Windows Server Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 120 169
Rank change year-on-year +31 +49 -74
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,121 1,165 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.31% 2.80% 2.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.98% 18.11% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 965 953 1,447
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,631 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,542 £72,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,675 6,434 12,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.81% 15.47% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,625 4,713 7,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £30,487
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server.

Windows Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Windows Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 311 (27.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 170 (15.17%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.85%) IIS
4 11 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (0.80%) CMS
6 8 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.36%) Confluence
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.27%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.089%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 78 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.27%) SPSS
4 2 (0.18%) CATIA
4 2 (0.18%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.16%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 624 (55.66%) Microsoft 365
2 605 (53.97%) Azure
3 265 (23.64%) Entra ID
4 129 (11.51%) AWS
5 77 (6.87%) OneDrive
6 59 (5.26%) SaaS
7 43 (3.84%) GitHub
7 43 (3.84%) IaaS
8 32 (2.85%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (2.41%) Nutanix
10 23 (2.05%) PaaS
11 19 (1.69%) Azure Storage
12 18 (1.61%) Google Workspace
13 16 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.43%) Mimecast
13 16 (1.43%) WhatsApp
14 13 (1.16%) GCP
14 13 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 329 (29.35%) Firewall
2 274 (24.44%) DNS
3 220 (19.63%) DHCP
4 132 (11.78%) WAN
5 116 (10.35%) SAN
6 111 (9.90%) TCP/IP
7 110 (9.81%) LAN
8 97 (8.65%) VPN
9 80 (7.14%) Wireless
10 69 (6.16%) VLAN
11 67 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (3.93%) VoIP
13 37 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
14 36 (3.21%) Internet
15 34 (3.03%) NAS
16 26 (2.32%) SD-WAN
17 24 (2.14%) Network Security
18 17 (1.52%) FTP
19 15 (1.34%) HTTP
19 15 (1.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.45%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.77%) DB2
3 26 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (1.96%) Power BI
5 16 (1.43%) MySQL
6 13 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.45%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.36%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.27%) Big Data
13 3 (0.27%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (4.01%) Git
2 35 (3.12%) JIRA
3 22 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.16%) GitLab
5 10 (0.89%) Trac
6 6 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.54%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.54%) Snyk
7 4 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.27%) GoCD
8 3 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.27%) Subversion
9 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.089%) Log4Net
10 1 (0.089%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 332 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 178 (15.88%) Finance
3 112 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (3.75%) Telecoms
5 37 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.21%) Legal
7 35 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.32%) Law
10 24 (2.14%) Marketing
11 23 (2.05%) Banking
12 21 (1.87%) Retail
13 17 (1.52%) Games
14 14 (1.25%) Advertising
15 13 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.71%) Military
18 7 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.54%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 241 (21.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 187 (16.68%) Senior
3 160 (14.27%) IT Engineer
4 153 (13.65%) Support Engineer
5 118 (10.53%) IT Support
6 111 (9.90%) Analyst
7 86 (7.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 75 (6.69%) 3rd Line Support
9 72 (6.42%) IT Support Engineer
10 65 (5.80%) Consultant
11 63 (5.62%) Lead
12 59 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 54 (4.82%) IT Manager
14 43 (3.84%) Administrator
15 42 (3.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 41 (3.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 40 (3.57%) IT Analyst
18 39 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
19 38 (3.39%) 2nd Line Support
19 38 (3.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.96%) .NET
2 18 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 11 (0.98%) HTML
4 9 (0.80%) AngularJS
4 9 (0.80%) CSS
4 9 (0.80%) LDAP
5 8 (0.71%) .NET Core
5 8 (0.71%) Web Services
6 7 (0.62%) ASP.NET
7 6 (0.54%) AWS CDK
7 6 (0.54%) jQuery
7 6 (0.54%) React
8 5 (0.45%) Blazor
8 5 (0.45%) REST
9 4 (0.36%) JSON
9 4 (0.36%) Middleware
9 4 (0.36%) SAML
9 4 (0.36%) XML
10 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.27%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.28%) Self-Motivation
2 88 (7.85%) Data Centre
3 50 (4.46%) PKI
4 49 (4.37%) Management Information System
5 45 (4.01%) Clustering
6 39 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.59%) Driving Licence
8 28 (2.50%) Replication
9 19 (1.69%) SCADA
9 19 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
10 18 (1.61%) Client/Server
11 17 (1.52%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.25%) iPad
13 13 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.71%) EFT
15 8 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
15 8 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.71%) Product Ownership
16 7 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,121 (100.00%) Windows
2 223 (19.89%) Linux
3 217 (19.36%) Windows 10
4 168 (14.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 149 (13.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 145 (12.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 61 (5.44%) Windows 7
8 51 (4.55%) Unix
9 47 (4.19%) Windows 8
10 34 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.05%) Mac OS
13 13 (1.16%) Windows NT
14 11 (0.98%) Android
14 11 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.71%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.71%) VMS
16 5 (0.45%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.36%) Windows 2000
17 4 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (25.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 237 (21.14%) ITIL
3 198 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (14.09%) Customer Service
5 129 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (8.92%) DevOps
7 89 (7.94%) Migration
8 86 (7.67%) Mentoring
9 74 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 71 (6.33%) Agile
11 67 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (5.80%) Project Delivery
12 65 (5.80%) Server Management
13 64 (5.71%) Service Management
14 61 (5.44%) Information Security
15 58 (5.17%) Roadmaps
16 57 (5.08%) Change Management
17 54 (4.82%) CI/CD
17 54 (4.82%) Project Management
18 48 (4.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 266 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 126 (11.24%) SQL
3 55 (4.91%) Python
4 42 (3.75%) Bash
4 42 (3.75%) C#
5 34 (3.03%) VBScript
6 32 (2.85%) VB
7 20 (1.78%) Java
8 16 (1.43%) Bicep
9 12 (1.07%) Korn
10 11 (0.98%) Delphi
10 11 (0.98%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.89%) Perl
11 10 (0.89%) Ruby
12 9 (0.80%) ActionScript
12 9 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.36%) C++
15 3 (0.27%) R
15 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 179 (15.97%) Degree
2 99 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 70 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (2.41%) CCNA
8 24 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.05%) MCSE
10 21 (1.87%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 14 (1.25%) CISA
15 13 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (1.16%) MCSA
16 12 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.80%) A+ Certification
18 8 (0.71%) CISSP
18 8 (0.71%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.55%) SLA
2 31 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 31 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.43%) PMO
4 15 (1.34%) ITGC
5 12 (1.07%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.89%) NIST
7 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.62%) QA
10 6 (0.54%) GDPR
11 3 (0.27%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.089%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.089%) GxP
13 1 (0.089%) NCSC
System Software
1 714 (63.69%) Active Directory
2 351 (31.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 316 (28.19%) Hyper-V
4 83 (7.40%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
6 58 (5.17%) vSphere
7 48 (4.28%) Docker
8 44 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 43 (3.84%) XenApp
10 37 (3.30%) XenDesktop
11 30 (2.68%) VirtualBox
12 15 (1.34%) NFS
13 13 (1.16%) Firmware
14 10 (0.89%) pfSense
14 10 (0.89%) Terminal Services
15 9 (0.80%) OpenSSH
16 6 (0.54%) DFS Replication
16 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 211 (18.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 130 (11.60%) SCCM
3 62 (5.53%) vCenter Server
4 58 (5.17%) Ansible
5 55 (4.91%) WSUS
6 49 (4.37%) Kubernetes
6 49 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 39 (3.48%) SCOM
9 35 (3.12%) Terraform
10 32 (2.85%) Microsoft Clustering
11 21 (1.87%) Grafana
12 19 (1.69%) Nagios
13 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 16 (1.43%) Puppet
15 11 (0.98%) PowerCLI
15 11 (0.98%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.89%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
16 10 (0.89%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 709 (63.25%) Microsoft
2 551 (49.15%) VMware
3 127 (11.33%) Citrix
4 117 (10.44%) Cisco
5 74 (6.60%) Veeam
6 60 (5.35%) Meraki
7 48 (4.28%) HP
8 43 (3.84%) ServiceNow
9 38 (3.39%) Apple
10 36 (3.21%) NetApp
11 32 (2.85%) Sun
12 31 (2.77%) Dell
12 31 (2.77%) Oracle
13 30 (2.68%) Red Hat
14 28 (2.50%) Commvault
14 28 (2.50%) Fortinet
14 28 (2.50%) IBM
15 24 (2.14%) Google
16 22 (1.96%) Sophos
17 20 (1.78%) EMC