Windows Server Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 38 74
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 -1
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 219 175 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.44% 5.04% 2.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.08% 33.21% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 118 133 198
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,125 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,682 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -3.30% +6.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -5.56%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 753 527 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.37% 15.17% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 475 342 961
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -4.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -14.43% -7.62%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the South West

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South West over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Somerset -8 57 £28,500 -28.75% 2
Wiltshire +8 55 £41,250 +21.32% 9
Bristol -36 34 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Gloucestershire -50 31 £55,000 -18.52% 11
Devon -15 23 £32,000 +2.81% 7
Dorset -18 13 £37,500 +20.97% 4
Cornwall +5 6 £32,500 +3.17%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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
1 106 (48.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.57%) Confluence
4 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Drupal
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Site Server
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 150 (68.49%) Microsoft 365
2 137 (62.56%) Azure
3 58 (26.48%) Entra ID
4 34 (15.53%) AWS
5 7 (3.20%) IaaS
6 6 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.74%) PaaS
6 6 (2.74%) Serverless
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.28%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.37%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.91%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.91%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 119 (54.34%) DNS
2 115 (52.51%) DHCP
3 48 (21.92%) Firewall
4 24 (10.96%) VLAN
5 23 (10.50%) TCP/IP
6 22 (10.05%) WAN
7 19 (8.68%) LAN
8 14 (6.39%) VPN
8 14 (6.39%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (5.02%) Network Security
10 7 (3.20%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (3.20%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (3.20%) Unified Communications
10 7 (3.20%) WebEx
11 5 (2.28%) VoIP
12 4 (1.83%) DMZ
12 4 (1.83%) IPv4
12 4 (1.83%) SAN
12 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (33.79%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (10.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.20%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.28%) MySQL
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (5.02%) JIRA
2 9 (4.11%) Git
3 7 (3.20%) GitLab
4 4 (1.83%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.46%) Gatling
6 1 (0.46%) JMeter
6 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 119 (54.34%) Social Skills
2 73 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Finance
4 10 (4.57%) Retail
5 8 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.20%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.20%) Banking
6 7 (3.20%) Marketing
6 7 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (34.25%) Systems Engineer
2 51 (23.29%) IT Support
3 46 (21.00%) IT Engineer
4 43 (19.63%) Support Engineer
5 38 (17.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 30 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (10.96%) Analyst
8 20 (9.13%) Support Analyst
9 13 (5.94%) IT Technician
10 11 (5.02%) Senior
11 10 (4.57%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (4.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) IT Support Technician
12 9 (4.11%) Software Analyst
12 9 (4.11%) Software Support Analyst
12 9 (4.11%) Support Technician
13 8 (3.65%) DBA
14 7 (3.20%) 2nd Line Support
14 7 (3.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 7 (3.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.85%) .NET
1 15 (6.85%) .NET Framework
2 12 (5.48%) CSS
2 12 (5.48%) HTML
2 12 (5.48%) Web Services
2 12 (5.48%) XML
3 7 (3.20%) XMPP
4 4 (1.83%) boto
5 3 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.37%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.91%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.91%) OAuth
6 2 (0.91%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.91%) OpenID
6 2 (0.91%) SAML
6 2 (0.91%) WinForms
7 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.46%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 71 (32.42%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (6.85%) Replication
4 12 (5.48%) Driving Licence
4 12 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.02%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.20%) FlexPod
6 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.37%) Digital Signage
9 3 (1.37%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.37%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.37%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.91%) BYOD
10 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 219 (100.00%) Windows
2 114 (52.05%) Linux
3 82 (37.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.11%) Windows 10
5 9 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (3.20%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.83%) VMS
9 3 (1.37%) Android
9 3 (1.37%) CentOS
9 3 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.91%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (49.77%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (43.84%) Customer Service
3 84 (38.36%) Customer Experience
4 80 (36.53%) Migration
5 74 (33.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 73 (33.33%) Email Filtering
6 73 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
6 73 (33.33%) Web Filtering
7 70 (31.96%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 44 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (11.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (8.22%) ITIL
13 16 (7.31%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (6.85%) CI/CD
14 15 (6.85%) Project Delivery
15 13 (5.94%) Data Management
15 13 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (5.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.50%) SQL
2 18 (8.22%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.22%) Python
3 14 (6.39%) C#
4 8 (3.65%) Bash
5 4 (1.83%) Java
6 1 (0.46%) C
6 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (40.64%) Security Cleared
2 73 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.57%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.65%) CCNA
6 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.65%) Degree
7 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.83%) MCSA
8 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.83%) OSCP
8 4 (1.83%) RHCE
8 4 (1.83%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.37%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (39.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 70 (31.96%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.83%) SLA
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 153 (69.86%) Active Directory
2 107 (48.86%) Hyper-V
3 70 (31.96%) Terminal Server
4 41 (18.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (5.94%) vSphere
6 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (3.20%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.28%) Docker
7 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.28%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.83%) Squid
9 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (15.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (9.59%) Ansible
3 13 (5.94%) Terraform
4 8 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 7 (3.20%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (3.20%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.20%) Grafana
6 6 (2.74%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.74%) Puppet
7 5 (2.28%) Packer
8 4 (1.83%) Iperf
8 4 (1.83%) SCOM
8 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.83%) VxRail
8 4 (1.83%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.37%) SCCM
9 3 (1.37%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.91%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.91%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.91%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 178 (81.28%) Microsoft
2 116 (52.97%) VMware
3 87 (39.73%) Veeam
4 81 (36.99%) Splunk
5 70 (31.96%) Brocade
5 70 (31.96%) Nimble Storage
5 70 (31.96%) SolarWinds
5 70 (31.96%) Tanium
6 23 (10.50%) Cisco
7 15 (6.85%) Fortinet
8 12 (5.48%) Oracle
9 8 (3.65%) Apple
9 8 (3.65%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.20%) NetApp
11 6 (2.74%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.83%) Meraki
12 4 (1.83%) Ruckus Wireless
12 4 (1.83%) SonicWALL
13 3 (1.37%) Aruba
13 3 (1.37%) BeyondTrust