Windows Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Microsoft Windows
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3 43 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 1.82% 34.68% 12.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 93.48% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 38 20
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,325 £28,300
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile - £37,500 £49,063
90th Percentile - - £50,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £26,375 £35,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -24.64% -10.26% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3 46 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 1.82% 37.10% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 41 20
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £28,300
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £37,500 £49,063
90th Percentile - £38,750 £50,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £26,375 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -24.64% - -12.50%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Windows job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Windows
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows in Stoke-on-Trent

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) WinForms
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec