The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows Server Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Server Engineer
Rank 812 864 821
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Server Engineer 50 34 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.046% 0.028% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.030% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 44 29 40
Average salary £40,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,900 £28,700 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £48,000 £50,400
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-9.33% +7.14%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Windows Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Windows Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK.

Windows Server Engineer Salary Trend

Windows Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Windows Server Engineer Salary Histogram

Windows Server Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +43 48 £40,000 +6.66%
London +51 26 £45,000 +5.88%
City of London - 13 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +2 9 £28,500 -28.75%
West Yorkshire -1 7 £27,000 -32.50%
Leeds -14 7 £27,000 -32.50%
South East +1 5 £43,000 +32.30%
Berkshire +5 3 £43,000 +32.30%
Reading +5 3 £43,000 +32.30%
West Midlands -19 3 £41,250 +3.12%
East of England - 3 £34,000 -
Birmingham -6 2 £41,250 -13.15%
Scotland -10 2 £42,500 +21.42%
Cambridge - 2 £34,000 -
Edinburgh - 2 £42,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £34,000 -
Surrey +14 1 £50,000 +33.33%
Redhill +8 1 £50,000 +17.64%
Hampshire +6 1 £30,000 +3.44%
Nottinghamshire 0 1 £45,000 +12.50%
Nottingham -3 1 £45,000 +12.50%
East Midlands -3 1 £45,000 +33.33%
North West -14 1 £45,000 +26.76%
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 £31,000 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £25,000 -
Telford - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £45,000 -

Windows Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Windows Server Engineer in their job title.

1 97 (100.00%) Windows
2 78 (80.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 63 (64.95%) Active Directory
4 57 (58.76%) Windows Server 2003
5 54 (55.67%) Microsoft
6 49 (50.52%) VMware
7 45 (46.39%) SAN
8 37 (38.14%) MS Exchange
9 33 (34.02%) Finance
10 31 (31.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (29.90%) Exchange Server 2010
12 28 (28.87%) DNS
13 27 (27.84%) DHCP
13 27 (27.84%) Citrix
13 27 (27.84%) MCSE
14 26 (26.80%) VMware Infrastructure
14 26 (26.80%) PowerShell
15 25 (25.77%) SQL Server
16 23 (23.71%) Linux
17 22 (22.68%) HP
17 22 (22.68%) Exchange Server 2007
17 22 (22.68%) Windows 7
18 21 (21.65%) SCCM
18 21 (21.65%) Windows Server 2012
18 21 (21.65%) SQL
19 18 (18.56%) Hyper-V
20 17 (17.53%) TCP/IP
20 17 (17.53%) Banking
21 15 (15.46%) MCITP
21 15 (15.46%) Clustering

Windows Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Windows Server Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Windows Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (10.31%) .NET
2 6 (6.186%) XML
3 5 (5.155%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.031%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.031%) COM
4 1 (1.031%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 37 (38.14%) MS Exchange
2 29 (29.90%) Exchange Server 2010
3 22 (22.68%) Exchange Server 2007
4 14 (14.43%) SharePoint
4 14 (14.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 11 (11.34%) IIS
6 9 (9.278%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (4.124%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (4.124%) Lync
8 2 (2.062%) Office Communications Server
8 2 (2.062%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (2.062%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) MS Excel
2 7 (7.216%) MS Office
3 1 (1.031%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (1.031%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 45 (46.39%) SAN
2 28 (28.87%) DNS
3 27 (27.84%) DHCP
4 17 (17.53%) TCP/IP
5 12 (12.37%) NAS
6 11 (11.34%) iSCSI
7 10 (10.31%) Internet
8 9 (9.278%) Firewall
9 8 (8.247%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (8.247%) VoIP
10 5 (5.155%) HTTP
11 3 (3.093%) LDAP
11 3 (3.093%) SMTP
11 3 (3.093%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (2.062%) FTP
12 2 (2.062%) LAN
12 2 (2.062%) BIG-IP
12 2 (2.062%) SSH
13 1 (1.031%) 3G
13 1 (1.031%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.31%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (7.216%) MySQL
4 3 (3.093%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (3.093%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.062%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.031%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (2.062%) WebLOAD
General
1 33 (34.02%) Finance
2 17 (17.53%) Banking
3 9 (9.278%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.155%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.124%) Music
5 4 (4.124%) French Language
5 4 (4.124%) Law
6 3 (3.093%) Advertising
7 2 (2.062%) Publishing
7 2 (2.062%) Back Office
8 1 (1.031%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Clustering
2 14 (14.43%) Blackberry
3 6 (6.186%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.186%) SaaS
3 6 (6.186%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.093%) PKI
4 3 (3.093%) EqualLogic
5 2 (2.062%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (2.062%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.031%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 97 (100.00%) Windows
2 78 (80.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 57 (58.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 23 (23.71%) Linux
5 22 (22.68%) Windows 7
6 21 (21.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (9.278%) UNIX
8 6 (6.186%) Windows 2000 Server
9 3 (3.093%) Windows XP
10 2 (2.062%) Windows 2000
10 2 (2.062%) HPUX
10 2 (2.062%) Solaris
11 1 (1.031%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.031%) AIX
11 1 (1.031%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.031%) CentOS
11 1 (1.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.031%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (12.37%) Project Management
2 10 (10.31%) ITIL
3 5 (5.155%) Service Delivery
3 5 (5.155%) Change Management
3 5 (5.155%) Migration
4 4 (4.124%) Load Balancing
4 4 (4.124%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (4.124%) E-Commerce
4 4 (4.124%) Configuration Management
5 3 (3.093%) PRINCE2
5 3 (3.093%) B2B
5 3 (3.093%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (3.093%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (2.062%) High Availability
7 1 (1.031%) BCP
7 1 (1.031%) Service Management
7 1 (1.031%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.031%) Business Continuity
7 1 (1.031%) OO
7 1 (1.031%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.80%) PowerShell
2 21 (21.65%) SQL
3 9 (9.278%) VBScript
4 6 (6.186%) C
4 6 (6.186%) C#
4 6 (6.186%) VB
4 6 (6.186%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.062%) Perl
6 1 (1.031%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (31.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (27.84%) MCSE
3 15 (15.46%) MCITP
4 14 (14.43%) MCP
5 8 (8.247%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.186%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.186%) CCNA
7 4 (4.124%) MCTS
8 2 (2.062%) MCSA
8 2 (2.062%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.031%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.031%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.031%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.031%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (64.95%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (18.56%) Hyper-V
4 15 (15.46%) vSphere
5 11 (11.34%) XenApp
6 7 (7.216%) VMware ESX
7 4 (4.124%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 4 (4.124%) NFS
8 3 (3.093%) ISA Server
8 3 (3.093%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.062%) IAG
9 2 (2.062%) XenServer
9 2 (2.062%) Terminal Services
10 1 (1.031%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.031%) VMware Server
10 1 (1.031%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) SCCM
2 10 (10.31%) SCOM
3 7 (7.216%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 6 (6.186%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (4.124%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.124%) WMI
6 3 (3.093%) Cacti
6 3 (3.093%) OpenNMS
7 2 (2.062%) WSUS
8 1 (1.031%) Nagios
8 1 (1.031%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 1 (1.031%) HP SIM
8 1 (1.031%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (55.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (50.52%) VMware
3 27 (27.84%) Citrix
4 22 (22.68%) HP
5 15 (15.46%) Cisco
6 13 (13.40%) NetApp
7 8 (8.247%) Symantec
8 7 (7.216%) Sophos
8 7 (7.216%) EMC
9 5 (5.155%) IBM
10 4 (4.124%) F5
10 4 (4.124%) Oracle
11 3 (3.093%) Remedy
11 3 (3.093%) LANDesk
12 2 (2.062%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.062%) Brocade
12 2 (2.062%) Juniper
13 1 (1.031%) CheckPoint
13 1 (1.031%) Apple
13 1 (1.031%) Veritas
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