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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 324 353 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.43% 11.08% 8.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.16% 62.81% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 296 198 240
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,400 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £36,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% -14.12% -

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 513 562 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.52% 17.64% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 427 340 503
10th Percentile £27,200 £24,000 £28,380
25th Percentile £34,500 £28,800 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,581 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -15.31% -3.51%
75th Percentile £60,025 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £85,000 £76,250
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +8 195 £41,250 -8.33% 30
Bracknell -3 39 £60,000 +93.55% 7
Newbury +14 30 £50,000 +4.17% 3
Slough +15 13 £52,500 +85.02% 2
Wokingham -2 8 £40,000 -3.03%
Maidenhead +6 4 £51,250 -6.82% 1
Windsor - 4 £50,000 -
Thatcham - 3 £24,000 -
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 33 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.86%) IIS
3 7 (2.16%) Apache
4 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.23%) WordPress
6 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 2 (0.62%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.85%) AutoCAD
3 6 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 110 (33.95%) Azure
2 83 (25.62%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (7.10%) Entra ID
4 22 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (4.32%) Azure Storage
6 12 (3.70%) OCI
7 5 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.54%) AWS
8 4 (1.23%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.23%) SaaS
8 4 (1.23%) TestFlight
9 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.62%) GitHub
10 2 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.62%) IaaS
10 2 (0.62%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.31%) PaaS
11 1 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (26.85%) Firewall
2 72 (22.22%) DNS
3 52 (16.05%) DHCP
4 31 (9.57%) LAN
5 23 (7.10%) SAN
6 20 (6.17%) SNMP
7 19 (5.86%) WAN
8 16 (4.94%) VPN
9 12 (3.70%) Wireless
10 9 (2.78%) NAS
11 8 (2.47%) Internet
11 8 (2.47%) Network Security
11 8 (2.47%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.16%) IPsec
13 6 (1.85%) VoIP
14 5 (1.54%) Wireshark
15 4 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (1.23%) iSCSI
15 4 (1.23%) VLAN
16 3 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.93%) GIS
4 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.62%) Redis
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.31%) Power BI
5 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.31%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (1.54%) MSI
2 4 (1.23%) AdminStudio
2 4 (1.23%) InstallShield
2 4 (1.23%) Selenium
2 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) JIRA
4 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.62%) Git
4 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.62%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 112 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.19%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (4.94%) Finance
4 15 (4.63%) Back Office
5 11 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.78%) Retail
7 7 (2.16%) Banking
8 5 (1.54%) Marketing
8 5 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.23%) Electronics
9 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 47 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (13.58%) Systems Engineer
3 38 (11.73%) Analyst
4 33 (10.19%) Support Engineer
5 31 (9.57%) Senior
5 31 (9.57%) Windows Engineer
6 30 (9.26%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 26 (8.02%) Software Engineer
8 25 (7.72%) Support Specialist
9 24 (7.41%) IT Analyst
10 20 (6.17%) Active Directory Specialist
10 20 (6.17%) Azure Specialist
10 20 (6.17%) IT Support
11 18 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 18 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
12 16 (4.94%) C++ Software Engineer
12 16 (4.94%) Desktop Engineer
12 16 (4.94%) Desktop Support
12 16 (4.94%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.32%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.85%) .NET
2 6 (1.85%) ASP.NET
3 5 (1.54%) Qt
3 5 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.54%) Web Services
3 5 (1.54%) YAML
4 4 (1.23%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.23%) CSS
4 4 (1.23%) HTML
4 4 (1.23%) jQuery
4 4 (1.23%) LAMP
4 4 (1.23%) React
4 4 (1.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (1.23%) XML
5 2 (0.62%) Dask
5 2 (0.62%) Django
5 2 (0.62%) NumPy
5 2 (0.62%) STL
5 2 (0.62%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.64%) CMDB
1 28 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (7.72%) PKI
3 22 (6.79%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.63%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.54%) Replication
6 4 (1.23%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.23%) EPoS
6 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.23%) Shadow IT
7 3 (0.93%) Arduino
7 3 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (0.93%) Home Automation
7 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.93%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.62%) Digital Signage
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (46.91%) Windows Server
2 114 (35.19%) Windows 10
3 99 (30.56%) Linux
4 68 (20.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 66 (20.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 53 (16.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 47 (14.51%) Windows 7
8 14 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.32%) Windows NT
9 13 (4.01%) Windows XP
10 7 (2.16%) Android
10 7 (2.16%) Mac OS
10 7 (2.16%) VMS
11 6 (1.85%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
12 5 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (1.23%) Unix
13 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.93%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.78%) ITIL
2 83 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (18.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (17.90%) Customer Service
5 41 (12.65%) Agile
5 41 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (10.80%) Service Management
7 32 (9.88%) Release Management
7 32 (9.88%) Software Engineering
8 29 (8.95%) Change Management
8 29 (8.95%) Problem Management
9 28 (8.64%) Configuration Management
10 26 (8.02%) Analytics
11 22 (6.79%) Computer Science
11 22 (6.79%) Decision-Making
12 21 (6.48%) Asset Management
12 21 (6.48%) Project Management
13 20 (6.17%) DevOps
13 20 (6.17%) Log Analytics
14 19 (5.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 78 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 33 (10.19%) C#
3 30 (9.26%) VBScript
4 26 (8.02%) SQL
5 25 (7.72%) VB
6 20 (6.17%) C++
6 20 (6.17%) Python
7 19 (5.86%) C
8 14 (4.32%) Bicep
9 8 (2.47%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.16%) Java
11 6 (1.85%) Bash
11 6 (1.85%) R
12 4 (1.23%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.23%) Swift
12 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.93%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 160 (49.38%) Security Cleared
2 111 (34.26%) DV Cleared
3 100 (30.86%) SC Cleared
4 95 (29.32%) Degree
5 18 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.94%) CCNA
6 16 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (4.94%) HNC
7 14 (4.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (3.70%) CCNP
9 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.47%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.54%) MCP
11 5 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.23%) MCSE
13 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.31%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.78%) SLA
2 4 (1.23%) GDPR
2 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 177 (54.63%) Active Directory
2 71 (21.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (8.02%) Firmware
4 24 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (5.25%) KVM
6 16 (4.94%) Hyper-V
7 14 (4.32%) Docker
7 14 (4.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.16%) vSphere
9 4 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.62%) QEMU
10 2 (0.62%) Xen
11 1 (0.31%) NFS
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 79 (24.38%) SCCM
2 50 (15.43%) WSUS
3 48 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (14.51%) SCOM
5 30 (9.26%) vCenter Server
6 27 (8.33%) Kubernetes
7 20 (6.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (4.32%) NetBackup
8 14 (4.32%) Sysprep
9 12 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (1.85%) Ansible
10 6 (1.85%) Nessus
10 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.93%) Grafana
11 3 (0.93%) Terraform
12 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.31%) SCSM
Vendors
1 181 (55.86%) Microsoft
2 104 (32.10%) VMware
3 30 (9.26%) HP
4 23 (7.10%) Cisco
5 21 (6.48%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.17%) Dell
7 16 (4.94%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.94%) Veeam
8 15 (4.63%) Dynatrace
9 14 (4.32%) Juniper
9 14 (4.32%) Oracle
10 13 (4.01%) 3PAR
11 12 (3.70%) EMC
11 12 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (3.70%) Symantec
12 11 (3.40%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.54%) NetApp
13 5 (1.54%) SolidFire
14 4 (1.23%) Aruba
14 4 (1.23%) Synology