Windows Server Jobs in Reading

Microsoft Windows Server
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 45 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +17
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 13 77 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 2.56% 4.51% 3.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.61% 24.92% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 73 32
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,650 -
25th Percentile - £34,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £54,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +107.69% -35.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £57,500 - £68,975
Berkshire median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £30,200
% change year-on-year -23.00% +65.56% -24.03%

All Operating Systems
Reading

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 89 309 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 17.52% 18.09% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 64 234 170
10th Percentile £34,000 £26,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +2.70% -16.67%
75th Percentile £47,813 £59,000 £74,125
90th Percentile £60,283 £75,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -10.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Reading over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Reading

Windows Server
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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (23.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) DHCP
3 8 (61.54%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (23.08%) SAN
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (23.08%) VPN
6 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Support Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support
1 5 (38.46%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CRM
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 3 (23.08%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (23.08%) Presales
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Server Management
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) CCNA
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) MCSA
4 1 (7.69%) MCSE
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (92.31%) Hyper-V
3 9 (69.23%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.69%) Docker
5 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
3 1 (7.69%) vRealize
3 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Sophos
3 5 (38.46%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco
5 3 (23.08%) Veeam
6 1 (7.69%) Dell
6 1 (7.69%) Juniper