Windows Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 43 97 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.69% 14.90% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.86% 67.83% 74.00%
Number of salaries quoted 29 35 108
10th Percentile £31,425 £26,550 £29,158
25th Percentile £35,536 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.43% -17.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £63,750
South West median annual salary £33,750 £35,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -18.60% +4.72%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 143 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.69% 21.97% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 60 156
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,350 £29,440
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +4.59% -10.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
South West median annual salary £36,555 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -8.61% -18.37% +8.89%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Windows
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham -11 12 £52,500 +10.53% 12
Gloucester -2 9 £80,000 +40.35% 10
Stroud +1 5 £40,000 -11.11% 1
Tewkesbury -1 3 £70,000 +82.77%
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) OpenShift
4 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.65%) IaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) Firewall
2 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
3 8 (18.60%) DHCP
3 8 (18.60%) DNS
4 6 (13.95%) WAN
5 5 (11.63%) LAN
5 5 (11.63%) VSAN
6 4 (9.30%) Network Security
6 4 (9.30%) VPN
7 3 (6.98%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.65%) VLAN
9 1 (2.33%) Internet
9 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) InfluxDB
1 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.65%) MySQL
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Robot Framework
3 2 (4.65%) TestRail
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Police
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) IT Support
2 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) IT Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Applications Support
4 3 (6.98%) ICT Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Lead
4 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Service Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Support Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Driving Licence
3 4 (9.30%) CMDB
3 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) CCTV
4 2 (4.65%) Clustering
4 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (55.81%) Windows Server
2 23 (53.49%) Linux
3 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (13.95%) CentOS
4 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (9.30%) Rocky
5 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.65%) Debian
8 1 (2.33%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.95%) Change Control
5 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.95%) Service Management
6 5 (11.63%) Change Management
6 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (11.63%) RBAC
7 4 (9.30%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.30%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.30%) ITSM
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Use Case
8 3 (6.98%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.98%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) DV Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (11.63%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.30%) CCIE
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (4.65%) Degree
7 1 (2.33%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.33%) MCP
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (41.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.58%) Hyper-V
3 5 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.98%) Docker
4 3 (6.98%) vSphere
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Nagios
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) McAfee ePO
3 4 (9.30%) SCVMM
4 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 2 (4.65%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (4.65%) SCCM
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Nessus
6 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) Cisco
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.28%) Fortinet
4 6 (13.95%) McAfee
5 5 (11.63%) Dell
5 5 (11.63%) VMware
6 4 (9.30%) CheckPoint
6 4 (9.30%) F5
7 2 (4.65%) Meraki
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle
7 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.65%) Splunk
7 2 (4.65%) Symantec
8 1 (2.33%) HP
8 1 (2.33%) Juniper
8 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) SAP
8 1 (2.33%) Sophos
8 1 (2.33%) Veeam