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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 92 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 -26 -26
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 239 166 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.52% 3.00% 3.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.00% 26.39% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 193 129 176
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,600 £27,125
25th Percentile £29,625 £27,750 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £60,680 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 771 629 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.92% 11.37% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 555 504 503
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,875 £26,550
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% -7.69% -13.51%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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
West Midlands +14 132 £42,500 +14.86% 36
East Midlands -21 107 £35,000 +7.69% 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 68 (28.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (17.57%) SharePoint
3 19 (7.95%) IIS
4 8 (3.35%) Apache
4 8 (3.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.26%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (1.26%) Infor LN
1 3 (1.26%) Infor M3
1 3 (1.26%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.84%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 174 (72.80%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (53.97%) Azure
3 104 (43.51%) Entra ID
4 34 (14.23%) AWS
5 15 (6.28%) SaaS
6 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Copilot
6 14 (5.86%) OneDrive
7 11 (4.60%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.77%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.35%) GCP
9 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.51%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.67%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.67%) IaaS
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.84%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.84%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 107 (44.77%) Firewall
2 104 (43.51%) DNS
3 77 (32.22%) DHCP
4 67 (28.03%) VPN
5 51 (21.34%) TCP/IP
6 41 (17.15%) VLAN
7 23 (9.62%) LAN
8 22 (9.21%) WAN
8 22 (9.21%) Wireless
9 12 (5.02%) IP Telephony
9 12 (5.02%) Network Security
9 12 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (4.18%) SAN
11 9 (3.77%) VoIP
12 4 (1.67%) Internet
12 4 (1.67%) MQTT
12 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (0.84%) NAS
14 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.67%) Power BI
4 2 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.84%) KNIME
4 2 (0.84%) Power Query
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.42%) MySQL
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Git
1 7 (2.93%) JIRA
2 2 (0.84%) Ant
2 2 (0.84%) Apache Ivy
2 2 (0.84%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.84%) Maven
2 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.42%) Carbide.c++
General
1 112 (46.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.37%) Telecoms
3 18 (7.53%) Manufacturing
4 17 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.86%) Finance
6 10 (4.18%) Legal
7 8 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.09%) Retail
10 3 (1.26%) Automotive
10 3 (1.26%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Advertising
11 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) French Language
12 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 81 (33.89%) IT Support
2 78 (32.64%) IT Engineer
3 66 (27.62%) Support Engineer
4 52 (21.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 51 (21.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (15.90%) Senior
7 27 (11.30%) IT Technician
7 27 (11.30%) Support Technician
8 25 (10.46%) IT Support Technician
9 22 (9.21%) 2nd Line Support
10 21 (8.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 20 (8.37%) Administrator
11 20 (8.37%) Analyst
11 20 (8.37%) Senior Support Engineer
12 19 (7.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (7.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 16 (6.69%) Senior IT Engineer
15 14 (5.86%) Senior IT Support
16 13 (5.44%) Network Engineer
16 13 (5.44%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.77%) Terraform
2 4 (1.67%) Middleware
3 3 (1.26%) EDI
4 2 (0.84%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.42%) .NET
5 1 (0.42%) CSS
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) JSON
5 1 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.48%) Driving Licence
2 19 (7.95%) CCTV
3 17 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.60%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.93%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.51%) Clustering
8 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.09%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.09%) PMI
10 4 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.67%) IoT
10 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.26%) FMCG
11 3 (1.26%) Replication
12 2 (0.84%) iSeries
12 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 239 (100.00%) Windows
2 55 (23.01%) Linux
3 23 (9.62%) Windows 10
4 11 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (3.35%) macOS
6 8 (3.35%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.93%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.67%) VMS
10 3 (1.26%) Android
10 3 (1.26%) Solaris
11 2 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (38.49%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (27.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 64 (26.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 51 (21.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (19.25%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (18.41%) ITIL
7 42 (17.57%) Customer Service
8 40 (16.74%) Service Delivery
9 35 (14.64%) ITSM
10 31 (12.97%) Root Cause Analysis
11 28 (11.72%) Mentoring
11 28 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (10.88%) Project Delivery
13 24 (10.04%) Migration
14 23 (9.62%) AI
15 22 (9.21%) Business Continuity
16 20 (8.37%) Incident Management
17 18 (7.53%) Problem Management
18 16 (6.69%) ERP
18 16 (6.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.76%) PowerShell
2 38 (15.90%) SQL
3 15 (6.28%) Python
4 13 (5.44%) VBA
5 6 (2.51%) Bash
6 3 (1.26%) Bicep
7 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.42%) PHP
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.21%) CCNA
1 22 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
1 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (7.95%) Degree
2 19 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 15 (6.28%) CCNP
5 14 (5.86%) MCSE
6 12 (5.02%) MCSA
6 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (3.35%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.93%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.09%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.67%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.72%) SLA
2 27 (11.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.51%) GDPR
5 5 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 142 (59.41%) Active Directory
2 92 (38.49%) Hyper-V
3 64 (26.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.18%) vSphere
5 7 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.51%) Docker
6 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.26%) Firmware
8 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.84%) XenApp
9 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (25.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.60%) SCCM
3 6 (2.51%) Backup Exec
3 6 (2.51%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (2.09%) SmoothWall
5 4 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.26%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (1.26%) Control-M
6 3 (1.26%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (0.84%) Grafana
7 2 (0.84%) Nessus
7 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.84%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) SCOM
8 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 181 (75.73%) Microsoft
2 86 (35.98%) VMware
3 20 (8.37%) Cisco
4 19 (7.95%) WatchGuard
5 16 (6.69%) Google
5 16 (6.69%) Veeam
6 15 (6.28%) Citrix
6 15 (6.28%) SonicWALL
7 14 (5.86%) Mitel
8 13 (5.44%) Meraki
9 12 (5.02%) Draytek
10 11 (4.60%) Fortinet
11 9 (3.77%) Apple
11 9 (3.77%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.77%) Sophos
12 6 (2.51%) Datto
12 6 (2.51%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.09%) Sage
13 5 (2.09%) SAP
13 5 (2.09%) TOWER Software