Windows Server Job Trends in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 85 52
Rank change year-on-year -10 -33 +45
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,265 1,526 2,852
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 3.40% 4.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.60% 21.95% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 974 941 2,587
10th Percentile £26,650 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -4.85%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.24% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,584 6,951 10,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.80% 15.50% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,471 3,928 8,710
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,008 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +9.49% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
South East +19 265 £37,500 -21.05% 128
London -42 255 £57,500 -11.54% 66
North of England +1 247 £36,000 -4.00% 75
South West +9 216 £33,500 -22.99% 38
Midlands -42 141 £32,500 -18.75% 31
East of England -12 136 £42,500 -5.56% 39
North West +9 112 £40,500 -4.71% 43
Yorkshire -17 111 £33,250 -5.00% 27
East Midlands -23 87 £28,500 -16.18% 13
West Midlands -50 53 £44,000 +4.42% 18
North East -10 24 £45,249 +25.69% 6
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
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
1 419 (33.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 233 (18.42%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.53%) IIS
4 11 (0.87%) Confluence
5 7 (0.55%) Apache Solr
5 7 (0.55%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.32%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.079%) Site Server
Applications
1 130 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.47%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.24%) CATIA
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.24%) Windchill
5 2 (0.16%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.47%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.079%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 855 (67.59%) Microsoft 365
2 765 (60.47%) Azure
3 324 (25.61%) Entra ID
4 108 (8.54%) AWS
5 86 (6.80%) OneDrive
6 61 (4.82%) Google Workspace
7 50 (3.95%) SaaS
8 35 (2.77%) IaaS
9 26 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (1.74%) PaaS
11 18 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.34%) GCP
12 17 (1.34%) Nutanix
12 17 (1.34%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (0.95%) Mimecast
16 11 (0.87%) OpenShift
16 11 (0.87%) PowerApps
17 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 542 (42.85%) DNS
2 508 (40.16%) DHCP
3 383 (30.28%) Firewall
4 231 (18.26%) VPN
5 216 (17.08%) TCP/IP
6 172 (13.60%) WAN
7 170 (13.44%) VLAN
8 157 (12.41%) LAN
9 98 (7.75%) Wi-Fi
10 72 (5.69%) VoIP
11 57 (4.51%) SAN
12 56 (4.43%) Wireless
13 39 (3.08%) Remote Desktop
14 35 (2.77%) SD-WAN
15 30 (2.37%) Network Security
16 23 (1.82%) Internet
17 16 (1.26%) VSAN
18 14 (1.11%) IPsec
19 13 (1.03%) NAS
19 13 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
2 96 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.66%) MySQL
4 18 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.63%) Power BI
7 7 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.32%) DTS
9 4 (0.32%) MS Access
9 4 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.16%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.079%) FileMaker
12 1 (0.079%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (2.85%) Git
2 25 (1.98%) JIRA
3 11 (0.87%) GitLab
4 7 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (0.32%) Toad
7 3 (0.24%) Subversion
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.079%) LoadRunner
General
1 560 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 150 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (8.06%) Finance
4 59 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (3.95%) Law
6 47 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 40 (3.16%) Retail
9 25 (1.98%) Legal
10 22 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.42%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.19%) Banking
13 14 (1.11%) Games
14 10 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.71%) Advertising
15 9 (0.71%) Back Office
15 9 (0.71%) Local Government
16 6 (0.47%) German Language
17 5 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 417 (32.96%) IT Support
2 313 (24.74%) Support Engineer
3 282 (22.29%) IT Engineer
4 240 (18.97%) IT Support Engineer
5 198 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 157 (12.41%) 2nd Line Support
7 133 (10.51%) Senior
8 128 (10.12%) Systems Engineer
9 111 (8.77%) Analyst
10 107 (8.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 101 (7.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 91 (7.19%) Support Technician
13 87 (6.88%) Support Analyst
14 78 (6.17%) 3rd Line Support
14 78 (6.17%) IT Technician
15 67 (5.30%) IT Support Technician
16 58 (4.58%) Technical Support
17 54 (4.27%) 1st Line Support
18 48 (3.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 47 (3.72%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.90%) .NET
2 9 (0.71%) Node.js
3 6 (0.47%) HTML
3 6 (0.47%) Middleware
4 5 (0.40%) CSS
4 5 (0.40%) Kafka
4 5 (0.40%) LDAP
5 4 (0.32%) OAuth
5 4 (0.32%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.32%) OpenID
5 4 (0.32%) RESTful
5 4 (0.32%) SAML
6 3 (0.24%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.24%) jQuery
6 3 (0.24%) Laravel
6 3 (0.24%) REST
6 3 (0.24%) SAP Basis
6 3 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.24%) SAPUI5
6 3 (0.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (13.52%) Driving Licence
2 102 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
3 52 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 49 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (3.24%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.21%) Replication
9 20 (1.58%) Clustering
10 19 (1.50%) iPad
10 19 (1.50%) PKI
11 17 (1.34%) CCTV
12 16 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.11%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
15 12 (0.95%) CMDB
16 10 (0.79%) Fat Client
16 10 (0.79%) Thin Client
17 9 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,265 (100.00%) Windows
2 258 (20.40%) Linux
3 194 (15.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 179 (14.15%) Windows 10
5 104 (8.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 62 (4.90%) Mac OS
7 48 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 45 (3.56%) Apple iOS
9 36 (2.85%) Android
10 22 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (1.03%) Unix
12 9 (0.71%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.71%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.71%) Windows 8
12 9 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.63%) CentOS
14 7 (0.55%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.40%) VMS
16 4 (0.32%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (36.60%) Problem-Solving
2 363 (28.70%) Customer Service
3 266 (21.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 256 (20.24%) ITIL
5 172 (13.60%) Migration
6 155 (12.25%) Cybersecurity
7 139 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
8 131 (10.36%) Service Delivery
9 130 (10.28%) Mentoring
10 126 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (9.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 112 (8.85%) Customer Experience
13 111 (8.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 106 (8.38%) Kalman Filter
15 104 (8.22%) Email Filtering
16 102 (8.06%) Web Filtering
17 81 (6.40%) Service Management
18 78 (6.17%) ITSM
19 73 (5.77%) Root Cause Analysis
20 72 (5.69%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (19.84%) PowerShell
2 109 (8.62%) SQL
3 58 (4.58%) Python
4 29 (2.29%) Bash
5 13 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.95%) PHP
7 11 (0.87%) VB
8 10 (0.79%) C#
8 10 (0.79%) VB.NET
9 9 (0.71%) Bicep
9 9 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.55%) VBA
11 6 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.47%) VBScript
12 3 (0.24%) Tcl
13 2 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.079%) Delphi
14 1 (0.079%) Go
14 1 (0.079%) Java
14 1 (0.079%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 166 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 98 (7.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 93 (7.35%) Degree
5 58 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 45 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 40 (3.16%) DBS Check
8 37 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.45%) Network+ Certification
10 29 (2.29%) CCNA
11 22 (1.74%) MCSA
11 22 (1.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 17 (1.34%) CCNP
13 16 (1.26%) MCSE
14 12 (0.95%) A+ Certification
15 11 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.71%) HNC
17 9 (0.71%) HND
17 9 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (11.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 108 (8.54%) PCI DSS
3 74 (5.85%) SLA
4 46 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.45%) GDPR
6 16 (1.26%) NIST
7 10 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.63%) QA
9 5 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.079%) GxP
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 932 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 385 (30.43%) Hyper-V
3 260 (20.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (7.91%) Terminal Server
5 57 (4.51%) vSphere
6 41 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
7 36 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 30 (2.37%) Docker
9 18 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
10 17 (1.34%) Firmware
11 14 (1.11%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
13 6 (0.47%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.40%) XenApp
15 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.16%) ISA Server
16 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.16%) vCloud
16 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
17 1 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 269 (21.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (4.66%) SCCM
3 46 (3.64%) Terraform
4 42 (3.32%) vCenter Server
5 37 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 36 (2.85%) Ansible
7 33 (2.61%) Kubernetes
8 24 (1.90%) Autotask
9 22 (1.74%) WSUS
10 17 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.34%) SCOM
11 12 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.87%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.87%) VxRail
13 10 (0.79%) Nagios
14 9 (0.71%) Backup Exec
14 9 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.71%) vRealize
15 8 (0.63%) Puppet
15 8 (0.63%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 843 (66.64%) Microsoft
2 501 (39.60%) VMware
3 178 (14.07%) Veeam
4 136 (10.75%) SolarWinds
5 109 (8.62%) Splunk
6 107 (8.46%) Nimble Storage
7 102 (8.06%) Tanium
8 98 (7.75%) Brocade
9 86 (6.80%) Cisco
10 67 (5.30%) Google
11 63 (4.98%) Citrix
12 48 (3.79%) Apple
13 31 (2.45%) Meraki
14 28 (2.21%) Dell
15 25 (1.98%) Red Hat
16 22 (1.74%) ServiceNow
17 21 (1.66%) Juniper
17 21 (1.66%) Oracle
18 20 (1.58%) Fortinet
19 19 (1.50%) HP