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 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 74 101 138
Rank change year-on-year +27 +37 -64
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 3,449 3,349 4,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.48% 3.30% 2.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.58% 20.70% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 2,690 3,887
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,938 £55,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £39,820 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -

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 14,033 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
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 9 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 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 +34 3,182 £41,500 -6.74% 645
UK excluding London +21 2,756 £38,000 -4.57% 543
Work from Home +33 1,119 £47,100 -5.80% 208
South East +24 770 £39,500 +11.27% 147
London +28 638 £57,500 +4.55% 128
North of England +21 619 £37,500 -6.25% 114
Midlands +43 537 £37,500 -3.23% 106
South West +11 308 £40,000 - 72
West Midlands +26 303 £35,000 -11.71% 63
East of England +17 298 £32,500 -17.72% 81
Yorkshire +68 287 £37,500 - 42
East Midlands +39 229 £40,000 +6.67% 43
North West -42 224 £43,500 -3.33% 57
Scotland -40 146 £42,500 -7.10% 25
North East +22 108 £35,000 -15.15% 16
Wales +22 61 £35,750 -4.67% 10
Isle of Man -4 12 £43,750 +45.83%
Northern Ireland +3 6 £37,314 +9.75% 3

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
1 821 (23.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 539 (15.63%) SharePoint
3 105 (3.04%) IIS
4 34 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 22 (0.64%) Confluence
5 22 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
6 17 (0.49%) CMS
7 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
7 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
7 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
7 11 (0.32%) WordPress
8 10 (0.29%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.17%) Apache
12 5 (0.14%) SAS
12 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.12%) TWiki
Applications
1 400 (11.60%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.087%) Final Cut Pro
5 3 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.087%) Pro Tools
5 3 (0.087%) SPSS
6 2 (0.058%) CATIA
6 2 (0.058%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.058%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.029%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.029%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.087%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.087%) Shopify
6 2 (0.058%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.058%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.058%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.058%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.029%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.029%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.029%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,007 (58.19%) Microsoft 365
2 1,685 (48.85%) Azure
3 610 (17.69%) Entra ID
4 401 (11.63%) AWS
5 265 (7.68%) OneDrive
6 106 (3.07%) SaaS
7 102 (2.96%) IaaS
8 86 (2.49%) GCP
9 71 (2.06%) Google Workspace
10 70 (2.03%) Power Platform
11 69 (2.00%) Mimecast
12 60 (1.74%) PaaS
13 58 (1.68%) Nutanix
14 55 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
15 54 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 52 (1.51%) GitHub
17 35 (1.01%) WhatsApp
18 30 (0.87%) Power Automate
19 29 (0.84%) Azure Storage
20 28 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,036 (30.04%) Firewall
2 843 (24.44%) DNS
3 680 (19.72%) DHCP
4 417 (12.09%) WAN
5 391 (11.34%) VPN
6 389 (11.28%) TCP/IP
7 385 (11.16%) LAN
8 341 (9.89%) SAN
9 239 (6.93%) Wi-Fi
10 229 (6.64%) VLAN
11 199 (5.77%) Wireless
12 194 (5.62%) VoIP
13 129 (3.74%) NAS
14 83 (2.41%) Internet
15 82 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
16 74 (2.15%) Network Security
17 73 (2.12%) SD-WAN
18 41 (1.19%) MPLS
19 39 (1.13%) WLAN
20 33 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (1.45%) Power BI
4 40 (1.16%) MySQL
5 35 (1.01%) DB2
6 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (0.49%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (0.38%) Big Data
10 11 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 10 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.23%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.17%) Redis
16 5 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.14%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 65 (1.88%) JIRA
2 63 (1.83%) Git
3 32 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.78%) GitLab
5 10 (0.29%) Trac
6 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
8 7 (0.20%) Robot Framework
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%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.12%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.12%) Hudson
11 4 (0.12%) MSI
11 4 (0.12%) Subversion
11 4 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,037 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 343 (9.94%) Finance
3 259 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (4.49%) Law
5 130 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 111 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
7 101 (2.93%) Retail
8 94 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 84 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 84 (2.44%) Legal
10 82 (2.38%) Public Sector
11 64 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (1.57%) Banking
13 47 (1.36%) Marketing
14 39 (1.13%) Games
15 34 (0.99%) Aerospace
16 28 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (0.64%) Automotive
17 22 (0.64%) Electronics
18 20 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 638 (18.50%) IT Support
2 625 (18.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 625 (18.12%) Support Engineer
3 585 (16.96%) IT Engineer
4 417 (12.09%) Senior
5 384 (11.13%) Analyst
6 353 (10.23%) IT Support Engineer
7 246 (7.13%) 2nd Line Support
8 223 (6.47%) IT Technician
9 165 (4.78%) 3rd Line Support
10 162 (4.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 162 (4.70%) Lead
11 156 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 151 (4.38%) Support Technician
13 143 (4.15%) IT Manager
14 141 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
15 138 (4.00%) Support Analyst
16 135 (3.91%) Administrator
