Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 433 498
Rank change year-on-year -30 +65 -162
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 503 706 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.72% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.61% 4.46% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 408 567 949
10th Percentile £24,763 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,905 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,250 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.25% +5.26%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2012 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
England -4 472 £39,500 -1.25% 84
UK excluding London -37 417 £36,500 -2.67% 66
Work from Home -7 166 £42,500 - 27
South East -30 108 £48,500 +53.97% 24
North of England -23 94 £40,000 - 18
London +7 80 £65,000 +23.81% 22
South West +29 79 £30,000 -31.43% 13
Midlands +3 75 £28,500 -20.83% 5
West Midlands +30 66 £28,500 -17.39% 3
North West -37 39 £32,000 -24.71% 5
Yorkshire +45 38 £46,000 +21.05% 13
East of England -5 36 £33,000 -17.50% 6
North East +2 17 £30,000 -48.94%
Wales +8 11 £25,000 -21.88% 1
Scotland -72 11 £34,000 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -17 8 £39,500 +8.22% 2
Northern Ireland +27 3 £40,000 +23.08%

Windows Server 2012
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 111 (22.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (13.12%) SharePoint
3 32 (6.36%) Exchange Server 2013
4 25 (4.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 18 (3.58%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (1.99%) IIS
7 5 (0.99%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.60%) Confluence
8 3 (0.60%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) Site Server
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 81 (16.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) SPSS
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.40%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 247 (49.11%) Microsoft 365
2 235 (46.72%) Azure
3 115 (22.86%) Entra ID
4 33 (6.56%) SaaS
5 32 (6.36%) AWS
6 21 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 17 (3.38%) IaaS
8 14 (2.78%) PaaS
9 12 (2.39%) OCI
10 11 (2.19%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.99%) Mimecast
12 9 (1.79%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.39%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.80%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.80%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.80%) GitHub
14 4 (0.80%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 176 (34.99%) Firewall
2 170 (33.80%) DNS
3 129 (25.65%) DHCP
4 82 (16.30%) TCP/IP
5 64 (12.72%) VPN
6 61 (12.13%) SAN
7 51 (10.14%) LAN
8 49 (9.74%) WAN
8 49 (9.74%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (7.36%) VLAN
10 26 (5.17%) Wireless
11 24 (4.77%) VoIP
12 22 (4.37%) Internet
13 21 (4.17%) NAS
14 16 (3.18%) PBX
15 15 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (2.39%) Network Security
17 10 (1.99%) iSCSI
18 6 (1.19%) IPsec
18 6 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 25 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.39%) MySQL
5 5 (0.99%) InfluxDB
5 5 (0.99%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.80%) DB2
7 3 (0.60%) Big Data
7 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.40%) MS Access
8 2 (0.40%) Power BI
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.20%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.19%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.19%) Git
3 5 (0.99%) JIRA
4 2 (0.40%) Hudson
4 2 (0.40%) MSI
4 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 190 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.07%) Finance
3 44 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.37%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.38%) Retail
6 16 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.39%) Legal
8 12 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.99%) Aviation
9 10 (1.99%) Billing
10 9 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.39%) Law
11 7 (1.39%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.99%) Automotive
12 5 (0.99%) Banking
12 5 (0.99%) Military
13 4 (0.80%) Avionics
13 4 (0.80%) Games
13 4 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 132 (26.24%) Support Engineer
2 118 (23.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 92 (18.29%) IT Engineer
4 74 (14.71%) IT Support
5 64 (12.72%) Senior
6 56 (11.13%) Administrator
7 51 (10.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 50 (9.94%) Analyst
9 42 (8.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (7.36%) 2nd Line Support
11 36 (7.16%) DBA
12 34 (6.76%) Infrastructure Support
13 33 (6.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 33 (6.56%) IT Technician
14 31 (6.16%) DV Cleared DBA
15 28 (5.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 28 (5.57%) VMware Engineer
