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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 17 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 292 340 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.47% 10.95% 8.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.47% 61.15% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 267 193 227
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £25,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £56,275 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -

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 475 556 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.41% 17.91% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 391 328 502
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,350 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,025 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £85,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +8 185 £45,000 +23.62% 30
Newbury +16 34 £43,750 -8.85% 3
Bracknell -6 27 £60,000 +86.05% 8
Slough +16 9 £52,500 +85.02% 3
Wokingham +4 7 £35,000 -41.67%
Thatcham - 3 £24,000 -
Maidenhead +12 1 £24,000 -14.29% 3
Windsor -7 1 £32,500 -25.29% 1
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 30 (10.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.48%) IIS
3 7 (2.40%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.37%) WordPress
6 3 (1.03%) Confluence
7 2 (0.68%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (14.73%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.05%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (36.64%) Azure
2 84 (28.77%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (8.22%) Entra ID
4 22 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (4.79%) Azure Storage
6 12 (4.11%) OCI
7 6 (2.05%) AWS
8 5 (1.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.37%) SaaS
9 4 (1.37%) TestFlight
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.68%) GitHub
10 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.68%) IaaS
10 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.34%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 85 (29.11%) Firewall
2 69 (23.63%) DNS
3 46 (15.75%) DHCP
4 24 (8.22%) LAN
5 23 (7.88%) SAN
6 17 (5.82%) SNMP
7 16 (5.48%) VPN
7 16 (5.48%) WAN
8 12 (4.11%) Wireless
9 9 (3.08%) NAS
10 8 (2.74%) Internet
10 8 (2.74%) Network Security
11 7 (2.40%) IPsec
12 6 (2.05%) VoIP
13 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.71%) Wireshark
14 4 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.37%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.37%) VLAN
15 3 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.03%) GIS
4 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.68%) Redis
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.34%) MySQL
5 1 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.34%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (2.05%) MSI
2 5 (1.71%) AdminStudio
2 5 (1.71%) InstallShield
3 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.03%) JIRA
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) Sourcetree
General
1 105 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (6.16%) Finance
4 13 (4.45%) Back Office
5 9 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.08%) Retail
6 7 (2.40%) Banking
7 5 (1.71%) Marketing
7 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.71%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.37%) Electronics
8 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (14.04%) Systems Engineer
3 38 (13.01%) Analyst
4 29 (9.93%) Windows Engineer
5 28 (9.59%) Senior
6 27 (9.25%) IT Analyst
6 27 (9.25%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) Software Engineer
8 22 (7.53%) Support Engineer
8 22 (7.53%) Support Specialist
9 21 (7.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 20 (6.85%) Active Directory Specialist
10 20 (6.85%) Azure Specialist
11 19 (6.51%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
11 19 (6.51%) IT Support
12 15 (5.14%) IT Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Active Directory Support
13 14 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.45%) C++ Software Engineer
15 12 (4.11%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.79%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.71%) .NET
2 5 (1.71%) ASP.NET
2 5 (1.71%) Qt
2 5 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (1.71%) Web Services
2 5 (1.71%) YAML
3 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.37%) CSS
3 4 (1.37%) HTML
3 4 (1.37%) jQuery
3 4 (1.37%) LAMP
3 4 (1.37%) React
3 4 (1.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 4 (1.37%) XML
4 2 (0.68%) Celery
4 2 (0.68%) Django
4 2 (0.68%) Flask
4 2 (0.68%) NumPy
4 2 (0.68%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.93%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.56%) CMDB
3 23 (7.88%) Data Centre
4 22 (7.53%) PKI
5 11 (3.77%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.05%) Replication
7 5 (1.71%) Shadow IT
8 4 (1.37%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.37%) EPoS
8 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Arduino
9 3 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.68%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.68%) IPTV
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (45.21%) Windows Server
2 111 (38.01%) Windows 10
3 85 (29.11%) Linux
4 65 (22.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 63 (21.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (17.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 43 (14.73%) Windows 7
8 13 (4.45%) Windows XP
9 12 (4.11%) Windows NT
10 10 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (2.40%) Android
11 7 (2.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (2.40%) VMS
12 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.71%) Apple iOS
13 5 (1.71%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (1.37%) Unix
15 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.79%) ITIL
2 76 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 51 (17.47%) Customer Service
5 42 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (11.64%) Agile
6 34 (11.64%) Service Management
7 32 (10.96%) Release Management
8 26 (8.90%) Software Engineering
9 25 (8.56%) Analytics
9 25 (8.56%) Configuration Management
10 24 (8.22%) Change Management
10 24 (8.22%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.22%) Problem Management
11 22 (7.53%) Project Management
12 20 (6.85%) Log Analytics
13 19 (6.51%) Asset Management
13 19 (6.51%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.16%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 18 (6.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.66%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.62%) C#
3 27 (9.25%) VBScript
4 26 (8.90%) VB
5 24 (8.22%) SQL
6 16 (5.48%) C
7 15 (5.14%) C++
8 14 (4.79%) Bicep
9 13 (4.45%) Python
10 7 (2.40%) Java
11 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.05%) R
12 5 (1.71%) Bash
13 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.37%) Swift
13 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 100 (34.25%) DV Cleared
3 92 (31.51%) Degree
4 82 (28.08%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.82%) HNC
6 16 (5.48%) CCNA
6 16 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (4.11%) CCNP
10 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.74%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.71%) MCP
12 5 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.37%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.37%) MCSE
14 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.34%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.77%) SLA
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
2 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.34%) NIST
4 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 163 (55.82%) Active Directory
2 59 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.85%) Firmware
4 17 (5.82%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (5.48%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.14%) KVM
6 15 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.77%) Docker
8 7 (2.40%) vSphere
9 5 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.68%) QEMU
10 2 (0.68%) Xen
11 1 (0.34%) NFS
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 75 (25.68%) SCCM
2 52 (17.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (16.78%) WSUS
4 43 (14.73%) SCOM
5 24 (8.22%) Kubernetes
6 23 (7.88%) vCenter Server
7 20 (6.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (4.79%) NetBackup
9 12 (4.11%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (4.11%) Sysprep
10 5 (1.71%) Ansible
10 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.03%) Nessus
12 2 (0.68%) Grafana
12 2 (0.68%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.68%) Terraform
13 1 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 162 (55.48%) Microsoft
2 94 (32.19%) VMware
3 26 (8.90%) HP
4 23 (7.88%) Cisco
5 21 (7.19%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.51%) Dell
7 16 (5.48%) Veeam
8 15 (5.14%) Oracle
8 15 (5.14%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.79%) Juniper
10 13 (4.45%) 3PAR
10 13 (4.45%) ServiceNow
11 12 (4.11%) Dynatrace
11 12 (4.11%) EMC
11 12 (4.11%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (4.11%) Symantec
12 5 (1.71%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.71%) NetApp
12 5 (1.71%) SolidFire
13 4 (1.37%) ProCurve