Windows Server Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 49 77
Rank change year-on-year -46 +28 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 203 556 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 3.99% 4.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.02% 31.34% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 183 472 262
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,875
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,500 £39,294
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -9.65% -1.77%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £56,000
90th Percentile £54,750 £57,500 £61,188
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 882 1,774 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.93% 12.72% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 657 1,306 805
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
West Midlands -39 104 £35,000 - 80
East Midlands -29 97 £35,000 -9.68% 91
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 62 (30.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (16.75%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.42%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 36 (17.73%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.96%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 119 (58.62%) Azure
2 112 (55.17%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (12.81%) Entra ID
4 19 (9.36%) AWS
5 14 (6.90%) IaaS
5 14 (6.90%) PaaS
6 13 (6.40%) SaaS
7 9 (4.43%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.45%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.96%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.97%) Route 53
11 3 (1.48%) GitHub
12 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.99%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 90 (44.33%) Firewall
2 65 (32.02%) DHCP
3 63 (31.03%) DNS
4 60 (29.56%) WAN
5 50 (24.63%) LAN
6 42 (20.69%) VPN
7 30 (14.78%) VLAN
8 29 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 19 (9.36%) SAN
10 15 (7.39%) Remote Desktop
11 13 (6.40%) Network Security
12 12 (5.91%) SD-WAN
13 9 (4.43%) Ethernet
14 8 (3.94%) BGP
15 7 (3.45%) OSPF
15 7 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (3.45%) WLAN
16 5 (2.46%) iSCSI
17 4 (1.97%) HTTPS
17 4 (1.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.48%) Data Hub
2 3 (1.48%) SQL CLR
3 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.49%) MySQL
General
1 54 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.85%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (7.88%) Law
4 13 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.40%) Legal
5 12 (5.91%) Retail
6 11 (5.42%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.93%) Finance
8 7 (3.45%) Automotive
9 5 (2.46%) Billing
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
11 2 (0.99%) Advertising
11 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (30.05%) Support Engineer
2 57 (28.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (25.62%) IT Engineer
4 46 (22.66%) IT Support
5 29 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
6 28 (13.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 22 (10.84%) 3rd Line Support
7 22 (10.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 19 (9.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 18 (8.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (6.40%) Analyst
10 13 (6.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.40%) Project Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Senior
12 11 (5.42%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (5.42%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 11 (5.42%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.97%) .NET
2 3 (1.48%) .NET Core
2 3 (1.48%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.48%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (1.48%) Entity Framework
3 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.72%) Driving Licence
2 19 (9.36%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.91%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.45%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.46%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.99%) FMCG
9 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.49%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 203 (100.00%) Windows
2 43 (21.18%) Linux
3 41 (20.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 39 (19.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (13.79%) Windows 10
6 14 (6.90%) Apple iOS
6 14 (6.90%) Ubuntu
7 11 (5.42%) Rocky
8 10 (4.93%) Windows 7
9 9 (4.43%) Android
10 7 (3.45%) CentOS
10 7 (3.45%) Mac OS X
11 6 (2.96%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.99%) AIX
13 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.49%) Unix
14 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.70%) ITIL
4 39 (19.21%) Customer Service
5 25 (12.32%) Mentoring
6 22 (10.84%) Migration
7 21 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.36%) Data Security
8 19 (9.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (9.36%) Infrastructure Management
9 16 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (6.40%) Network Design
11 13 (6.40%) Service Delivery
12 12 (5.91%) Data Protection
12 12 (5.91%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (5.91%) Virtual Environments
13 10 (4.93%) Incident Management
13 10 (4.93%) ITSM
13 10 (4.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (26.60%) PowerShell
2 35 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (1.48%) C#
4 2 (0.99%) Bash
4 2 (0.99%) Perl
4 2 (0.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (22.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 34 (16.75%) MCSA
3 32 (15.76%) MCSE
4 29 (14.29%) MCP
5 27 (13.30%) Degree
6 23 (11.33%) A+ Certification
7 19 (9.36%) Azure Certification
7 19 (9.36%) CCNA
7 19 (9.36%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (5.42%) Security Cleared
9 10 (4.93%) DV Cleared
10 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.94%) CCNP
12 7 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (3.45%) HNC
12 7 (3.45%) HND
12 7 (3.45%) SC Cleared
13 6 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (2.46%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.97%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.88%) SLA
2 10 (4.93%) GDPR
3 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 160 (78.82%) Active Directory
2 57 (28.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (20.20%) Hyper-V
4 13 (6.40%) XenApp
5 9 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (4.43%) vSphere
6 6 (2.96%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.99%) Docker
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (15.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.88%) SCCM
3 9 (4.43%) Ansible
4 7 (3.45%) SCOM
5 6 (2.96%) Autotask
6 5 (2.46%) AirWatch
6 5 (2.46%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.97%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.99%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.99%) SCSM
8 2 (0.99%) Terraform
8 2 (0.99%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 135 (66.50%) Microsoft
2 67 (33.00%) VMware
3 39 (19.21%) Cisco
4 28 (13.79%) Meraki
5 21 (10.34%) Apple
5 21 (10.34%) Dell
6 20 (9.85%) HP
7 14 (6.90%) Citrix
7 14 (6.90%) SonicWALL
8 13 (6.40%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.93%) Google
10 8 (3.94%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.45%) NetApp
11 7 (3.45%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.45%) Sophos
11 7 (3.45%) Ubiquiti
12 6 (2.96%) Aruba
12 6 (2.96%) Rapid7
12 6 (2.96%) SAP
12 6 (2.96%) Veeam