16 26 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 24 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 23 (4.57%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.99%) LDAP
2 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.40%) WSH
2 2 (0.40%) XML
2 2 (0.40%) YAML
3 1 (0.20%) .NET
3 1 (0.20%) Kafka
3 1 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.14%) Replication
2 48 (9.54%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (8.75%) Driving Licence
4 42 (8.35%) Data Centre
5 27 (5.37%) Clustering
6 25 (4.97%) PKI
7 17 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.19%) Handset
9 6 (1.19%) Xbox
10 5 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.80%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.80%) iPhone
12 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.60%) Fat Client
12 3 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Thin Client
13 2 (0.40%) Device Driver
13 2 (0.40%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 503 (100.00%) Windows
2 376 (74.75%) Windows Server
3 285 (56.66%) Windows Server 2016
4 241 (47.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 200 (39.76%) Windows 10
6 127 (25.25%) Linux
7 81 (16.10%) Windows Server 2008
8 66 (13.12%) Windows 7
9 44 (8.75%) CentOS
10 37 (7.36%) Windows 8
11 17 (3.38%) Windows XP
12 16 (3.18%) Windows NT
13 14 (2.78%) Mac OS
14 13 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (2.58%) SUSE
15 10 (1.99%) Ubuntu
16 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
17 6 (1.19%) VMS
18 5 (0.99%) Windows 2000
18 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (30.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 142 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (23.66%) ITIL
4 85 (16.90%) Customer Service
5 65 (12.92%) Mentoring
6 51 (10.14%) Performance Monitoring
6 51 (10.14%) Storage Management
7 45 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (8.75%) Capacity Management
9 38 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (7.16%) Time Management
10 36 (7.16%) User Experience
11 34 (6.76%) Asset Management
11 34 (6.76%) Database Tuning
12 33 (6.56%) Problem Management
13 32 (6.36%) Disaster Recovery
14 30 (5.96%) Service Delivery
15 28 (5.57%) Customer Experience
15 28 (5.57%) Project Delivery
16 27 (5.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 163 (32.41%) PowerShell
2 74 (14.71%) SQL
3 43 (8.55%) Bash
4 17 (3.38%) VB
5 13 (2.58%) VBScript
6 12 (2.39%) ActionScript
7 7 (1.39%) Python
8 6 (1.19%) Perl
9 3 (0.60%) C#
9 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Java
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.10%) Degree
3 60 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 55 (10.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (6.76%) SC Cleared
6 29 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (5.57%) DBS Check
8 26 (5.17%) MCSE
9 25 (4.97%) CCNA
10 21 (4.17%) MCSA
11 17 (3.38%) Azure Certification
11 17 (3.38%) HNC
12 13 (2.58%) CCNP
12 13 (2.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.99%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.80%) MCTS
15 4 (0.80%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.15%) SLA
2 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.20%) PMO
5 1 (0.20%) QA
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 355 (70.58%) Active Directory
2 198 (39.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (27.04%) Hyper-V
4 73 (14.51%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (9.54%) vSphere
6 15 (2.98%) Firmware
7 14 (2.78%) XenApp
8 12 (2.39%) OpenSSH
9 11 (2.19%) Terminal Services
9 11 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (1.99%) vCloud
11 5 (0.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.80%) KVM
13 3 (0.60%) Docker
13 3 (0.60%) NFS
14 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.40%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.20%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (19.28%) SCCM
2 83 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (10.74%) WSUS
4 44 (8.75%) vCenter Server
5 22 (4.37%) SCOM
6 19 (3.78%) NetBackup
7 15 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (2.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (2.39%) Failover Clustering
8 12 (2.39%) IBM BigFix
8 12 (2.39%) PowerCLI
9 11 (2.19%) Sysprep
10 9 (1.79%) Terraform
11 8 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (1.59%) Ansible
11 8 (1.59%) Autotask
12 6 (1.19%) Puppet
13 5 (0.99%) Nessus
13 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 4 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 336 (66.80%) Microsoft
2 259 (51.49%) VMware
3 78 (15.51%) Cisco
3 78 (15.51%) Veeam
4 59 (11.73%) Citrix
5 52 (10.34%) Oracle
6 48 (9.54%) Red Hat
7 43 (8.55%) HP
8 32 (6.36%) Dell
9 26 (5.17%) Apple
10 21 (4.17%) Juniper
11 20 (3.98%) IBM
12 17 (3.38%) Sophos
13 16 (3.18%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.78%) Fortinet
14 14 (2.78%) Palo Alto
15 13 (2.58%) Avaya
15 13 (2.58%) Symantec
16 12 (2.39%) EMC
16 12 (2.39%) Extreme Networks