Windows Server Jobs in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 106 94
Rank change year-on-year +53 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 130 82 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.16% 2.66% 2.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.43% 14.80% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 125 49 90
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £25,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £31,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -11.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £69,700 £70,250
South East median annual salary £39,500 £36,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year +8.22% -10.98% -3.53%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows Server 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 474 554 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.16% 17.98% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 391 325 490
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,500 £37,500
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 £86,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £43,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.73% -8.95% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Berkshire

Windows Server
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 Server within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 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 +26 75 £54,000 +107.69% 10
Newbury +29 33 £38,000 - 2
Slough +34 7 £52,500 +75.00% 1
Wokingham - 4 £30,000 -
Bracknell -6 1 £30,000 +10.70% 2
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
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 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (11.54%) IIS
3 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (69.23%) Azure
2 65 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (17.69%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (16.15%) Entra ID
5 15 (11.54%) Azure Storage
6 12 (9.23%) OCI
7 4 (3.08%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.31%) AWS
9 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (52.31%) DNS
1 68 (52.31%) Firewall
2 45 (34.62%) DHCP
3 18 (13.85%) SAN
4 11 (8.46%) SNMP
5 9 (6.92%) LAN
6 8 (6.15%) WAN
6 8 (6.15%) Wireless
7 6 (4.62%) VPN
8 4 (3.08%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.08%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.08%) NAS
9 2 (1.54%) BGP
9 2 (1.54%) Broadband
9 2 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.54%) IPsec
9 2 (1.54%) OSPF
10 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
General
1 49 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (3.85%) Retail
3 4 (3.08%) Finance
3 4 (3.08%) Marketing
4 3 (2.31%) Banking
5 2 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (0.77%) Legal
6 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (21.54%) Analyst
2 26 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 24 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 22 (16.92%) Support Specialist
5 21 (16.15%) Active Directory Specialist
5 21 (16.15%) Azure Specialist
5 21 (16.15%) Systems Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Windows Engineer
6 20 (15.38%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 20 (15.38%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Active Directory Support
8 10 (7.69%) Security Manager
9 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support
9 8 (6.15%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (6.15%) IT Manager
9 8 (6.15%) IT Security Manager
9 8 (6.15%) PowerShell Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.08%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.46%) CMDB
2 23 (17.69%) PKI
3 15 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (10.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.08%) Educational Technology
5 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.08%) Replication
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 130 (100.00%) Windows
2 61 (46.92%) Windows 10
3 49 (37.69%) Linux
4 47 (36.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (34.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (25.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (9.23%) Windows XP
8 11 (8.46%) Windows NT
9 6 (4.62%) VMS
10 4 (3.08%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) ITIL
2 32 (24.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (21.54%) Service Management
4 26 (20.00%) Agile
5 24 (18.46%) Configuration Management
6 23 (17.69%) Release Management
7 21 (16.15%) Analytics
7 21 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (16.15%) Log Analytics
8 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 15 (11.54%) DevOps
10 15 (11.54%) Identity Management
10 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 15 (11.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (11.54%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (11.54%) RBAC
11 14 (10.77%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.54%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.15%) C#
2 21 (16.15%) VB
2 21 (16.15%) VBScript
3 15 (11.54%) Bicep
4 11 (8.46%) SQL
5 1 (0.77%) Python
5 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (54.62%) Security Cleared
2 64 (49.23%) DV Cleared
3 56 (43.08%) SC Cleared
4 31 (23.85%) Degree
5 15 (11.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (9.23%) CCNA
6 12 (9.23%) CCNP
6 12 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.31%) MCP
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 112 (86.15%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (10.77%) Hyper-V
5 11 (8.46%) Firmware
6 7 (5.38%) vSphere
7 2 (1.54%) Docker
8 1 (0.77%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (39.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (33.08%) SCOM
3 42 (32.31%) SCCM
4 40 (30.77%) WSUS
5 21 (16.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (13.08%) Kubernetes
7 16 (12.31%) vCenter Server
8 14 (10.77%) NetBackup
9 12 (9.23%) EMC NetWorker
10 11 (8.46%) Sysprep
11 3 (2.31%) Nessus
12 2 (1.54%) Grafana
12 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.77%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 87 (66.92%) Microsoft
2 58 (44.62%) VMware
3 18 (13.85%) Cisco
3 18 (13.85%) Dell
4 16 (12.31%) Palo Alto
4 16 (12.31%) Veeam
5 14 (10.77%) Juniper
6 13 (10.00%) 3PAR
6 13 (10.00%) HP
7 12 (9.23%) EMC
7 12 (9.23%) Extreme Networks
7 12 (9.23%) Oracle
7 12 (9.23%) Symantec
8 11 (8.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.08%) Aruba
9 4 (3.08%) ProCurve
9 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.08%) Synology
9 4 (3.08%) Zerto
10 3 (2.31%) Fortinet