Windows Jobs in Reading

Microsoft Windows
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 19 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 194 182 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.35% 11.26% 6.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.18% 57.59% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 171 93 91
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £32,250 £25,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -1.84%
75th Percentile £56,275 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £84,000 £75,000
Berkshire median annual salary £44,400 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +26.86% -12.50% -5.88%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 312 316 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 18.26% 19.54% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 237 174 225
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,300 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £72,500 £73,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Reading

Windows
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Windows in Reading

Windows
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Reading

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 20 (10.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.73%) IIS
3 5 (2.58%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 43 (22.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.09%) AutoCAD
3 6 (3.09%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.96%) Azure
2 29 (14.95%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (11.34%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (10.31%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.22%) Azure Storage
6 12 (6.19%) OCI
7 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.06%) TestFlight
9 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.55%) SaaS
10 2 (1.03%) IaaS
11 1 (0.52%) AWS
11 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.52%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.52%) GitHub
11 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (31.44%) Firewall
2 50 (25.77%) DNS
3 47 (24.23%) DHCP
4 20 (10.31%) SNMP
5 18 (9.28%) LAN
6 16 (8.25%) SAN
7 11 (5.67%) VPN
8 8 (4.12%) Internet
8 8 (4.12%) WAN
9 7 (3.61%) IPsec
10 6 (3.09%) Network Security
11 5 (2.58%) Wireshark
12 4 (2.06%) NAS
12 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
12 4 (2.06%) VoIP
12 4 (2.06%) Wireless
13 3 (1.55%) VLAN
14 2 (1.03%) BGP
14 2 (1.03%) Multicast
14 2 (1.03%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (2.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.03%) GIS
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Power BI
4 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.52%) Redis
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.06%) AdminStudio
1 4 (2.06%) InstallShield
1 4 (2.06%) MSI
1 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.49%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (7.73%) Back Office
4 12 (6.19%) Finance
5 7 (3.61%) Retail
6 6 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Banking
7 4 (2.06%) Marketing
7 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (20.62%) Systems Engineer
2 30 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (15.46%) Windows Engineer
3 29 (14.95%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 25 (12.89%) Support Specialist
5 23 (11.86%) Senior
6 20 (10.31%) Active Directory Specialist
6 20 (10.31%) Azure Specialist
6 20 (10.31%) Support Engineer
7 15 (7.73%) Desktop Support
8 14 (7.22%) Active Directory Support
9 13 (6.70%) Analyst
9 13 (6.70%) Desktop Engineer
9 13 (6.70%) IT Support
10 12 (6.19%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (5.67%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
11 11 (5.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 11 (5.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
11 11 (5.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.22%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (2.58%) YAML
3 4 (2.06%) .NET
3 4 (2.06%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.06%) ASP.NET
3 4 (2.06%) CSS
3 4 (2.06%) HTML
3 4 (2.06%) jQuery
3 4 (2.06%) React
3 4 (2.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 4 (2.06%) Web Services
4 3 (1.55%) XML
5 2 (1.03%) Qt
5 2 (1.03%) STL
6 1 (0.52%) Celery
6 1 (0.52%) Django
6 1 (0.52%) Flask
6 1 (0.52%) NumPy
6 1 (0.52%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.92%) CMDB
1 27 (13.92%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (11.34%) Data Centre
2 22 (11.34%) PKI
3 12 (6.19%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.06%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.06%) EPoS
4 4 (2.06%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (2.06%) Shadow IT
5 3 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.03%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.03%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.03%) IPTV
6 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (42.78%) Windows Server
2 78 (40.21%) Windows 10
3 67 (34.54%) Linux
4 57 (29.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 57 (29.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (24.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 46 (23.71%) Windows 7
7 14 (7.22%) Windows NT
8 12 (6.19%) Windows XP
9 6 (3.09%) Android
10 5 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (2.58%) Mac OS
10 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (2.06%) Apple iOS
11 4 (2.06%) Unix
12 3 (1.55%) VMS
13 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (40.21%) ITIL
2 66 (34.02%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (26.29%) Customer Service
4 41 (21.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (19.59%) Agile
6 33 (17.01%) Service Management
7 31 (15.98%) Release Management
8 27 (13.92%) Configuration Management
9 23 (11.86%) Analytics
10 21 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (10.82%) Project Management
11 20 (10.31%) Log Analytics
12 19 (9.79%) Change Management
12 19 (9.79%) DevOps
12 19 (9.79%) Waterfall
13 18 (9.28%) Asset Management
13 18 (9.28%) Decision-Making
13 18 (9.28%) Problem Management
14 17 (8.76%) Storage Management
15 16 (8.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.51%) PowerShell
2 29 (14.95%) VBScript
3 28 (14.43%) C#
4 24 (12.37%) VB
5 23 (11.86%) SQL
6 14 (7.22%) Bicep
7 13 (6.70%) Python
8 6 (3.09%) R
9 5 (2.58%) Bash
9 5 (2.58%) Java
10 4 (2.06%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.06%) Objective-C
10 4 (2.06%) Swift
10 4 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.03%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (69.07%) Security Cleared
2 107 (55.15%) DV Cleared
3 79 (40.72%) SC Cleared
4 62 (31.96%) Degree
5 16 (8.25%) CCNA
5 16 (8.25%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (8.25%) HNC
6 14 (7.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (6.19%) CCNP
8 7 (3.61%) A+ Certification
8 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (2.06%) MCSE
11 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.52%) MCDST
11 1 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) SLA
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.52%) NIST
2 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (54.64%) Active Directory
2 48 (24.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (12.89%) Firmware
4 17 (8.76%) KVM
5 15 (7.73%) Hyper-V
6 14 (7.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (7.22%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (5.67%) Docker
8 4 (2.06%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.03%) QEMU
9 2 (1.03%) Xen
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 72 (37.11%) SCCM
2 50 (25.77%) WSUS
3 46 (23.71%) SCOM
4 24 (12.37%) Kubernetes
5 20 (10.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (8.76%) vCenter Server
7 15 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (7.22%) Sysprep
9 12 (6.19%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (6.19%) NetBackup
10 6 (3.09%) Ansible
10 6 (3.09%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.55%) Grafana
11 3 (1.55%) Nessus
12 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (1.03%) Terraform
13 1 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 133 (68.56%) Microsoft
2 49 (25.26%) VMware
3 28 (14.43%) HP
4 17 (8.76%) Palo Alto
5 16 (8.25%) Cisco
6 15 (7.73%) Dynatrace
7 14 (7.22%) Dell
7 14 (7.22%) Juniper
7 14 (7.22%) Oracle
8 12 (6.19%) 3PAR
8 12 (6.19%) EMC
8 12 (6.19%) Extreme Networks
8 12 (6.19%) Symantec
8 12 (6.19%) Veeam
9 11 (5.67%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.61%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.58%) NetApp
11 5 (2.58%) SolidFire
12 4 (2.06%) Autodesk
13 3 (1.55%) ArcSight