Windows Server 2003 Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server 2003 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 333 297
Rank change year-on-year +51 -36 +151
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2003 9 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.008% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.74% 0.049% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £49,300 - £43,150
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,500 £55,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £26,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +111.54% -54.00% +7.67%
75th Percentile £69,000 £26,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £42,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year +30.18% +5.63% -5.88%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows Server 2003 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,213 2,038 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.55% 15.71% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,284 1,446
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,763 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £63,750 £61,288
90th Percentile £69,000 £80,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the South East

Windows Server 2003
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows Server 2003.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2003 in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2003 in the South East

Windows Server 2003
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Hampshire - 9 £55,000 -
Windows Server 2003
England

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (33.33%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) SMTP
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) X.400
2 3 (33.33%) X.500
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (11.11%) Advertising
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Exchange Support
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Replication
2 3 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (33.33%) PKI
3 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Solaris
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) HPUX
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Content Management
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Search
1 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Application Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (33.33%) ISA Server
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
4 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 3 (33.33%) vMotion
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec