Windows Server Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 103 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 -46
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 114 100 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.58% 2.59% 2.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.80% 25.38% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 97 93 88
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £43,250 £52,625
90th Percentile - £52,500 £59,750
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 479 394 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.65% 10.19% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 400 309 402
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £61,600 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +7.53%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Berkshire +56 67 £42,500 +4.94% 14
Buckinghamshire -12 27 £67,500 +80.00% 9
Oxfordshire -45 20 £42,500 +2.41% 10
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
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 35 (30.70%) SharePoint
2 28 (24.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (9.65%) Apache
4 10 (8.77%) nginx
5 5 (4.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (51.75%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (50.00%) Azure
3 27 (23.68%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.65%) Google Workspace
5 10 (8.77%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.26%) AWS
6 6 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.39%) PaaS
7 5 (4.39%) SaaS
8 4 (3.51%) IaaS
9 3 (2.63%) GCP
9 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 71 (62.28%) Firewall
2 58 (50.88%) DNS
3 31 (27.19%) DHCP
4 27 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (21.93%) VPN
6 21 (18.42%) VLAN
7 19 (16.67%) VoIP
8 14 (12.28%) SSL
9 9 (7.89%) WAN
10 8 (7.02%) LAN
11 7 (6.14%) NAS
11 7 (6.14%) TCP/IP
12 6 (5.26%) Wireless
13 4 (3.51%) NetScaler
13 4 (3.51%) SAN
13 4 (3.51%) Wireshark
14 3 (2.63%) Network Security
14 3 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (0.88%) Git
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
1 1 (0.88%) Postman
1 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.77%) Retail
5 6 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) IT Support
2 29 (25.44%) Support Engineer
3 26 (22.81%) IT Engineer
3 26 (22.81%) Senior
4 25 (21.93%) IT Support Engineer
5 21 (18.42%) Architect
6 14 (12.28%) Applications Architect
6 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) NOC Manager
7 12 (10.53%) Operations Manager
8 11 (9.65%) Security Architect
8 11 (9.65%) Senior IT Engineer
8 11 (9.65%) Senior IT Support
8 11 (9.65%) Senior Support Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Support Technician
10 9 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (6.14%) IT Support Technician
11 7 (6.14%) IT Technician
12 6 (5.26%) Senior Service Manager
12 6 (5.26%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.79%) Regular Expression
2 17 (14.91%) XMPP
3 15 (13.16%) LDAP
4 7 (6.14%) Web Services
5 5 (4.39%) JSON
6 4 (3.51%) JSON Schema
6 4 (3.51%) XML
7 2 (1.75%) .NET
7 2 (1.75%) REST
8 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.88%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (0.88%) CSS
8 1 (0.88%) CSS3
8 1 (0.88%) HTML
8 1 (0.88%) HTML5
8 1 (0.88%) jQuery
8 1 (0.88%) Laravel
8 1 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.14%) PKI
3 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 114 (100.00%) Windows
2 37 (32.46%) Linux
3 23 (20.18%) Windows 10
4 20 (17.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.65%) Mac OS
5 11 (9.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.88%) Rocky
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
1 30 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (21.93%) Customer Service
4 24 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (21.05%) ITIL
5 19 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (14.91%) Project Delivery
6 17 (14.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 17 (14.91%) Validation
7 16 (14.04%) SIEM
8 15 (13.16%) High Availability
9 14 (12.28%) Antivirus Management
9 14 (12.28%) Pattern Matching
9 14 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (10.53%) Application Security
11 11 (9.65%) Architectural Design
11 11 (9.65%) Data Privacy
11 11 (9.65%) Mobile Device Management
11 11 (9.65%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.40%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.75%) C#
3 2 (1.75%) SQL
3 2 (1.75%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (29.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
3 22 (19.30%) DV Cleared
4 17 (14.91%) Degree
5 16 (14.04%) Network+ Certification
6 15 (13.16%) Azure Certification
7 14 (12.28%) DBS Check
8 11 (9.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 10 (8.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
11 4 (3.51%) A+ Certification
11 4 (3.51%) CCNA
11 4 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.63%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (14.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 10 (8.77%) SLA
4 6 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.63%) NIST
6 2 (1.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (56.14%) Active Directory
2 35 (30.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (17.54%) vSphere
4 16 (14.04%) Hyper-V
5 13 (11.40%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (4.39%) Squid
8 3 (2.63%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.63%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.65%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (4.39%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.75%) vRealize
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 91 (79.82%) Microsoft
2 60 (52.63%) VMware
3 21 (18.42%) Veeam
4 17 (14.91%) Red Hat
5 16 (14.04%) Apple
6 14 (12.28%) McAfee
7 12 (10.53%) Cisco
8 11 (9.65%) Datto
8 11 (9.65%) Google
8 11 (9.65%) SonicWALL
9 6 (5.26%) Sophos
10 4 (3.51%) Citrix
10 4 (3.51%) ConnectWise
10 4 (3.51%) NetApp
11 3 (2.63%) Barracuda Networks
12 1 (0.88%) Adobe
12 1 (0.88%) Aruba
12 1 (0.88%) EMC
12 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.88%) Meraki