Windows Job Trends in Gwent

Microsoft Windows
South Wales > Gwent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gwent requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 1 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gwent 3.57% 10.61% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 77.78% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
South Wales median annual salary £43,250 £52,000 £41,598
% change year-on-year -16.83% +25.01% -7.56%

All Operating Systems
Gwent

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 Gwent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gwent 7.14% 13.64% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £43,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £46,875 - -
90th Percentile £47,250 - -
South Wales median annual salary £47,750 £36,250 £43,006
% change year-on-year +31.72% -15.71% -4.43%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Gwent

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Gwent

Windows
Salary Trend in Gwent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gwent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware