Windows Server Job Trends in Leicestershire

Microsoft Windows Server
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 22 14 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 2.04% 4.19% 5.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.88% 18.67% 23.74%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 44
10th Percentile £27,875 £31,325 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,563 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £47,500 £60,725 -
East Midlands median annual salary £29,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -17.14% -12.50% +14.28%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 85 75 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.90% 22.46% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 67 36 122
10th Percentile £29,400 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £25,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £36,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.68% -14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £64,750 £42,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £69,250 £58,125 £61,000
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -18.75% -11.11%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Leicestershire

Windows Server
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Leicester -31 5 £45,000 -19.64% 5
Hinckley - 3 £37,500 -
Windows Server
East Midlands

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Exchequer
1 4 (18.18%) Primavera
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 10 (45.45%) IaaS
4 8 (36.36%) PaaS
5 4 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) Internet
3 3 (13.64%) LAN
3 3 (13.64%) MQTT
3 3 (13.64%) VoIP
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) WAN
3 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Applications Support
2 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Applications Support Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Support Analyst
3 6 (27.27%) Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) IT Support
5 3 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Applications Support
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) IoT
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
3 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
3 3 (13.64%) VMS
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 5 (22.73%) Change Control
5 4 (18.18%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.64%) AI
6 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) Security Patching
6 3 (13.64%) Service Management
6 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (9.09%) Information Security
7 2 (9.09%) Presales
7 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.55%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
System Software
1 18 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) Hyper-V
3 4 (18.18%) vSphere
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) Sage
4 3 (13.64%) Apple
4 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (9.09%) Veeam
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle