Windows Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 85 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -43
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 322 248 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.52% 3.52% 3.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.66% 18.66% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 310 199 235
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,400 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,813 £30,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,206 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,638 1,329 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.91% 18.89% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 779 1,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,281 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,918 £61,250 £65,720
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Gloucestershire +27 112 £43,750 +16.67% 13
Bristol +8 68 £37,500 +15.38% 15
Wiltshire -7 50 £49,000 +22.50% 15
Devon +7 37 £45,000 +12.50% 4
Dorset -21 31 £37,000 -7.50% 6
Somerset +2 15 £34,000 -38.18% 11
Cornwall -8 8 £33,750 -7.53% 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 80 (24.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (20.19%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.86%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.24%) IIS
4 4 (1.24%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (1.24%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (0.93%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.93%) JBoss
5 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (50.31%) Microsoft 365
2 134 (41.61%) Azure
3 53 (16.46%) Entra ID
4 42 (13.04%) OneDrive
5 36 (11.18%) AWS
6 18 (5.59%) GCP
7 13 (4.04%) Nutanix
8 7 (2.17%) IaaS
9 5 (1.55%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.55%) PaaS
10 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.24%) Rubrik
11 3 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.93%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.31%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.31%) Sage Pay
13 1 (0.31%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 72 (22.36%) DNS
2 71 (22.05%) Firewall
3 62 (19.25%) DHCP
4 56 (17.39%) LAN
5 55 (17.08%) WAN
6 51 (15.84%) TCP/IP
7 40 (12.42%) VPN
8 39 (12.11%) Wireless
9 19 (5.90%) SAN
10 17 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (4.66%) VoIP
12 14 (4.35%) NAS
12 14 (4.35%) VLAN
13 13 (4.04%) Internet
14 12 (3.73%) IPsec
14 12 (3.73%) VSAN
15 11 (3.42%) Skype
16 10 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (2.17%) Unified Communications
17 7 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.86%) MySQL
3 4 (1.24%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.62%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.62%) JIRA
1 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.31%) Git
2 1 (0.31%) Log4Net
2 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.76%) Public Sector
3 18 (5.59%) Manufacturing
4 15 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.80%) Retail
7 8 (2.48%) Electronics
8 7 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (2.17%) Military
9 6 (1.86%) Finance
10 5 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.24%) Automotive
11 4 (1.24%) Legal
12 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Games
13 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (24.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 66 (20.50%) IT Engineer
3 63 (19.57%) Senior
4 58 (18.01%) Support Engineer
5 39 (12.11%) IT Support
6 38 (11.80%) Wintel Engineer
7 36 (11.18%) Analyst
8 35 (10.87%) Senior Wintel Engineer
9 31 (9.63%) IT Support Engineer
10 25 (7.76%) Field Engineer
11 24 (7.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 23 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 23 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
13 20 (6.21%) Consultant
14 17 (5.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 15 (4.66%) Field Service Engineer
16 13 (4.04%) Project Engineer
17 12 (3.73%) 3rd Line Support
17 12 (3.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 12 (3.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.93%) JSON
1 3 (0.93%) LDAP
1 3 (0.93%) SAML
2 2 (0.62%) .NET
2 2 (0.62%) HTML
2 2 (0.62%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.31%) Ajax
3 1 (0.31%) Angular 2
3 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.31%) CSS
3 1 (0.31%) HTML5
3 1 (0.31%) Ninject
3 1 (0.31%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (0.31%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (0.31%) Web Services
3 1 (0.31%) WinForms
3 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.11%) Driving Licence
2 34 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.83%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.48%) Replication
5 7 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.17%) PKI
6 6 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.55%) EMC VNX
7 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.24%) Clustering
8 4 (1.24%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.24%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.24%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.93%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.93%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.62%) BYOD
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.62%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 322 (100.00%) Windows
2 60 (18.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 57 (17.70%) Linux
4 45 (13.98%) Windows 10
5 42 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (10.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.17%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.55%) Solaris
9 5 (1.55%) VMS
10 4 (1.24%) AIX
10 4 (1.24%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.24%) Unix
10 4 (1.24%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.62%) Windows 2000
12 2 (0.62%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (18.01%) Customer Service
3 53 (16.46%) ITIL
4 45 (13.98%) Incident Management
5 40 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (6.83%) Change Management
7 20 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (6.21%) Mentoring
7 20 (6.21%) Service Delivery
8 17 (5.28%) Migration
8 17 (5.28%) Server Management
9 16 (4.97%) Mobile Device Management
9 16 (4.97%) Service Management
10 15 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (4.66%) Vulnerability Management
11 14 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (4.35%) ITSM
12 13 (4.04%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (3.73%) Line Management
13 12 (3.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 89 (27.64%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.32%) SQL
3 21 (6.52%) Python
4 16 (4.97%) Bash
5 7 (2.17%) Java
6 6 (1.86%) C#
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 54 (16.77%) DV Cleared
4 24 (7.45%) Degree
5 23 (7.14%) DBS Check
6 17 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.04%) A+ Certification
8 12 (3.73%) CCNA
8 12 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.80%) MCITP
9 9 (2.80%) MCSE
10 8 (2.48%) GIAC
11 5 (1.55%) CCNP
12 4 (1.24%) CEH
12 4 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.62%) MCP
13 2 (0.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.76%) SLA
2 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.24%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 232 (72.05%) Active Directory
2 128 (39.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (32.61%) Hyper-V
4 28 (8.70%) vSphere
5 22 (6.83%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (4.04%) XenDesktop
8 9 (2.80%) XenApp
9 6 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.55%) Docker
11 4 (1.24%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.24%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.62%) Firmware
13 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (22.05%) SCCM
2 51 (15.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.73%) vCenter Server
4 9 (2.80%) WSUS
5 8 (2.48%) McAfee ePO
5 8 (2.48%) SCVMM
6 5 (1.55%) Ansible
6 5 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.55%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.55%) Nagios
7 4 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.31%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 186 (57.76%) Microsoft
2 164 (50.93%) VMware
3 53 (16.46%) Cisco
4 43 (13.35%) HP
5 26 (8.07%) Citrix
6 22 (6.83%) Red Hat
7 21 (6.52%) Veeam
8 20 (6.21%) Google
9 13 (4.04%) SolarWinds
10 12 (3.73%) Aruba
10 12 (3.73%) Dell
10 12 (3.73%) Symantec
11 11 (3.42%) Meraki
12 10 (3.11%) ServiceNow
13 9 (2.80%) Sophos
14 8 (2.48%) McAfee
15 6 (1.86%) Aderant
15 6 (1.86%) iManage
15 6 (1.86%) Oracle
16 5 (1.55%) EMC