Microsoft Windows Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 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 76 102 147
Rank change year-on-year +26 +45 -70
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 3,393 3,217 4,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.31% 3.30% 2.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.26% 20.53% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 2,587 3,882
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,450 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 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 +33 3,129 £40,000 -11.11% 610
UK excluding London +25 2,728 £37,500 -6.25% 516
Work from Home +39 1,076 £45,000 -10.00% 193
South East +31 762 £39,000 +6.85% 141
London +14 611 £55,000 - 131
North of England +12 599 £37,500 -11.76% 116
Midlands +44 546 £37,500 -2.60% 91
West Midlands +31 307 £35,000 -9.68% 54
South West +8 303 £37,500 -6.25% 77
East of England +16 297 £32,500 -16.91% 54
Yorkshire +66 275 £36,000 -4.00% 52
East Midlands +37 234 £40,000 +6.67% 37
North West -40 217 £43,500 -7.45% 53
Scotland -34 148 £42,500 -2.86% 29
North East +24 107 £35,000 -24.73% 12
Wales +24 57 £34,000 -6.21% 19
Isle of Man -1 12 £43,750 +45.83%
Northern Ireland -5 5 £34,628 -1.06% 2

Windows Server
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
1 797 (23.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 528 (15.56%) SharePoint
3 107 (3.15%) IIS
4 32 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 23 (0.68%) Confluence
6 20 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.47%) CMS
8 13 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
8 13 (0.38%) SharePoint 2013
9 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
9 11 (0.32%) WordPress
10 9 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.18%) Apache
14 5 (0.15%) SAS
14 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
15 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.12%) TWiki
Applications
1 403 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.088%) Final Cut Pro
6 3 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.088%) Pro Tools
6 3 (0.088%) SPSS
7 2 (0.059%) CATIA
7 2 (0.059%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.029%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.029%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.088%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.088%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.088%) Shopify
5 2 (0.059%) Farmplan
5 2 (0.059%) KEYPrime
5 2 (0.059%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.029%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.029%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.029%) Magento
6 1 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.029%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.029%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,947 (57.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1,651 (48.66%) Azure
3 599 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 389 (11.46%) AWS
5 260 (7.66%) OneDrive
6 101 (2.98%) IaaS
6 101 (2.98%) SaaS
7 84 (2.48%) GCP
8 69 (2.03%) Mimecast
9 67 (1.97%) Google Workspace
9 67 (1.97%) Power Platform
10 57 (1.68%) Nutanix
10 57 (1.68%) PaaS
11 56 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (1.39%) GitHub
14 32 (0.94%) Azure Storage
15 29 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
15 29 (0.85%) WhatsApp
16 27 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,020 (30.06%) Firewall
2 847 (24.96%) DNS
3 674 (19.86%) DHCP
4 414 (12.20%) WAN
5 384 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 378 (11.14%) LAN
7 370 (10.90%) VPN
8 336 (9.90%) SAN
9 240 (7.07%) Wi-Fi
10 220 (6.48%) VLAN
11 191 (5.63%) Wireless
12 185 (5.45%) VoIP
13 129 (3.80%) NAS
14 89 (2.62%) Internet
15 82 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
16 74 (2.18%) SD-WAN
17 71 (2.09%) Network Security
18 39 (1.15%) MPLS
19 37 (1.09%) WLAN
20 34 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 67 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (1.39%) Power BI
4 42 (1.24%) MySQL
5 37 (1.09%) DB2
6 21 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.38%) Big Data
11 12 (0.35%) MariaDB
12 11 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.27%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.24%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.21%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.18%) Redis
17 5 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.15%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 69 (2.03%) JIRA
2 57 (1.68%) Git
3 36 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.77%) GitLab
5 10 (0.29%) Trac
6 9 (0.27%) eggPlant
7 8 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.21%) Katalon Studio
8 7 (0.21%) Snyk
9 6 (0.18%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.12%) Hudson
11 4 (0.12%) MSI
11 4 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.088%) SonarQube
General
1 1,029 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 360 (10.61%) Finance
3 265 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (4.45%) Law
5 132 (3.89%) Telecoms
6 109 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
7 96 (2.83%) Retail
8 93 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 82 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 81 (2.39%) Legal
11 75 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 68 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 53 (1.56%) Banking
14 47 (1.39%) Marketing
15 45 (1.33%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.12%) Games
17 31 (0.91%) Automotive
18 28 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
19 23 (0.68%) Advertising
20 22 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 636 (18.74%) IT Support
2 626 (18.45%) Support Engineer
3 611 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 569 (16.77%) IT Engineer
5 388 (11.44%) Senior
6 378 (11.14%) Analyst
7 350 (10.32%) IT Support Engineer
8 241 (7.10%) 2nd Line Support
9 227 (6.69%) IT Technician
10 167 (4.92%) Lead
11 164 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
12 161 (4.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 155 (4.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 155 (4.57%) Support Technician
14 134 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
15 131 (3.86%) Administrator
15 131 (3.86%) IT Support Technician
15 131 (3.86%) Support Analyst
16 130 (3.83%) IT Manager
