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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +28
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 213 181 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.25% 4.35% 5.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.65% 22.13% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 116 107 236
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,300 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% - -
75th Percentile £50,250 £55,254 £52,000
90th Percentile £59,375 £69,700 £57,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% -

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 524 818 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.44% 19.66% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 298 505 752
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,375 £75,750 £79,875
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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
Wiltshire +10 56 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Bristol +22 49 £43,000 -10.42% 8
Somerset +6 47 £32,500 +3.17% 4
Gloucestershire +23 23 £55,445 -2.73% 8
Dorset -5 16 £30,000 -17.81% 6
Devon -1 15 £25,000 -37.50% 8
Cornwall -12 6 £31,250 -9.42% 1
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
1 113 (53.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (14.08%) SharePoint
3 14 (6.57%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 168 (78.87%) Azure
2 156 (73.24%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (21.60%) Entra ID
4 20 (9.39%) AWS
5 17 (7.98%) OneDrive
6 7 (3.29%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.35%) SaaS
8 4 (1.88%) IaaS
9 3 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.41%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.41%) PaaS
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.94%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.47%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 143 (67.14%) DNS
2 138 (64.79%) DHCP
3 51 (23.94%) Firewall
4 28 (13.15%) LAN
5 26 (12.21%) WAN
6 21 (9.86%) VLAN
6 21 (9.86%) VPN
7 16 (7.51%) Remote Desktop
8 15 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (6.57%) TCP/IP
10 13 (6.10%) VoIP
11 11 (5.16%) Internet
12 10 (4.69%) IPsec
13 9 (4.23%) DKIM
13 9 (4.23%) DMARC
13 9 (4.23%) Kerberos
14 6 (2.82%) Wireless
15 5 (2.35%) VSAN
16 4 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (1.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (42.72%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.29%) MySQL
2 7 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Git
2 2 (0.94%) GitLab
2 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 159 (74.65%) Social Skills
2 94 (44.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.86%) Law
4 19 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (6.10%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.23%) Legal
8 7 (3.29%) Finance
9 4 (1.88%) Electronics
9 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.88%) Marketing
10 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (39.91%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (20.19%) IT Support
3 31 (14.55%) Analyst
4 30 (14.08%) 2nd Line Support
5 26 (12.21%) Support Analyst
6 24 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (9.86%) Support Engineer
8 20 (9.39%) IT Engineer
9 15 (7.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Technical Support
11 12 (5.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) Senior
11 12 (5.63%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (5.63%) Technical Support Analyst
12 9 (4.23%) IT Technician
13 8 (3.76%) 3rd Line Support
13 8 (3.76%) IT Support Technician
13 8 (3.76%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.23%) LDAP
2 2 (0.94%) OAuth
2 2 (0.94%) OAuth2
2 2 (0.94%) OpenID
2 2 (0.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (39.44%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (17.84%) Driving Licence
3 9 (4.23%) PKI
4 6 (2.82%) Clustering
5 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.41%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.41%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.94%) CCTV
8 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.94%) Replication
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 213 (100.00%) Windows
2 105 (49.30%) Linux
3 99 (46.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (10.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (4.69%) Mac OS
6 9 (4.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.88%) CentOS
9 3 (1.41%) Rocky
9 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.94%) Debian
11 1 (0.47%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (61.50%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (58.22%) Customer Service
3 95 (44.60%) Migration
4 85 (39.91%) Email Filtering
4 85 (39.91%) Kalman Filter
4 85 (39.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 85 (39.91%) Web Filtering
5 84 (39.44%) Customer Experience
5 84 (39.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 47 (22.07%) ITIL
7 26 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (10.80%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (6.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (6.57%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.63%) Data Loss Prevention
11 12 (5.63%) Service Management
12 10 (4.69%) Server Management
13 8 (3.76%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (3.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 47 (22.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.16%) Python
3 9 (4.23%) VB
4 7 (3.29%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) Bicep
5 1 (0.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (53.05%) Security Cleared
2 99 (46.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.10%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.69%) Degree
4 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.23%) MCP
6 7 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.88%) ACMT
9 3 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.47%) HNC
10 1 (0.47%) HND
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (43.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 87 (40.85%) PCI DSS
3 21 (9.86%) SLA
4 8 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.29%) GDPR
6 3 (1.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 172 (80.75%) Active Directory
2 118 (55.40%) Hyper-V
3 84 (39.44%) Terminal Server
4 36 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.29%) vSphere
8 5 (2.35%) Docker
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (15.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.16%) WSUS
3 9 (4.23%) Terraform
4 7 (3.29%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.82%) SCCM
6 5 (2.35%) SCVMM
7 4 (1.88%) Autotask
7 4 (1.88%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.41%) Ansible
8 3 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.41%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.94%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.94%) Nagios
9 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (79.81%) Microsoft
2 122 (57.28%) VMware
3 90 (42.25%) Veeam
4 89 (41.78%) SolarWinds
5 87 (40.85%) Splunk
6 84 (39.44%) Brocade
6 84 (39.44%) Nimble Storage
6 84 (39.44%) Tanium
7 13 (6.10%) Cisco
8 12 (5.63%) Oracle
9 10 (4.69%) Datto
10 7 (3.29%) Apple
10 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.82%) Sophos
12 4 (1.88%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.88%) McAfee
12 4 (1.88%) SAP
13 3 (1.41%) Dell
13 3 (1.41%) Qualys
13 3 (1.41%) Tenable