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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 15 13 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 2.55% 10.24% 16.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 50.00% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 45
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,800 £24,807
25th Percentile £32,625 £32,500 £28,498
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +25.93%
75th Percentile £39,375 £48,306 £55,000
90th Percentile £42,250 - £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 25 26 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 4.25% 20.47% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 51
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,475 £24,807
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,653 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -4.25% +27.01%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,306 £56,250
90th Percentile - £52,939 £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +5.96%

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:

Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) NGFW
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Build Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Server Build Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Server Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Systems Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) Customer Service
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) ERP
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Patch Management
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Server Building
4 4 (26.67%) Ticket Management
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) ITSM
5 3 (20.00%) Password Management
5 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) COSHH
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Draytek
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Remedy
5 2 (13.33%) Riverbed
6 1 (6.67%) Dell
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) Panasonic
6 1 (6.67%) Xerox