17 129 (3.80%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.21%) .NET
2 40 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 24 (0.71%) LDAP
4 22 (0.65%) HTML
5 19 (0.56%) REST
6 14 (0.41%) React
6 14 (0.41%) YAML
7 12 (0.35%) .NET Core
7 12 (0.35%) CSS
7 12 (0.35%) JSON
8 11 (0.32%) LAMP
9 10 (0.29%) ASP.NET
9 10 (0.29%) Web Services
10 9 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (0.24%) XML
12 7 (0.21%) ADSI
13 6 (0.18%) ADO
13 6 (0.18%) Middleware
13 6 (0.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 244 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 202 (5.95%) Driving Licence
3 158 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
4 149 (4.39%) Replication
5 132 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 119 (3.51%) Clustering
7 95 (2.80%) PKI
8 80 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 68 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.15%) Client/Server
11 35 (1.03%) Operational Technology
11 35 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
12 29 (0.85%) CMDB
13 28 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (0.80%) NHS
15 23 (0.68%) Security Posture
16 22 (0.65%) iPad
16 22 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (0.56%) SCADA
17 19 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3,392 (99.97%) Windows
2 617 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 609 (17.95%) Linux
4 436 (12.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 403 (11.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 382 (11.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 123 (3.63%) Windows 7
8 110 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 82 (2.42%) Mac OS
10 81 (2.39%) Unix
10 81 (2.39%) Windows 8
11 78 (2.30%) Apple iOS
12 76 (2.24%) Android
13 64 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 52 (1.53%) Ubuntu
15 44 (1.30%) CentOS
16 38 (1.12%) VMS
17 34 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
18 25 (0.74%) Windows XP
19 23 (0.68%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (23.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 694 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
3 603 (17.77%) ITIL
4 527 (15.53%) Customer Service
5 419 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
6 253 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 219 (6.45%) Mentoring
8 212 (6.25%) DevOps
9 192 (5.66%) Migration
10 191 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 182 (5.36%) Project Delivery
12 180 (5.31%) Agile
13 173 (5.10%) Project Management
14 152 (4.48%) Service Management
15 141 (4.16%) Server Management
16 133 (3.92%) Change Management
16 133 (3.92%) Service Delivery
17 123 (3.63%) Time Management
18 119 (3.51%) Incident Management
19 117 (3.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 638 (18.80%) PowerShell
2 419 (12.35%) SQL
3 133 (3.92%) Python
4 89 (2.62%) Bash
5 74 (2.18%) C#
6 45 (1.33%) VB
7 43 (1.27%) VBScript
8 39 (1.15%) Java
9 32 (0.94%) JavaScript
10 24 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.59%) Bicep
12 16 (0.47%) C++
13 13 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 12 (0.35%) Perl
15 11 (0.32%) Delphi
15 11 (0.32%) Korn
16 9 (0.27%) Ruby
17 8 (0.24%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.21%) TypeScript
19 5 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 437 (12.88%) Degree
2 369 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 287 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 273 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 209 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 152 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
7 140 (4.13%) CCNA
8 114 (3.36%) MCSE
9 102 (3.01%) DBS Check
10 88 (2.59%) MCSA
11 78 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 62 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 53 (1.56%) Azure Certification
14 48 (1.41%) A+ Certification
15 40 (1.18%) AWS Certification
16 38 (1.12%) MCP
17 37 (1.09%) CCNP
18 32 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
19 27 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 26 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (7.40%) SLA
2 100 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 79 (2.33%) GDPR
4 66 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (0.80%) NIST
6 25 (0.74%) PMO
6 25 (0.74%) QA
7 19 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.56%) ITGC
8 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.15%) NCSC
12 3 (0.088%) GRC
12 3 (0.088%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.059%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.029%) GxP
System Software
1 2,099 (61.86%) Active Directory
2 956 (28.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 813 (23.96%) Hyper-V
4 224 (6.60%) VMware ESXi
5 202 (5.95%) vSphere
6 133 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
7 92 (2.71%) XenApp
8 83 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 81 (2.39%) XenDesktop
10 70 (2.06%) Docker
11 54 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
12 45 (1.33%) VirtualBox
13 35 (1.03%) Terminal Services
14 33 (0.97%) Firmware
15 22 (0.65%) VMware NSX
16 19 (0.56%) pfSense
17 17 (0.50%) NFS
18 14 (0.41%) VMware Server
19 13 (0.38%) OpenSSH
20 11 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 513 (15.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 342 (10.08%) SCCM
3 168 (4.95%) vCenter Server
4 114 (3.36%) WSUS
5 103 (3.04%) SCOM
6 101 (2.98%) Terraform
7 99 (2.92%) Ansible
8 93 (2.74%) Kubernetes
9 70 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 61 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 51 (1.50%) Microsoft Clustering
12 40 (1.18%) FortiGate
13 33 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
14 31 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
15 27 (0.80%) Grafana
15 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 26 (0.77%) Nagios
17 25 (0.74%) NetBackup
18 24 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
18 24 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,011 (59.27%) Microsoft
2 1,491 (43.94%) VMware
3 444 (13.09%) Cisco
4 358 (10.55%) Citrix
5 309 (9.11%) Veeam
6 191 (5.63%) HP
7 138 (4.07%) Dell
8 132 (3.89%) Apple
9 113 (3.33%) Google
10 112 (3.30%) Meraki
11 98 (2.89%) Sophos
12 85 (2.51%) NetApp
13 82 (2.42%) Red Hat
14 72 (2.12%) Oracle
15 67 (1.97%) Commvault
16 62 (1.83%) Aruba
16 62 (1.83%) ServiceNow
17 59 (1.74%) SolarWinds
18 58 (1.71%) Juniper
19 53 (1.56%) Fortinet