Windows Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 650 705 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.13% 12.36% 10.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.53% 65.83% 45.72%
Number of salaries quoted 580 443 602
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,613 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,324 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -19.24% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 977 1,071 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.72% 18.77% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 822 668 991
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,989
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,438 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire +1 287 £48,925 +38.59% 44
Oxfordshire +8 203 £42,000 +20.00% 30
Buckinghamshire -15 160 £38,000 +11.76% 30
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
1 113 (17.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (10.15%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.62%) IIS
4 8 (1.23%) Apache
5 7 (1.08%) WordPress
6 5 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 93 (14.31%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 293 (45.08%) Microsoft 365
2 220 (33.85%) Azure
3 68 (10.46%) Entra ID
4 43 (6.62%) OneDrive
5 25 (3.85%) AWS
6 24 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (2.92%) Azure Storage
8 18 (2.77%) Google Workspace
9 14 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.00%) OCI
10 13 (2.00%) WhatsApp
11 12 (1.85%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.69%) SaaS
13 6 (0.92%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.62%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.46%) GitHub
15 3 (0.46%) OpenShift
16 2 (0.31%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 181 (27.85%) Firewall
2 136 (20.92%) DNS
3 87 (13.38%) DHCP
4 44 (6.77%) Wireless
5 42 (6.46%) TCP/IP
5 42 (6.46%) Wi-Fi
6 39 (6.00%) WAN
7 38 (5.85%) LAN
8 37 (5.69%) SAN
9 30 (4.62%) VPN
10 29 (4.46%) VLAN
11 26 (4.00%) VoIP
12 20 (3.08%) NAS
13 17 (2.62%) SNMP
14 16 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (1.85%) Internet
16 11 (1.69%) Network Security
17 8 (1.23%) SD-WAN
18 7 (1.08%) 4G
18 7 (1.08%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.08%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.54%) MySQL
4 8 (1.23%) Power BI
5 7 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.77%) InfluxDB
6 5 (0.77%) MariaDB
6 5 (0.77%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.62%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.46%) DB2
8 3 (0.46%) GIS
9 2 (0.31%) Redis
10 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.15%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Git
1 8 (1.23%) MSI
2 7 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.92%) AdminStudio
3 6 (0.92%) InstallShield
4 5 (0.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Sourcetree
General
1 220 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
3 37 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.46%) Finance
5 27 (4.15%) Manufacturing
6 26 (4.00%) Legal
7 22 (3.38%) Law
8 21 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.46%) Retail
10 12 (1.85%) Back Office
11 10 (1.54%) Electronics
12 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.08%) Games
13 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.92%) Marketing
13 6 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.77%) Banking
15 4 (0.62%) Military
15 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (19.54%) IT Support
2 105 (16.15%) Support Engineer
3 91 (14.00%) IT Engineer
4 85 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 83 (12.77%) Analyst
6 79 (12.15%) IT Support Engineer
7 51 (7.85%) Senior
8 49 (7.54%) Systems Engineer
9 48 (7.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 48 (7.38%) IT Technician
10 44 (6.77%) 3rd Line Support
10 44 (6.77%) Software Engineer
11 40 (6.15%) IT Analyst
12 39 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 36 (5.54%) 2nd Line Support
14 35 (5.38%) Windows Engineer
15 33 (5.08%) Lead
15 33 (5.08%) Support Technician
16 32 (4.92%) Support Analyst
17 30 (4.62%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.69%) WPF
2 22 (3.38%) .NET
3 18 (2.77%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.38%) AngularJS
4 9 (1.38%) React
5 6 (0.92%) ASP.NET
5 6 (0.92%) EDI
5 6 (0.92%) Vue
6 5 (0.77%) CSS
6 5 (0.77%) HTML
6 5 (0.77%) jQuery
6 5 (0.77%) Qt
6 5 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (0.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 5 (0.77%) YAML
7 4 (0.62%) LAMP
7 4 (0.62%) XML
8 3 (0.46%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.46%) STL
8 3 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.62%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (4.77%) PKI
4 29 (4.46%) Driving Licence
5 27 (4.15%) Replication
6 25 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.69%) CMDB
8 17 (2.62%) Smartphone
9 15 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.00%) Client/Server
10 13 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Shadow IT
13 5 (0.77%) Educational Technology
13 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.62%) Device Driver
14 4 (0.62%) EPoS
14 4 (0.62%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 251 (38.62%) Windows Server
2 194 (29.85%) Windows 10
3 175 (26.92%) Linux
4 89 (13.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 86 (13.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (10.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 44 (6.77%) Windows 7
8 42 (6.46%) Android
9 39 (6.00%) Apple iOS
10 24 (3.69%) Mac OS
11 17 (2.62%) Windows XP
12 16 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (1.85%) Windows NT
14 11 (1.69%) Mac OS X
15 9 (1.38%) CentOS
15 9 (1.38%) Ubuntu
16 8 (1.23%) Unix
17 7 (1.08%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.92%) VMS
19 5 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (19.08%) ITIL
3 114 (17.54%) Customer Service
4 103 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
5 100 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (10.15%) Service Management
7 47 (7.23%) Software Engineering
8 46 (7.08%) Agile
9 41 (6.31%) Computer Science
10 39 (6.00%) Service Delivery
11 38 (5.85%) ITSM
11 38 (5.85%) Release Management
12 35 (5.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 32 (4.92%) Multithreading
14 29 (4.46%) Analytics
15 28 (4.31%) Change Control
16 27 (4.15%) DevOps
16 27 (4.15%) Mentoring
16 27 (4.15%) Project Management
16 27 (4.15%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 72 (11.08%) SQL
3 65 (10.00%) C#
4 39 (6.00%) C++
5 35 (5.38%) C
6 30 (4.62%) VB
7 26 (4.00%) VBScript
8 24 (3.69%) Python
9 22 (3.38%) XAML
10 17 (2.62%) Bicep
11 11 (1.69%) Bash
12 9 (1.38%) Java
13 7 (1.08%) JavaScript
14 6 (0.92%) R
15 5 (0.77%) Perl
15 5 (0.77%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.46%) Embedded C
18 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
18 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 171 (26.31%) Degree
2 149 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 101 (15.54%) DV Cleared
4 94 (14.46%) SC Cleared
5 38 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (4.92%) CCNA
6 32 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (4.00%) MCP
8 19 (2.92%) HNC
8 19 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 15 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (2.15%) CCNP
11 13 (2.00%) A+ Certification
11 13 (2.00%) CISSP
12 12 (1.85%) MCSE
13 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.62%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.08%) SLA
2 20 (3.08%) GDPR
3 11 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.08%) QA
6 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 325 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 134 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (11.54%) Hyper-V
4 22 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (3.23%) Firmware
6 20 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (2.15%) Docker
8 14 (2.15%) KVM
8 14 (2.15%) vSphere
9 7 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.31%) QEMU
12 2 (0.31%) Xen
13 1 (0.15%) Lustre
13 1 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 108 (16.62%) SCCM
2 101 (15.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (8.31%) WSUS
4 44 (6.77%) SCOM
5 30 (4.62%) Kubernetes
6 24 (3.69%) vCenter Server
7 23 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.62%) Ansible
9 16 (2.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (2.31%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.85%) Sysprep
11 12 (1.85%) Terraform
12 5 (0.77%) Nagios
12 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.77%) Puppet
12 5 (0.77%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 4 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.62%) PaperCut
14 2 (0.31%) Nessus
14 2 (0.31%) Netcool
Vendors
1 369 (56.77%) Microsoft
2 183 (28.15%) VMware
3 67 (10.31%) Citrix
4 58 (8.92%) Cisco
5 57 (8.77%) Veeam
6 29 (4.46%) HP
7 25 (3.85%) Apple
7 25 (3.85%) Dell
8 24 (3.69%) Google
8 24 (3.69%) Oracle
8 24 (3.69%) Palo Alto
9 19 (2.92%) EMC
9 19 (2.92%) Red Hat
10 18 (2.77%) Juniper
11 16 (2.46%) Adobe
12 14 (2.15%) ServiceNow
13 13 (2.00%) 3PAR
14 12 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.85%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (1.85%) Symantec