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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 70 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 -37 +26
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 152 294 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.13% 3.73% 6.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.14% 25.68% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 123 163 278
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,500 £27,350
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -9.09% +3.53%
75th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £53,682
90th Percentile £59,750 £57,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

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 560 1,145 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.86% 14.51% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 442 460 710
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,925 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,927 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% -5.37% -3.89%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,125 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%

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 12 December 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 12 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
East Midlands +3 97 £28,000 -20.00% 22
West Midlands -48 55 £40,000 -5.88% 40
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 36 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (19.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.92%) Skype for Business
4 6 (3.95%) WinCC
5 4 (2.63%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (1.97%) Apache
7 2 (1.32%) ArchestrA
7 2 (1.32%) IIS
8 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 114 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (51.32%) Azure
3 46 (30.26%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.18%) AWS
4 17 (11.18%) SaaS
5 9 (5.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (5.92%) GCP
6 7 (4.61%) Azure Stack
7 6 (3.95%) iPaaS
8 5 (3.29%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.97%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.97%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.97%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.66%) GitHub
10 1 (0.66%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.66%) IaaS
10 1 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (49.34%) DNS
2 72 (47.37%) DHCP
3 47 (30.92%) Firewall
4 22 (14.47%) WAN
5 20 (13.16%) LAN
6 18 (11.84%) TCP/IP
7 16 (10.53%) VLAN
8 10 (6.58%) VPN
9 9 (5.92%) SAN
9 9 (5.92%) SD-WAN
9 9 (5.92%) Skype
10 7 (4.61%) IP Telephony
10 7 (4.61%) Network Security
10 7 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.95%) Modbus
12 4 (2.63%) MPLS
12 4 (2.63%) WLAN
13 3 (1.97%) Intranet
13 3 (1.97%) PBX
13 3 (1.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.92%) DTS
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.66%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Git
General
1 42 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.89%) Manufacturing
3 11 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.58%) Retail
4 10 (6.58%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.26%) Law
6 7 (4.61%) Finance
7 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Automotive
9 2 (1.32%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 81 (53.29%) Support Engineer
2 75 (49.34%) IT Engineer
3 62 (40.79%) IT Support
4 58 (38.16%) IT Support Engineer
5 53 (34.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (17.76%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (17.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 18 (11.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Technical Support
9 14 (9.21%) Analyst
10 12 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
10 12 (7.89%) Support Analyst
10 12 (7.89%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (7.24%) 1st Line Support
11 11 (7.24%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 11 (7.24%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 11 (7.24%) Technical Support Analyst
12 9 (5.92%) Senior
13 8 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) CSS
1 3 (1.97%) HTML
1 3 (1.97%) jQuery
1 3 (1.97%) Laravel
1 3 (1.97%) RESTful
2 1 (0.66%) .NET
2 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.66%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (0.66%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.66%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (36.84%) Driving Licence
2 18 (11.84%) Onboarding
3 16 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.92%) CMDB
4 9 (5.92%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (4.61%) CCTV
5 7 (4.61%) Clustering
5 7 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.95%) Operational Technology
6 6 (3.95%) SCADA
7 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.97%) iPad
8 3 (1.97%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.97%) PMI
8 3 (1.97%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.66%) iSeries
9 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (17.11%) Windows Server 2019
3 24 (15.79%) Linux
4 14 (9.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (6.58%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (5.92%) Windows 10
7 7 (4.61%) Rocky
8 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.66%) AIX
9 1 (0.66%) Android
9 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.66%) Unix
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.45%) Customer Service
2 61 (40.13%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (20.39%) Incident Management
5 21 (13.82%) ITIL
6 18 (11.84%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 16 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (10.53%) Migration
7 16 (10.53%) Service Delivery
8 15 (9.87%) Infrastructure Management
9 12 (7.89%) Server Management
10 11 (7.24%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.58%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.58%) DevOps
11 10 (6.58%) ITSM
11 10 (6.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (5.92%) Cloud Operations
12 9 (5.92%) Problem Management
13 7 (4.61%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.18%) SQL
2 16 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.97%) PHP
4 2 (1.32%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (0.66%) Bicep
5 1 (0.66%) C#
5 1 (0.66%) VB
5 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.24%) MCP
2 11 (7.24%) MCSA
2 11 (7.24%) MCSE
3 9 (5.92%) CCNA
3 9 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.92%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.61%) CCNP
5 7 (4.61%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.63%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.63%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.97%) Degree
7 3 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.55%) GDPR
2 9 (5.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.95%) IEC 61508
3 6 (3.95%) QA
4 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.63%) IEC 61131
6 3 (1.97%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 44 (28.95%) Hyper-V
3 39 (25.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.63%) XenApp
6 3 (1.97%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.92%) Nagios
2 9 (5.92%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.61%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.95%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (2.63%) SCCM
6 3 (1.97%) WSUS
7 2 (1.32%) Autotask
8 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.66%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 49 (32.24%) VMware
3 13 (8.55%) Citrix
4 12 (7.89%) Cisco
5 11 (7.24%) Darktrace
5 11 (7.24%) Veeam
6 10 (6.58%) Google
7 9 (5.92%) BMC
7 9 (5.92%) Meraki
7 9 (5.92%) Proofpoint
7 9 (5.92%) Red Hat
7 9 (5.92%) SolarWinds
7 9 (5.92%) Tanium
7 9 (5.92%) Trend Micro
8 7 (4.61%) Dell
8 7 (4.61%) Draytek
8 7 (4.61%) Mitel
8 7 (4.61%) WatchGuard
9 6 (3.95%) Rockwell
9 6 (3.95%) Siemens