Windows Job Trends in Stroud

Microsoft Windows
Gloucestershire > Stroud

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stroud requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stroud 23.08% 38.46% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 83.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £38,000 - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £27,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £30,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £32,500 -
90th Percentile £49,500 £41,500 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -31.82%

All Operating Systems
Stroud

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 Stroud.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stroud 23.08% 46.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £38,000 - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £27,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £30,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 -
90th Percentile £49,500 £52,500 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Stroud

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Stroud

Windows
Salary Trend in Stroud

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stroud citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stroud citing Windows

Windows
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 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Telnet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Support
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support
3 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Licensing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft