Windows Server Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 47 35
Rank change year-on-year -32 -12 +21
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 114 119 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.92% 4.61% 4.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.92% 30.20% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 85 109 252
10th Percentile £26,350 £27,200 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +30.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £66,000 £50,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -2.88%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 381 394 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.42% 15.25% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 290 318 910
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,595 £47,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £58,086 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the East of England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -26 38 £52,500 +16.67% 14
Norfolk +3 21 £60,000 +87.50% 5
Suffolk +9 18 £40,000 +23.08% 5
Cambridgeshire -31 15 £28,500 -12.24% 6
Essex -24 14 £39,250 +30.83% 4
Bedfordshire +8 8 £27,000 -50.91% 5
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (27.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (79.82%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (55.26%) Azure
3 50 (43.86%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.40%) PowerApps
5 10 (8.77%) OneDrive
6 7 (6.14%) IaaS
6 7 (6.14%) PaaS
7 6 (5.26%) Google Workspace
8 5 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.63%) Cohesity
10 2 (1.75%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (41.23%) Firewall
2 35 (30.70%) DNS
3 32 (28.07%) DHCP
4 23 (20.18%) VPN
5 21 (18.42%) LAN
5 21 (18.42%) TCP/IP
6 17 (14.91%) WAN
7 15 (13.16%) VLAN
8 12 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (8.77%) SAN
9 10 (8.77%) Wireless
10 9 (7.89%) IMAP
10 9 (7.89%) POP3
10 9 (7.89%) SMTP
11 5 (4.39%) EIGRP
11 5 (4.39%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (4.39%) Network Security
11 5 (4.39%) OSPF
11 5 (4.39%) Wireshark
12 3 (2.63%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.89%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Retail
6 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.75%) Finance
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (42.98%) IT Support
2 45 (39.47%) IT Engineer
3 41 (35.96%) Support Engineer
4 36 (31.58%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (24.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 25 (21.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 21 (18.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 18 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (9.65%) Senior
11 9 (7.89%) IT Technician
12 8 (7.02%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 8 (7.02%) Lead
12 8 (7.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (7.02%) Team Leader
13 7 (6.14%) IT Support Technician
13 7 (6.14%) Support Technician
14 5 (4.39%) 3rd Line Support
14 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) .NET
1 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
1 1 (0.88%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.39%) Robotics
5 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.63%) Replication
7 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.88%) Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 114 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (19.30%) Windows 10
3 20 (17.54%) Windows Server 2019
4 19 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (7.02%) Linux
6 6 (5.26%) Apple iOS
6 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.51%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.51%) VMS
8 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.88%) Android
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (18.42%) ERP
4 20 (17.54%) Service Delivery
5 18 (15.79%) Customer Service
5 18 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (14.91%) Time Management
7 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
8 12 (10.53%) ITIL
9 11 (9.65%) AI
9 11 (9.65%) Asset Management
10 10 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.89%) Virtual Environments
12 7 (6.14%) Data Protection
12 7 (6.14%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (6.14%) Server Building
12 7 (6.14%) Server Management
13 6 (5.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.02%) SQL
3 5 (4.39%) VB
4 1 (0.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (12.28%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (12.28%) DBS Check
3 11 (9.65%) Azure Certification
4 10 (8.77%) CCNA
5 9 (7.89%) Security Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) CCNP
7 5 (4.39%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.51%) Degree
8 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.51%) MCSE
9 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) SLA
2 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (85.96%) Active Directory
2 20 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.65%) Hyper-V
4 10 (8.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.26%) vSphere
6 4 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (23.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 5 (4.39%) SCCM
4 4 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.51%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (2.63%) WSUS
6 2 (1.75%) Ansible
6 2 (1.75%) SCOM
6 2 (1.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 97 (85.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (23.68%) VMware
3 10 (8.77%) Cisco
3 10 (8.77%) Epicor
4 9 (7.89%) SolarWinds
5 7 (6.14%) Apple
6 6 (5.26%) Google
7 5 (4.39%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.39%) Freshdesk
7 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.39%) Veeam
8 4 (3.51%) Juniper
8 4 (3.51%) SAP
9 3 (2.63%) Acronis
9 3 (2.63%) NetApp
9 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.75%) HP
10 2 (1.75%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.75%) Samsung