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 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 72 105 124
Rank change year-on-year +33 +19 -53
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 3,512 3,430 4,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.58% 3.28% 3.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.94% 20.57% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,110 2,753 3,969
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 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
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 27 April 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 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 +40 3,237 £42,500 -3.41% 640
UK excluding London +23 2,810 £38,000 -5.00% 573
Work from Home +36 1,137 £47,050 -5.90% 206
South East +32 793 £40,000 +14.29% 149
London +29 649 £60,000 +10.09% 112
North of England +27 621 £37,500 -6.25% 126
Midlands +45 544 £37,500 -3.23% 120
South West +20 321 £41,206 +3.02% 58
West Midlands +30 310 £35,000 -12.50% 82
East of England +18 298 £32,500 -18.75% 75
Yorkshire +67 285 £37,500 - 43
East Midlands +39 229 £40,000 +6.67% 38
North West -32 228 £43,500 -3.33% 66
Scotland -32 154 £42,500 -22.73% 37
North East +21 108 £35,000 -14.63% 20
Wales +31 62 £34,000 -9.33% 12
Isle of Man -6 12 £43,750 +45.83%
Northern Ireland -1 6 £37,314 +14.81% 6

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
1 853 (24.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 551 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 109 (3.10%) IIS
4 35 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 28 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
6 22 (0.63%) Confluence
7 17 (0.48%) CMS
8 12 (0.34%) WordPress
9 11 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
10 10 (0.28%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
12 7 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.17%) Apache
14 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
15 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.11%) SAS
15 4 (0.11%) TWiki
Applications
1 410 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.085%) Final Cut Pro
5 3 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.085%) Pro Tools
5 3 (0.085%) SPSS
6 2 (0.057%) CATIA
6 2 (0.057%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.057%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.028%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.028%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.085%) Shopify
5 2 (0.057%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.057%) Farmplan
5 2 (0.057%) KEYPrime
5 2 (0.057%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.028%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.028%) Magento
6 1 (0.028%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.028%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.028%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.028%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,037 (58.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1,708 (48.63%) Azure
3 619 (17.63%) Entra ID
4 397 (11.30%) AWS
5 267 (7.60%) OneDrive
6 107 (3.05%) IaaS
7 101 (2.88%) SaaS
8 83 (2.36%) GCP
9 73 (2.08%) Google Workspace
9 73 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 71 (2.02%) Power Platform
11 60 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (1.71%) PaaS
12 58 (1.65%) Nutanix
13 55 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
14 53 (1.51%) GitHub
15 36 (1.03%) WhatsApp
16 34 (0.97%) Power Automate
17 29 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
18 28 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,049 (29.87%) Firewall
2 852 (24.26%) DNS
3 695 (19.79%) DHCP
4 420 (11.96%) WAN
5 410 (11.67%) VPN
6 394 (11.22%) TCP/IP
7 391 (11.13%) LAN
8 353 (10.05%) SAN
9 245 (6.98%) VLAN
9 245 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
10 202 (5.75%) Wireless
11 197 (5.61%) VoIP
12 134 (3.82%) NAS
13 85 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
14 84 (2.39%) Internet
15 77 (2.19%) Network Security
16 71 (2.02%) SD-WAN
17 44 (1.25%) MPLS
18 39 (1.11%) WLAN
19 36 (1.03%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (10.85%) SQL Server
2 74 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (1.48%) Power BI
4 41 (1.17%) MySQL
5 35 (1.00%) DB2
6 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 17 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.37%) Big Data
10 11 (0.31%) MariaDB
11 10 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.26%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.23%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.17%) Redis
16 5 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.11%) UniData
Development Applications
1 63 (1.79%) JIRA
2 62 (1.77%) Git
3 31 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.77%) GitLab
5 10 (0.28%) Trac
6 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.23%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.20%) Snyk
8 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.17%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.14%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.11%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.11%) Hudson
11 4 (0.11%) MSI
11 4 (0.11%) Subversion
11 4 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,048 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 340 (9.68%) Finance
3 256 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (4.50%) Law
5 128 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 113 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
7 106 (3.02%) Retail
8 96 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 89 (2.53%) Legal
10 84 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 82 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 68 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.65%) Banking
14 46 (1.31%) Marketing
15 39 (1.11%) Games
16 32 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 25 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (0.65%) Automotive
19 21 (0.60%) Advertising
19 21 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 652 (18.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 637 (18.14%) IT Support
3 620 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 590 (16.80%) IT Engineer
5 447 (12.73%) Senior
6 381 (10.85%) Analyst
7 352 (10.02%) IT Support Engineer
8 254 (7.23%) 2nd Line Support
9 225 (6.41%) IT Technician
10 164 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support
11 163 (4.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 163 (4.64%) Lead
