Microsoft Job Trends in Stroud

Microsoft
Gloucestershire > Stroud

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stroud requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Stroud 15.38% 53.85% 85.71%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 77.78% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £37,750 - -
25th Percentile £38,125 £27,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -20.00% +13.58%
75th Percentile £48,125 £32,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £49,250 £41,500 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £42,500 £48,918 £43,750
% change year-on-year -13.12% +11.81% +1.74%

All Vendors
Stroud

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Stroud.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stroud 30.77% 69.23% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £37,750 - -
25th Percentile £38,125 £27,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -20.00% +13.58%
75th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £49,250 £51,500 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Stroud

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Stroud

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Stroud

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stroud citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stroud citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stroud 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 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Telnet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers