Windows Server Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 49 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -38 +55
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 22 8 78
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 3.50% 1.45% 12.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.41% 16.67% 63.41%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 60
10th Percentile £26,975 £34,663 £24,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £30,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £46,000 £32,625
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +41.00% -4.61%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £37,375
90th Percentile £49,250 £50,500 £40,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +8.70% -13.75%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 39 48 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.21% 8.73% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 32 21 95
10th Percentile £29,138 £25,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £26,931
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +27.27% -6.78%
75th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,250
90th Percentile £51,350 £57,500 £51,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -11.76% -4.33%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in South Yorkshire

Windows Server
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Sheffield +17 19 £40,000 -13.04% 11
Rotherham - 2 £32,500 -
Doncaster -11 1 £51,000 - 2
Windows Server
Yorkshire

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.09%) Google Docs
3 2 (9.09%) Google Sheets
3 2 (9.09%) Google Workspace
3 2 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) SAN
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
4 4 (18.18%) DHCP
5 3 (13.64%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) DMZ
6 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) IT Support
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (22.73%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) IT Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Compliance Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Head of IT
6 1 (4.55%) Help Desk Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) IT Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
2 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
2 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Break/Fix
4 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Server Migrations
5 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.55%) Change Management
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.55%) ERP
5 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.55%) IT Governance
5 1 (4.55%) ITSM
5 1 (4.55%) Major Incident Management
5 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) A+ Certification
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) HNC
2 2 (9.09%) HND
2 2 (9.09%) MCP
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (40.91%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Plesk
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (40.91%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) Draytek
4 2 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Freshdesk
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow