Windows Server Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 65 98
Rank change year-on-year -72 +33 +34
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,151 3,129 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.37% 3.52% 3.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.30% 25.00% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 971 2,742 2,392
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -11.11% +5.88%

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 6,655 12,516 14,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.71% 14.09% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 9,804 9,588
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,759 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
London -6 345 £60,000 +9.09% 257
North of England -106 192 £33,500 -10.67% 311
South East -93 189 £41,500 +6.41% 429
Midlands -63 186 £35,000 -6.67% 235
South West +7 122 £40,000 +6.67% 188
East of England -51 110 £44,000 +35.38% 215
West Midlands -49 100 £35,000 - 108
Yorkshire -35 97 £30,000 -16.67% 116
East Midlands -42 84 £35,000 -12.50% 107
North West -100 80 £37,500 -13.79% 148
North East -22 15 £33,500 -4.29% 51
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 294 (25.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (16.42%) SharePoint
3 64 (5.56%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
5 9 (0.78%) Apache
6 7 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.35%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.17%) Confluence
9 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.087%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.087%) nginx
10 1 (0.087%) Umbraco
Applications
1 118 (10.25%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.087%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (2.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.52%) Sage 50
3 6 (0.52%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.35%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.17%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 603 (52.39%) Azure
2 592 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (17.90%) Entra ID
4 154 (13.38%) AWS
5 72 (6.26%) OneDrive
6 43 (3.74%) IaaS
6 43 (3.74%) SaaS
7 35 (3.04%) PaaS
8 32 (2.78%) Mimecast
9 26 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (2.09%) Google Workspace
10 24 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.09%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.00%) Nutanix
12 21 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.48%) GCP
15 15 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (1.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 422 (36.66%) Firewall
2 310 (26.93%) DNS
3 269 (23.37%) DHCP
4 170 (14.77%) VPN
5 169 (14.68%) WAN
6 161 (13.99%) LAN
7 144 (12.51%) VLAN
8 135 (11.73%) TCP/IP
9 79 (6.86%) SAN
10 78 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
11 72 (6.26%) VoIP
12 53 (4.60%) Network Security
12 53 (4.60%) Wireless
13 42 (3.65%) Remote Desktop
14 28 (2.43%) SD-WAN
15 25 (2.17%) NAS
16 24 (2.09%) Cisco IOS
17 17 (1.48%) MPLS
18 16 (1.39%) Internet
19 15 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (12.51%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.78%) Data Hub
3 9 (0.78%) SQL CLR
4 7 (0.61%) GIS
5 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.35%) MySQL
6 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.17%) Power BI
9 1 (0.087%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.087%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.087%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.087%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (1.39%) Git
2 11 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.96%) JIRA
3 4 (0.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.17%) Subversion
5 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.087%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.087%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.087%) Log4Net
5 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.087%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 143 (12.42%) Finance
3 85 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (4.78%) Manufacturing
6 46 (4.00%) Legal
7 43 (3.74%) Banking
8 41 (3.56%) Law
8 41 (3.56%) Telecoms
9 38 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 36 (3.13%) Retail
11 26 (2.26%) Back Office
12 23 (2.00%) Automotive
13 15 (1.30%) Electronics
14 14 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.96%) Advertising
18 10 (0.87%) Local Government
18 10 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 226 (19.64%) IT Support
2 220 (19.11%) Support Engineer
3 190 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 174 (15.12%) Analyst
5 135 (11.73%) IT Engineer
6 113 (9.82%) Support Analyst
7 105 (9.12%) 2nd Line Support
8 91 (7.91%) IT Analyst
9 77 (6.69%) Senior
10 76 (6.60%) IT Support Analyst
11 74 (6.43%) Administrator
12 72 (6.26%) 3rd Line Support
13 67 (5.82%) Infrastructure Support
13 67 (5.82%) Technical Support
14 65 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
14 65 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
15 62 (5.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 57 (4.95%) Support Technician
17 55 (4.78%) Systems Administrator
18 54 (4.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.35%) .NET
2 19 (1.65%) SAML
3 12 (1.04%) .NET Framework
4 10 (0.87%) .NET Core
4 10 (0.87%) Entity Framework
4 10 (0.87%) LDAP
5 9 (0.78%) Dapper ORM
5 9 (0.78%) HTML
6 8 (0.70%) REST
7 7 (0.61%) Middleware
8 6 (0.52%) ASP.NET
8 6 (0.52%) CSS
8 6 (0.52%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.52%) Web Services
9 5 (0.43%) OAuth
9 5 (0.43%) OpenID
9 5 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.43%) XML
10 4 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.35%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.12%) Driving Licence
2 53 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 51 (4.43%) Management Information System
3 51 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.30%) Clustering
6 28 (2.43%) PKI
7 24 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
8 23 (2.00%) Replication
9 22 (1.91%) CCTV
10 21 (1.82%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.22%) Smartphone
13 13 (1.13%) IoT
13 13 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.04%) iPhone
15 11 (0.96%) Fat Client
15 11 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,149 (99.83%) Windows
2 246 (21.37%) Linux
3 203 (17.64%) Windows 10
4 137 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 132 (11.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 65 (5.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 55 (4.78%) Mac OS
8 51 (4.43%) Android
9 38 (3.30%) Apple iOS
10 32 (2.78%) Mac OS X
11 27 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.00%) Windows 7
13 21 (1.82%) Ubuntu
14 20 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
15 18 (1.56%) Unix
16 12 (1.04%) AIX
16 12 (1.04%) CentOS
17 8 (0.70%) VMS
18 7 (0.61%) Rocky
19 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 258 (22.42%) ITIL
3 238 (20.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 222 (19.29%) Customer Service
5 137 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 131 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
7 74 (6.43%) Incident Management
8 71 (6.17%) High Availability
9 70 (6.08%) Mentoring
10 69 (5.99%) DevOps
10 69 (5.99%) Migration
11 68 (5.91%) Project Delivery
12 65 (5.65%) Project Management
13 63 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (5.21%) Infrastructure Management
15 59 (5.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 57 (4.95%) ITSM
17 56 (4.87%) Patch Management
18 55 (4.78%) Service Delivery
19 54 (4.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 299 (25.98%) PowerShell
2 148 (12.86%) SQL
3 81 (7.04%) Python
4 43 (3.74%) Bash
5 19 (1.65%) C#
6 11 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.61%) Perl
8 6 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.43%) PHP
10 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.26%) Go
11 3 (0.26%) Gremlin
11 3 (0.26%) Java
11 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.26%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.26%) VBScript
12 2 (0.17%) VBA
13 1 (0.087%) R
13 1 (0.087%) VB
Qualifications
1 154 (13.38%) Degree
2 152 (13.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 140 (12.16%) Security Cleared
4 91 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 71 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
6 70 (6.08%) SC Cleared
7 67 (5.82%) Azure Certification
8 66 (5.73%) MCSA
9 54 (4.69%) MCSE
10 53 (4.60%) CCNA
11 40 (3.48%) Network+ Certification
12 38 (3.30%) A+ Certification
13 34 (2.95%) CCNP
13 34 (2.95%) MCP
14 33 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 23 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 22 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
19 17 (1.48%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (9.90%) SLA
2 34 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.61%) GDPR
4 25 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.39%) QA
6 11 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.78%) NIST
8 8 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.43%) NCSC
9 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.26%) ITGC
12 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.087%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 719 (62.47%) Active Directory
2 349 (30.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 226 (19.64%) Hyper-V
4 109 (9.47%) VMware ESXi
5 60 (5.21%) vSphere
6 38 (3.30%) Docker
7 32 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (2.52%) XenApp
10 27 (2.35%) Terminal Services
11 15 (1.30%) Firmware
11 15 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.87%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.26%) NFS
15 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 205 (17.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 112 (9.73%) SCCM
3 93 (8.08%) Ansible
4 67 (5.82%) Terraform
5 48 (4.17%) Kubernetes
6 35 (3.04%) vCenter Server
7 29 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 28 (2.43%) Puppet
8 28 (2.43%) SCOM
8 28 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.30%) NetBackup
10 14 (1.22%) vMotion
11 13 (1.13%) AirWatch
11 13 (1.13%) FortiGate
11 13 (1.13%) Nagios
11 13 (1.13%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.96%) WSUS
13 9 (0.78%) Grafana
14 8 (0.70%) Autotask
Vendors
1 747 (64.90%) Microsoft
2 457 (39.70%) VMware
3 177 (15.38%) Cisco
4 107 (9.30%) Citrix
5 98 (8.51%) Veeam
6 87 (7.56%) Apple
7 59 (5.13%) ServiceNow
8 45 (3.91%) HP
9 44 (3.82%) Fortinet
10 41 (3.56%) Meraki
11 38 (3.30%) Palo Alto
12 35 (3.04%) Google
13 34 (2.95%) Dell
14 31 (2.69%) SolarWinds
15 29 (2.52%) SAP
16 27 (2.35%) Sophos
17 26 (2.26%) SonicWALL
18 25 (2.17%) CheckPoint
19 24 (2.09%) NetApp
19 24 (2.09%) Oracle