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 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 430 425 626
Rank change year-on-year -5 +201 -141
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 576 713 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.12% 4.55% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 499 556 589
10th Percentile £26,200 £26,250 £26,100
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £33,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year +19.40% -14.10% -2.50%

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 13,986 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 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 28 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 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 +4 551 £42,500 +2.41% 101
UK excluding London -17 493 £40,000 +19.40% 84
Work from Home +45 175 £45,000 +5.88% 37
South East -36 143 £51,350 +63.02% 19
North of England +21 100 £37,500 -16.67% 18
Midlands +19 92 £32,000 -1.54% 19
South West -11 88 £41,250 +0.61% 15
London +45 74 £45,000 -18.18% 19
Yorkshire +88 59 £37,500 +16.46% 11
East of England +18 55 £42,500 +49.12% 13
West Midlands +10 51 £35,000 +7.69% 15
East Midlands +9 40 £32,000 -1.54% 4
North West -35 30 £45,000 - 4
North East -2 11 £27,500 -54.17% 3
Wales -6 7 £25,000 -9.09% 1
Scotland -66 7 £36,000 -10.00% 1
Northern Ireland +12 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
1 131 (22.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (16.15%) SharePoint
3 22 (3.82%) IIS
4 14 (2.43%) Confluence
5 9 (1.56%) WordPress
6 5 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 90 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 323 (56.08%) Microsoft 365
2 271 (47.05%) Azure
3 105 (18.23%) Entra ID
4 54 (9.38%) OneDrive
5 47 (8.16%) AWS
6 31 (5.38%) Mimecast
7 26 (4.51%) SaaS
8 21 (3.65%) IaaS
9 20 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (3.47%) Azure Storage
9 20 (3.47%) Nutanix
10 15 (2.60%) Google Workspace
11 14 (2.43%) PaaS
12 12 (2.08%) OCI
12 12 (2.08%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.04%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.04%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.87%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 201 (34.90%) DNS
2 190 (32.99%) Firewall
3 175 (30.38%) DHCP
4 95 (16.49%) TCP/IP
5 81 (14.06%) WAN
6 79 (13.72%) VPN
7 77 (13.37%) LAN
8 63 (10.94%) SAN
9 60 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
10 58 (10.07%) VLAN
11 53 (9.20%) Wireless
12 28 (4.86%) VoIP
13 20 (3.47%) Internet
13 20 (3.47%) Remote Desktop
14 18 (3.13%) Network Security
15 15 (2.60%) NAS
16 14 (2.43%) SD-WAN
17 12 (2.08%) Fibre Channel
17 12 (2.08%) iSCSI
18 11 (1.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.24%) SQL Server
2 35 (6.08%) MongoDB
3 30 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (3.13%) MySQL
5 9 (1.56%) DB2
6 7 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.22%) Power BI
7 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.87%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.87%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.69%) UniData
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.95%) JIRA
2 8 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.04%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.87%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) MSI
6 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.17%) GitLab
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 218 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 88 (15.28%) Finance
3 35 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.65%) Retail
5 19 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.95%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.60%) Automotive
9 15 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.26%) Back Office
10 13 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.04%) Aviation
12 5 (0.87%) Banking
12 5 (0.87%) Games
13 4 (0.69%) Law
14 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.52%) Legal
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 120 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 106 (18.40%) IT Support
3 101 (17.53%) IT Engineer
4 82 (14.24%) Support Engineer
5 73 (12.67%) Analyst
6 71 (12.33%) Administrator
7 66 (11.46%) Senior
8 57 (9.90%) IT Support Engineer
9 37 (6.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 35 (6.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 35 (6.08%) DBA
11 33 (5.73%) Lead
12 32 (5.56%) DV Cleared DBA
13 30 (5.21%) Systems Administrator
14 29 (5.03%) Systems Engineer
15 28 (4.86%) Service Analyst
15 28 (4.86%) Support Analyst
16 25 (4.34%) IT Analyst
16 25 (4.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.34%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.47%) ARM Templates
2 14 (2.43%) .NET
3 13 (2.26%) WPF
