Windows Server Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 145 114
Rank change year-on-year +14 -31 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 30 144 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.02% 2.15% 2.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.54% 18.05% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29 112 75
10th Percentile £32,250 £25,200 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £26,700 £33,846
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £52,761 £52,500 £63,667
90th Percentile £65,750 £68,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.41% -7.78% +5.88%

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 193 798 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.54% 11.94% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 157 416 426
10th Percentile £35,600 £26,125 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,511 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in Scotland.

Salary trend for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025. 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
Glasgow +134 7 £37,500 -21.05% 22
Aberdeen +32 7 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Edinburgh -26 5 £37,500 -11.76% 4
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Argyll and Bute 0 1 - - 3
Aberdeenshire - 1 £50,000 -
Dunbartonshire - 1 £52,500 - 4
Lanarkshire - 1 £62,500 - 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 4
West Lothian - 1 £62,500 - 2
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (23.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) OneDrive
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) VPN
2 7 (23.33%) DHCP
2 7 (23.33%) DNS
2 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.00%) LAN
3 6 (20.00%) WAN
4 5 (16.67%) VLAN
5 4 (13.33%) IPsec
5 4 (13.33%) SSL
5 4 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (3.33%) FTP
6 1 (3.33%) NAS
6 1 (3.33%) SAN
6 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Automotive
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) IT Support
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Administrator
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Senior IT Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Senior Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (13.33%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Support Technician
3 4 (13.33%) Support Technician
4 3 (10.00%) IT Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) CSS
1 1 (3.33%) EDI
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (3.33%) React
1 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (10.00%) AIX
4 3 (10.00%) Solaris
4 3 (10.00%) Unix
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (16.67%) Migration
3 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (6.67%) Coaching
6 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.67%) Customer Experience
6 2 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (6.67%) ITIL
6 2 (6.67%) Line Management
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (3.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (43.33%) Hyper-V
3 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.67%) vSphere
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (13.33%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (60.00%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Juniper
4 2 (6.67%) McAfee
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Avaya
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet