Windows Server Jobs in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 34 57
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 +24
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 66 250 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.24% 6.21% 4.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.15% 29.24% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54 224 113
10th Percentile £26,325 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £29,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -11.76% -2.30%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £58,027 £67,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £39,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% +9.72% -14.29%

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 298 855 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.62% 21.24% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 239 657 554
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,300 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +11.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -10.53%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in Hampshire

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 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
Basingstoke +9 43 £55,000 +57.14% 10
Southampton -12 9 £27,000 -16.92% 9
Portsmouth -26 4 £27,875 -38.06% 3
Lymington 0 3 £35,500 -5.33%
Romsey - 3 - - 5
Eastleigh +14 2 £59,250 +75.56% 1
Farnborough -7 1 £47,500 - 6
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) Azure
2 19 (28.79%) AWS
3 12 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.15%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.15%) GCP
5 6 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.82%) DHCP
1 21 (31.82%) DNS
2 13 (19.70%) Firewall
3 11 (16.67%) SAN
4 10 (15.15%) NAS
5 8 (12.12%) SMTP
6 7 (10.61%) Network Security
6 7 (10.61%) VSAN
7 6 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (6.06%) iSCSI
9 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.55%) VLAN
9 3 (4.55%) VPN
10 1 (1.52%) LAN
10 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) GitLab
1 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (22.73%) Designer
4 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Support Specialist
5 6 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 6 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
5 6 (9.09%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Desktop Support
6 5 (7.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) IT Support
8 3 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 3 (4.55%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Clustering
2 9 (13.64%) PKI
3 6 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Replication
5 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (28.79%) Linux
3 6 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.03%) CentOS
5 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.03%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (19.70%) Incident Management
3 12 (18.18%) High Availability
3 12 (18.18%) Task Automation
4 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.09%) Application Virtualisation
6 6 (9.09%) Disk Encryption
6 6 (9.09%) RBAC
6 6 (9.09%) Security Hardening
6 6 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (7.58%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (7.58%) Security Patching
7 5 (7.58%) Server Building
8 4 (6.06%) Containerisation
8 4 (6.06%) Customer Service
8 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.55%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.55%) Bash
2 3 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (65.15%) DV Cleared
1 43 (65.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.52%) MCITP
6 1 (1.52%) MCSE
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 32 (48.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (40.91%) Hyper-V
4 21 (31.82%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (22.73%) Docker
6 14 (21.21%) vSphere
7 8 (12.12%) BitLocker
7 8 (12.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (12.12%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.52%) XenApp
8 1 (1.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) vCenter Server
2 16 (24.24%) Ansible
3 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 14 (21.21%) vMotion
5 13 (19.70%) Puppet
6 6 (9.09%) Nagios
6 6 (9.09%) PowerCLI
6 6 (9.09%) vRealize
7 5 (7.58%) SCCM
7 5 (7.58%) Terraform
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.52%) Nessus
9 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (54.55%) VMware
2 31 (46.97%) Microsoft
3 15 (22.73%) Citrix
3 15 (22.73%) Forcepoint
4 13 (19.70%) HP
5 10 (15.15%) Veeam
6 9 (13.64%) Google
7 7 (10.61%) Symantec
8 2 (3.03%) EMC
8 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.52%) Cisco
9 1 (1.52%) Dell
9 1 (1.52%) Meraki
9 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.52%) WatchGuard