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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 113 84
Rank change year-on-year +34 -29 -48
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 121 98 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.75% 2.51% 2.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 23.39% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 103 92 107
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £43,500 £52,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 £59,300
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.60% +7.93%

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 484 419 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.00% 10.74% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 400 325 451
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £64,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -19.19% +7.61%

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 1 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 1 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 +54 70 £45,000 +11.11% 14
Buckinghamshire -1 30 £67,500 +80.00% 5
Oxfordshire -37 21 £42,500 +2.41% 7
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 (28.93%) SharePoint
2 29 (23.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (9.09%) Apache
4 10 (8.26%) nginx
5 6 (4.96%) IIS
6 1 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.24%) Azure
2 59 (48.76%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (22.31%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.09%) Google Workspace
5 10 (8.26%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.44%) AWS
7 6 (4.96%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.13%) GCP
8 5 (4.13%) PaaS
8 5 (4.13%) SaaS
9 4 (3.31%) IaaS
10 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 78 (64.46%) Firewall
2 64 (52.89%) DNS
3 32 (26.45%) DHCP
4 28 (23.14%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (22.31%) VPN
6 22 (18.18%) VLAN
7 17 (14.05%) VoIP
8 14 (11.57%) SSL
9 9 (7.44%) NAS
9 9 (7.44%) TCP/IP
9 9 (7.44%) WAN
10 8 (6.61%) LAN
11 6 (4.96%) NetScaler
11 6 (4.96%) SAN
11 6 (4.96%) Wireless
11 6 (4.96%) Wireshark
12 3 (2.48%) Network Security
12 3 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.48%) Power BI
3 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.83%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) Postman
2 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.88%) Finance
3 17 (14.05%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.26%) Retail
5 6 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (28.93%) IT Support
2 29 (23.97%) Support Engineer
3 27 (22.31%) Senior
4 26 (21.49%) IT Engineer
5 25 (20.66%) Architect
5 25 (20.66%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (14.88%) Applications Architect
7 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (10.74%) Security Architect
9 12 (9.92%) NOC Manager
9 12 (9.92%) Operations Manager
10 11 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
10 11 (9.09%) Senior IT Support
10 11 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
10 11 (9.09%) Support Technician
11 10 (8.26%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (6.61%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (6.61%) IT Technician
13 6 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (4.96%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.36%) Regular Expression
2 19 (15.70%) XMPP
3 17 (14.05%) LDAP
4 7 (5.79%) Web Services
5 6 (4.96%) JSON
6 5 (4.13%) JSON Schema
6 5 (4.13%) XML
7 2 (1.65%) .NET
7 2 (1.65%) REST
8 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.83%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (0.83%) CSS
8 1 (0.83%) CSS3
8 1 (0.83%) HTML
8 1 (0.83%) HTML5
8 1 (0.83%) jQuery
8 1 (0.83%) Laravel
8 1 (0.83%) SOAP
8 1 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.31%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.44%) PKI
3 8 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 121 (100.00%) Windows
2 43 (35.54%) Linux
3 24 (19.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (19.01%) Windows 10
5 11 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 11 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.83%) Rocky
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (25.62%) Cybersecurity
1 31 (25.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (20.66%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (19.83%) Customer Service
4 24 (19.83%) ITIL
5 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.70%) SIEM
6 19 (15.70%) Validation
7 17 (14.05%) Project Delivery
7 17 (14.05%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (13.22%) Antivirus Management
8 16 (13.22%) Pattern Matching
8 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (12.40%) High Availability
10 14 (11.57%) Application Security
11 13 (10.74%) Architectural Design
12 12 (9.92%) Resource Management
12 12 (9.92%) Server Management
13 11 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.96%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.48%) SQL
4 2 (1.65%) C#
4 2 (1.65%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.83%) Bash
5 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.83%) PHP
5 1 (0.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (28.10%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (26.45%) Security Cleared
3 27 (22.31%) DV Cleared
4 18 (14.88%) Degree
5 15 (12.40%) Azure Certification
5 15 (12.40%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (11.57%) DBS Check
7 11 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.31%) CCNA
9 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.48%) A+ Certification
10 3 (2.48%) ICAEW
11 2 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.65%) MCSE
12 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (14.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 11 (9.09%) SLA
4 7 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.48%) NIST
6 2 (1.65%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 70 (57.85%) Active Directory
2 35 (28.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (19.83%) vSphere
4 17 (14.05%) Hyper-V
5 13 (10.74%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (4.13%) Squid
8 3 (2.48%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.48%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.65%) Docker
9 2 (1.65%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (31.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (4.13%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.65%) vRealize
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) Autotask
5 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 95 (78.51%) Microsoft
2 65 (53.72%) VMware
3 21 (17.36%) Veeam
4 19 (15.70%) Red Hat
5 15 (12.40%) Apple
5 15 (12.40%) McAfee
6 13 (10.74%) Cisco
7 12 (9.92%) Datto
7 12 (9.92%) Google
8 11 (9.09%) SonicWALL
9 7 (5.79%) Sophos
10 6 (4.96%) Citrix
10 6 (4.96%) NetApp
11 4 (3.31%) ConnectWise
12 3 (2.48%) Barracuda Networks
13 2 (1.65%) Meraki
14 1 (0.83%) Aruba
14 1 (0.83%) EMC
14 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
14 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow