Windows Server Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 94 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -59 +40
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 275 178 807
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.01% 2.63% 5.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.12% 17.85% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 231 139 756
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,875 £35,125 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57,062 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -2.88%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,014 997 2,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.43% 14.74% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 852 752 2,318
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £72,500 £68,825
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the South East

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Hampshire -10 95 £45,000 -8.63% 39
Thames Valley +16 91 £40,000 -20.00% 27
Berkshire +16 40 £52,500 +16.67% 14
Surrey -8 37 £38,500 -14.44% 7
Kent -16 34 £47,500 +41.79% 4
Buckinghamshire -21 27 £40,000 -33.33% 9
Oxfordshire +11 24 £35,000 -26.32% 4
West Sussex -14 9 £32,250 -14.00% 4
Sussex -6 8 £31,500 -56.55%
East Sussex -21 2 £26,000 -27.78% 2
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 48 (17.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (15.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) CMS
4 2 (0.73%) WordPress
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 39 (14.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) CATIA
2 3 (1.09%) Siemens NX
2 3 (1.09%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (1.09%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.09%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 147 (53.45%) Microsoft 365
2 145 (52.73%) Azure
3 52 (18.91%) Entra ID
4 35 (12.73%) AWS
5 15 (5.45%) GCP
6 11 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 11 (4.00%) SaaS
7 9 (3.27%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.91%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.82%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.09%) IaaS
12 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.73%) PaaS
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 103 (37.45%) DNS
2 95 (34.55%) Firewall
3 79 (28.73%) DHCP
4 57 (20.73%) VPN
5 48 (17.45%) TCP/IP
6 35 (12.73%) LAN
7 34 (12.36%) WAN
8 30 (10.91%) VoIP
9 28 (10.18%) VLAN
10 18 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (6.55%) Wireless
11 16 (5.82%) SAN
12 13 (4.73%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (3.64%) NAS
14 7 (2.55%) NetScaler
15 5 (1.82%) WLAN
16 4 (1.45%) BGP
16 4 (1.45%) Broadband
16 4 (1.45%) IPsec
16 4 (1.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.45%) Power BI
3 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.64%) JIRA
2 6 (2.18%) Git
3 4 (1.45%) Subversion
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 97 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.36%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (7.27%) Finance
5 18 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.27%) Back Office
6 9 (3.27%) Law
6 9 (3.27%) Retail
7 5 (1.82%) Local Government
7 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.09%) Games
8 3 (1.09%) German Language
9 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.73%) Military
9 2 (0.73%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.36%) Aviation
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (34.55%) IT Support
2 65 (23.64%) IT Engineer
2 65 (23.64%) Support Engineer
3 59 (21.45%) IT Support Engineer
4 52 (18.91%) 2nd Line Support
5 41 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (13.09%) Support Technician
7 27 (9.82%) Architect
8 26 (9.45%) 3rd Line Support
9 24 (8.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 24 (8.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 22 (8.00%) IT Technician
11 20 (7.27%) IT Support Technician
12 17 (6.18%) 2nd Line Support Technician
12 17 (6.18%) Senior
13 15 (5.45%) Lead
14 14 (5.09%) Analyst
14 14 (5.09%) Support Analyst
15 12 (4.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 11 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.27%) Regular Expression
2 8 (2.91%) LDAP
3 6 (2.18%) XMPP
4 3 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.09%) JSON
4 3 (1.09%) JSON Schema
4 3 (1.09%) Web Services
4 3 (1.09%) XML
5 1 (0.36%) .NET
5 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.45%) Driving Licence
2 18 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.27%) EPoS
7 6 (2.18%) Clustering
7 6 (2.18%) PKI
8 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.82%) Replication
8 5 (1.82%) Social Media
8 5 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.45%) Wiki
10 3 (1.09%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 275 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (22.91%) Linux
3 33 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 20 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (4.73%) Apple iOS
6 13 (4.73%) Mac OS
6 13 (4.73%) Ubuntu
7 12 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.91%) Android
8 8 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.55%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.36%) Customer Service
2 61 (22.18%) ITIL
3 60 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.36%) Mentoring
6 31 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (10.55%) ITSM
8 23 (8.36%) Agile
9 22 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (6.91%) Coaching
11 18 (6.55%) Service Delivery
12 17 (6.18%) Business Continuity
13 15 (5.45%) DevOps
13 15 (5.45%) Server Management
14 14 (5.09%) Collaborative Working
15 13 (4.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 12 (4.36%) Collaborative Culture
16 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (4.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.27%) SQL
3 15 (5.45%) Python
4 10 (3.64%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.73%) DV Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) Degree
5 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.73%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.82%) MCSE
9 3 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCIE
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.27%) SLA
2 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.09%) QA
4 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 188 (68.36%) Active Directory
2 67 (24.36%) Hyper-V
3 48 (17.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (8.73%) vSphere
5 15 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.36%) VMware NSX
7 11 (4.00%) Docker
8 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.09%) Terminal Server
8 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (15.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (7.27%) vCenter Server
3 16 (5.82%) SCCM
4 14 (5.09%) Terraform
5 11 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (4.00%) SCOM
6 10 (3.64%) Ansible
6 10 (3.64%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.64%) vRealize
7 9 (3.27%) Backup Exec
8 7 (2.55%) Nagios
8 7 (2.55%) Nessus
9 5 (1.82%) SmoothWall
10 4 (1.45%) WSUS
10 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.73%) SCSM
12 2 (0.73%) VxRail
13 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 149 (54.18%) Microsoft
2 105 (38.18%) VMware
3 34 (12.36%) Veeam
4 19 (6.91%) Cisco
5 15 (5.45%) SolarWinds
6 13 (4.73%) Google
7 12 (4.36%) HP
7 12 (4.36%) McAfee
8 11 (4.00%) Citrix
8 11 (4.00%) Dell
8 11 (4.00%) Meraki
8 11 (4.00%) NetApp
8 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.64%) Apple
10 8 (2.91%) Dell Compellent
10 8 (2.91%) Nimble Storage
10 8 (2.91%) Sophos
11 7 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.18%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow