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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 428 500
Rank change year-on-year -33 +72 -160
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 510 706 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.65% 4.51% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 411 565 954
10th Percentile £24,875 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,561 £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 £50,125 £53,750 £52,688
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £38,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.75% +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 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 £92,000 £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 28 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 28 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 -19 477 £39,750 -1.00% 90
UK excluding London -35 425 £36,500 -5.19% 72
Work from Home +5 166 £42,500 - 34
South East -38 110 £48,500 +51.56% 25
North of England -11 96 £40,000 - 20
South West +20 81 £30,000 -31.43% 13
London +31 79 £65,000 +23.81% 21
Midlands +7 75 £28,500 -20.83% 8
West Midlands +32 66 £28,500 -17.39% 5
Yorkshire +45 40 £46,000 +19.48% 15
North West -34 39 £32,000 -24.71% 5
East of England -16 36 £33,000 -17.50% 7
North East +3 17 £30,000 -50.00%
Scotland -67 13 £30,000 -25.00% 1
Wales +2 11 £25,000 -21.88% 1
East Midlands -26 8 £39,500 +8.22% 3
Northern Ireland +20 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
1 114 (22.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (12.94%) SharePoint
3 32 (6.27%) Exchange Server 2013
4 24 (4.71%) Exchange Server 2010
5 18 (3.53%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (2.35%) IIS
7 5 (0.98%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.59%) Confluence
8 3 (0.59%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) Site Server
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 81 (15.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) SPSS
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) 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 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.39%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 251 (49.22%) Microsoft 365
2 236 (46.27%) Azure
3 116 (22.75%) Entra ID
4 33 (6.47%) SaaS
5 32 (6.27%) AWS
6 21 (4.12%) OneDrive
7 18 (3.53%) IaaS
8 14 (2.75%) PaaS
9 12 (2.35%) OCI
10 11 (2.16%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.96%) Mimecast
12 9 (1.76%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.37%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.78%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.78%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.78%) GitHub
14 4 (0.78%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 178 (34.90%) Firewall
2 172 (33.73%) DNS
3 131 (25.69%) DHCP
4 83 (16.27%) TCP/IP
5 63 (12.35%) VPN
6 61 (11.96%) SAN
7 50 (9.80%) LAN
8 48 (9.41%) WAN
8 48 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (7.06%) VLAN
10 26 (5.10%) Wireless
11 24 (4.71%) VoIP
12 23 (4.51%) Internet
13 20 (3.92%) NAS
14 16 (3.14%) PBX
15 14 (2.75%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (2.35%) Network Security
17 10 (1.96%) iSCSI
18 6 (1.18%) IPsec
19 5 (0.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 35 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.37%) MySQL
5 5 (0.98%) InfluxDB
5 5 (0.98%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.78%) DB2
7 3 (0.59%) Big Data
7 3 (0.59%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.39%) MS Access
8 2 (0.39%) Power BI
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.39%) 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 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.18%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.18%) Git
3 5 (0.98%) JIRA
4 2 (0.39%) Hudson
4 2 (0.39%) MSI
4 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.39%) 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
1 193 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.16%) Finance
3 44 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.31%) Telecoms
5 19 (3.73%) Retail
6 16 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.35%) Legal
8 12 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.96%) Aviation
9 10 (1.96%) Billing
10 9 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.37%) Law
11 7 (1.37%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.98%) Automotive
12 5 (0.98%) Banking
12 5 (0.98%) Military
13 4 (0.78%) Avionics
13 4 (0.78%) Games
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (26.08%) Support Engineer
2 120 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 92 (18.04%) IT Engineer
4 76 (14.90%) IT Support
5 62 (12.16%) Senior
6 57 (11.18%) Administrator
7 52 (10.20%) Analyst
8 51 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 41 (8.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (7.25%) 2nd Line Support
10 37 (7.25%) DBA
11 34 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
12 33 (6.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (6.47%) IT Technician
13 32 (6.27%) DV Cleared DBA
14 28 (5.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 28 (5.49%) VMware Engineer
15 26 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 24 (4.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 24 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.18%) LDAP
2 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.39%) WSH
2 2 (0.39%) XML
2 2 (0.39%) YAML
3 1 (0.20%) .NET
3 1 (0.20%) Kafka
3 1 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.20%) Replication
2 48 (9.41%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (8.63%) Driving Licence
4 43 (8.43%) Data Centre
5 29 (5.69%) Clustering
6 26 (5.10%) PKI
7 17 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.35%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.18%) Handset
10 6 (1.18%) Xbox
11 5 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.78%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.78%) iPhone
13 3 (0.59%) Cybercrime
13 3 (0.59%) Fat Client
13 3 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.59%) Thin Client
14 2 (0.39%) Device Driver
14 2 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 510 (100.00%) Windows
2 382 (74.90%) Windows Server
3 292 (57.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 245 (48.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 203 (39.80%) Windows 10
6 127 (24.90%) Linux
7 81 (15.88%) Windows Server 2008
8 68 (13.33%) Windows 7
9 45 (8.82%) CentOS
10 37 (7.25%) Windows 8
11 17 (3.33%) Windows NT
11 17 (3.33%) Windows XP
12 14 (2.75%) Mac OS
13 13 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (2.55%) SUSE
14 10 (1.96%) Ubuntu
15 9 (1.76%) Apple iOS
16 6 (1.18%) VMS
17 5 (0.98%) Windows 2000
17 5 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (30.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 144 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (23.73%) ITIL
4 87 (17.06%) Customer Service
5 67 (13.14%) Mentoring
6 53 (10.39%) Performance Monitoring
7 52 (10.20%) Storage Management
8 46 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (8.82%) Capacity Management
10 38 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (7.25%) Time Management
11 37 (7.25%) User Experience
12 35 (6.86%) Database Tuning
13 34 (6.67%) Asset Management
13 34 (6.67%) Problem Management
14 33 (6.47%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (5.88%) Service Delivery
16 29 (5.69%) Customer Experience
17 28 (5.49%) Project Delivery
18 27 (5.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 165 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 77 (15.10%) SQL
3 44 (8.63%) Bash
4 18 (3.53%) VB
5 13 (2.55%) ActionScript
5 13 (2.55%) VBScript
6 7 (1.37%) Python
7 6 (1.18%) Perl
8 3 (0.59%) C#
8 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.20%) Bicep
9 1 (0.20%) C++
9 1 (0.20%) Java
9 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 88 (17.25%) Degree
3 62 (12.16%) DV Cleared
4 55 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 37 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 29 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (5.49%) DBS Check
8 26 (5.10%) MCSE
9 25 (4.90%) CCNA
10 21 (4.12%) MCSA
11 18 (3.53%) Azure Certification
12 17 (3.33%) HNC
13 13 (2.55%) CCNP
13 13 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (0.98%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.78%) MCP
16 4 (0.78%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (9.41%) SLA
2 9 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.78%) QA
5 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 360 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 199 (39.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (26.86%) Hyper-V
4 73 (14.31%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (9.41%) vSphere
6 16 (3.14%) Firmware
7 15 (2.94%) XenApp
8 13 (2.55%) OpenSSH
9 12 (2.35%) Terminal Services
10 11 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
11 10 (1.96%) vCloud
12 5 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.78%) KVM
14 3 (0.59%) Docker
14 3 (0.59%) NFS
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.20%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 98 (19.22%) SCCM
2 84 (16.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (10.59%) WSUS
4 45 (8.82%) vCenter Server
5 23 (4.51%) SCOM
6 19 (3.73%) NetBackup
7 15 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (2.55%) IBM BigFix
8 13 (2.55%) PowerCLI
9 12 (2.35%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.35%) Failover Clustering
9 12 (2.35%) Sysprep
10 10 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.96%) Terraform
11 8 (1.57%) Ansible
11 8 (1.57%) Autotask
12 6 (1.18%) Puppet
13 5 (0.98%) Nessus
13 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 4 (0.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 339 (66.47%) Microsoft
2 260 (50.98%) VMware
3 79 (15.49%) Veeam
4 76 (14.90%) Cisco
5 61 (11.96%) Citrix
6 53 (10.39%) Oracle
7 49 (9.61%) Red Hat
8 44 (8.63%) HP
9 33 (6.47%) Dell
10 26 (5.10%) Apple
11 21 (4.12%) IBM
11 21 (4.12%) Juniper
12 18 (3.53%) Sophos
13 16 (3.14%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.75%) Fortinet
14 14 (2.75%) Palo Alto
15 13 (2.55%) Avaya
15 13 (2.55%) Symantec
16 12 (2.35%) EMC
16 12 (2.35%) Extreme Networks