Windows Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 60 90
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 573 549 828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.80% 4.74% 3.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.87% 23.18% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 473 402 710
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.38% -3.61%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -

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 2,401 2,368 4,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.91% 20.43% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 1,696 2,844
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,822
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,300 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Hampshire +13 198 £45,000 +5.88% 36
Thames Valley -18 187 £42,500 +30.77% 19
Berkshire +7 88 £48,925 +43.90% 6
Surrey -11 64 £47,500 +26.67% 12
Kent +18 57 £40,000 -15.79% 12
Oxfordshire -3 57 £42,500 +7.59% 3
Buckinghamshire -46 42 £32,500 - 10
East Sussex +26 39 £42,500 -32.00% 7
West Sussex +7 15 £27,000 -35.71% 6
Middlesex - 7 £35,000 -
Sussex - 6 £37,500 -
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
1 105 (18.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (15.01%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.79%) IIS
4 6 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.70%) TWiki
5 4 (0.70%) WordPress
6 3 (0.52%) CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.52%) Orchard CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 65 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 317 (55.32%) Microsoft 365
2 279 (48.69%) Azure
3 101 (17.63%) Entra ID
4 55 (9.60%) AWS
5 40 (6.98%) OneDrive
6 25 (4.36%) SaaS
7 21 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (3.66%) IaaS
8 19 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.97%) Azure Storage
10 11 (1.92%) GitHub
10 11 (1.92%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.57%) Mimecast
12 8 (1.40%) PaaS
13 7 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.22%) WhatsApp
14 6 (1.05%) Twilio
15 5 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.87%) Cloudflare
15 5 (0.87%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 184 (32.11%) Firewall
2 158 (27.57%) DNS
3 102 (17.80%) DHCP
4 75 (13.09%) VPN
5 71 (12.39%) TCP/IP
6 52 (9.08%) WAN
7 50 (8.73%) VoIP
8 49 (8.55%) VLAN
9 42 (7.33%) LAN
10 41 (7.16%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (6.81%) SAN
12 35 (6.11%) Wireless
13 29 (5.06%) Internet
14 19 (3.32%) iSCSI
15 16 (2.79%) NAS
16 12 (2.09%) Network Security
17 9 (1.57%) 5G
18 8 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
19 7 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
19 7 (1.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.75%) DB2
4 8 (1.40%) MySQL
5 5 (0.87%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.52%) Power BI
7 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.27%) Git
2 10 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.57%) eggPlant
3 9 (1.57%) JIRA
3 9 (1.57%) Trac
4 6 (1.05%) Robot Framework
4 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.87%) MSI
6 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.35%) Hudson
8 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 155 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.17%) Finance
3 30 (5.24%) Aerospace
4 25 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.66%) Law
6 20 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.05%) Advertising
9 6 (1.05%) Aviation
10 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.87%) Marketing
10 5 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.87%) Retail
11 3 (0.52%) Back Office
11 3 (0.52%) Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Legal
11 3 (0.52%) Local Government
12 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (22.16%) Support Engineer
2 121 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 92 (16.06%) IT Support
4 72 (12.57%) IT Engineer
5 57 (9.95%) IT Support Engineer
6 49 (8.55%) Analyst
7 47 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 40 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support
9 39 (6.81%) 3rd Line Support
10 35 (6.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 35 (6.11%) IT Analyst
11 34 (5.93%) Senior
12 32 (5.58%) 1st Line Support
12 32 (5.58%) Lead
13 30 (5.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 27 (4.71%) IT Technician
15 25 (4.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 24 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
17 23 (4.01%) Support Specialist
18 22 (3.84%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.97%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.05%) .NET
3 5 (0.87%) Blazor
4 4 (0.70%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.70%) CSS
4 4 (0.70%) HTML
4 4 (0.70%) LAMP
5 3 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.52%) jQuery
5 3 (0.52%) React
5 3 (0.52%) Sass
5 3 (0.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (0.52%) Vue
5 3 (0.52%) XML
6 2 (0.35%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.17%) EDI
7 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.77%) PKI
2 35 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (4.89%) Clustering
4 23 (4.01%) Client/Server
5 21 (3.66%) Replication
6 20 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.49%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.44%) NHS
8 13 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.09%) CMDB
9 12 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.22%) Handset
13 6 (1.05%) Blackberry
13 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.05%) Xbox
14 4 (0.70%) EMC VNX
14 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.52%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 573 (100.00%) Windows
2 121 (21.12%) Linux
3 116 (20.24%) Windows 10
4 87 (15.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 84 (14.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (11.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (4.19%) Ubuntu
8 23 (4.01%) Windows Server 2008
9 20 (3.49%) Windows 7
10 19 (3.32%) CentOS
11 15 (2.62%) Windows 8
12 12 (2.09%) Android
13 11 (1.92%) Apple iOS
14 9 (1.57%) Windows NT
15 7 (1.22%) Mac OS X
15 7 (1.22%) VMS
16 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.87%) Unix
17 5 (0.87%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (18.15%) ITIL
3 103 (17.98%) Customer Service
4 101 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (13.61%) Agile
6 75 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
7 52 (9.08%) Service Management
8 47 (8.20%) Release Management
9 44 (7.68%) DevOps
10 39 (6.81%) Mentoring
11 35 (6.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 33 (5.76%) Change Control
12 33 (5.76%) Service Delivery
13 30 (5.24%) Problem Management
14 28 (4.89%) Configuration Management
15 27 (4.71%) Change Management
15 27 (4.71%) Collaborative Working
16 26 (4.54%) Analytics
16 26 (4.54%) Antivirus Management
17 25 (4.36%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (21.99%) PowerShell
2 50 (8.73%) SQL
3 37 (6.46%) VB
4 23 (4.01%) C#
5 21 (3.66%) Python
6 20 (3.49%) VBScript
7 17 (2.97%) ActionScript
8 16 (2.79%) Bicep
9 4 (0.70%) Bash
9 4 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) Go
11 1 (0.17%) Korn
11 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 138 (24.08%) Security Cleared
2 102 (17.80%) SC Cleared
3 99 (17.28%) DV Cleared
4 92 (16.06%) Degree
5 29 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.89%) DBS Check
7 20 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (3.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 18 (3.14%) MCP
10 15 (2.62%) CCNA
11 11 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.57%) CCNP
13 8 (1.40%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.05%) HND
14 6 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.05%) MCSA
15 4 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.90%) SLA
2 29 (5.06%) GDPR
3 23 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (3.32%) QA
5 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
7 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.52%) GRC
System Software
1 383 (66.84%) Active Directory
2 151 (26.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (20.07%) Hyper-V
4 60 (10.47%) vSphere
5 44 (7.68%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (6.81%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (5.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (5.58%) XenApp
8 19 (3.32%) Firmware
9 18 (3.14%) Docker
10 17 (2.97%) OpenSSH
11 13 (2.27%) NFS
11 13 (2.27%) pfSense
11 13 (2.27%) VirtualBox
11 13 (2.27%) XenDesktop
12 9 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.70%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 87 (15.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (12.39%) SCCM
3 65 (11.34%) vCenter Server
4 46 (8.03%) WSUS
5 38 (6.63%) Kubernetes
6 34 (5.93%) SCOM
7 24 (4.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (3.84%) Ansible
9 17 (2.97%) IBM BigFix
9 17 (2.97%) PowerCLI
10 15 (2.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 15 (2.62%) SCDPM
10 15 (2.62%) Terraform
11 10 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (1.75%) ZABBIX
12 9 (1.57%) Grafana
12 9 (1.57%) Sysprep
13 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (1.05%) NetBackup
14 6 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 342 (59.69%) Microsoft
2 262 (45.72%) VMware
3 76 (13.26%) Cisco
4 68 (11.87%) Citrix
5 64 (11.17%) Veeam
6 33 (5.76%) Dell
7 26 (4.54%) IBM
8 20 (3.49%) Fortinet
8 20 (3.49%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.79%) Apple
9 16 (2.79%) Aruba
10 15 (2.62%) EMC
10 15 (2.62%) McAfee
10 15 (2.62%) Meraki
10 15 (2.62%) Red Hat
11 14 (2.44%) Juniper
11 14 (2.44%) Sophos
12 13 (2.27%) HP
13 12 (2.09%) Google
14 10 (1.75%) Oracle