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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 420 361
Rank change year-on-year -117 -59 +78
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 113 213 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.54% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.36% 3.47% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 85 171 502
10th Percentile £25,850 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,750 £75,000 £59,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +2.41%

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 4,780 6,135 11,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.26% 15.59% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,618 4,035 9,617
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%

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 15 March 2026.

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 15 March 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
London -4 45 £42,000 -24.83% 9
South East -5 22 £31,000 -29.14% 15
East of England +5 18 £26,500 -17.19% 2
Midlands -59 10 £34,000 -2.86% 1
North of England -84 9 £33,500 -21.18% 10
South West -31 7 £31,000 -35.08% 3
West Midlands -31 5 £52,500 +50.00%
East Midlands -45 5 £33,000 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire -48 5 £33,500 -4.29% 2
North West -37 4 £31,000 -27.06% 7
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 47 (41.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (14.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (10.62%) IIS
4 5 (4.42%) Confluence
4 5 (4.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (24.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 82 (72.57%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (55.75%) Azure
3 28 (24.78%) Entra ID
4 27 (23.89%) AWS
5 24 (21.24%) Google Workspace
6 6 (5.31%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.54%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) IaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.88%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.88%) PaaS
9 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (55.75%) DNS
2 59 (52.21%) DHCP
3 48 (42.48%) Firewall
4 36 (31.86%) WAN
5 34 (30.09%) LAN
6 24 (21.24%) TCP/IP
7 23 (20.35%) VoIP
7 23 (20.35%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (16.81%) VPN
9 12 (10.62%) VLAN
10 11 (9.73%) Wireless
11 9 (7.96%) SAN
12 8 (7.08%) VSAN
13 7 (6.19%) SD-WAN
14 5 (4.42%) MPLS
14 5 (4.42%) WLAN
15 3 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
16 2 (1.77%) NAS
17 1 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
17 1 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) GitLab
3 5 (4.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.42%) Git
3 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.54%) Subversion
5 2 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (53.98%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.73%) Finance
3 8 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.54%) Billing
5 2 (1.77%) Law
5 2 (1.77%) Police
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (58.41%) IT Support
2 55 (48.67%) IT Engineer
3 54 (47.79%) Support Engineer
4 53 (46.90%) IT Support Engineer
5 45 (39.82%) 2nd Line Support
6 34 (30.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 34 (30.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 15 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (10.62%) Senior
9 8 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Analyst
10 6 (5.31%) Support Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) 1st Line Support
11 5 (4.42%) 1st Line Support Analyst
12 4 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support Technician
12 4 (3.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) IT Support Technician
12 4 (3.54%) IT Technician
12 4 (3.54%) Support Technician
12 4 (3.54%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) Kafka
2 4 (3.54%) Middleware
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.54%) CCTV
3 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Eurex
5 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (100.00%) Windows
2 102 (90.27%) Windows Server
3 68 (60.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 43 (38.05%) Windows 10
5 33 (29.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (23.01%) Mac OS
7 16 (14.16%) Linux
8 10 (8.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (6.19%) Apple iOS
10 5 (4.42%) CentOS
11 4 (3.54%) Mac OS X
12 3 (2.65%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.77%) Android
13 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.88%) Solaris
14 1 (0.88%) Unix
14 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (49.56%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.35%) Customer Service
3 19 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (15.93%) Mentoring
5 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (13.27%) DevOps
7 13 (11.50%) Time Management
8 12 (10.62%) Agile
9 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.85%) ITIL
10 8 (7.08%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (7.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 7 (6.19%) ITSM
11 7 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (6.19%) Project Delivery
11 7 (6.19%) Security Operations
12 6 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (5.31%) Kalman Filter
12 6 (5.31%) Presales
12 6 (5.31%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.50%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) Bash
4 8 (7.08%) SQL
5 5 (4.42%) VB
6 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) Perl
7 1 (0.88%) PHP
7 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (6.19%) DBS Check
2 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.54%) Degree
4 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.65%) MCSA
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.77%) CCNA
6 2 (1.77%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) MCDST
7 1 (0.88%) MCITP
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 89 (78.76%) Active Directory
2 36 (31.86%) Hyper-V
3 28 (24.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (15.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (7.96%) vSphere
6 8 (7.08%) Docker
6 8 (7.08%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.54%) XenApp
8 3 (2.65%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 35 (30.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (10.62%) SCCM
4 8 (7.08%) Ansible
4 8 (7.08%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.08%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.42%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (4.42%) SCOM
5 5 (4.42%) SCVMM
6 4 (3.54%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.54%) Puppet
7 3 (2.65%) Terraform
8 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.88%) Grafana
8 1 (0.88%) Nagios
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
8 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 80 (70.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (34.51%) VMware
3 24 (21.24%) Google
4 13 (11.50%) Veeam
5 11 (9.73%) Red Hat
6 10 (8.85%) Cisco
7 8 (7.08%) McAfee
8 7 (6.19%) 3PAR
8 7 (6.19%) NetApp
8 7 (6.19%) SolarWinds
9 6 (5.31%) SonicWALL
10 5 (4.42%) Apple
10 5 (4.42%) Citrix
10 5 (4.42%) Meraki
10 5 (4.42%) Oracle
11 4 (3.54%) Atlassian
11 4 (3.54%) CheckPoint
11 4 (3.54%) IBM
12 3 (2.65%) HP
12 3 (2.65%) Juniper