £29,875 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -15.66% -24.55%
75th Percentile £44,063 £40,250 £50,250
90th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -12.50%

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 64 62 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 3.95% 9.60% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 53 52 75
10th Percentile £28,600 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,625 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £43,750 £40,250 £50,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £57,500
East Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -15.79%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -2 41 £40,000 +42.86% 8
Mansfield -2 9 £31,000 -1.59%
Worksop -9 2 £26,250 -34.38% 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 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) SAP Business One
2 3 (5.26%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (5.26%) Infor LN
2 3 (5.26%) Infor M3
2 3 (5.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 43 (75.44%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.51%) GCP
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.75%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.09%) DHCP
1 20 (35.09%) DNS
2 18 (31.58%) Firewall
3 15 (26.32%) TCP/IP
4 13 (22.81%) VLAN
5 4 (7.02%) Value-Added Service
6 3 (5.26%) VPN
7 2 (3.51%) LAN
7 2 (3.51%) WAN
8 1 (1.75%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) GitLab
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 26 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
4 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Dutch Language
6 4 (7.02%) Portuguese Language
6 4 (7.02%) Spanish Language
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.51%) French Language
7 2 (3.51%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 28 (49.12%) IT Support
2 17 (29.82%) IT Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) IT Technician
4 14 (24.56%) IT Support Technician
4 14 (24.56%) Support Technician
5 8 (14.04%) Service Desk Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) IT Support Specialist
6 7 (12.28%) Support Specialist
7 4 (7.02%) Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) SAP Support
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) ERP Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) ERP Support
8 3 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Support Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Technical Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (1.75%) Middleware
2 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 4 (7.02%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.26%) FMCG
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.51%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.75%) SCADA
6 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.88%) Windows Server
2 11 (19.30%) Windows 10
3 5 (8.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 11 (19.30%) Customer Service
3 11 (19.30%) ITIL
4 10 (17.54%) ITSM
4 10 (17.54%) Project Delivery
5 9 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 9 (15.79%) Server Patching
5 9 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 8 (14.04%) Case Management
6 8 (14.04%) ERP
7 7 (12.28%) Client Onboarding
7 7 (12.28%) Service Management
8 6 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.77%) Patch Management
10 4 (7.02%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) SQL
2 12 (21.05%) VBA
3 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.02%) Python
5 3 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) CCNA
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CCNP
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.75%) MCSE
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (68.42%) Active Directory
2 14 (24.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) Docker
4 2 (3.51%) Firmware
5 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) Argo
4 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) SAP
3 6 (10.53%) VMware
4 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.26%) Cisco
5 3 (5.26%) Epicor
5 3 (5.26%) IFS
5 3 (5.26%) Infor
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) QAD
5 3 (5.26%) Sage
5 3 (5.26%) SYSPRO
6 2 (3.51%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix