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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 10 16 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 1.75% 3.46% 7.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.39% 12.21% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 33
10th Percentile £25,825 £29,750 £33,700
25th Percentile £34,063 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +34.53%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £55,250
90th Percentile - £59,750 £57,500
East Midlands median annual salary £27,500 £33,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.29% -30.00% +5.56%

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 41 131 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.17% 28.35% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 41 51 75
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -31.99% +33.31%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,125 £57,125
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £31,500 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -26.32% +2.43%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -8 1 £45,000 -21.74% 3
Wigston - 1 £27,000 -
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 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) iPaaS
3 6 (60.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) IT Support
2 6 (60.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Manager
4 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Clustering
1 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Presales
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) Web Filtering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) VMware