Windows Server Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 61 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 125 61 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.34% 2.99% 4.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.51% 21.03% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 115 56 94
10th Percentile £27,875 £29,500 £29,575
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 352 290 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.58% 14.22% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 299 215 425
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +27.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £38,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.42% -23.35% +7.53%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Southampton +2 37 £60,000 +26.32% 13
Farnborough - 22 £70,000 - 4
Portsmouth +10 14 £42,500 +50.44% 4
Basingstoke -8 14 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Ringwood - 9 £40,000 - 3
Fareham - 6 £40,000 - 10
Aldershot - 6 £33,500 - 1
Romsey - 4 £75,000 -
Tadley - 3 £57,500 -
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 18 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.20%) IIS
3 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (43.20%) Azure
3 19 (15.20%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.20%) AWS
5 6 (4.80%) SaaS
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Stack
6 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.40%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.60%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.60%) IaaS
9 1 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.60%) Firewall
2 22 (17.60%) DNS
3 20 (16.00%) VPN
4 17 (13.60%) LAN
4 17 (13.60%) VLAN
4 17 (13.60%) WAN
5 10 (8.00%) DHCP
5 10 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 10 (8.00%) Wireless
6 8 (6.40%) Internet
7 7 (5.60%) VoIP
8 6 (4.80%) Network Security
8 6 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.40%) Broadband
9 3 (2.40%) NetScaler
9 3 (2.40%) NGFW
9 3 (2.40%) OSPF
10 2 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.60%) SAN
10 2 (1.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.20%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Git
2 4 (3.20%) GitLab
2 4 (3.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Finance
6 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.40%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Aviation
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) IT Engineer
1 36 (28.80%) Senior
2 34 (27.20%) IT Support
3 30 (24.00%) Support Engineer
4 29 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (23.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 26 (20.80%) Administrator
6 22 (17.60%) Server Administrator
6 22 (17.60%) Windows Administrator
6 22 (17.60%) Windows Server Administrator
7 19 (15.20%) Senior Windows Administrator
8 16 (12.80%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (11.20%) Analyst
10 10 (8.00%) Senior IT Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Senior IT Support
10 10 (8.00%) Senior Support Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) Support Analyst
12 7 (5.60%) Graduate Analyst
12 7 (5.60%) Graduate Support Analyst
12 7 (5.60%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.60%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.60%) OpenTofu
3 2 (1.60%) Redfish
4 1 (0.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) XML
4 1 (0.80%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (9.60%) PKI
3 11 (8.80%) Clustering
3 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
4 10 (8.00%) Replication
5 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) NHS
7 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) EPoS
9 1 (0.80%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 125 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (24.00%) Linux
3 13 (10.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (9.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (8.80%) Ubuntu
6 9 (7.20%) CentOS
7 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (4.00%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.60%) Debian
9 2 (1.60%) Rocky
10 1 (0.80%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (18.40%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (16.80%) Agile
5 19 (15.20%) Project Delivery
6 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (13.60%) ITIL
7 15 (12.00%) Customer Service
7 15 (12.00%) Process Improvement
8 14 (11.20%) Service Delivery
9 12 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.80%) Change Control
10 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (8.00%) Change Management
11 10 (8.00%) Data Centre Operations
11 10 (8.00%) DevOps
11 10 (8.00%) High Availability
12 9 (7.20%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.40%) Client Onboarding
13 8 (6.40%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.60%) SQL
2 16 (12.80%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.60%) Bash
3 7 (5.60%) Python
3 7 (5.60%) Ruby
4 4 (3.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.60%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.40%) CCNA
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.80%) HNC
9 1 (0.80%) HND
9 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.80%) MCSA
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.60%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (58.40%) Active Directory
2 42 (33.60%) Hyper-V
3 26 (20.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.60%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (9.60%) vSphere
5 11 (8.80%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (6.40%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (5.60%) Docker
8 2 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.60%) Xen
9 1 (0.80%) Firmware
9 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (12.80%) vCenter Server
3 15 (12.00%) Ansible
4 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
5 9 (7.20%) SCCM
6 8 (6.40%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (6.40%) ZABBIX
7 7 (5.60%) Nagios
8 4 (3.20%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (3.20%) Nessus
8 4 (3.20%) Podman
8 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.60%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.60%) Grafana
9 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.60%) Rancher
9 2 (1.60%) SCOM
9 2 (1.60%) WSUS
10 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 70 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (42.40%) VMware
3 22 (17.60%) Citrix
4 9 (7.20%) Cisco
4 9 (7.20%) Sophos
4 9 (7.20%) Veeam
5 6 (4.80%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.80%) Thycotic
6 5 (4.00%) Symantec
7 4 (3.20%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.20%) QNAP
7 4 (3.20%) Splunk
8 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.40%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (2.40%) WatchGuard
9 2 (1.60%) Intel
9 2 (1.60%) NetApp
9 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.80%) Aruba
10 1 (0.80%) Oracle