Windows Server 2012 Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 380 339
Rank change year-on-year +34 -41 +68
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 28 48 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.20% 0.31% 0.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% 2.11% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27 34 92
10th Percentile £36,900 £35,300 £32,050
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £54,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +0.93% +2.88%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £87,125 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £43,742
% change year-on-year -7.22% +10.88% +2.92%

All Operating Systems
London

Windows Server 2012 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,382 2,280 2,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.80% 14.70% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 1,458 2,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £89,313 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server 2012 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Windows Server 2012 job vacancy trend in London

Windows Server 2012
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2012.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2012 in London

Windows Server 2012
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Central London +41 14 £77,500 +29.17%
Windows Server 2012
England

Windows Server 2012
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 21 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) IIS
3 5 (17.86%) Tomcat
4 4 (14.29%) Confluence
5 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (39.29%) Entra ID
3 10 (35.71%) Azure
4 8 (28.57%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) Google Workspace
5 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) IaaS
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (82.14%) DNS
2 18 (64.29%) DHCP
2 18 (64.29%) LAN
2 18 (64.29%) TCP/IP
2 18 (64.29%) WAN
3 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (28.57%) VoIP
5 2 (7.14%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) Firewall
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.57%) VPN
6 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
1 5 (17.86%) GitLab
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (32.14%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) IT Support
1 9 (32.14%) Support Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Windows Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Systems Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (3.57%) Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.57%) IT Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Kafka
2 4 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (32.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Clustering
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (96.43%) Windows Server
3 15 (53.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (32.14%) Windows 10
6 8 (28.57%) Mac OS
7 6 (21.43%) Linux
8 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
11 2 (7.14%) OpenVMS
11 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) Batch Scripting
3 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) Patch Management
3 9 (32.14%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) Task Automation
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 28 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (32.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (17.86%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (32.14%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (17.86%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 4 (14.29%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
5 2 (7.14%) SCOM
5 2 (7.14%) WSUS
6 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.57%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (32.14%) Bloomberg
3 9 (32.14%) Reuters
4 8 (28.57%) Google
5 7 (25.00%) Oracle
6 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
7 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (10.71%) Veeam
9 2 (7.14%) Dell
9 2 (7.14%) Veritas
10 1 (3.57%) Adobe
10 1 (3.57%) Apple
10 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
10 1 (3.57%) Cisco
10 1 (3.57%) Citrix
10 1 (3.57%) HP
10 1 (3.57%) Meraki
10 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
10 1 (3.57%) Splunk