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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 73 50
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 +18
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 186 210 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.31% 3.66% 3.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.27% 23.44% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 165 176 356
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £29,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.11% -9.88%
75th Percentile £48,250 £49,375 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,000 £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 736 896 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.18% 15.62% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 558 686 920
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,313 £29,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -7.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -24 98 £32,500 -7.14% 25
West Midlands -39 88 £42,500 +21.43% 33
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 48 (25.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.91%) IIS
4 4 (2.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.61%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.61%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Exchequer
1 4 (2.15%) Primavera
2 2 (1.08%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.08%) Infor LN
2 2 (1.08%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.08%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.08%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (69.35%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (45.16%) Azure
3 64 (34.41%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.14%) SaaS
5 16 (8.60%) AWS
6 11 (5.91%) IaaS
7 9 (4.84%) PaaS
8 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.23%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.15%) Cloudflare
11 4 (2.15%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.08%) GCP
12 2 (1.08%) GitHub
12 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.08%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 68 (36.56%) Firewall
2 65 (34.95%) DNS
3 48 (25.81%) DHCP
4 38 (20.43%) VPN
5 34 (18.28%) TCP/IP
6 29 (15.59%) VLAN
7 19 (10.22%) Wireless
8 15 (8.06%) WAN
9 14 (7.53%) LAN
10 9 (4.84%) VoIP
10 9 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (4.30%) Network Security
11 8 (4.30%) SAN
12 4 (2.15%) MQTT
13 3 (1.61%) Internet
13 3 (1.61%) NAS
14 2 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
15 1 (0.54%) DMZ
15 1 (0.54%) Intranet
15 1 (0.54%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.69%) Power BI
3 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.61%) MySQL
5 2 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.08%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.08%) KNIME
5 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Power Query
6 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.30%) Git
2 7 (3.76%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) Ant
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.08%) Maven
3 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.54%) Carbide.c++
General
1 73 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.53%) Manufacturing
4 10 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.30%) Finance
5 8 (4.30%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Dutch Language
7 4 (2.15%) Portuguese Language
7 4 (2.15%) Retail
7 4 (2.15%) Spanish Language
8 3 (1.61%) Legal
8 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.08%) Automotive
9 2 (1.08%) French Language
10 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (33.33%) IT Support
2 54 (29.03%) IT Engineer
3 43 (23.12%) Support Engineer
4 34 (18.28%) IT Support Engineer
5 33 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (16.67%) Analyst
7 24 (12.90%) Support Analyst
8 22 (11.83%) IT Technician
9 19 (10.22%) IT Support Technician
9 19 (10.22%) Support Technician
10 16 (8.60%) Applications Support
10 16 (8.60%) Senior
11 15 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (6.99%) Administrator
12 13 (6.99%) IT Analyst
12 13 (6.99%) Network Engineer
13 11 (5.91%) IT Support Analyst
14 10 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 9 (4.84%) Network Administrator
15 9 (4.84%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.15%) CSS
1 4 (2.15%) HTML
1 4 (2.15%) Middleware
2 3 (1.61%) JSON
3 2 (1.08%) EDI
3 2 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.54%) .NET
4 1 (0.54%) jQuery
4 1 (0.54%) Laravel
4 1 (0.54%) RESTful
4 1 (0.54%) SAP CAF
4 1 (0.54%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Driving Licence
2 13 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.91%) CCTV
3 11 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.23%) Clustering
5 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.69%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.15%) IoT
7 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.61%) iSeries
8 3 (1.61%) Replication
8 3 (1.61%) Social Media
9 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 186 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (16.13%) Linux
3 18 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 8 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.23%) Android
6 5 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.15%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.15%) VMS
7 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.61%) Solaris
8 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (39.25%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (17.74%) Service Delivery
5 29 (15.59%) Customer Service
6 28 (15.05%) ITIL
7 26 (13.98%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (12.37%) ITSM
9 23 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.60%) ERP
11 16 (8.60%) Project Delivery
12 15 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (8.06%) Problem Management
13 13 (6.99%) Service Management
14 12 (6.45%) AI
14 12 (6.45%) Business Continuity
14 12 (6.45%) Change Management
14 12 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.66%) PowerShell
2 40 (21.51%) SQL
3 15 (8.06%) Python
3 15 (8.06%) VBA
4 4 (2.15%) Bash
4 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.15%) PHP
5 3 (1.61%) Bicep
6 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (9.14%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.45%) DBS Check
3 12 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.84%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.76%) CCNA
5 7 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.69%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.08%) CCNP
8 2 (1.08%) CISSP
8 2 (1.08%) MCSE
9 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.44%) SLA
2 9 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.15%) GDPR
5 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 123 (66.13%) Active Directory
2 67 (36.02%) Hyper-V
3 41 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.23%) Docker
4 6 (3.23%) vSphere
5 2 (1.08%) Firmware
6 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (3.76%) Terraform
3 6 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
3 6 (3.23%) SCCM
4 5 (2.69%) Ansible
5 4 (2.15%) Grafana
6 3 (1.61%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (1.61%) Control-M
6 3 (1.61%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (1.08%) Nessus
7 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 131 (70.43%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.81%) VMware
3 11 (5.91%) Cisco
4 10 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.38%) Veeam
5 8 (4.30%) Sage
6 7 (3.76%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.23%) Citrix
7 6 (3.23%) SAP
7 6 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.23%) SonicWALL
8 5 (2.69%) Sophos
9 4 (2.15%) Apple
9 4 (2.15%) Remedy
10 3 (1.61%) Adobe
10 3 (1.61%) BMC
10 3 (1.61%) Meraki
10 3 (1.61%) Oracle
10 3 (1.61%) WatchGuard
11 2 (1.08%) SYSPRO