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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 75
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +29
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 17 75 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 3.47% 4.19% 3.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.48% 23.96% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 17 71 34
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £54,000 £27,250
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +98.17% -31.88%
75th Percentile £51,250 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £57,500 - £71,750
Berkshire median annual salary £39,500 £50,000 £31,750
% change year-on-year -21.00% +57.48% -9.29%

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 92 313 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 18.78% 17.50% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 67 234 168
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £23,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,425 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% -6.50% -12.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,000 £74,719
90th Percentile £62,170 £75,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 27 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 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) DNS
2 10 (58.82%) DHCP
3 8 (47.06%) Firewall
4 5 (29.41%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (29.41%) SAN
5 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.76%) VPN
6 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Support
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) CRM
3 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
3 5 (29.41%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (29.41%) Presales
3 5 (29.41%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Operations
7 1 (5.88%) High Availability
7 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
7 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (5.88%) Server Management
7 1 (5.88%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 5 (29.41%) CCNA
2 5 (29.41%) CCNP
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) MCSA
4 1 (5.88%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (88.24%) Hyper-V
3 13 (76.47%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (5.88%) Docker
6 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize
3 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (82.35%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) Sophos
3 5 (29.41%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (29.41%) Veeam
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Juniper