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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 441 598
Rank change year-on-year +9 +157 -118
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 563 703 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.01% 4.34% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 498 541 613
10th Percentile £26,175 £26,250 £25,550
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £66,250 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £34,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% -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 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 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 9 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 9 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 +37 538 £42,500 +3.66% 118
UK excluding London -26 479 £40,000 +17.65% 97
Work from Home +54 174 £45,000 +5.88% 38
South East -32 147 £51,350 +63.02% 30
North of England +26 100 £35,000 -20.00% 20
Midlands +2 84 £32,000 -1.54% 19
South West -12 81 £38,125 -4.69% 12
London +20 75 £48,750 -12.16% 24
Yorkshire +99 59 £35,000 +8.70% 10
East of England +41 52 £32,500 +14.04% 16
West Midlands -1 44 £35,500 +9.23% 11
East Midlands +8 39 £32,000 -24.71% 8
North West -27 30 £45,000 - 9
North East -1 11 £27,500 -53.19% 1
Wales +1 7 £25,000 -9.09% 1
Scotland -77 7 £36,000 -10.00% 1
Northern Ireland +16 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
1 136 (24.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (15.81%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.55%) IIS
4 14 (2.49%) Confluence
5 9 (1.60%) WordPress
6 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.18%) Site Server
Applications
1 86 (15.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 316 (56.13%) Microsoft 365
2 266 (47.25%) Azure
3 100 (17.76%) Entra ID
4 53 (9.41%) OneDrive
5 45 (7.99%) AWS
6 32 (5.68%) Mimecast
7 27 (4.80%) SaaS
8 19 (3.37%) IaaS
8 19 (3.37%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.20%) Azure Storage
10 17 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (2.66%) Google Workspace
12 14 (2.49%) PaaS
13 13 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.13%) OCI
15 8 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 6 (1.07%) OpenShift
18 5 (0.89%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 202 (35.88%) DNS
2 183 (32.50%) Firewall
3 177 (31.44%) DHCP
4 93 (16.52%) TCP/IP
5 83 (14.74%) VPN
6 79 (14.03%) WAN
7 75 (13.32%) LAN
8 64 (11.37%) SAN
9 57 (10.12%) Wireless
10 56 (9.95%) VLAN
11 53 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (5.15%) VoIP
13 20 (3.55%) Remote Desktop
14 18 (3.20%) Network Security
15 17 (3.02%) Internet
16 15 (2.66%) NAS
17 13 (2.31%) Fibre Channel
17 13 (2.31%) SD-WAN
18 11 (1.95%) iSCSI
18 11 (1.95%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.68%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (5.33%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.20%) MySQL
4 9 (1.60%) DB2
5 8 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.24%) Power BI
7 6 (1.07%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.07%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.71%) UniData
10 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.02%) JIRA
2 8 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.07%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.89%) Git
5 4 (0.71%) MSI
6 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 207 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.32%) Finance
3 33 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.73%) Retail
5 19 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.02%) Public Sector
7 16 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.13%) Back Office
9 12 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.95%) Automotive
11 6 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.07%) Aviation
12 5 (0.89%) Banking
12 5 (0.89%) Games
13 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Law
14 2 (0.36%) Legal
15 1 (0.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 121 (21.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 106 (18.83%) IT Engineer
3 99 (17.58%) IT Support
4 81 (14.39%) Support Engineer
5 75 (13.32%) Senior
6 68 (12.08%) Analyst
7 67 (11.90%) Administrator
8 57 (10.12%) IT Support Engineer
9 40 (7.10%) 2nd Line Support
10 34 (6.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 31 (5.51%) Systems Administrator
12 30 (5.33%) DBA
12 30 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (4.97%) Lead
13 28 (4.97%) Systems Engineer
14 27 (4.80%) DV Cleared DBA
14 27 (4.80%) Service Analyst
15 24 (4.26%) Support Analyst
16 23 (4.09%) IT Technician
16 23 (4.09%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.20%) ARM Templates
2 14 (2.49%) .NET
3 13 (2.31%) WPF
4 9 (1.60%) LAMP
5 8 (1.42%) LDAP
6 3 (0.53%) SAML
6 3 (0.53%) YAML
7 2 (0.36%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.36%) WSH
7 2 (0.36%) X-Windows
8 1 (0.18%) EDI
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 58 (10.30%) Self-Motivation
2 54 (9.59%) Driving Licence
3 35 (6.22%) PKI
4 30 (5.33%) Replication
5 26 (4.62%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.20%) Clustering
8 16 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.31%) CCTV
10 11 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.07%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.07%) EMC VNX
13 6 (1.07%) Handset
13 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.07%) iPad
13 6 (1.07%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.07%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 534 (94.85%) Windows
2 412 (73.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 397 (70.52%) Windows Server
4 244 (43.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 227 (40.32%) Windows 10
6 114 (20.25%) Linux
7 40 (7.10%) CentOS
8 36 (6.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 33 (5.86%) Windows 7
10 28 (4.97%) Apple iOS
11 18 (3.20%) Windows Server 2003
12 17 (3.02%) Mac OS
13 16 (2.84%) Windows NT
13 16 (2.84%) Windows XP
14 15 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 14 (2.49%) Ubuntu
16 13 (2.31%) VMS
17 11 (1.95%) Android
18 7 (1.24%) Mac OS X
19 6 (1.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (27.00%) ITIL
2 147 (26.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 136 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (19.36%) Customer Service
5 69 (12.26%) Mentoring
6 61 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 58 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (9.41%) Service Management
9 50 (8.88%) Performance Monitoring
10 48 (8.53%) Project Management
11 47 (8.35%) Time Management
12 46 (8.17%) Change Management
13 42 (7.46%) Storage Management
14 38 (6.75%) Agile
15 36 (6.39%) User Experience
16 35 (6.22%) Server Management
16 35 (6.22%) Service Delivery
17 33 (5.86%) Line Management
18 30 (5.33%) Capacity Management
18 30 (5.33%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 190 (33.75%) PowerShell
2 78 (13.85%) SQL
3 43 (7.64%) Bash
4 29 (5.15%) C#
5 19 (3.37%) VB
6 17 (3.02%) Python
7 16 (2.84%) VBScript
8 14 (2.49%) Bicep
9 6 (1.07%) Perl
10 2 (0.36%) Java
10 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 120 (21.31%) Degree
3 76 (13.50%) DV Cleared
4 51 (9.06%) SC Cleared
5 46 (8.17%) DBS Check
6 34 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (4.09%) CCNP
9 21 (3.73%) CCNA
10 20 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (3.20%) HNC
12 15 (2.66%) MCSE
13 14 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (2.13%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.95%) A+ Certification
15 11 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (1.78%) MCSA
17 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
18 8 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 3 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.59%) SLA
2 19 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.42%) GDPR
5 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.53%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) QA
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 367 (65.19%) Active Directory
2 188 (33.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 153 (27.18%) Hyper-V
4 46 (8.17%) vSphere
5 44 (7.82%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (7.64%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (5.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (3.37%) Firmware
9 6 (1.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 6 (1.07%) Docker
9 6 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.89%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.71%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.36%) NFS
12 2 (0.36%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 120 (21.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 110 (19.54%) SCCM
3 70 (12.43%) WSUS
4 39 (6.93%) vCenter Server
5 37 (6.57%) SCOM
6 24 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (3.91%) Ansible
8 21 (3.73%) Terraform
9 20 (3.55%) Kubernetes
10 19 (3.37%) EMC NetWorker
11 18 (3.20%) NetBackup
12 15 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
13 13 (2.31%) McAfee ePO
14 12 (2.13%) Sysprep
15 10 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (1.60%) Autotask
17 8 (1.42%) SCVMM
18 7 (1.24%) FortiGate
18 7 (1.24%) Puppet
18 7 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 449 (79.75%) Microsoft
2 252 (44.76%) VMware
3 81 (14.39%) Cisco
4 66 (11.72%) Veeam
5 57 (10.12%) Apple
6 53 (9.41%) Citrix
7 50 (8.88%) Oracle
8 45 (7.99%) Red Hat
9 41 (7.28%) HP
10 40 (7.10%) Sophos
11 30 (5.33%) Palo Alto
12 29 (5.15%) Aruba
13 27 (4.80%) Dell
13 27 (4.80%) Meraki
14 23 (4.09%) Google
15 22 (3.91%) Juniper
16 19 (3.37%) Adobe
16 19 (3.37%) Barracuda Networks
16 19 (3.37%) EMC
17 18 (3.20%) 3PAR