Windows Server 2019 Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 170 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 -84 +100
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 21 24 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.55% 0.61% 3.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.29% 4.29% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 91
10th Percentile - £27,100 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £28,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,925 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% -6.81% +57.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £55,000
90th Percentile - £59,305 £56,525
South East median annual salary £45,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.06% -19.05% +50.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019 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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 334 560 733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.74% 14.16% 22.41%
Number of salaries quoted 278 335 568
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £50,000 £49,996
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +0.01% +11.92%
75th Percentile £48,563 £60,625 £59,380
90th Percentile £66,625 £74,500 £74,250
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server 2019 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the Thames Valley

Windows Server 2019
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2019 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 December 2025. 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
Oxfordshire +28 7 £31,000 +2.48% 4
Buckinghamshire +19 7 £70,000 +16.67%
Berkshire -4 7 £46,250 -5.47% 1
Windows Server 2019
South East

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) IIS
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 6 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (28.57%) SAN
3 5 (23.81%) Wireless
4 4 (19.05%) DHCP
4 4 (19.05%) DNS
5 2 (9.52%) VLAN
5 2 (9.52%) VPN
5 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (4.76%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (28.57%) MySQL
2 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Senior
2 9 (42.86%) IT Support
3 7 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) IT Technician
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior IT Support
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Test Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Help Desk Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 6 (28.57%) Time Management
4 5 (23.81%) ITSM
4 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 3 (14.29%) People Management
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
6 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
6 2 (9.52%) Manual Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Release Management
6 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.52%) V-Model
6 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
7 1 (4.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Bash
1 6 (28.57%) Korn
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) DBS Check
4 2 (9.52%) MCP
4 2 (9.52%) MCSA
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) IEC 61131
2 1 (4.76%) IEC 61508
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 6 (28.57%) Docker
3 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (14.29%) SCOM
4 2 (9.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) Dell
3 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 6 (28.57%) Splunk
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) McAfee
5 1 (4.76%) Rockwell
5 1 (4.76%) Siemens