Windows Server 2019 Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 448 312
Rank change year-on-year -11 -136 +197
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 154 242 409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.49% 0.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.39% 3.16% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 111 166 364
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £44,071
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -3.56% +3.70%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £59,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.41% - -

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server 2019 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,540 7,655 7,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.73% 15.38% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,466 4,418 6,330
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.44% +0.50% -4.76%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in England

Windows Server 2019
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2019 within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
London +50 46 £40,312 -30.65% 14
South East +29 32 £33,500 -26.72% 22
South West +31 30 £38,500 +32.21% 18
East of England +34 29 £32,500 -26.55% 10
Midlands -22 18 £43,750 +25.00% 13
West Midlands 0 13 £52,500 +50.00% 5
East Midlands -26 5 £33,000 -17.50% 7
North West -1 2 £41,375 -8.06% 15
North of England -37 2 £41,375 -2.65% 25
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 43 (27.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (14.94%) IIS
3 16 (10.39%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.25%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.60%) Confluence
6 2 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.30%) WinCC
Applications
1 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 87 (56.49%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (53.90%) Azure
3 42 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 19 (12.34%) AWS
5 10 (6.49%) Google Workspace
6 8 (5.19%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.25%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.60%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.60%) GitHub
9 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.30%) GCP
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (48.70%) Firewall
2 66 (42.86%) DNS
3 60 (38.96%) DHCP
4 39 (25.32%) WAN
5 38 (24.68%) LAN
6 19 (12.34%) SAN
6 19 (12.34%) VoIP
7 18 (11.69%) TCP/IP
8 15 (9.74%) VPN
9 13 (8.44%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (7.79%) Internet
10 12 (7.79%) Kerberos
11 10 (6.49%) Wireless
12 9 (5.84%) VLAN
13 6 (3.90%) NAS
13 6 (3.90%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.90%) VSAN
14 5 (3.25%) MPLS
15 4 (2.60%) WLAN
16 3 (1.95%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.95%) MySQL
3 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Git
2 5 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (3.25%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.25%) GitLab
2 5 (3.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 80 (51.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.09%) Law
3 13 (8.44%) Finance
4 7 (4.55%) Legal
4 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.60%) Billing
7 3 (1.95%) Banking
8 2 (1.30%) Automotive
8 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.30%) Police
9 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (39.61%) IT Support
2 42 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
3 38 (24.68%) Support Engineer
4 34 (22.08%) IT Engineer
5 32 (20.78%) Analyst
6 31 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (18.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (18.18%) Support Analyst
9 18 (11.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 17 (11.04%) Senior
11 16 (10.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
12 11 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Analyst
13 10 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (6.49%) Administrator
14 9 (5.84%) IT Administrator
14 9 (5.84%) IT Analyst
14 9 (5.84%) IT Support Analyst
15 8 (5.19%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 8 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) LDAP
2 5 (3.25%) Kafka
3 4 (2.60%) Middleware
4 2 (1.30%) .NET
4 2 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.79%) PKI
2 9 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.19%) Driving Licence
3 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.60%) CCTV
6 4 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Eurex
7 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.30%) SCADA
8 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 151 (98.05%) Windows
2 127 (82.47%) Windows Server
3 65 (42.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 48 (31.17%) Windows 10
5 40 (25.97%) Linux
6 28 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 27 (17.53%) Mac OS
8 18 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (5.84%) Android
9 9 (5.84%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.60%) Mac OS X
10 4 (2.60%) Rocky
11 3 (1.95%) CentOS
11 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.30%) OpenVMS
12 2 (1.30%) Solaris
12 2 (1.30%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.30%) Unix
12 2 (1.30%) VMS
12 2 (1.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (20.13%) Customer Service
4 31 (20.13%) ITIL
5 23 (14.94%) DevOps
6 14 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
7 13 (8.44%) Data Loss Prevention
7 13 (8.44%) Security Operations
8 12 (7.79%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (7.79%) Time Management
9 11 (7.14%) Agile
9 11 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (7.14%) Mentoring
10 10 (6.49%) Incident Management
11 9 (5.84%) CI/CD
11 9 (5.84%) ITSM
12 8 (5.19%) Containerisation
12 8 (5.19%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (5.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.87%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.44%) Python
3 12 (7.79%) SQL
3 12 (7.79%) VB
4 11 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (1.95%) Korn
6 2 (1.30%) C#
6 2 (1.30%) Java
6 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.30%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (11.04%) Degree
3 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.84%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.90%) MCSA
7 6 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.60%) MCP
9 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.30%) CCNA
10 2 (1.30%) CCNP
10 2 (1.30%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.30%) MCDST
10 2 (1.30%) MCITP
10 2 (1.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) SLA
2 9 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.25%) GDPR
4 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.95%) QA
6 2 (1.30%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.30%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 126 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 41 (26.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (20.78%) Hyper-V
4 20 (12.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (9.74%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (6.49%) Docker
7 9 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.55%) vSphere
9 4 (2.60%) XenApp
10 3 (1.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (1.95%) NFS
10 3 (1.95%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 55 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (11.69%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.39%) SCCM
3 16 (10.39%) WSUS
4 13 (8.44%) vCenter Server
5 11 (7.14%) Ansible
6 7 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (3.90%) Terraform
8 4 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (2.60%) PaperCut
8 4 (2.60%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.60%) Puppet
8 4 (2.60%) SCOM
8 4 (2.60%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.65%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.65%) Grafana
10 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (79.22%) Microsoft
2 61 (39.61%) VMware
3 27 (17.53%) Cisco
4 19 (12.34%) Veeam
5 17 (11.04%) Red Hat
6 12 (7.79%) 3PAR
6 12 (7.79%) Juniper
6 12 (7.79%) NetApp
6 12 (7.79%) SolarWinds
7 10 (6.49%) Dell
7 10 (6.49%) Google
8 8 (5.19%) Datto
9 7 (4.55%) Oracle
10 6 (3.90%) Apple
10 6 (3.90%) McAfee
11 5 (3.25%) Samsung
12 4 (2.60%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.60%) Citrix
12 4 (2.60%) HP
12 4 (2.60%) Meraki