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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 65 42
Rank change year-on-year -50 -23 +31
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 135 232 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.45% 4.17% 4.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.37% 23.46% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 119 153 386
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £48,710 £57,000 £57,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -2.88%

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 554 989 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.95% 17.79% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 446 419 1,070
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,694 £31,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £46,000 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £62,510
England median annual salary £44,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +8.42% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -35 83 £28,500 -18.57% 17
West Midlands -56 51 £44,000 +2.33% 19
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 31 (22.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (19.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.96%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.48%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.74%) Primavera
2 1 (0.74%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (78.52%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (47.41%) Azure
3 40 (29.63%) Entra ID
4 19 (14.07%) SaaS
5 13 (9.63%) AWS
6 5 (3.70%) IaaS
6 5 (3.70%) iPaaS
6 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.96%) GCP
7 4 (2.96%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.96%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.22%) PaaS
9 2 (1.48%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 59 (43.70%) DHCP
1 59 (43.70%) DNS
2 41 (30.37%) Firewall
3 16 (11.85%) TCP/IP
4 15 (11.11%) LAN
4 15 (11.11%) WAN
5 9 (6.67%) Network Security
5 9 (6.67%) VLAN
5 9 (6.67%) VPN
6 7 (5.19%) IP Telephony
6 7 (5.19%) VoIP
7 6 (4.44%) Internet
7 6 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (4.44%) SAN
7 6 (4.44%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.96%) MPLS
9 4 (2.96%) PBX
9 4 (2.96%) Skype
9 4 (2.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.96%) DTS
3 2 (1.48%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Git
General
1 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.93%) Finance
3 7 (5.19%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Law
6 4 (2.96%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 69 (51.11%) IT Support
1 69 (51.11%) Support Engineer
2 62 (45.93%) IT Engineer
3 55 (40.74%) IT Support Engineer
4 32 (23.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (13.33%) Analyst
5 18 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 18 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Support Analyst
7 10 (7.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Senior
8 7 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (5.19%) Technical Support
8 7 (5.19%) Technical Support Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.44%) Field Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.48%) CSS
1 2 (1.48%) HTML
1 2 (1.48%) jQuery
1 2 (1.48%) Laravel
1 2 (1.48%) RESTful
2 1 (0.74%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (34.81%) Driving Licence
2 10 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.19%) CCTV
3 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.44%) iPad
4 6 (4.44%) PMI
5 5 (3.70%) Clustering
5 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.96%) CMDB
6 4 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.22%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.74%) iSeries
9 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 135 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (7.41%) Linux
2 10 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (5.19%) Android
3 7 (5.19%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.19%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.74%) Customer Service
2 54 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (24.44%) ITIL
5 27 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 21 (15.56%) Service Delivery
7 17 (12.59%) Mentoring
8 16 (11.85%) Migration
9 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.11%) DevOps
9 15 (11.11%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.41%) ITSM
11 10 (7.41%) Server Management
12 9 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
12 9 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (5.93%) Service Management
14 7 (5.19%) Time Management
15 6 (4.44%) Coaching
15 6 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.59%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.37%) SQL
3 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.48%) PHP
3 2 (1.48%) Python
4 1 (0.74%) Bicep
4 1 (0.74%) VB
4 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.19%) CCNA
2 7 (5.19%) CCNP
2 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (5.19%) MCSA
2 7 (5.19%) MCSE
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 6 (4.44%) Degree
3 6 (4.44%) PMI Certification
3 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (6.67%) SLA
4 5 (3.70%) GDPR
5 4 (2.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 89 (65.93%) Active Directory
2 27 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 27 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.70%) vSphere
5 4 (2.96%) Terminal Services
5 4 (2.96%) XenApp
6 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.44%) WSUS
3 5 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (2.96%) Nagios
4 4 (2.96%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.48%) Grafana
5 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (47.41%) Microsoft
2 39 (28.89%) VMware
3 12 (8.89%) Veeam
4 11 (8.15%) Citrix
5 8 (5.93%) Google
6 7 (5.19%) Cisco
6 7 (5.19%) Draytek
6 7 (5.19%) Meraki
6 7 (5.19%) Mitel
6 7 (5.19%) WatchGuard
7 6 (4.44%) Apple
7 6 (4.44%) Darktrace
8 4 (2.96%) BMC
8 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.96%) IBM
8 4 (2.96%) Proofpoint
8 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.96%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.96%) SonicWALL
8 4 (2.96%) Trend Micro