Windows Server Job Trends in Gloucester

Microsoft Windows Server
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Windows Server 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 18 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 5 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 3.42% 6.25% 5.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.52% 28.57% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile - £38,100 £31,375
25th Percentile £32,750 £52,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% +16.33% +90.29%
75th Percentile - - £51,500
90th Percentile - £63,300 £52,400
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,445 £57,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +16.33% -21.60%

All Operating Systems
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 35 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 18.49% 21.88% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 50
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,300 £31,069
25th Percentile £49,688 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +16.33% -2.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £87,250 £69,650 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% -10.91%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Gloucester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Gloucester

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Stack
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Rocky
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft