Windows Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 74 75
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 793 582 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.78% 3.86% 4.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.67% 19.87% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 728 459 740
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,239
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -1.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £67,500 £65,800
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,866 2,929 4,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.26% 19.42% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 2,007 2,775
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +16 282 £42,000 +29.23% 47
Hampshire +28 258 £37,500 -11.76% 42
Berkshire +62 151 £50,000 +57.48% 16
Surrey -5 76 £50,000 +40.85% 12
Oxfordshire +10 68 £42,500 +34.92% 19
Buckinghamshire -36 63 £32,250 -0.77% 12
East Sussex +47 57 £45,000 -47.06% 4
Kent -2 49 £40,000 -5.88% 20
West Sussex +60 43 £30,000 -36.17% 15
Sussex - 18 £35,000 -
Middlesex -4 7 £35,000 -35.19%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
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
1 161 (20.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 110 (13.87%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.53%) IIS
4 4 (0.50%) TWiki
4 4 (0.50%) WordPress
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.38%) Orchard CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 97 (12.23%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 485 (61.16%) Microsoft 365
2 387 (48.80%) Azure
3 112 (14.12%) Entra ID
4 75 (9.46%) AWS
5 56 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 37 (4.67%) SaaS
7 27 (3.40%) IaaS
8 25 (3.15%) Mimecast
9 22 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.89%) Azure Storage
12 14 (1.77%) PaaS
13 13 (1.64%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.64%) OCI
13 13 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.39%) GitHub
15 8 (1.01%) WhatsApp
16 7 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.76%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 261 (32.91%) Firewall
2 204 (25.73%) DNS
3 142 (17.91%) DHCP
4 100 (12.61%) VPN
5 94 (11.85%) TCP/IP
6 66 (8.32%) WAN
7 64 (8.07%) VLAN
8 60 (7.57%) LAN
9 59 (7.44%) VoIP
10 52 (6.56%) SAN
11 48 (6.05%) Wireless
12 45 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (2.27%) FTP
14 17 (2.14%) SNMP
15 16 (2.02%) Internet
15 16 (2.02%) NAS
16 15 (1.89%) Unified Communications
17 14 (1.77%) iSCSI
18 13 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
19 12 (1.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.76%) MySQL
3 6 (0.76%) Power BI
4 5 (0.63%) DB2
5 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.14%) Git
2 12 (1.51%) JIRA
3 11 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.26%) Trac
5 8 (1.01%) Robot Framework
6 6 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.50%) eggPlant
7 4 (0.50%) Hudson
7 4 (0.50%) MSI
8 3 (0.38%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
General
1 207 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 50 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
3 40 (5.04%) Finance
4 29 (3.66%) Telecoms
5 27 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.52%) Law
8 17 (2.14%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.02%) Retail
10 12 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.39%) Back Office
12 9 (1.13%) Legal
12 9 (1.13%) Marketing
13 7 (0.88%) Games
14 6 (0.76%) Advertising
14 6 (0.76%) Aviation
14 6 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.63%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (19.42%) Support Engineer
2 153 (19.29%) IT Support
3 141 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 117 (14.75%) IT Engineer
5 91 (11.48%) IT Support Engineer
6 71 (8.95%) Analyst
7 69 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
8 65 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support
9 60 (7.57%) Senior
10 55 (6.94%) Systems Engineer
11 48 (6.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 46 (5.80%) IT Technician
13 43 (5.42%) Infrastructure Support
14 42 (5.30%) 1st Line Support
15 41 (5.17%) Windows Engineer
16 40 (5.04%) IT Analyst
16 40 (5.04%) Support Technician
17 39 (4.92%) Lead
18 36 (4.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 34 (4.29%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.89%) ARM Templates
2 8 (1.01%) .NET
3 6 (0.76%) .NET Core
3 6 (0.76%) CSS
3 6 (0.76%) HTML
3 6 (0.76%) React
4 5 (0.63%) Blazor
5 4 (0.50%) LAMP
6 3 (0.38%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.38%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (0.38%) jQuery
6 3 (0.38%) Node.js
6 3 (0.38%) REST
6 3 (0.38%) Sass
6 3 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.38%) Vue
6 3 (0.38%) XML
7 2 (0.25%) EDI
7 2 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.31%) Data Centre
2 49 (6.18%) PKI
3 33 (4.16%) Driving Licence
4 31 (3.91%) CMDB
4 31 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.40%) Clustering
7 25 (3.15%) NHS
8 23 (2.90%) Replication
9 19 (2.40%) Client/Server
10 17 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.88%) Handset
12 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.76%) PMI
13 6 (0.76%) Xbox
14 5 (0.63%) Educational Technology
15 4 (0.50%) CCTV
16 3 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 793 (100.00%) Windows
2 191 (24.09%) Windows 10
3 129 (16.27%) Linux
4 119 (15.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 112 (14.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 81 (10.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 60 (7.57%) Windows 7
8 56 (7.06%) Windows 8
9 19 (2.40%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.27%) CentOS
10 18 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (2.02%) Apple iOS
12 15 (1.89%) Unix
13 14 (1.77%) Windows NT
14 12 (1.51%) Mac OS X
14 12 (1.51%) Windows XP
15 10 (1.26%) VMS
15 10 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (1.13%) Android
16 9 (1.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (23.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (21.31%) ITIL
3 162 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
4 156 (19.67%) Customer Service
5 100 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (9.84%) Agile
7 65 (8.20%) Service Management
8 51 (6.43%) Mentoring
9 50 (6.31%) Configuration Management
9 50 (6.31%) DevOps
10 38 (4.79%) Change Management
11 37 (4.67%) Change Control
11 37 (4.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 37 (4.67%) Incident Management
12 36 (4.54%) Project Management
13 35 (4.41%) Service Delivery
14 33 (4.16%) Release Management
15 32 (4.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 32 (4.04%) Problem Management
16 28 (3.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 155 (19.55%) PowerShell
2 107 (13.49%) SQL
3 36 (4.54%) Python
4 30 (3.78%) VB
5 25 (3.15%) C#
6 23 (2.90%) VBScript
7 14 (1.77%) Bicep
8 10 (1.26%) ActionScript
9 7 (0.88%) Bash
10 6 (0.76%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.50%) Java
11 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 173 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.40%) SC Cleared
3 111 (14.00%) DV Cleared
4 98 (12.36%) Degree
5 52 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.53%) DBS Check
7 24 (3.03%) CCNA
7 24 (3.03%) MCP
8 18 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (1.77%) CCNP
11 12 (1.51%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.26%) MCSA
13 7 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.88%) MCSE
14 6 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (9.46%) SLA
2 28 (3.53%) GDPR
3 24 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.63%) QA
6 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 526 (66.33%) Active Directory
2 215 (27.11%) Hyper-V
3 210 (26.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (7.44%) XenApp
5 52 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
6 50 (6.31%) VirtualBox
6 50 (6.31%) vSphere
7 47 (5.93%) XenDesktop
8 45 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (2.90%) Firmware
11 18 (2.27%) Docker
12 10 (1.26%) NFS
12 10 (1.26%) OpenSSH
12 10 (1.26%) pfSense
13 8 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.63%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 117 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (9.84%) SCCM
3 71 (8.95%) vCenter Server
4 62 (7.82%) WSUS
5 55 (6.94%) SCOM
6 35 (4.41%) Kubernetes
7 26 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (2.40%) Ansible
9 18 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.02%) SCDPM
11 14 (1.77%) NetBackup
11 14 (1.77%) Sysprep
11 14 (1.77%) Terraform
12 12 (1.51%) Grafana
13 11 (1.39%) IBM BigFix
14 10 (1.26%) PowerCLI
14 10 (1.26%) ZABBIX
15 8 (1.01%) Nessus
16 6 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 474 (59.77%) Microsoft
2 331 (41.74%) VMware
3 93 (11.73%) Citrix
4 88 (11.10%) Cisco
5 75 (9.46%) Veeam
6 44 (5.55%) Dell
7 29 (3.66%) Sophos
8 26 (3.28%) Apple
8 26 (3.28%) Juniper
8 26 (3.28%) Palo Alto
9 23 (2.90%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.65%) Meraki
11 20 (2.52%) Red Hat
12 19 (2.40%) EMC
13 18 (2.27%) HP
14 17 (2.14%) Oracle
15 16 (2.02%) 3PAR
15 16 (2.02%) Google
16 15 (1.89%) Dynatrace
17 13 (1.64%) ConnectWise