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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Windows 19 11 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 3.10% 8.94% 17.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.52% 45.83% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 19 5 31
10th Percentile £28,900 £28,450 £28,498
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £45,750 £43,984 £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -7.89%

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 29 24 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 4.74% 19.51% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27 6 36
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,125 £28,498
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £50,000 £45,605 £55,625
90th Percentile £53,750 £56,028 £62,500
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +16.44% -14.12%

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 19 August 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 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) DHCP
2 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
3 3 (15.79%) NGFW
4 2 (10.53%) VLAN
5 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 4 (21.05%) Aerospace
3 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) IT Support
2 6 (31.58%) Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) IT Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Support Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Build Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) IT Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Server Build Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Server Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Systems Support Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
6 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) ERP
6 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Patch Management
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Server Building
6 4 (21.05%) Ticket Management
7 3 (15.79%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (15.79%) ITSM
7 3 (15.79%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) COSHH
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
2 3 (15.79%) vSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Ceph
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) VMware
4 4 (21.05%) Draytek
5 3 (15.79%) Remedy
6 2 (10.53%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.26%) Dell
7 1 (5.26%) HP
7 1 (5.26%) Juniper
7 1 (5.26%) Meraki
7 1 (5.26%) NVIDIA
7 1 (5.26%) Panasonic
7 1 (5.26%) Xerox