Windows Job Trends in Warrington

Microsoft Windows
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 14 14 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 2.47% 11.76% 15.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 51.85% 93.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 42
10th Percentile - £30,475 £24,807
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £41,653 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.97% -4.25% +26.09%
75th Percentile £38,750 £48,306 £53,750
90th Percentile £40,375 - £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -6.67%

All Operating Systems
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 22 27 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 3.88% 22.69% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 46
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,150 £24,807
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £48,306 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +11.05% +26.09%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £56,875
90th Percentile £55,250 £51,395 £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £41,500 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.35% +13.33% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Warrington

Windows
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) DHCP
4 4 (28.57%) VLAN
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) NGFW
6 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support
3 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Build Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Server Build Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (28.57%) Ticket Management
4 3 (21.43%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Password Management
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Server Building
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (28.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Draytek
4 2 (14.29%) Remedy