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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 17 12 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 2.82% 8.00% 19.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.38% 48.00% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 24
10th Percentile £28,750 - £30,449
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -24.71% +30.77%
75th Percentile £40,938 - £44,063
90th Percentile £48,750 £33,444 £59,000
Cheshire median annual salary £31,500 £32,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% -20.00% +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 26 25 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 4.31% 16.67% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 28
10th Percentile £29,200 - £33,049
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.71% +30.77%
75th Percentile £50,000 £32,903 £50,000
90th Percentile - £44,052 £56,000
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +5.26%

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
Salary Histogram in Warrington

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Warrington over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Warrington

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 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) DHCP
2 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) NGFW
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Aerospace
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) IT Support
2 5 (29.41%) Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Build Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) IT Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Server Build Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Systems Support Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Field Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) CUDA
3 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
5 4 (23.53%) ERP
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Server Building
6 3 (17.65%) Cyber Resilience
6 3 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (17.65%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Password Management
6 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (17.65%) Workflow
7 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (11.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) COSHH
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Ceph
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Remedy
5 2 (11.76%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.88%) Dell
6 1 (5.88%) Draytek
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) NVIDIA
6 1 (5.88%) Panasonic
6 1 (5.88%) Xerox