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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 148 179 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.54% 5.10% 4.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.66% 30.39% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 103 133 85
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 £45,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +25.00% -15.29%
75th Percentile £65,625 £54,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £57,000 £58,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.09% +1.11% -

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 415 589 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.94% 16.79% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 305 334 317
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £51,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +24 90 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Essex +5 19 £30,500 -39.00% 6
Cambridgeshire -28 17 £32,500 -39.81% 7
Suffolk -1 15 £32,500 - 2
Norfolk -15 6 £36,625 +14.45% 1
Bedfordshire +14 1 - - 3
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 51 (34.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.16%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.73%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.70%) IIS
6 2 (1.35%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.70%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (68.92%) Azure
2 92 (62.16%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (32.43%) Entra ID
4 22 (14.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 14 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 11 (7.43%) OneDrive
6 11 (7.43%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.38%) AWS
7 5 (3.38%) IaaS
8 4 (2.70%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.70%) PaaS
8 4 (2.70%) SaaS
9 3 (2.03%) Cohesity
9 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.68%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (41.22%) Firewall
2 42 (28.38%) DHCP
3 39 (26.35%) DNS
4 23 (15.54%) VPN
5 21 (14.19%) TCP/IP
6 17 (11.49%) VLAN
6 17 (11.49%) WAN
7 15 (10.14%) LAN
8 12 (8.11%) Wireless
9 11 (7.43%) SAN
10 10 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (4.73%) IP Telephony
11 7 (4.73%) Skype
12 6 (4.05%) IMAP
12 6 (4.05%) Network Security
12 6 (4.05%) POP3
12 6 (4.05%) SMTP
13 5 (3.38%) EIGRP
13 5 (3.38%) OSPF
13 5 (3.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.70%) MS Access
2 4 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.70%) JIRA
1 4 (2.70%) Toad
2 3 (2.03%) GitLab
3 2 (1.35%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Finance
4 4 (2.70%) Local Government
4 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.03%) Legal
6 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.68%) Advertising
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (25.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (25.00%) IT Support
3 25 (16.89%) Senior
4 24 (16.22%) Support Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (12.84%) Analyst
6 19 (12.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 17 (11.49%) IT Engineer
8 15 (10.14%) Support Analyst
9 14 (9.46%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (8.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (8.78%) IT Analyst
11 11 (7.43%) 1st Line Support
11 11 (7.43%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 11 (7.43%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (7.43%) Technical Support
12 10 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 10 (6.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) ARM Templates
1 2 (1.35%) Node.js
2 1 (0.68%) .NET
2 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.68%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.08%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.03%) Blackberry
6 3 (2.03%) iPad
6 3 (2.03%) PKI
6 3 (2.03%) Replication
6 3 (2.03%) RSA SecurID
7 2 (1.35%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.35%) CCTV
7 2 (1.35%) Clustering
7 2 (1.35%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 148 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (17.57%) Windows Server 2019
3 23 (15.54%) Windows 10
4 18 (12.16%) Mac OS
5 15 (10.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (9.46%) Linux
7 10 (6.76%) Android
8 7 (4.73%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.70%) Unix
10 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.68%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.68%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.68%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (17.57%) Customer Service
4 22 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (14.19%) ITIL
6 20 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 20 (13.51%) Service Delivery
6 20 (13.51%) Technology Roadmap
7 14 (9.46%) Preventative Maintenance
8 12 (8.11%) Cloud Security
8 12 (8.11%) Mentoring
9 11 (7.43%) AI
9 11 (7.43%) ITSM
10 10 (6.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (5.41%) Asset Management
11 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (5.41%) IT Governance
11 8 (5.41%) Migration
12 7 (4.73%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.35%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.78%) SQL
3 6 (4.05%) VBScript
4 4 (2.70%) Python
4 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.70%) VB
5 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.35%) PHP
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (21.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (14.19%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (11.49%) CCNA
4 16 (10.81%) Degree
5 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.43%) DBS Check
6 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
7 8 (5.41%) MCSA
7 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.05%) CCNP
9 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.70%) MCSE
10 4 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.68%) MCDST
12 1 (0.68%) MCITP
12 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) GDPR
2 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) GxP
3 2 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 121 (81.76%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.54%) vSphere
3 18 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (11.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (9.46%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.35%) Docker
7 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.68%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 48 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.76%) SCCM
3 7 (4.73%) SCOM
3 7 (4.73%) WSUS
4 6 (4.05%) Ansible
5 4 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.35%) Terraform
6 2 (1.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 126 (85.14%) Microsoft
2 47 (31.76%) VMware
3 16 (10.81%) Cisco
4 10 (6.76%) Apple
5 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
6 8 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.73%) SAP
8 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.05%) Veeam
9 5 (3.38%) Dell
9 5 (3.38%) Oracle
9 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.38%) Remedy
9 5 (3.38%) Samsung
9 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (2.70%) Google
10 4 (2.70%) HP
10 4 (2.70%) Juniper
10 4 (2.70%) NEC