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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +41
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 228 188 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.55% 4.36% 5.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.91% 22.49% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 128 114 225
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £43,250 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +4.22% -4.32%
75th Percentile £50,250 £57,000 £52,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £69,850 £57,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

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 544 836 917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.85% 19.38% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 310 526 731
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,290
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -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 1 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 1 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 +8 58 £44,500 -11.00% 2
Bristol +27 52 £43,000 -10.42% 17
Somerset +6 47 £32,500 +3.17% 3
Gloucestershire +24 26 £55,000 -3.51% 11
Devon +5 20 £29,000 -27.50% 4
Dorset -3 18 £30,000 -18.92% 4
Cornwall -12 6 £31,250 -9.42% 2
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
1 116 (50.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (14.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (7.89%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 177 (77.63%) Azure
2 165 (72.37%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (23.25%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.77%) AWS
5 18 (7.89%) OneDrive
6 7 (3.07%) OpenShift
7 6 (2.63%) IaaS
8 5 (2.19%) PaaS
8 5 (2.19%) SaaS
9 4 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.75%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.32%) Serverless
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.88%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.88%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.44%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 153 (67.11%) DNS
2 148 (64.91%) DHCP
3 60 (26.32%) Firewall
4 32 (14.04%) LAN
5 30 (13.16%) WAN
6 26 (11.40%) VLAN
7 24 (10.53%) VPN
8 19 (8.33%) TCP/IP
9 18 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (7.46%) Remote Desktop
10 17 (7.46%) VoIP
11 14 (6.14%) Internet
12 12 (5.26%) IPsec
12 12 (5.26%) Kerberos
13 9 (3.95%) DKIM
13 9 (3.95%) DMARC
14 7 (3.07%) Wireless
15 5 (2.19%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (2.19%) Intranet
15 5 (2.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (40.79%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.07%) MySQL
3 7 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) GitLab
2 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (71.93%) Social Skills
2 94 (41.23%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.53%) Law
4 20 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.14%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.39%) Legal
7 7 (3.07%) Finance
8 6 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.75%) Electronics
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (37.28%) Systems Engineer
2 50 (21.93%) IT Support
3 37 (16.23%) Analyst
4 33 (14.47%) 2nd Line Support
5 30 (13.16%) Support Analyst
6 26 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (10.96%) Support Engineer
8 24 (10.53%) IT Engineer
9 16 (7.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 16 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Technical Support
11 12 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Senior
11 12 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (5.26%) Technical Support Analyst
12 11 (4.82%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (4.39%) Support Technician
14 9 (3.95%) IT Technician
14 9 (3.95%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.26%) LDAP
2 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.88%) OAuth
2 2 (0.88%) OAuth2
2 2 (0.88%) OpenID
2 2 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (36.84%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (18.42%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.26%) PKI
4 7 (3.07%) Clustering
4 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.88%) BYOD
8 2 (0.88%) CCTV
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Replication
8 2 (0.88%) YubiKey
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 228 (100.00%) Windows
2 107 (46.93%) Linux
3 102 (44.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 28 (12.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (5.26%) Windows 10
6 11 (4.82%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.75%) CentOS
8 4 (1.75%) Rocky
9 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.88%) Debian
11 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (56.58%) Customer Service
3 96 (42.11%) Migration
4 85 (37.28%) Email Filtering
4 85 (37.28%) Kalman Filter
4 85 (37.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 85 (37.28%) Web Filtering
5 84 (36.84%) Customer Experience
5 84 (36.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 52 (22.81%) ITIL
7 28 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (7.02%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.58%) Service Management
11 14 (6.14%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (4.82%) Server Management
13 10 (4.39%) Containerisation
13 10 (4.39%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.81%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.26%) VB
3 11 (4.82%) Python
4 7 (3.07%) Bash
5 1 (0.44%) Bicep
5 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (49.56%) Security Cleared
2 100 (43.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.70%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.82%) Degree
4 11 (4.82%) MCP
5 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.19%) ACMT
9 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.44%) HNC
11 1 (0.44%) HND
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (41.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 87 (38.16%) PCI DSS
3 24 (10.53%) SLA
4 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.95%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 183 (80.26%) Active Directory
2 122 (53.51%) Hyper-V
3 84 (36.84%) Terminal Server
4 38 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (3.07%) vSphere
7 6 (2.63%) Docker
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (6.14%) WSUS
3 13 (5.70%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.95%) Terraform
5 8 (3.51%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.63%) SCCM
7 5 (2.19%) Autotask
7 5 (2.19%) SCVMM
8 4 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (1.75%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.32%) Ansible
9 3 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.88%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.88%) Nagios
10 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 183 (80.26%) Microsoft
2 125 (54.82%) VMware
3 93 (40.79%) Veeam
4 89 (39.04%) SolarWinds
5 86 (37.72%) Splunk
6 84 (36.84%) Brocade
6 84 (36.84%) Nimble Storage
6 84 (36.84%) Tanium
7 16 (7.02%) Cisco
8 13 (5.70%) Datto
8 13 (5.70%) Oracle
9 8 (3.51%) Apple
10 7 (3.07%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.07%) Sophos
11 4 (1.75%) Dell
11 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.75%) McAfee
11 4 (1.75%) SAP
12 3 (1.32%) HP
13 2 (0.88%) Meraki