17 130 (3.77%) IT Analyst
17 130 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.25%) .NET
2 39 (1.13%) ARM Templates
3 24 (0.70%) LDAP
4 21 (0.61%) HTML
5 19 (0.55%) REST
6 16 (0.46%) JSON
7 14 (0.41%) React
7 14 (0.41%) YAML
8 12 (0.35%) CSS
9 11 (0.32%) .NET Core
9 11 (0.32%) LAMP
10 9 (0.26%) AngularJS
10 9 (0.26%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.26%) Web Services
10 9 (0.26%) XML
11 8 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.20%) ADSI
12 7 (0.20%) EDI
13 6 (0.17%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 249 (7.22%) Data Centre
2 205 (5.94%) Driving Licence
3 158 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 152 (4.41%) Replication
5 144 (4.18%) Management Information System
6 113 (3.28%) Clustering
7 89 (2.58%) PKI
8 85 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 67 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.04%) Client/Server
10 36 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
11 35 (1.01%) Operational Technology
12 31 (0.90%) CMDB
13 28 (0.81%) NHS
14 27 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.72%) Security Posture
16 22 (0.64%) iPad
17 19 (0.55%) Life Science
17 19 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3,448 (99.97%) Windows
2 612 (17.74%) Windows 10
3 594 (17.22%) Linux
4 438 (12.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 397 (11.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 382 (11.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 127 (3.68%) Windows 7
8 111 (3.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 87 (2.52%) Mac OS
9 87 (2.52%) Windows 8
10 79 (2.29%) Unix
11 76 (2.20%) Apple iOS
12 74 (2.15%) Android
13 67 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 55 (1.59%) Ubuntu
15 44 (1.28%) CentOS
16 38 (1.10%) VMS
17 36 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
18 26 (0.75%) Mac OS X
19 21 (0.61%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (23.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 697 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
3 619 (17.95%) ITIL
4 536 (15.54%) Customer Service
5 432 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
6 266 (7.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 218 (6.32%) Mentoring
8 214 (6.20%) DevOps
9 201 (5.83%) Migration
10 198 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 193 (5.60%) Project Delivery
12 172 (4.99%) Project Management
13 169 (4.90%) Agile
14 150 (4.35%) Service Management
15 146 (4.23%) Server Management
16 141 (4.09%) Change Management
17 134 (3.89%) Service Delivery
18 124 (3.60%) Incident Management
19 123 (3.57%) Time Management
20 115 (3.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 674 (19.54%) PowerShell
2 427 (12.38%) SQL
3 146 (4.23%) Python
4 100 (2.90%) Bash
5 76 (2.20%) C#
6 40 (1.16%) VBScript
7 39 (1.13%) VB
8 38 (1.10%) Java
9 32 (0.93%) JavaScript
10 24 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.46%) Bicep
12 13 (0.38%) Perl
13 12 (0.35%) Korn
14 11 (0.32%) C++
14 11 (0.32%) Delphi
15 10 (0.29%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.29%) Ruby
16 8 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.20%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 439 (12.73%) Degree
2 370 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 291 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 266 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 204 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 155 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
7 140 (4.06%) CCNA
8 119 (3.45%) MCSE
9 99 (2.87%) DBS Check
10 93 (2.70%) MCSA
11 83 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 66 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 58 (1.68%) Azure Certification
14 51 (1.48%) A+ Certification
15 40 (1.16%) AWS Certification
16 38 (1.10%) MCP
17 36 (1.04%) CCNP
18 33 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
19 29 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
20 26 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (7.60%) SLA
2 100 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 77 (2.23%) GDPR
4 68 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (0.75%) PMO
6 22 (0.64%) NIST
7 19 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.55%) ITGC
8 15 (0.43%) QA
9 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.14%) NCSC
13 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.087%) GRC
14 3 (0.087%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.087%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.058%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.029%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2,172 (62.97%) Active Directory
2 1,001 (29.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 844 (24.47%) Hyper-V
4 224 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
5 203 (5.89%) vSphere
6 139 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
7 80 (2.32%) XenApp
8 79 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 72 (2.09%) XenDesktop
10 65 (1.88%) Docker
11 57 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
12 48 (1.39%) VirtualBox
13 33 (0.96%) Firmware
13 33 (0.96%) Terminal Services
14 22 (0.64%) VMware NSX
15 18 (0.52%) pfSense
16 16 (0.46%) NFS
17 14 (0.41%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.38%) vCloud
19 10 (0.29%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 516 (14.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 345 (10.00%) SCCM
3 165 (4.78%) vCenter Server
4 116 (3.36%) WSUS
5 105 (3.04%) Ansible
6 104 (3.02%) SCOM
7 95 (2.75%) Terraform
8 87 (2.52%) Kubernetes
9 66 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 55 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 47 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
12 46 (1.33%) FortiGate
13 36 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
14 33 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
15 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 27 (0.78%) Grafana
17 25 (0.72%) NetBackup
17 25 (0.72%) Puppet
18 24 (0.70%) Nagios
18 24 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,057 (59.64%) Microsoft
2 1,529 (44.33%) VMware
3 453 (13.13%) Cisco
4 349 (10.12%) Citrix
5 317 (9.19%) Veeam
6 198 (5.74%) HP
7 137 (3.97%) Apple
8 136 (3.94%) Dell
9 120 (3.48%) Meraki
10 118 (3.42%) Google
11 99 (2.87%) Sophos
12 85 (2.46%) NetApp
12 85 (2.46%) Red Hat
13 71 (2.06%) Commvault
14 70 (2.03%) Oracle
15 68 (1.97%) ServiceNow
16 63 (1.83%) Aruba
17 58 (1.68%) SolarWinds
18 57 (1.65%) Fortinet
19 55 (1.59%) Juniper