Windows Jobs in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 18 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 282 344 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.49% 11.72% 7.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.13% 61.98% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 257 197 222
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £25,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £56,275 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £78,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £38,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.59% -

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 469 555 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.12% 18.90% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 370 323 504
10th Percentile £26,700 £24,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £59,000 £77,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £71,000 £87,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Reading +5 184 £48,925 -3.60% 31
Newbury +16 34 £38,000 -20.83% 4
Bracknell -4 21 £60,000 +93.55% 7
Slough +7 8 £52,500 +110.00% 1
Wokingham +2 7 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Thatcham - 3 £24,000 -
Maidenhead +17 1 £24,000 -9.43% 3
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (10.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.61%) IIS
3 7 (2.48%) Apache
4 6 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.42%) WordPress
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.13%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (37.94%) Azure
2 86 (30.50%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (9.93%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.87%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (6.38%) Azure Storage
6 12 (4.26%) OCI
7 6 (2.13%) AWS
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.77%) SaaS
9 4 (1.42%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.35%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.35%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (29.79%) Firewall
2 69 (24.47%) DNS
3 46 (16.31%) DHCP
4 22 (7.80%) SAN
5 20 (7.09%) LAN
6 14 (4.96%) SNMP
6 14 (4.96%) VPN
6 14 (4.96%) WAN
7 12 (4.26%) Wireless
8 8 (2.84%) Internet
8 8 (2.84%) NAS
9 7 (2.48%) Network Security
10 6 (2.13%) IPsec
11 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.77%) VoIP
12 4 (1.42%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.42%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.42%) VLAN
12 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
13 3 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.06%) GIS
4 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.35%) MySQL
5 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.35%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.35%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (3.19%) MSI
2 7 (2.48%) AdminStudio
2 7 (2.48%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) Git
4 1 (0.35%) Sourcetree
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.22%) Organisational Skills
3 20 (7.09%) Finance
4 11 (3.90%) Back Office
5 10 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.19%) Retail
7 7 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.77%) Marketing
9 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.42%) Banking
10 4 (1.42%) Electronics
10 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (13.83%) Analyst
1 39 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (13.48%) Systems Engineer
3 29 (10.28%) Windows Engineer
4 27 (9.57%) IT Analyst
5 24 (8.51%) Active Directory Specialist
5 24 (8.51%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (8.51%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.16%) Senior
6 23 (8.16%) Support Specialist
7 22 (7.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 20 (7.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 20 (7.09%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.38%) Active Directory Support
10 17 (6.03%) IT Support
11 16 (5.67%) Support Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) IT Engineer
13 13 (4.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (4.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 11 (3.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.38%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (1.77%) YAML
3 4 (1.42%) LAMP
3 4 (1.42%) Qt
4 3 (1.06%) XML
5 2 (0.71%) .NET
5 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.71%) Celery
5 2 (0.71%) Dask
5 2 (0.71%) Django
5 2 (0.71%) Flask
5 2 (0.71%) NumPy
5 2 (0.71%) Web Services
6 1 (0.35%) GeoJSON
6 1 (0.35%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.35%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.35%) React
6 1 (0.35%) SPFx
6 1 (0.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.35%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.87%) PKI
3 22 (7.80%) CMDB
3 22 (7.80%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.19%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.48%) Shadow IT
6 6 (2.13%) Replication
7 4 (1.42%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.42%) EPoS
7 4 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.06%) Arduino
8 3 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.71%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.71%) IPTV
10 1 (0.35%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (45.04%) Windows Server
2 110 (39.01%) Windows 10
3 81 (28.72%) Linux
4 69 (24.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 66 (23.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (18.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 41 (14.54%) Windows 7
8 13 (4.61%) Windows XP
9 12 (4.26%) Windows NT
10 8 (2.84%) Mac OS
10 8 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (2.13%) Ubuntu
11 6 (2.13%) VMS
12 5 (1.77%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (1.42%) Android
13 4 (1.42%) Unix
14 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.27%) ITIL
2 73 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (17.73%) Customer Service
4 45 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (14.54%) Release Management
5 41 (14.54%) Service Management
6 39 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (13.12%) Agile
8 29 (10.28%) Analytics
9 24 (8.51%) Decision-Making
9 24 (8.51%) Log Analytics
9 24 (8.51%) Project Management
10 22 (7.80%) Configuration Management
10 22 (7.80%) Software Engineering
11 21 (7.45%) Change Management
11 21 (7.45%) Problem Management
12 20 (7.09%) CI/CD
12 20 (7.09%) DevOps
13 18 (6.38%) RBAC
13 18 (6.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (25.89%) PowerShell
2 34 (12.06%) C#
3 32 (11.35%) VB
4 26 (9.22%) VBScript
5 18 (6.38%) Bicep
6 17 (6.03%) SQL
7 13 (4.61%) C
8 11 (3.90%) C++
8 11 (3.90%) Python
9 6 (2.13%) R
10 4 (1.42%) Bash
10 4 (1.42%) Java
11 3 (1.06%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.35%) Swift
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (45.39%) Security Cleared
2 97 (34.40%) DV Cleared
3 93 (32.98%) Degree
4 80 (28.37%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (6.03%) HNC
7 15 (5.32%) CCNA
7 15 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (4.26%) CCNP
8 12 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.84%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.13%) MCP
12 5 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.42%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.06%) MCSE
15 1 (0.35%) MCDST
15 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.90%) SLA
2 4 (1.42%) GDPR
2 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.42%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (55.67%) Active Directory
2 55 (19.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.38%) Firmware
5 15 (5.32%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.61%) KVM
6 13 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.55%) Docker
8 8 (2.84%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.48%) vSphere
10 2 (0.71%) QEMU
10 2 (0.71%) Xen
11 1 (0.35%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (28.37%) SCCM
2 56 (19.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (19.50%) WSUS
4 44 (15.60%) SCOM
5 27 (9.57%) Kubernetes
6 24 (8.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (7.09%) vCenter Server
8 14 (4.96%) NetBackup
9 12 (4.26%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (4.26%) Sysprep
10 5 (1.77%) Ansible
10 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.71%) Nessus
11 2 (0.71%) Terraform
12 1 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.35%) Grafana
12 1 (0.35%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 155 (54.96%) Microsoft
2 90 (31.91%) VMware
3 24 (8.51%) HP
4 22 (7.80%) Cisco
5 21 (7.45%) Palo Alto
6 18 (6.38%) Dell
7 16 (5.67%) Veeam
8 15 (5.32%) Oracle
8 15 (5.32%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.32%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.61%) 3PAR
9 13 (4.61%) Juniper
10 12 (4.26%) EMC
10 12 (4.26%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (4.26%) Symantec
11 9 (3.19%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.84%) Autodesk
13 5 (1.77%) NetApp
13 5 (1.77%) SolidFire
14 4 (1.42%) Aruba