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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 431 471
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 -160
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 519 738 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.71% 0.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.69% 4.43% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 430 588 985
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,063 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.27%

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 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +11 489 £40,000 - 75
UK excluding London -38 422 £37,500 - 62
Work from Home +21 178 £42,500 - 22
South East -15 108 £48,500 +53.97% 21
North of England -5 102 £37,500 -6.25% 16
London +29 91 £57,500 +9.21% 15
South West +42 78 £30,000 -30.43% 4
Midlands +17 76 £31,500 -13.70% 11
West Midlands +44 66 £28,500 -18.57% 9
North West -19 46 £32,000 -24.71% 10
Yorkshire +54 39 £46,000 +42.86% 6
East of England -8 34 £33,000 -16.46% 9
North East +5 17 £30,000 -47.83%
Wales +8 11 £25,000 -21.88% 2
Scotland -75 10 £32,000 -24.71% 2
East Midlands -24 9 £43,000 +17.81% 2
Northern Ireland +26 3 £40,000 +36.75%

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
1 127 (24.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (14.64%) SharePoint
3 34 (6.55%) Exchange Server 2013
4 29 (5.59%) Exchange Server 2010
5 18 (3.47%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (2.12%) IIS
7 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.58%) SAS
9 1 (0.19%) Apache
9 1 (0.19%) Confluence
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Site Server
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.58%) 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
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.19%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.39%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.19%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 270 (52.02%) Microsoft 365
2 255 (49.13%) Azure
3 113 (21.77%) Entra ID
4 33 (6.36%) AWS
5 32 (6.17%) SaaS
6 22 (4.24%) OneDrive
7 15 (2.89%) IaaS
8 13 (2.50%) Mimecast
9 12 (2.31%) OCI
10 11 (2.12%) Google Workspace
10 11 (2.12%) PaaS
11 9 (1.73%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.54%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.16%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (0.77%) GitHub
16 3 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.58%) Dropbox
16 3 (0.58%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 190 (36.61%) Firewall
2 179 (34.49%) DNS
3 141 (27.17%) DHCP
4 80 (15.41%) TCP/IP
5 76 (14.64%) SAN
6 75 (14.45%) VPN
7 55 (10.60%) LAN
8 54 (10.40%) WAN
9 50 (9.63%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (8.86%) VLAN
11 30 (5.78%) NAS
11 30 (5.78%) VoIP
11 30 (5.78%) Wireless
12 20 (3.85%) Internet
13 17 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
14 16 (3.08%) Network Security
15 13 (2.50%) PBX
16 10 (1.93%) iSCSI
17 8 (1.54%) MPLS
18 7 (1.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.78%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.50%) MySQL
5 6 (1.16%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.16%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.77%) DB2
7 3 (0.58%) Big Data
7 3 (0.58%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.39%) MS Access
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.19%) Power BI
9 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.16%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.16%) Git
3 2 (0.39%) Hudson
3 2 (0.39%) JIRA
3 2 (0.39%) MSI
3 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.19%) GitLab
4 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 199 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 99 (19.08%) Finance
3 44 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.28%) Retail
6 16 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.70%) Billing
7 14 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.70%) Legal
8 13 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.93%) Aviation
9 10 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.73%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.54%) Law
12 7 (1.35%) Military
13 6 (1.16%) Banking
14 5 (0.96%) Automotive
15 4 (0.77%) Avionics
15 4 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.77%) Games
Job Titles
1 130 (25.05%) Support Engineer
2 127 (24.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 99 (19.08%) IT Engineer
4 77 (14.84%) IT Support
5 75 (14.45%) Senior
6 55 (10.60%) Analyst
7 54 (10.40%) IT Support Engineer
8 52 (10.02%) Administrator
9 47 (9.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 38 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
11 36 (6.94%) Infrastructure Support
12 33 (6.36%) IT Technician
13 32 (6.17%) DBA
14 31 (5.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 30 (5.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 28 (5.39%) VMware Engineer
17 27 (5.20%) DV Cleared DBA
18 26 (5.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 23 (4.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
20 22 (4.24%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.16%) LDAP
2 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.39%) XML
2 2 (0.39%) YAML
3 1 (0.19%) .NET
3 1 (0.19%) EDI
3 1 (0.19%) Kafka
3 1 (0.19%) SAML
3 1 (0.19%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.83%) Replication
1 51 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (8.67%) Driving Licence
3 44 (8.48%) Data Centre
4 31 (5.97%) Clustering
5 26 (5.01%) PKI
6 21 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.89%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.16%) Fat Client
9 6 (1.16%) Handset
9 6 (1.16%) Thin Client
9 6 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.16%) Xbox
10 5 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.96%) iPhone
11 4 (0.77%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.58%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 519 (100.00%) Windows
2 396 (76.30%) Windows Server
3 290 (55.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 247 (47.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 202 (38.92%) Windows 10
6 128 (24.66%) Linux
7 87 (16.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 66 (12.72%) Windows 7
9 40 (7.71%) CentOS
10 38 (7.32%) Windows 8
11 19 (3.66%) Windows NT
12 17 (3.28%) Windows XP
13 16 (3.08%) Mac OS
13 16 (3.08%) SUSE
14 15 (2.89%) Ubuntu
15 12 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 11 (2.12%) Apple iOS
17 8 (1.54%) VMS
18 6 (1.16%) Android
19 5 (0.96%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (32.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 147 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (23.12%) ITIL
4 83 (15.99%) Customer Service
5 63 (12.14%) Mentoring
6 49 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (9.25%) Performance Monitoring
8 47 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (9.06%) Storage Management
9 40 (7.71%) Capacity Management
10 38 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 37 (7.13%) Asset Management
12 33 (6.36%) Project Delivery
12 33 (6.36%) Time Management
13 32 (6.17%) Problem Management
13 32 (6.17%) Service Delivery
13 32 (6.17%) User Experience
14 30 (5.78%) Actionable Insight
14 30 (5.78%) Database Tuning
15 29 (5.59%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 163 (31.41%) PowerShell
2 81 (15.61%) SQL
3 39 (7.51%) Bash
4 15 (2.89%) VB
5 11 (2.12%) VBScript
6 10 (1.93%) ActionScript
7 7 (1.35%) Python
8 6 (1.16%) Perl
9 3 (0.58%) C#
9 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.19%) C++
10 1 (0.19%) Java
10 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.96%) Degree
3 61 (11.75%) DV Cleared
4 55 (10.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (5.78%) SC Cleared
7 29 (5.59%) DBS Check
8 27 (5.20%) CCNA
8 27 (5.20%) MCSE
9 24 (4.62%) MCSA
10 21 (4.05%) Azure Certification
11 18 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 16 (3.08%) HNC
13 12 (2.31%) CCNP
14 9 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (0.96%) A+ Certification
17 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.77%) MCTS
18 3 (0.58%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.21%) SLA
2 8 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.19%) PMO
4 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 375 (72.25%) Active Directory
2 219 (42.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (27.17%) Hyper-V
4 68 (13.10%) VMware ESXi
5 52 (10.02%) vSphere
6 22 (4.24%) Firmware
7 15 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (2.70%) vCloud
9 12 (2.31%) XenApp
10 11 (2.12%) Terminal Services
11 10 (1.93%) OpenSSH
12 6 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.77%) Docker
13 4 (0.77%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.58%) KVM
14 3 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.19%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (19.08%) SCCM
2 87 (16.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 61 (11.75%) WSUS
4 39 (7.51%) vCenter Server
5 23 (4.43%) SCOM
6 20 (3.85%) NetBackup
7 19 (3.66%) Failover Clustering
8 17 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.70%) Sysprep
10 13 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.93%) IBM BigFix
11 10 (1.93%) PowerCLI
11 10 (1.93%) Terraform
12 9 (1.73%) FortiGate
12 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 8 (1.54%) Ansible
13 8 (1.54%) Autotask
14 7 (1.35%) Nessus
15 6 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 358 (68.98%) Microsoft
2 275 (52.99%) VMware
3 88 (16.96%) Cisco
4 81 (15.61%) Veeam
5 58 (11.18%) Citrix
6 52 (10.02%) HP
7 49 (9.44%) Oracle
8 42 (8.09%) Red Hat
9 35 (6.74%) Dell
10 29 (5.59%) Apple
11 23 (4.43%) Juniper
12 21 (4.05%) Sophos
13 18 (3.47%) IBM
14 17 (3.28%) Fortinet
15 16 (3.08%) 3PAR
15 16 (3.08%) Palo Alto
16 14 (2.70%) Fujitsu
17 13 (2.50%) Avaya
17 13 (2.50%) Symantec
18 12 (2.31%) EMC