Berkshire Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	1833	2225
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.897 %	0.956 %
As % of the category below	60.44 %	63.46 %
Salaries quoted	1565	1812
Average minimum salary	£33,599	£34,131
Average salary	£36,529	£36,841
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Average maximum salary	£39,459	£39,551
UK excluding London average salary	£32,401	£32,753
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Operating Systems Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3033	3506
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.484 %	1.506 %
Salaries quoted	2576	2776
Average minimum salary	£35,147	£35,673
Average salary	£38,240	£38,753
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Average maximum salary	£41,334	£41,833
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Windows South East

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows across the Berkshire region.

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	+1	566	£36,248	-1.66 %
2	Slough	-1	228	£34,523	-0.71 %
3	Bracknell	+3	172	£38,783	+0.86 %
4	Maidenhead	+4	114	£36,495	+12.44 %
5	Newbury	-1	71	£36,283	-9.05 %
6	Wokingham	+2	61	£34,665	-3.61 %
7	Windsor	-12	30	£28,500	-11.73 %
8	Hungerford	-2	4	£37,500	-6.25 %
9	Thatcham	+5	2	£15,750	-28.40 %
9	Ascot	-6	2	£26,500	-24.28 %

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 1227 (30.96 %) Microsoft 2 967 (24.40 %) Active Directory 3 942 (23.77 %) SQL 4 872 (22.00 %) Unix 5 739 (18.65 %) SQL Server 6 644 (16.25 %) MS Excel 7 631 (15.92 %) MS Exchange 8 617 (15.57 %) Windows 2000 9 607 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 10 606 (15.29 %) Oracle 11 586 (14.79 %) Windows XP 12 575 (14.51 %) Linux 13 524 (13.22 %) Windows Server 2003 14 510 (12.87 %) .NET 15 507 (12.79 %) MCSE

16 498 (12.57 %) TCP/IP 17 474 (11.96 %) MS Office 18 461 (11.63 %) Windows NT 19 451 (11.38 %) Java 20 424 (10.70 %) Citrix 21 421 (10.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 22 409 (10.32 %) C++ 23 375 (9.463 %) C# 24 374 (9.437 %) IIS 25 349 (8.806 %) Firewall 26 345 (8.706 %) VMware 27 329 (8.302 %) XML 28 300 (7.570 %) Cisco 29 278 (7.015 %) SAN 30 271 (6.838 %) Solaris

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 510 (12.87 %) .NET 2 329 (8.302 %) XML 3 236 (5.955 %) HTML 4 180 (4.542 %) J2EE 5 153 (3.861 %) ASP.NET 6 107 (2.700 %) ASP 7 105 (2.650 %) WebSphere 8 93 (2.347 %) WebServices 9 57 (1.438 %) CSS 10 55 (1.388 %) JSP 11 52 (1.312 %) .NET Framework 12 43 (1.085 %) Swing 13 42 (1.060 %) WinForms 14 37 (0.934 %) ADO.NET 15 36 (0.908 %) SOAP 16 35 (0.883 %) Middleware 17 33 (0.833 %) XSLT 18 31 (0.782 %) AWT 18 31 (0.782 %) Windows SharePoint Services 19 30 (0.757 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 631 (15.92 %) MS Exchange 2 421 (10.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 374 (9.437 %) IIS 4 235 (5.930 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 216 (5.450 %) SharePoint 6 186 (4.693 %) Apache 7 147 (3.709 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 114 (2.877 %) Tomcat 9 91 (2.296 %) Lotus Notes 9 91 (2.296 %) WebLogic 10 56 (1.413 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 53 (1.337 %) BizTalk Server 12 48 (1.211 %) SAS 12 48 (1.211 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 35 (0.883 %) Lotus Domino 14 33 (0.833 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 31 (0.782 %) CMS 16 30 (0.757 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 24 (0.606 %) JBoss 18 22 (0.555 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 644 (16.25 %) MS Excel 2 474 (11.96 %) MS Office 3 28 (0.707 %) MS Visio 4 22 (0.555 %) MS Project 4 22 (0.555 %) InfoPath 5 18 (0.454 %) MS PowerPoint 5 18 (0.454 %) RoboHelp 6 16 (0.404 %) Paint Shop Pro 7 11 (0.278 %) Quicktime 8 8 (0.202 %) SPSS 8 8 (0.202 %) QuarkXPress 8 8 (0.202 %) Photoshop 9 3 (0.076 %) ImageReady 9 3 (0.076 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 3 (0.076 %) InDesign 9 3 (0.076 %) CA Clarity 10 2 (0.050 %) AutoCAD 10 2 (0.050 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 24 (0.606 %) Microsoft CRM 2 19 (0.479 %) Dynamics CRM 3 17 (0.429 %) GoldMine 3 17 (0.429 %) Navision 4 15 (0.379 %) Summit 5 14 (0.353 %) SAP Retail 5 14 (0.353 %) Movex 6 7 (0.177 %) Oracle Applications 6 7 (0.177 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 6 (0.151 %) Applix TM1 7 6 (0.151 %) Oracle 11i 8 4 (0.101 %) SAP CRM 8 4 (0.101 %) SoftGrid 9 3 (0.076 %) WebTrends 10 2 (0.050 %) SAP HR 10 2 (0.050 %) Oracle Financials 10 2 (0.050 %) Great Plains 10 2 (0.050 %) MFGPRO 10 2 (0.050 %) Unica Affinium 11 1 (0.025 %) Line 500
Communications & Networking 1 498 (12.57 %) TCP/IP 2 349 (8.806 %) Firewall 3 278 (7.015 %) SAN 4 257 (6.485 %) DNS 5 248 (6.258 %) WAN 6 235 (5.930 %) LAN 7 226 (5.703 %) Internet 8 178 (4.492 %) VPN 9 173 (4.365 %) DHCP 10 103 (2.599 %) Network Security 11 81 (2.044 %) VoIP 12 65 (1.640 %) Wireless 13 58 (1.464 %) NetScreen 14 55 (1.388 %) WINS 15 53 (1.337 %) SMTP 16 51 (1.287 %) HTTP 17 30 (0.757 %) SMS 18 27 (0.681 %) LDAP 18 27 (0.681 %) SSL 19 25 (0.631 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 739 (18.65 %) SQL Server 2 162 (4.088 %) SQL Server 2000 3 161 (4.063 %) SQL Server 2005 4 122 (3.078 %) RDBMS 5 100 (2.523 %) MySQL 6 79 (1.993 %) DB2 7 63 (1.590 %) SQL Server 7 8 61 (1.539 %) Datawarehouse 9 60 (1.514 %) Oracle 10g 10 57 (1.438 %) Oracle 9i 11 47 (1.186 %) BusinessObjects 12 45 (1.136 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 45 (1.136 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 32 (0.807 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 27 (0.681 %) Informix 15 26 (0.656 %) InterSystems Cache 16 21 (0.530 %) Crystal Reports 17 19 (0.479 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 18 18 (0.454 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 19 17 (0.429 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 106 (2.675 %) Visual Studio 2 84 (2.120 %) MSI 3 53 (1.337 %) TestDirector 4 52 (1.312 %) InstallShield 5 33 (0.833 %) ClearCase 6 31 (0.782 %) WinRunner 7 27 (0.681 %) Flash 8 26 (0.656 %) LoadRunner 9 25 (0.631 %) ClearQuest 10 17 (0.429 %) PVCS 11 15 (0.379 %) StarTeam 12 14 (0.353 %) Oracle Forms 12 14 (0.353 %) RequisitePro 13 12 (0.303 %) Rational Rose 13 12 (0.303 %) Subversion 14 11 (0.278 %) Eclipse 15 9 (0.227 %) PowerBuilder 15 9 (0.227 %) Ant 16 8 (0.202 %) ProC 17 6 (0.151 %) JUnit	General 1 262 (6.611 %) Finance 2 219 (5.526 %) Pensions 3 181 (4.567 %) Telecoms 4 180 (4.542 %) Health 5 108 (2.725 %) Retail 6 107 (2.700 %) Government 7 59 (1.489 %) Marketing 8 57 (1.438 %) Education 9 51 (1.287 %) Banking 10 44 (1.110 %) Insurance 11 31 (0.782 %) Manufacturing 12 26 (0.656 %) Electronics 12 26 (0.656 %) Publishing 13 23 (0.580 %) Legal 13 23 (0.580 %) Auditing 14 19 (0.479 %) Back Office 14 19 (0.479 %) Pharmaceutical 15 17 (0.429 %) Games 16 15 (0.379 %) Military 17 11 (0.278 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 694 (17.51 %) Analyst 2 552 (13.93 %) Consultant 3 518 (13.07 %) Developer 4 425 (10.72 %) Support Engineer 5 389 (9.816 %) Support Analyst 6 313 (7.898 %) Technical Support 7 161 (4.063 %) Technical Engineer 8 155 (3.911 %) Administrator 9 154 (3.886 %) Technical Consultant 10 153 (3.861 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 149 (3.760 %) Architect 12 139 (3.507 %) Helpdesk Support 13 132 (3.331 %) Desktop Support 14 131 (3.306 %) Software Engineer 15 130 (3.280 %) Applications Support 15 130 (3.280 %) Technical Support Engineer 16 117 (2.952 %) 2nd Line Support 16 117 (2.952 %) Systems Engineer 17 102 (2.574 %) Software Developer 18 100 (2.523 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 168 (4.239 %) Clustering 2 113 (2.851 %) French Language 2 113 (2.851 %) German Language 3 101 (2.549 %) Blackberry 4 88 (2.221 %) Client/Server 5 50 (1.262 %) Computer Science 6 47 (1.186 %) Fat Client 6 47 (1.186 %) Thin Client 7 38 (0.959 %) Italian Language 8 31 (0.782 %) Spanish Language 9 29 (0.732 %) Handset 10 26 (0.656 %) Mainframe 10 26 (0.656 %) AS400 11 24 (0.606 %) N-Tier 11 24 (0.606 %) PMI 12 22 (0.555 %) Cryptography 13 20 (0.505 %) Replication 14 18 (0.454 %) Mathematics 15 16 (0.404 %) IVR 15 16 (0.404 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 872 (22.00 %) Unix 2 617 (15.57 %) Windows 2000 3 586 (14.79 %) Windows XP 4 575 (14.51 %) Linux 5 524 (13.22 %) Windows Server 2003 6 461 (11.63 %) Windows NT 7 271 (6.838 %) Solaris 8 180 (4.542 %) AIX 9 127 (3.205 %) HPUX 10 81 (2.044 %) Windows Mobile 11 50 (1.262 %) SUSE 12 25 (0.631 %) Windows Vista 13 22 (0.555 %) NetWare 14 18 (0.454 %) Mac OS X 15 17 (0.429 %) Debian 16 16 (0.404 %) Windows CE 17 14 (0.353 %) VMS 18 8 (0.202 %) VxWorks 19 7 (0.177 %) Tru64 19 7 (0.177 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 202 (5.097 %) ITIL 2 149 (3.760 %) OO 3 134 (3.381 %) Project Management 4 102 (2.574 %) Business Intelligence 5 101 (2.549 %) CRM 6 82 (2.069 %) Disaster Recovery 7 78 (1.968 %) Migration 8 67 (1.691 %) Configuration Management 9 59 (1.489 %) Web Development 10 57 (1.438 %) Change Management 11 54 (1.363 %) Content Management 12 47 (1.186 %) ERP 12 47 (1.186 %) PRINCE2 13 42 (1.060 %) Scrum 14 41 (1.035 %) Requirements Analysis 15 40 (1.009 %) TDD 16 37 (0.934 %) Test Scripting 16 37 (0.934 %) Document Management 17 36 (0.908 %) UML 17 36 (0.908 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 942 (23.77 %) SQL 2 451 (11.38 %) Java 3 409 (10.32 %) C++ 4 375 (9.463 %) C# 5 255 (6.435 %) VB 6 203 (5.122 %) C 7 161 (4.063 %) JavaScript 8 125 (3.154 %) Perl 9 109 (2.750 %) VB.NET 10 90 (2.271 %) VBScript 11 85 (2.145 %) PHP 12 79 (1.993 %) PL/SQL 13 75 (1.893 %) Transact-SQL 14 53 (1.337 %) Shell Script 15 52 (1.312 %) VB6 16 43 (1.085 %) Delphi 17 33 (0.833 %) Python 18 25 (0.631 %) Korn 19 23 (0.580 %) AWK 20 22 (0.555 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 607 (15.32 %) Microsoft Certification 2 507 (12.79 %) MCSE 3 269 (6.788 %) Degree 4 171 (4.315 %) Cisco Certification 5 153 (3.861 %) MCP 6 140 (3.533 %) CCNA 7 102 (2.574 %) Citrix Certification 8 73 (1.842 %) CCEA 9 62 (1.564 %) MCSA 10 49 (1.236 %) CCA 11 44 (1.110 %) ISEB 12 36 (0.908 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 32 (0.807 %) CCSE 14 27 (0.681 %) HND 14 27 (0.681 %) CCNP 15 26 (0.656 %) ITIL Certification 16 15 (0.379 %) MCSD 17 14 (0.353 %) HNC 17 14 (0.353 %) A+ Certification 18 13 (0.328 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 106 (2.675 %) SLA 2 88 (2.221 %) QA 3 22 (0.555 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 17 (0.429 %) ISO27001 5 13 (0.328 %) ISO9000 6 9 (0.227 %) ISO9001 6 9 (0.227 %) HL7 7 5 (0.126 %) COBIT 8 3 (0.076 %) Basel II 9 2 (0.050 %) JSP 440 9 2 (0.050 %) BS25999 9 2 (0.050 %) ISO/IEC 20000 9 2 (0.050 %) PCI DSS 9 2 (0.050 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 967 (24.40 %) Active Directory 2 94 (2.372 %) ISA Server 3 79 (1.993 %) VMware ESX 4 65 (1.640 %) NetBackup 5 35 (0.883 %) Terminal Services 6 34 (0.858 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 32 (0.807 %) MetaFrame 8 29 (0.732 %) Backup Exec 9 17 (0.429 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 17 (0.429 %) Terminal Server 10 11 (0.278 %) Novell eDirectory 11 8 (0.202 %) VMware Server 11 8 (0.202 %) Oracle RAC 12 7 (0.177 %) Oracle RMAN 12 7 (0.177 %) NFS 13 5 (0.126 %) VMware Workstation 14 4 (0.101 %) BlackBerry Internet Service 15 3 (0.076 %) VMware GSX 15 3 (0.076 %) NDS 16 2 (0.050 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 158 (3.987 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 129 (3.255 %) MOM 3 96 (2.422 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 74 (1.867 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 68 (1.716 %) Tivoli 6 45 (1.136 %) EMC NetWorker 7 35 (0.883 %) Netcool 8 30 (0.757 %) Unicenter 9 27 (0.681 %) Legato 10 26 (0.656 %) OpenView 11 22 (0.555 %) MAILsweeper 12 14 (0.353 %) Norton AntiVirus 13 11 (0.278 %) Netcool/Webtop 13 11 (0.278 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 14 10 (0.252 %) WSUS 14 10 (0.252 %) SCCM 15 9 (0.227 %) Netcool/Proviso 16 8 (0.202 %) MIMEsweeper 16 8 (0.202 %) ZENworks 17 5 (0.126 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 1227 (30.96 %) Microsoft 2 606 (15.29 %) Oracle 3 424 (10.70 %) Citrix 4 345 (8.706 %) VMware 5 300 (7.570 %) Cisco 6 192 (4.845 %) HP 7 127 (3.205 %) Red Hat 8 125 (3.154 %) VERITAS 8 125 (3.154 %) IBM 9 106 (2.675 %) Sun 10 104 (2.624 %) Sybase 10 104 (2.624 %) Lotus 11 98 (2.473 %) Altiris 12 95 (2.397 %) Novell 13 89 (2.246 %) Symantec 14 88 (2.221 %) EMC 15 82 (2.069 %) CheckPoint 16 75 (1.893 %) SAP 17 52 (1.312 %) Nokia 18 47 (1.186 %) Sophos