Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 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 429 430 614
Rank change year-on-year +1 +184 -133
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 567 711 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.72% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.07% 4.49% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 496 554 596
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,156 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £33,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -16.46% -1.25%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2019 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 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 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 +28 542 £42,500 +3.66% 117
UK excluding London -20 484 £40,000 +21.21% 101
Work from Home +35 175 £45,000 +5.88% 38
South East -27 141 £51,350 +63.02% 30
North of England +11 98 £37,500 -16.67% 22
Midlands +13 89 £32,000 -1.54% 18
South West -1 86 £40,000 -1.23% 14
London +22 74 £45,000 -18.18% 26
Yorkshire +89 58 £37,500 +16.46% 14
East of England +30 55 £42,500 +49.12% 17
West Midlands +5 48 £33,750 +3.85% 12
East Midlands +18 40 £32,000 -1.54% 5
North West -40 29 £45,000 - 7
North East -2 11 £27,500 -54.17% 1
Wales +1 7 £25,000 -9.09%
Scotland -69 7 £36,000 -10.00% 2
Northern Ireland +19 2 £40,000 +23.08%

Windows Server 2019
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
1 129 (22.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (16.05%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.70%) IIS
4 14 (2.47%) Confluence
5 9 (1.59%) WordPress
6 5 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.18%) Site Server
Applications
1 88 (15.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 317 (55.91%) Microsoft 365
2 266 (46.91%) Azure
3 101 (17.81%) Entra ID
4 54 (9.52%) OneDrive
5 48 (8.47%) AWS
6 31 (5.47%) Mimecast
7 26 (4.59%) SaaS
8 20 (3.53%) IaaS
8 20 (3.53%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (3.17%) Azure Storage
10 15 (2.65%) Google Workspace
11 14 (2.47%) PaaS
12 12 (2.12%) OCI
12 12 (2.12%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.06%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.06%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.88%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 199 (35.10%) DNS
2 186 (32.80%) Firewall
3 173 (30.51%) DHCP
4 92 (16.23%) TCP/IP
5 81 (14.29%) WAN
6 79 (13.93%) VPN
7 77 (13.58%) LAN
8 62 (10.93%) SAN
9 60 (10.58%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (10.05%) VLAN
11 53 (9.35%) Wireless
12 28 (4.94%) VoIP
13 20 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
14 19 (3.35%) Internet
15 17 (3.00%) Network Security
16 15 (2.65%) NAS
17 14 (2.47%) SD-WAN
18 12 (2.12%) Fibre Channel
18 12 (2.12%) iSCSI
19 11 (1.94%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.46%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 29 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (3.17%) MySQL
5 9 (1.59%) DB2
6 7 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.23%) Power BI
7 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.88%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.88%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.71%) UniData
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.00%) JIRA
2 8 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.06%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.88%) Git
5 4 (0.71%) MSI
6 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 211 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.81%) Finance
3 34 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.70%) Retail
5 19 (3.35%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.65%) Automotive
9 15 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.29%) Back Office
10 13 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.06%) Aviation
12 5 (0.88%) Banking
12 5 (0.88%) Games
13 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Law
13 3 (0.53%) Legal
14 1 (0.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 121 (21.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (18.52%) IT Support
3 101 (17.81%) IT Engineer
4 82 (14.46%) Support Engineer
5 71 (12.52%) Analyst
6 70 (12.35%) Administrator
7 68 (11.99%) Senior
8 57 (10.05%) IT Support Engineer
9 37 (6.53%) 2nd Line Support
10 34 (6.00%) DBA
11 33 (5.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 32 (5.64%) Lead
13 31 (5.47%) DV Cleared DBA
14 30 (5.29%) Systems Administrator
15 28 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
16 27 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 27 (4.76%) Service Analyst
16 27 (4.76%) Support Analyst
17 24 (4.23%) Team Leader
18 23 (4.06%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.17%) ARM Templates
2 14 (2.47%) .NET
3 13 (2.29%) WPF
4 9 (1.59%) LAMP
5 7 (1.23%) LDAP
6 3 (0.53%) HTML
6 3 (0.53%) SAML
6 3 (0.53%) YAML
7 2 (0.35%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.35%) WSH
7 2 (0.35%) X-Windows
8 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.18%) Kafka
8 1 (0.18%) Middleware
8 1 (0.18%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (9.35%) Driving Licence
3 33 (5.82%) PKI
4 32 (5.64%) Replication
5 27 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.00%) Clustering
9 12 (2.12%) CCTV
10 11 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.06%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.06%) EMC VNX
13 6 (1.06%) Handset
13 6 (1.06%) iPad
13 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.06%) Xbox
14 5 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 539 (95.06%) Windows
2 413 (72.84%) Windows Server 2016
3 396 (69.84%) Windows Server
4 241 (42.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 226 (39.86%) Windows 10
6 122 (21.52%) Linux
7 43 (7.58%) CentOS
8 38 (6.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 34 (6.00%) Windows 7
10 30 (5.29%) Apple iOS
11 17 (3.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (3.00%) Windows XP
12 16 (2.82%) Mac OS
12 16 (2.82%) Windows NT
13 13 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (2.29%) Ubuntu
13 13 (2.29%) VMS
14 11 (1.94%) Android
15 9 (1.59%) Unix
16 6 (1.06%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (27.51%) ITIL
2 146 (25.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 136 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (19.05%) Customer Service
5 74 (13.05%) Mentoring
6 65 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (10.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 56 (9.88%) Service Management
9 53 (9.35%) Performance Monitoring
10 49 (8.64%) Time Management
11 48 (8.47%) Project Management
12 47 (8.29%) Change Management
13 46 (8.11%) Storage Management
14 40 (7.05%) Agile
15 38 (6.70%) User Experience
16 36 (6.35%) Server Management
17 35 (6.17%) Service Delivery
18 34 (6.00%) Capacity Management
18 34 (6.00%) Database Tuning
19 33 (5.82%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (34.22%) PowerShell
2 80 (14.11%) SQL
3 45 (7.94%) Bash
4 30 (5.29%) C#
5 20 (3.53%) VB
6 17 (3.00%) VBScript
7 15 (2.65%) Bicep
7 15 (2.65%) Python
8 6 (1.06%) Perl
9 3 (0.53%) PHP
10 2 (0.35%) Java
10 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (21.87%) Security Cleared
2 121 (21.34%) Degree
3 80 (14.11%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.35%) SC Cleared
5 45 (7.94%) DBS Check
6 36 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (5.64%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (4.23%) CCNP
9 21 (3.70%) CCNA
10 18 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (3.17%) HNC
11 15 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 15 (2.65%) MCSE
12 12 (2.12%) MCSA
13 11 (1.94%) A+ Certification
13 11 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
14 10 (1.76%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.35%) SLA
2 21 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.59%) GDPR
5 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.71%) NIST
6 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.53%) PMO
8 2 (0.35%) NCSC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.35%) QA
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 358 (63.14%) Active Directory
2 180 (31.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 150 (26.46%) Hyper-V
4 49 (8.64%) vSphere
5 47 (8.29%) VMware ESXi
6 43 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (5.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.82%) Firmware
9 6 (1.06%) Docker
10 5 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.88%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.71%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.53%) NFS
13 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 119 (20.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 110 (19.40%) SCCM
3 69 (12.17%) WSUS
4 40 (7.05%) vCenter Server
5 38 (6.70%) SCOM
6 24 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (3.70%) Ansible
7 21 (3.70%) Kubernetes
8 19 (3.35%) EMC NetWorker
9 18 (3.17%) NetBackup
10 16 (2.82%) Terraform
11 13 (2.29%) Failover Clustering
11 13 (2.29%) McAfee ePO
12 11 (1.94%) Sysprep
13 10 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (1.59%) Autotask
15 8 (1.41%) SCVMM
16 7 (1.23%) Puppet
16 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (1.06%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 452 (79.72%) Microsoft
2 250 (44.09%) VMware
3 80 (14.11%) Cisco
4 68 (11.99%) Veeam
5 57 (10.05%) Apple
6 55 (9.70%) Oracle
7 52 (9.17%) Citrix
8 48 (8.47%) Red Hat
9 39 (6.88%) HP
9 39 (6.88%) Sophos
10 29 (5.11%) Palo Alto
11 27 (4.76%) Meraki
12 26 (4.59%) Dell
13 24 (4.23%) Aruba
13 24 (4.23%) Google
14 21 (3.70%) Juniper
15 19 (3.35%) Adobe
15 19 (3.35%) EMC
16 18 (3.17%) 3PAR
16 18 (3.17%) ConnectWise