Windows Jobs in Preston

Microsoft Windows
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Preston requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -47 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3 28 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 0.79% 12.84% 17.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.00% 90.32% 90.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 32
10th Percentile - - £26,450
25th Percentile £37,574 £26,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £27,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.82% -42.11% +104.30%
75th Percentile £42,627 £48,125 £48,961
90th Percentile - £50,000 £62,334
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £32,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -32.63% +63.79%

All Operating Systems
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 31 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 2.65% 14.22% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 27 36
10th Percentile £38,941 - £27,250
25th Percentile £40,993 £26,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,300 £27,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -42.11% +90.00%
75th Percentile £50,969 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,638 £52,500 £56,672
Lancashire median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +58.33%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Preston

Windows
Salary Trend in Preston

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Preston.

Salary trend for Windows in Preston

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Physics
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Ada
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) 3PAR
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk