Windows Server Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 71 49
Rank change year-on-year -42 -22 +20
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 180 206 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 3.60% 3.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.73% 23.30% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 160 175 379
10th Percentile £27,450 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £29,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £48,284 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £55,900 £57,500
England median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -5.88% -5.56%

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 728 884 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.20% 15.44% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 559 680 988
10th Percentile £26,700 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -7.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50,000 £49,063 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,300 £70,125 £61,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 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
East Midlands -22 97 £32,500 -7.14% 21
West Midlands -35 83 £42,500 +21.43% 34
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 46 (25.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (17.22%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.56%) IIS
4 4 (2.22%) Apache
5 3 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.67%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Exchequer
1 4 (2.22%) Primavera
2 2 (1.11%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.11%) Infor LN
2 2 (1.11%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.11%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.11%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 124 (68.89%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (44.44%) Azure
3 61 (33.89%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.89%) SaaS
5 14 (7.78%) AWS
6 10 (5.56%) IaaS
7 9 (5.00%) PaaS
8 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.33%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.22%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.67%) Cloudflare
13 2 (1.11%) GitHub
13 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.11%) Nutanix
14 1 (0.56%) ChatGPT
14 1 (0.56%) GCP
14 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 65 (36.11%) Firewall
2 62 (34.44%) DNS
3 46 (25.56%) DHCP
4 34 (18.89%) VPN
5 32 (17.78%) TCP/IP
6 27 (15.00%) VLAN
7 17 (9.44%) Wireless
8 14 (7.78%) WAN
9 13 (7.22%) LAN
10 9 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (4.44%) VoIP
12 7 (3.89%) Network Security
12 7 (3.89%) SAN
13 4 (2.22%) MQTT
14 3 (1.67%) Internet
15 2 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (1.11%) NAS
16 1 (0.56%) DMZ
16 1 (0.56%) Intranet
16 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.22%) Power BI
3 3 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.11%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.11%) KNIME
4 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Power Query
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Git
1 7 (3.89%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.56%) Ant
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
3 1 (0.56%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 71 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.78%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.44%) Finance
4 8 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Dutch Language
6 4 (2.22%) Portuguese Language
6 4 (2.22%) Retail
6 4 (2.22%) Spanish Language
7 3 (1.67%) Legal
7 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.11%) Automotive
8 2 (1.11%) French Language
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 61 (33.89%) IT Support
2 53 (29.44%) IT Engineer
3 42 (23.33%) Support Engineer
4 33 (18.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 32 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (17.22%) Analyst
7 24 (13.33%) Support Analyst
8 22 (12.22%) IT Technician
9 19 (10.56%) IT Support Technician
9 19 (10.56%) Support Technician
10 16 (8.89%) Applications Support
11 15 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (7.78%) Senior
13 13 (7.22%) IT Analyst
14 12 (6.67%) Network Engineer
15 11 (6.11%) IT Support Analyst
16 10 (5.56%) Administrator
17 9 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 9 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
18 8 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.22%) CSS
1 4 (2.22%) HTML
1 4 (2.22%) Middleware
2 3 (1.67%) JSON
3 2 (1.11%) EDI
3 2 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.56%) .NET
4 1 (0.56%) jQuery
4 1 (0.56%) Laravel
4 1 (0.56%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) SAP CAF
4 1 (0.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Driving Licence
2 13 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.56%) CCTV
5 8 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.33%) Clustering
7 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.22%) IoT
8 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.67%) iSeries
9 3 (1.67%) Social Media
10 2 (1.11%) FMCG
10 2 (1.11%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.11%) Replication
10 2 (1.11%) SCADA
11 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 180 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (15.00%) Linux
3 17 (9.44%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.89%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.78%) Android
5 5 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.22%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.22%) VMS
6 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.11%) Solaris
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (18.33%) Service Delivery
5 29 (16.11%) ITIL
6 28 (15.56%) Customer Service
7 23 (12.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (12.78%) Mentoring
7 23 (12.78%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (11.67%) ITSM
9 16 (8.89%) ERP
9 16 (8.89%) Project Delivery
10 15 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (7.78%) Problem Management
12 12 (6.67%) Change Management
12 12 (6.67%) Service Management
13 11 (6.11%) AI
13 11 (6.11%) Migration
13 11 (6.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.33%) PowerShell
2 40 (22.22%) SQL
3 15 (8.33%) VBA
4 13 (7.22%) Python
5 4 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.22%) PHP
6 3 (1.67%) Bash
6 3 (1.67%) Bicep
7 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (8.33%) Degree
2 12 (6.67%) DBS Check
2 12 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.78%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.78%) CCNA
6 5 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.11%) CCNP
8 2 (1.11%) CISSP
8 2 (1.11%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.33%) SLA
2 8 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 119 (66.11%) Active Directory
2 64 (35.56%) Hyper-V
3 39 (21.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.89%) vSphere
5 5 (2.78%) Docker
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (14.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 6 (3.33%) SCCM
3 6 (3.33%) Terraform
4 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.22%) Ansible
5 4 (2.22%) Grafana
6 3 (1.67%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (1.67%) Control-M
6 3 (1.67%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (1.11%) Nessus
7 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (26.11%) VMware
3 10 (5.56%) Veeam
4 9 (5.00%) Cisco
5 8 (4.44%) Sage
5 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.33%) Citrix
6 6 (3.33%) SAP
6 6 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.78%) SonicWALL
8 4 (2.22%) Apple
8 4 (2.22%) Remedy
8 4 (2.22%) Sophos
9 3 (1.67%) Adobe
9 3 (1.67%) BMC
9 3 (1.67%) Meraki
9 3 (1.67%) Oracle
10 2 (1.11%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.11%) SYSPRO