Berkshire Windows Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hoddesdon Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	2	3
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	1102	2005
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.949 %	1.024 %
As % of the category below	66.43 %	65.91 %
Salaries quoted	861	1724
Average minimum salary	£35,269	£32,909
Average salary	£37,984	£35,419
% change on same period last year	+7.24 %
Average maximum salary	£40,699	£37,930
UK excluding London average salary	£33,120	£33,036
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Operating Systems Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1659	3042
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.428 %	1.553 %
Salaries quoted	1351	2539
Average minimum salary	£34,830	£34,422
Average salary	£37,571	£37,409
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Average maximum salary	£40,312	£40,396
UK excluding London average salary	£34,276	£34,119
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Windows South East

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Berkshire region.

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

Windows
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	0	358	£35,427	+0.52 %
Slough	0	207	£35,307	+3.50 %
Maidenhead	+6	74	£30,766	-17.71 %
Newbury	-5	61	£51,867	+44.82 %
Bracknell	+1	48	£31,875	-3.39 %
Windsor	-2	32	£34,679	+27.32 %
Wokingham	-23	22	£23,591	-22.61 %
Ascot	-7	3	£25,167	-10.11 %

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows.

1 875 (32.47 %) Windows Server 2003 2 840 (31.17 %) Microsoft 3 805 (29.87 %) UNIX 4 636 (23.60 %) Linux 5 607 (22.52 %) SQL Server 6 595 (22.08 %) Active Directory 7 540 (20.04 %) SQL 8 493 (18.29 %) MS Excel 9 475 (17.63 %) Windows XP 10 425 (15.77 %) TCP/IP 11 392 (14.55 %) .NET 12 357 (13.25 %) Microsoft Certification 13 347 (12.88 %) MS Exchange 14 340 (12.62 %) Oracle 15 327 (12.13 %) Windows 2000

16 323 (11.99 %) DNS 17 289 (10.72 %) IIS 18 283 (10.50 %) MCSE 19 279 (10.35 %) MS Office 20 274 (10.17 %) VMware 20 274 (10.17 %) Degree 21 264 (9.796 %) Firewall 22 240 (8.905 %) Cisco 23 236 (8.757 %) C++ 24 235 (8.720 %) C# 24 235 (8.720 %) Citrix 25 224 (8.312 %) Java 26 216 (8.015 %) Windows Vista 27 213 (7.904 %) WAN 28 211 (7.829 %) HP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 392 (14.55 %) .NET 2 195 (7.236 %) XML 3 186 (6.902 %) ASP.NET 4 149 (5.529 %) HTML 5 84 (3.117 %) J2EE 6 83 (3.080 %) WebSphere 7 75 (2.783 %) WebServices 8 71 (2.635 %) ASP 9 60 (2.226 %) .NET Framework 10 50 (1.855 %) WinForms 11 42 (1.558 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 40 (1.484 %) Flash 13 34 (1.262 %) XSLT 14 31 (1.150 %) AJAX 15 29 (1.076 %) ADO.NET 16 26 (0.965 %) MFC 17 24 (0.891 %) Software Packaging 17 24 (0.891 %) XHTML 18 23 (0.853 %) JSP 18 23 (0.853 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 347 (12.88 %) MS Exchange 2 289 (10.72 %) IIS 3 189 (7.013 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 124 (4.601 %) SharePoint 5 104 (3.859 %) Apache 6 71 (2.635 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 67 (2.486 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 66 (2.449 %) Tomcat 9 61 (2.263 %) WebLogic 10 59 (2.189 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 49 (1.818 %) Lotus Notes 12 40 (1.484 %) CICS 12 40 (1.484 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 24 (0.891 %) Exchange Server 5.5 14 21 (0.779 %) CMS 15 20 (0.742 %) GroupWise 15 20 (0.742 %) SAS 16 19 (0.705 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 17 17 (0.631 %) Lotus Domino 18 13 (0.482 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 493 (18.29 %) MS Excel 2 279 (10.35 %) MS Office 3 65 (2.412 %) MS Visio 4 21 (0.779 %) InfoPath 5 17 (0.631 %) MS Project 6 14 (0.519 %) Photoshop 7 11 (0.408 %) MS PowerPoint 8 6 (0.223 %) FrameMaker 9 5 (0.186 %) Acrobat 10 3 (0.111 %) CATIA 10 3 (0.111 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 3 (0.111 %) Spreadsheet 11 2 (0.074 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 2 (0.074 %) QuarkXPress 11 2 (0.074 %) RoboHelp 12 1 (0.037 %) AutoCAD 12 1 (0.037 %) Shockwave 12 1 (0.037 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 20 (0.742 %) Teamcenter 2 12 (0.445 %) Microsoft CRM 3 9 (0.334 %) Oracle EBS 3 9 (0.334 %) Oracle Applications 3 9 (0.334 %) SoftGrid 4 8 (0.297 %) SalesLogix 4 8 (0.297 %) GoldMine 5 5 (0.186 %) Oracle 11i 5 5 (0.186 %) Oracle EBS R12 6 4 (0.148 %) Summit 7 3 (0.111 %) Dynamics AX 7 3 (0.111 %) Unica Affinium 8 2 (0.074 %) Oracle Manufacturing 8 2 (0.074 %) Oracle Financials 9 1 (0.037 %) Navision 9 1 (0.037 %) Staffware 9 1 (0.037 %) Oracle ERP 9 1 (0.037 %) SAP Business One 9 1 (0.037 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 425 (15.77 %) TCP/IP 2 323 (11.99 %) DNS 3 264 (9.796 %) Firewall 4 213 (7.904 %) WAN 5 205 (7.607 %) VPN 6 204 (7.570 %) DHCP 6 204 (7.570 %) LAN 6 204 (7.570 %) Internet 7 192 (7.124 %) Wireless 8 119 (4.416 %) SAN 9 72 (2.672 %) HTTP 10 64 (2.375 %) SMTP 11 62 (2.301 %) Intranet 12 56 (2.078 %) Network Security 13 49 (1.818 %) LDAP 14 42 (1.558 %) FTP 15 34 (1.262 %) Intrusion Detection 16 29 (1.076 %) SSL 17 28 (1.039 %) 3G 18 23 (0.853 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 607 (22.52 %) SQL Server 2 140 (5.195 %) RDBMS 3 127 (4.712 %) SQL Server 2000 4 123 (4.564 %) SQL Server 2005 5 71 (2.635 %) MySQL 6 24 (0.891 %) DB2 7 21 (0.779 %) SQL Server 2008 8 20 (0.742 %) Oracle 10g 9 18 (0.668 %) Adabas 10 17 (0.631 %) BusinessObjects 11 15 (0.557 %) MS Access 11 15 (0.557 %) Datawarehouse 11 15 (0.557 %) Crystal Reports 11 15 (0.557 %) Informix 11 15 (0.557 %) Oracle Reports 11 15 (0.557 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 13 (0.482 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 11 (0.408 %) SQL Server 7 14 10 (0.371 %) ETL 14 10 (0.371 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 64 (2.375 %) Visual Studio 2 28 (1.039 %) ClearCase 3 27 (1.002 %) ClearQuest 3 27 (1.002 %) MSI 4 22 (0.816 %) TestDirector 4 22 (0.816 %) Rational Rose 5 20 (0.742 %) RequisitePro 5 20 (0.742 %) NUnit 6 19 (0.705 %) StarTeam 6 19 (0.705 %) InstallShield 7 18 (0.668 %) Eclipse 8 16 (0.594 %) WinRunner 8 16 (0.594 %) Subversion 9 14 (0.519 %) LoadRunner 10 13 (0.482 %) AdminStudio 11 12 (0.445 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 12 (0.445 %) Dreamweaver 12 11 (0.408 %) QuickTest Pro 13 8 (0.297 %) Oracle Forms 14 5 (0.186 %) Ant	General 1 150 (5.566 %) Finance 2 104 (3.859 %) Telecoms 3 96 (3.562 %) Pensions 4 85 (3.154 %) Education 5 73 (2.709 %) Health 6 65 (2.412 %) Retail 7 62 (2.301 %) Government 8 31 (1.150 %) Banking 9 29 (1.076 %) Manufacturing 10 22 (0.816 %) Marketing 11 21 (0.779 %) Investment Banking 11 21 (0.779 %) Insurance 12 19 (0.705 %) Pharmaceutical 13 14 (0.519 %) Law 13 14 (0.519 %) Legal 14 12 (0.445 %) Publishing 15 11 (0.408 %) Multimedia 16 10 (0.371 %) Auditing 17 8 (0.297 %) FMCG 17 8 (0.297 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 428 (15.88 %) Analyst 2 336 (12.47 %) Support Engineer 3 326 (12.10 %) Developer 4 256 (9.499 %) Consultant 5 215 (7.978 %) Support Analyst 6 214 (7.941 %) Technical Support 7 200 (7.421 %) Administrator 8 122 (4.527 %) Architect 9 118 (4.378 %) 2nd Line Support 10 114 (4.230 %) Technical Engineer 11 102 (3.785 %) Software Developer 12 101 (3.748 %) Technical Support Engineer 13 96 (3.562 %) Systems Administrator 14 86 (3.191 %) Software Engineer 15 84 (3.117 %) Technical Consultant 16 72 (2.672 %) Support Specialist 16 72 (2.672 %) Systems Engineer 17 68 (2.523 %) Desktop Support 18 66 (2.449 %) .NET Developer 19 65 (2.412 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 150 (5.566 %) Computer Science 2 112 (4.156 %) German Language 3 102 (3.785 %) Clustering 4 84 (3.117 %) Client/Server 5 70 (2.597 %) French Language 6 60 (2.226 %) Blackberry 7 43 (1.596 %) Mainframe 8 17 (0.631 %) Replication 9 15 (0.557 %) Handset 10 14 (0.519 %) Device Driver 10 14 (0.519 %) Statistics 11 13 (0.482 %) Spanish Language 11 13 (0.482 %) IBM Mainframe 12 10 (0.371 %) RIA 12 10 (0.371 %) Web 2.0 12 10 (0.371 %) PDA 12 10 (0.371 %) Streaming Media 12 10 (0.371 %) Firmware 13 9 (0.334 %) MPEG 13 9 (0.334 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 875 (32.47 %) Windows Server 2003 2 805 (29.87 %) UNIX 3 636 (23.60 %) Linux 4 475 (17.63 %) Windows XP 5 327 (12.13 %) Windows 2000 6 216 (8.015 %) Windows Vista 7 172 (6.382 %) Solaris 8 158 (5.863 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 89 (3.302 %) Windows Server 2008 10 81 (3.006 %) Windows NT 11 66 (2.449 %) Windows Mobile 12 53 (1.967 %) HPUX 13 48 (1.781 %) zOS 14 33 (1.224 %) Red Hat Linux 15 30 (1.113 %) Windows CE 16 21 (0.779 %) SUSE 17 20 (0.742 %) AIX 18 19 (0.705 %) Debian 19 13 (0.482 %) NetWare 19 13 (0.482 %) Mac OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 162 (6.011 %) ITIL 2 78 (2.894 %) Project Management 3 73 (2.709 %) Validation 4 71 (2.635 %) Agile Software Development 4 71 (2.635 %) OO 5 69 (2.560 %) Web Development 6 67 (2.486 %) Change Management 7 65 (2.412 %) Migration 8 63 (2.338 %) Performance Management 9 51 (1.892 %) Document Management 9 51 (1.892 %) Configuration Management 10 46 (1.707 %) Service Management 11 43 (1.596 %) PRINCE2 11 43 (1.596 %) CRM 12 42 (1.558 %) Service Delivery 12 42 (1.558 %) Business Intelligence 13 39 (1.447 %) Disaster Recovery 14 38 (1.410 %) Data Management 15 37 (1.373 %) Content Management 16 34 (1.262 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 540 (20.04 %) SQL 2 236 (8.757 %) C++ 3 235 (8.720 %) C# 4 224 (8.312 %) Java 5 195 (7.236 %) JavaScript 6 168 (6.234 %) C 7 132 (4.898 %) VBScript 8 125 (4.638 %) VB 9 108 (4.007 %) Perl 10 107 (3.970 %) COBOL 11 64 (2.375 %) Python 12 62 (2.301 %) VB.NET 13 53 (1.967 %) AWK 14 45 (1.670 %) PHP 15 44 (1.633 %) Transact-SQL 16 33 (1.224 %) JCL 17 28 (1.039 %) VB6 18 25 (0.928 %) PL/SQL 19 19 (0.705 %) Delphi 20 18 (0.668 %) NATURAL	Qualifications 1 357 (13.25 %) Microsoft Certification 2 283 (10.50 %) MCSE 3 274 (10.17 %) Degree 4 127 (4.712 %) Security Cleared 5 122 (4.527 %) MCP 6 116 (4.304 %) Cisco Certification 7 104 (3.859 %) CCNA 8 54 (2.004 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 9 51 (1.892 %) SC Cleared 10 49 (1.818 %) MCSA 11 40 (1.484 %) CCNP 11 40 (1.484 %) Citrix Certification 12 31 (1.150 %) CCEA 13 28 (1.039 %) CCSA 14 23 (0.853 %) CISSP 14 23 (0.853 %) HP ASE 15 22 (0.816 %) MCTS 16 19 (0.705 %) DV Cleared 17 15 (0.557 %) CCA 17 15 (0.557 %) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 73 (2.709 %) SLA 2 39 (1.447 %) QA 3 19 (0.705 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 19 (0.705 %) COBIT 4 16 (0.594 %) ISO27001 5 9 (0.334 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.037 %) GAMP 6 1 (0.037 %) ISO9001 6 1 (0.037 %) BS7799 6 1 (0.037 %) ISO14000 6 1 (0.037 %) BS25999 6 1 (0.037 %) ISO/IEC 20000 6 1 (0.037 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 595 (22.08 %) Active Directory 2 152 (5.640 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 69 (2.560 %) NFS 4 66 (2.449 %) VMware ESX 5 42 (1.558 %) Backup Exec 6 41 (1.521 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 30 (1.113 %) NetBackup 8 26 (0.965 %) ISA Server 9 19 (0.705 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 17 (0.631 %) Oracle RAC 10 17 (0.631 %) Hyper-V 10 17 (0.631 %) Terminal Services 11 16 (0.594 %) Oracle RMAN 12 13 (0.482 %) Nmap 13 12 (0.445 %) MetaFrame 14 7 (0.260 %) Squid 15 6 (0.223 %) Novell eDirectory 16 5 (0.186 %) NDS 17 4 (0.148 %) Xen 18 2 (0.074 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 63 (2.338 %) MOM 2 60 (2.226 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 48 (1.781 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 26 (0.965 %) Tivoli 4 26 (0.965 %) Netcool 5 19 (0.705 %) SCCM 6 15 (0.557 %) Data Guard 7 14 (0.519 %) Unicenter 7 14 (0.519 %) Legato 8 13 (0.482 %) Nessus 9 12 (0.445 %) EMC NetWorker 10 9 (0.334 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 7 (0.260 %) BMC PATROL 11 7 (0.260 %) ZENworks 11 7 (0.260 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 6 (0.223 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 12 6 (0.223 %) Netcool/Webtop 13 5 (0.186 %) EMC TimeFinder 13 5 (0.186 %) MIIS 14 4 (0.148 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 840 (31.17 %) Microsoft 2 340 (12.62 %) Oracle 3 274 (10.17 %) VMware 4 240 (8.905 %) Cisco 5 235 (8.720 %) Citrix 6 211 (7.829 %) HP 7 127 (4.712 %) IBM 8 107 (3.970 %) Sun 9 72 (2.672 %) CheckPoint 10 66 (2.449 %) VERITAS 11 56 (2.078 %) Altiris 12 55 (2.041 %) Lotus 13 53 (1.967 %) Dell 14 50 (1.855 %) Sybase 15 49 (1.818 %) Red Hat 16 46 (1.707 %) Novell 17 32 (1.187 %) Juniper 18 31 (1.150 %) Remedy 19 28 (1.039 %) Nokia 20 27 (1.002 %) Symantec