Windows Job Trends in Salford

Microsoft Windows
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Permanent jobs citing Windows 4 0 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 1.64% - 22.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% - 77.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 18
10th Percentile - - £24,000
25th Percentile £47,500 - £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - £82,500
Manchester median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -

All Operating Systems
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8 3 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 3.28% 7.14% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 27
10th Percentile - £63,806 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £64,069 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,384 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +85.02% -30.23%
75th Percentile £52,500 £74,258 £76,250
90th Percentile £68,424 - £78,750
Manchester median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Salford

Windows
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) IT Support
1 4 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) BCP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Information Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Management
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware