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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 67 23
Rank change year-on-year +28 -44 +28
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 6 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.53% 2.35% 8.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.65% 10.50% 52.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 34
10th Percentile £33,375 £24,650 £31,075
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,000 £57,625 £62,125
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £33,750 £46,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% -27.03% +12.12%

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 34 181 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.65% 22.35% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27 61 63
10th Percentile £24,100 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £48,628
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -17.74% +24.22%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,850 £58,750 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +5.56%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 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
Leicester +5 1 £55,000 - 1
Windows Server
East Midlands

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) iPaaS
2 4 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) IT Support
3 3 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Isilon
2 1 (16.67%) VMware