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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 460 317
Rank change year-on-year -22 -143 +160
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 135 233 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.48% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.03% 3.14% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 91 159 385
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 £59,000
UK median annual salary £34,250 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.41% -5.56% +5.88%

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 4,457 7,417 7,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.43% 15.41% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,395 4,185 6,504
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -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 14 January 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 14 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
London +38 43 £42,000 -30.00% 13
South East +37 27 £31,000 -43.64% 15
East of England +32 25 £32,500 -26.55% 8
South West +19 22 £38,500 +32.21% 5
Midlands -24 17 £35,000 - 5
West Midlands -9 12 £52,500 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -23 5 £33,000 -28.65% 3
North of England -40 3 £33,500 -21.18% 13
Yorkshire -19 2 £37,500 -3.23% 7
North West -9 1 £29,000 -35.56% 5
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 38 (28.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (13.33%) IIS
3 13 (9.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.70%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.96%) Confluence
6 2 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.48%) WinCC
Applications
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 80 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (56.30%) Azure
3 38 (28.15%) Entra ID
4 18 (13.33%) AWS
5 11 (8.15%) Google Workspace
6 8 (5.93%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.96%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub
9 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.48%) GCP
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.15%) Firewall
2 64 (47.41%) DNS
3 58 (42.96%) DHCP
4 36 (26.67%) WAN
5 35 (25.93%) LAN
6 21 (15.56%) VoIP
7 17 (12.59%) SAN
7 17 (12.59%) TCP/IP
8 15 (11.11%) VPN
8 15 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (6.67%) Wireless
10 8 (5.93%) Internet
10 8 (5.93%) Kerberos
10 8 (5.93%) VLAN
11 6 (4.44%) SD-WAN
11 6 (4.44%) VSAN
12 5 (3.70%) MPLS
13 4 (2.96%) NAS
13 4 (2.96%) WLAN
14 2 (1.48%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.74%) MySQL
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Git
2 5 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (3.70%) Bitbucket
2 5 (3.70%) GitLab
2 5 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.48%) Subversion
General
1 70 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.89%) Finance
3 10 (7.41%) Law
4 5 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.96%) Billing
6 3 (2.22%) Legal
6 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) Automotive
7 2 (1.48%) Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.48%) Police
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 60 (44.44%) IT Support
2 43 (31.85%) 2nd Line Support
3 39 (28.89%) Support Engineer
4 36 (26.67%) IT Engineer
5 32 (23.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 30 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (17.04%) Analyst
8 22 (16.30%) Support Analyst
9 20 (14.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (14.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (10.37%) Senior
12 11 (8.15%) 1st Line Support
12 11 (8.15%) 1st Line Support Analyst
13 9 (6.67%) IT Analyst
13 9 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
14 8 (5.93%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
15 7 (5.19%) Administrator
15 7 (5.19%) IT Support Specialist
15 7 (5.19%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) LDAP
2 5 (3.70%) Kafka
3 4 (2.96%) Middleware
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) PKI
2 7 (5.19%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.96%) CCTV
5 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.48%) SCADA
7 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Eurex
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 134 (99.26%) Windows
2 113 (83.70%) Windows Server
3 62 (45.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 43 (31.85%) Windows 10
5 31 (22.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 30 (22.22%) Linux
7 26 (19.26%) Mac OS
8 13 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (4.44%) Android
9 6 (4.44%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.96%) Mac OS X
11 3 (2.22%) CentOS
11 3 (2.22%) Rocky
11 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.48%) OpenVMS
12 2 (1.48%) VMS
12 2 (1.48%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.74%) Solaris
13 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (28.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (22.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (21.48%) Customer Service
5 23 (17.04%) DevOps
6 18 (13.33%) ITIL
7 14 (10.37%) Security Operations
8 13 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (8.15%) Preventative Maintenance
10 10 (7.41%) Time Management
11 9 (6.67%) Agile
11 9 (6.67%) CI/CD
11 9 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
11 9 (6.67%) Mentoring
12 8 (5.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (5.19%) Hardware Maintenance
13 7 (5.19%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (5.19%) Project Delivery
14 6 (4.44%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.19%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.89%) Python
3 9 (6.67%) Bash
4 8 (5.93%) SQL
4 8 (5.93%) VB
5 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.74%) C#
6 1 (0.74%) Java
6 1 (0.74%) Korn
6 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.74%) Perl
6 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (9.63%) Degree
3 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.96%) MCSA
7 4 (2.96%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.22%) MCP
9 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.48%) CCNP
10 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CCNA
10 1 (0.74%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) SLA
2 7 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.96%) GDPR
4 3 (2.22%) QA
5 2 (1.48%) IEC 61131
5 2 (1.48%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (80.74%) Active Directory
2 32 (23.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (22.96%) Hyper-V
4 21 (15.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (10.37%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (5.93%) Docker
7 6 (4.44%) vSphere
8 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.96%) XenApp
10 3 (2.22%) NFS
11 1 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.74%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 52 (38.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (11.85%) SCCM
3 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
4 13 (9.63%) vCenter Server
5 11 (8.15%) WSUS
6 10 (7.41%) Ansible
7 9 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (3.70%) Terraform
9 4 (2.96%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.96%) Puppet
9 4 (2.96%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.48%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.48%) PaperCut
10 2 (1.48%) SCOM
11 1 (0.74%) Grafana
11 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (79.26%) Microsoft
2 52 (38.52%) VMware
3 20 (14.81%) Veeam
4 16 (11.85%) Cisco
5 13 (9.63%) 3PAR
5 13 (9.63%) NetApp
5 13 (9.63%) SolarWinds
6 12 (8.89%) Red Hat
7 11 (8.15%) Google
8 7 (5.19%) Juniper
8 7 (5.19%) Oracle
9 6 (4.44%) Datto
10 5 (3.70%) Apple
10 5 (3.70%) Dell
10 5 (3.70%) McAfee
10 5 (3.70%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.96%) Citrix
11 4 (2.96%) Meraki