Windows Server Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 107 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 -43
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 35 28 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.06% 1.42% 2.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.83% 14.58% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25 27 113
10th Percentile £21,250 £32,000 £25,200
25th Percentile £26,500 £36,250 £26,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -5.88% -7.10%
75th Percentile £39,000 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £42,500 £66,500 £67,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.41% -7.78%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 208 192 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.29% 9.74% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 102 154 417
10th Percentile £26,600 £35,300 £26,150
25th Percentile £30,125 £47,231 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,400 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £91,144 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Scotland

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Edinburgh +24 23 £31,500 -16.00% 2
Glasgow -13 11 £33,250 -8.28% 2
Renfrewshire -2 1 £42,500 -29.17%
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (5.71%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 12 (34.29%) Entra ID
4 9 (25.71%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.86%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) DHCP
1 12 (34.29%) DNS
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 7 (20.00%) Telnet
4 5 (14.29%) VPN
4 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.71%) VLAN
5 2 (5.71%) VSAN
5 2 (5.71%) WAN
5 2 (5.71%) Wireless
6 1 (2.86%) BGP
6 1 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.86%) LAN
6 1 (2.86%) NX-OS
6 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Front Office
4 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) IT Support
2 7 (20.00%) Platform Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (17.14%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Junior
4 5 (14.29%) Junior IT Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Junior IT Support
4 5 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Remote Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) IT Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Equities
1 7 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.71%) Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (11.43%) Linux
5 3 (8.57%) Android
5 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.86%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Rocky
6 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (45.71%) ITIL
3 8 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 7 (20.00%) Change Management
4 7 (20.00%) Coaching
4 7 (20.00%) Investment Management
4 7 (20.00%) Order Management
5 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
6 5 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
8 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) ITSM
8 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.57%) Service Management
9 2 (5.71%) Low Latency
9 2 (5.71%) Problem Management
10 1 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (2.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) JNCIP
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
1 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.86%) iptables
5 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.86%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) Cisco
2 9 (25.71%) VMware
3 7 (20.00%) Charles River
4 5 (14.29%) Dell
4 5 (14.29%) HP
5 3 (8.57%) Apple
6 2 (5.71%) Arista
6 2 (5.71%) EMC
6 2 (5.71%) Juniper
6 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat