Windows Server Jobs in the East of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -50 +19 +6
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 105 293 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.21% 4.74% 4.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.55% 27.49% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 94 252 208
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,294 £26,250 £30,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £32,500 £39,113
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -16.91% +4.30%
75th Percentile £53,606 £43,750 £53,000
90th Percentile £68,800 £50,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -11.11% +5.88%

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 411 1,066 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.55% 17.24% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 269 918 622
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -14.44% +4.65%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the East of England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the East of England.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the East of England

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 2025. 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 -12 36 £48,250 +41.91% 45
Cambridgeshire 0 22 £32,500 -18.75% 24
Essex -8 18 £45,000 +63.64% 12
Suffolk -20 16 £32,500 -18.75% 7
Bedfordshire -6 9 £57,500 +155.56% 9
Norfolk -23 4 £32,000 +3.23% 5
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 34 (32.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (25.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (10.48%) IIS
4 3 (2.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.95%) CMS
5 1 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 79 (75.24%) Azure
2 72 (68.57%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 18 (17.14%) OneDrive
5 13 (12.38%) Power Platform
5 13 (12.38%) PowerApps
6 12 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (7.62%) Mimecast
8 7 (6.67%) AWS
9 6 (5.71%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.86%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
12 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.95%) GCP
12 1 (0.95%) PaaS
12 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (52.38%) Firewall
2 35 (33.33%) DNS
3 26 (24.76%) DHCP
4 22 (20.95%) VPN
5 21 (20.00%) VLAN
6 15 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 14 (13.33%) LAN
8 13 (12.38%) WAN
9 10 (9.52%) Wireless
10 8 (7.62%) SD-WAN
11 6 (5.71%) Wireless Security
12 4 (3.81%) IPv4
13 3 (2.86%) HTTP
13 3 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (1.90%) Network Security
14 2 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (1.90%) SAN
15 1 (0.95%) MPLS
15 1 (0.95%) OSPF
15 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.90%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.67%) GIS
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.95%) MySQL
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Git
2 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.62%) Finance
3 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.71%) Advertising
5 3 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (1.90%) Aviation
6 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.95%) Back Office
7 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 20 (19.05%) IT Support
4 17 (16.19%) Analyst
5 16 (15.24%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (15.24%) Support Engineer
6 15 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (12.38%) Support Analyst
8 12 (11.43%) 3rd Line Support
8 12 (11.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 12 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) IT Engineer
11 9 (8.57%) Administrator
11 9 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (7.62%) Technical Support
13 7 (6.67%) Applications Support
13 7 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
13 7 (6.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.90%) .NET
1 2 (1.90%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.95%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.95%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.95%) SAML
2 1 (0.95%) ServiceStack
2 1 (0.95%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.95%) Swagger
2 1 (0.95%) Web Services
2 1 (0.95%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 10 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.90%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.95%) CCTV
6 1 (0.95%) Clustering
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) PKI
6 1 (0.95%) Replication
6 1 (0.95%) Robotics
6 1 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (9.52%) Mac OS
4 9 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (6.67%) Linux
5 7 (6.67%) VMS
5 7 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (22.86%) ITIL
2 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.19%) Customer Service
3 17 (16.19%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
5 11 (10.48%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (9.52%) Cost Management
6 10 (9.52%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.57%) Project Management
7 9 (8.57%) Security Management
8 8 (7.62%) ITSM
9 7 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (6.67%) Proactive Maintenance
9 7 (6.67%) Project Planning
9 7 (6.67%) Server Management
9 7 (6.67%) Service Delivery
10 6 (5.71%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (5.71%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.81%) SQL
3 3 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) C#
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.95%) Python
4 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.86%) MCSA
2 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.90%) Degree
3 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.95%) CCNA
4 1 (0.95%) CCNP
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.95%) MCITP
4 1 (0.95%) MCSE
4 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.90%) NIST
2 2 (1.90%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (64.76%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.67%) Firmware
4 7 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.86%) Docker
5 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (27.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (2.86%) Ansible
3 3 (2.86%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.95%) Autotask
5 1 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.95%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.95%) SCCM
5 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 79 (75.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) VMware
3 10 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 6 (5.71%) Citrix
4 6 (5.71%) WatchGuard
5 4 (3.81%) Apple
5 4 (3.81%) Cisco
6 3 (2.86%) Samsung
6 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.86%) Veeam
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle
8 1 (0.95%) Aruba
8 1 (0.95%) Commvault
8 1 (0.95%) F5
8 1 (0.95%) Facebook
8 1 (0.95%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.95%) HP
8 1 (0.95%) Mitel
8 1 (0.95%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.95%) Zerto