Windows Server Job Trends in Kent

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 22 39
Rank change year-on-year -46 +17 +15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 22 50 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 1.38% 6.77% 3.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.83% 23.70% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 17 46 44
10th Percentile - £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -17.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £55,313
90th Percentile £48,000 £41,250 £58,750
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.98% +7.50%

All Operating Systems
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 211 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.13% 28.55% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 65 203 124
10th Percentile £26,550 £27,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £38,325 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +2.20% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £41,663 £45,250
90th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £59,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £47,750
% change year-on-year +12.50% -16.23% +6.11%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Kent

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Kent over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Kent

Windows Server
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Kent region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Whitstable - 3 £42,500 -
Sevenoaks - 2 £45,000 - 1
Maidstone -17 1 - - 2
Folkestone - 1 £27,500 - 1
Gravesend - 1 £45,000 -
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (36.36%) AWS
4 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 4 (18.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) DHCP
1 16 (72.73%) DNS
2 10 (45.45%) Firewall
3 6 (27.27%) NAS
3 6 (27.27%) SAN
3 6 (27.27%) VPN
4 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
4 5 (22.73%) VLAN
4 5 (22.73%) WAN
5 4 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) IT Support
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Mentoring
2 8 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (27.27%) Coaching
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
3 6 (27.27%) Server Management
3 6 (27.27%) Storage Management
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
5 4 (18.18%) Business Continuity
5 4 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 4 (18.18%) Change Management
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) High Availability
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (18.18%) ITSM
5 4 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (18.18%) User Experience
5 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (13.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Active Directory
2 14 (63.64%) Hyper-V
3 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) VMware
2 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) HP
4 4 (18.18%) Dell
4 4 (18.18%) Dell Compellent
4 4 (18.18%) Facebook
4 4 (18.18%) Instagram
4 4 (18.18%) Nimble Storage
4 4 (18.18%) Veeam
5 3 (13.64%) WatchGuard
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) Commvault
6 2 (9.09%) Meraki
6 2 (9.09%) Zerto
7 1 (4.55%) Sophos