4 9 (1.56%) LAMP
5 8 (1.39%) LDAP
6 3 (0.52%) HTML
6 3 (0.52%) SAML
6 3 (0.52%) YAML
7 2 (0.35%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.35%) WSH
7 2 (0.35%) X-Windows
8 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.17%) Kafka
8 1 (0.17%) Middleware
8 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.07%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (9.20%) Driving Licence
3 35 (6.08%) PKI
4 33 (5.73%) Replication
5 28 (4.86%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.95%) Clustering
9 12 (2.08%) CCTV
10 11 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.39%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.04%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.04%) EMC VNX
13 6 (1.04%) Handset
13 6 (1.04%) iPad
13 6 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Xbox
14 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 548 (95.14%) Windows
2 420 (72.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 403 (69.97%) Windows Server
4 245 (42.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 229 (39.76%) Windows 10
6 125 (21.70%) Linux
7 44 (7.64%) CentOS
8 38 (6.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 34 (5.90%) Windows 7
10 31 (5.38%) Apple iOS
11 17 (2.95%) Windows NT
11 17 (2.95%) Windows XP
12 16 (2.78%) Mac OS
13 15 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (2.26%) Ubuntu
14 13 (2.26%) VMS
15 12 (2.08%) Android
16 9 (1.56%) Unix
17 5 (0.87%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (27.78%) ITIL
2 145 (25.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 138 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (19.10%) Customer Service
5 76 (13.19%) Mentoring
6 65 (11.28%) Cybersecurity
7 59 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 59 (10.24%) Service Management
8 55 (9.55%) Performance Monitoring
9 50 (8.68%) Time Management
10 48 (8.33%) Project Management
11 47 (8.16%) Change Management
11 47 (8.16%) Storage Management
12 42 (7.29%) Agile
13 38 (6.60%) User Experience
14 36 (6.25%) Server Management
15 35 (6.08%) Capacity Management
15 35 (6.08%) Database Tuning
15 35 (6.08%) Service Delivery
16 33 (5.73%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (34.20%) PowerShell
2 80 (13.89%) SQL
3 45 (7.81%) Bash
4 32 (5.56%) C#
5 22 (3.82%) VB
6 19 (3.30%) VBScript
7 17 (2.95%) Bicep
8 15 (2.60%) Python
9 6 (1.04%) Perl
10 3 (0.52%) PHP
11 2 (0.35%) Java
11 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.18%) Degree
3 84 (14.58%) DV Cleared
4 57 (9.90%) SC Cleared
5 45 (7.81%) DBS Check
6 37 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (4.17%) CCNP
9 21 (3.65%) CCNA
10 18 (3.13%) HNC
11 17 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 15 (2.60%) MCSE
13 13 (2.26%) MCSA
14 11 (1.91%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (1.74%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (1.56%) AWS Certification
17 3 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.55%) SLA
2 21 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.56%) GDPR
5 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (0.87%) QA
6 4 (0.69%) NIST
6 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.35%) NCSC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 363 (63.02%) Active Directory
2 180 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (26.22%) Hyper-V
4 49 (8.51%) vSphere
5 48 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (7.81%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (5.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.95%) Firmware
9 6 (1.04%) Docker
9 6 (1.04%) Terminal Services
9 6 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.69%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.52%) NFS
13 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.35%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 125 (21.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (19.62%) SCCM
3 72 (12.50%) WSUS
4 41 (7.12%) vCenter Server
5 40 (6.94%) SCOM
6 27 (4.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 23 (3.99%) Kubernetes
8 21 (3.65%) Ansible
9 19 (3.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 18 (3.13%) NetBackup
11 15 (2.60%) Terraform
12 13 (2.26%) Failover Clustering
12 13 (2.26%) McAfee ePO
13 12 (2.08%) Sysprep
14 10 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (1.56%) Autotask
16 8 (1.39%) SCVMM
17 7 (1.22%) Puppet
17 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (1.04%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 459 (79.69%) Microsoft
2 253 (43.92%) VMware
3 82 (14.24%) Cisco
4 69 (11.98%) Veeam
5 57 (9.90%) Apple
6 56 (9.72%) Oracle
7 54 (9.38%) Citrix
8 49 (8.51%) Red Hat
9 39 (6.77%) HP
9 39 (6.77%) Sophos
10 29 (5.03%) Palo Alto
11 28 (4.86%) Meraki
12 26 (4.51%) Dell
13 24 (4.17%) Aruba
13 24 (4.17%) Google
14 21 (3.65%) Juniper
15 19 (3.30%) Adobe
15 19 (3.30%) EMC
16 18 (3.13%) 3PAR
16 18 (3.13%) ConnectWise