12 153 (4.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 149 (4.24%) Support Technician
14 147 (4.19%) IT Manager
15 142 (4.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 140 (3.99%) Systems Engineer
17 139 (3.96%) Administrator
18 137 (3.90%) Support Analyst
19 128 (3.64%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.20%) .NET
1 42 (1.20%) ARM Templates
2 24 (0.68%) LDAP
3 22 (0.63%) JSON
4 20 (0.57%) HTML
5 19 (0.54%) REST
6 13 (0.37%) React
7 12 (0.34%) LAMP
8 11 (0.31%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.31%) CSS
8 11 (0.31%) YAML
9 9 (0.26%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.26%) Web Services
9 9 (0.26%) XML
10 8 (0.23%) ASP.NET
11 7 (0.20%) ADSI
11 7 (0.20%) EDI
12 6 (0.17%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.17%) Middleware
12 6 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 253 (7.20%) Data Centre
2 206 (5.87%) Driving Licence
3 160 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
4 156 (4.44%) Replication
5 142 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 117 (3.33%) Clustering
7 94 (2.68%) PKI
8 85 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
11 35 (1.00%) Client/Server
12 34 (0.97%) CMDB
13 33 (0.94%) Operational Technology
14 28 (0.80%) NHS
15 25 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (0.63%) iPad
16 22 (0.63%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (0.57%) Life Science
18 20 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3,510 (99.94%) Windows
2 621 (17.68%) Windows 10
3 602 (17.14%) Linux
4 450 (12.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 410 (11.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 396 (11.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 133 (3.79%) Windows 7
8 122 (3.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 93 (2.65%) Windows 8
10 86 (2.45%) Mac OS
11 83 (2.36%) Apple iOS
12 80 (2.28%) Unix
13 74 (2.11%) Android
14 73 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 58 (1.65%) Ubuntu
16 43 (1.22%) CentOS
17 39 (1.11%) VMS
18 38 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
19 29 (0.83%) Mac OS X
20 22 (0.63%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (24.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 708 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
3 629 (17.91%) ITIL
4 545 (15.52%) Customer Service
5 428 (12.19%) Cybersecurity
6 269 (7.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 218 (6.21%) Mentoring
8 216 (6.15%) DevOps
9 211 (6.01%) Migration
10 206 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (5.72%) Project Delivery
12 178 (5.07%) Project Management
13 172 (4.90%) Agile
14 155 (4.41%) Service Management
15 148 (4.21%) Change Management
16 145 (4.13%) Server Management
17 140 (3.99%) Service Delivery
18 137 (3.90%) Incident Management
19 124 (3.53%) Time Management
20 117 (3.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 712 (20.27%) PowerShell
2 438 (12.47%) SQL
3 150 (4.27%) Python
4 103 (2.93%) Bash
5 77 (2.19%) C#
6 40 (1.14%) VBScript
7 39 (1.11%) VB
8 37 (1.05%) Java
9 31 (0.88%) JavaScript
10 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 18 (0.51%) Bicep
12 16 (0.46%) Perl
13 15 (0.43%) Korn
14 13 (0.37%) Ruby
15 11 (0.31%) C++
15 11 (0.31%) Delphi
16 10 (0.28%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.20%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.20%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 451 (12.84%) Degree
2 386 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 289 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 279 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 216 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 154 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
7 139 (3.96%) CCNA
8 116 (3.30%) MCSE
9 95 (2.71%) DBS Check
9 95 (2.71%) MCSA
10 85 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 68 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 59 (1.68%) Azure Certification
13 56 (1.59%) A+ Certification
14 40 (1.14%) AWS Certification
15 38 (1.08%) MCP
16 36 (1.03%) CCNP
17 33 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
18 30 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
19 26 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (7.37%) SLA
2 102 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 78 (2.22%) GDPR
4 69 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (0.80%) PMO
6 21 (0.60%) ITGC
6 21 (0.60%) NIST
7 20 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.40%) QA
9 12 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.11%) NCSC
13 3 (0.085%) GRC
14 2 (0.057%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.057%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.057%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.028%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2,230 (63.50%) Active Directory
2 1,045 (29.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 868 (24.72%) Hyper-V
4 225 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
5 210 (5.98%) vSphere
6 143 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
7 87 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 75 (2.14%) XenApp
9 66 (1.88%) XenDesktop
10 64 (1.82%) Docker
11 60 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
12 50 (1.42%) VirtualBox
13 38 (1.08%) Firmware
14 33 (0.94%) Terminal Services
15 25 (0.71%) VMware NSX
16 18 (0.51%) pfSense
17 17 (0.48%) NFS
18 15 (0.43%) vCloud
19 13 (0.37%) VMware Server
20 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 526 (14.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 355 (10.11%) SCCM
3 167 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 125 (3.56%) WSUS
5 109 (3.10%) SCOM
6 107 (3.05%) Ansible
7 89 (2.53%) Terraform
8 85 (2.42%) Kubernetes
9 65 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 51 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
12 49 (1.40%) FortiGate
13 41 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
14 34 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
15 31 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 29 (0.83%) Puppet
17 27 (0.77%) Grafana
18 25 (0.71%) Nessus
18 25 (0.71%) NetBackup
19 24 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,102 (59.85%) Microsoft
2 1,566 (44.59%) VMware
3 461 (13.13%) Cisco
4 350 (9.97%) Citrix
5 322 (9.17%) Veeam
6 203 (5.78%) HP
7 139 (3.96%) Apple
8 133 (3.79%) Dell
9 128 (3.64%) Meraki
10 116 (3.30%) Google
11 104 (2.96%) Sophos
12 87 (2.48%) Red Hat
13 84 (2.39%) NetApp
14 73 (2.08%) ServiceNow
15 71 (2.02%) Oracle
16 70 (1.99%) Commvault
17 65 (1.85%) Aruba
18 63 (1.79%) SolarWinds
19 54 (1.54%) Fortinet
20 52 (1.48%) Juniper