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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 87 63
Rank change year-on-year -8 -24 -25
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 240 180 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.52% 3.21% 3.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.29% 26.05% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 198 143 193
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,313 £27,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £60,375 £58,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,156 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.59% -10.76% -2.17%

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 767 691 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.86% 12.31% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 556 545 552
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,100 £26,525
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50,313 £51,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,375 £73,750 £69,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,355 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.81% -17.29% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +1 131 £42,500 +21.43% 54
East Midlands -32 109 £31,000 -4.62% 32
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 65 (27.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (17.08%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.75%) IIS
4 8 (3.33%) Apache
4 8 (3.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (1.25%) Infor LN
1 3 (1.25%) Infor M3
1 3 (1.25%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 174 (72.50%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (50.83%) Azure
3 102 (42.50%) Entra ID
4 31 (12.92%) AWS
5 16 (6.67%) SaaS
6 12 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (3.75%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.75%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.33%) GCP
9 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.67%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.67%) IaaS
12 3 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.83%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 99 (41.25%) Firewall
2 98 (40.83%) DNS
3 72 (30.00%) DHCP
4 61 (25.42%) VPN
5 49 (20.42%) TCP/IP
6 37 (15.42%) VLAN
7 26 (10.83%) Wireless
8 22 (9.17%) LAN
9 21 (8.75%) WAN
10 13 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (5.00%) Network Security
12 10 (4.17%) IP Telephony
13 9 (3.75%) SAN
13 9 (3.75%) VoIP
14 4 (1.67%) Internet
14 4 (1.67%) MQTT
14 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (0.83%) NAS
16 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.67%) Power BI
4 3 (1.25%) MySQL
5 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.83%) KNIME
5 2 (0.83%) Power Query
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Git
1 7 (2.92%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Ant
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Ivy
2 2 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.83%) Maven
2 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.42%) Carbide.c++
General
1 111 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.50%) Manufacturing
3 18 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.00%) Finance
5 9 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.75%) Legal
6 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.50%) Retail
7 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Dutch Language
9 3 (1.25%) Automotive
9 3 (1.25%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Advertising
10 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.83%) French Language
10 2 (0.83%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (0.83%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 80 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 80 (33.33%) IT Support
2 66 (27.50%) Support Engineer
3 52 (21.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 46 (19.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (14.58%) Senior
6 25 (10.42%) IT Technician
6 25 (10.42%) Support Technician
7 24 (10.00%) Analyst
8 23 (9.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (9.58%) IT Support Technician
9 19 (7.92%) Administrator
10 18 (7.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 18 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 18 (7.50%) Senior Support Engineer
11 17 (7.08%) Support Analyst
12 15 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) Network Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) Senior IT Engineer
14 12 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.75%) Terraform
2 4 (1.67%) Middleware
3 3 (1.25%) CSS
3 3 (1.25%) EDI
3 3 (1.25%) HTML
3 3 (1.25%) JSON
4 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.42%) .NET
5 1 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 21 (8.75%) CCTV
3 16 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.92%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.50%) Clustering
8 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.08%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.08%) PMI
10 4 (1.67%) IoT
10 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.25%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.25%) FMCG
11 3 (1.25%) iSeries
11 3 (1.25%) Replication
11 3 (1.25%) Social Media
12 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 240 (100.00%) Windows
2 53 (22.08%) Linux
3 25 (10.42%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.33%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.92%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.08%) Android
8 5 (2.08%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.67%) VMS
10 3 (1.25%) Solaris
11 2 (0.83%) Unix
12 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (24.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (19.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 44 (18.33%) Customer Service
6 43 (17.92%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (17.92%) Service Delivery
7 40 (16.67%) ITIL
8 36 (15.00%) ITSM
9 31 (12.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (11.25%) Mentoring
10 27 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (10.00%) Migration
11 24 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 20 (8.33%) AI
12 20 (8.33%) Business Continuity
13 19 (7.92%) Problem Management
14 18 (7.50%) Incident Management
15 16 (6.67%) ERP
16 15 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.67%) PowerShell
2 42 (17.50%) SQL
3 16 (6.67%) Python
4 15 (6.25%) VBA
5 6 (2.50%) Bash
6 3 (1.25%) Bicep
6 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.25%) PHP
7 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (9.58%) Degree
2 20 (8.33%) CCNA
2 20 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.08%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.42%) CCNP
6 12 (5.00%) DBS Check
6 12 (5.00%) MCSE
7 10 (4.17%) MCSA
7 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 7 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.08%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.67%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.83%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.67%) SLA
2 23 (9.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.50%) GDPR
5 5 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 149 (62.08%) Active Directory
2 89 (37.08%) Hyper-V
3 63 (26.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.17%) vSphere
5 6 (2.50%) Docker
5 6 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.25%) Firmware
8 2 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.83%) XenApp
9 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 56 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.58%) SCCM
3 6 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (2.08%) SmoothWall
5 4 (1.67%) Ansible
5 4 (1.67%) Backup Exec
6 3 (1.25%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (1.25%) Control-M
6 3 (1.25%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (0.83%) Grafana
7 2 (0.83%) Nessus
7 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) SCOM
8 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 175 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 83 (34.58%) VMware
3 20 (8.33%) Cisco
4 15 (6.25%) WatchGuard
5 14 (5.83%) Citrix
5 14 (5.83%) Google
5 14 (5.83%) Veeam
6 13 (5.42%) Meraki
6 13 (5.42%) SonicWALL
7 12 (5.00%) Mitel
8 10 (4.17%) Draytek
9 9 (3.75%) Apple
9 9 (3.75%) Fortinet
9 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.92%) Sophos
11 5 (2.08%) Sage
11 5 (2.08%) SAP
11 5 (2.08%) TOWER Software
12 4 (1.67%) Oracle