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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 115 89
Rank change year-on-year +37 -26 -50
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 126 99 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.82% 2.54% 2.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.82% 23.52% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 108 93 109
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £44,250 £52,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 £59,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +4.94%

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 488 421 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.05% 10.82% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 404 327 454
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,750
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 £80,250 £63,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £48,925
% change year-on-year +18.75% -18.24% +6.36%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 74 £47,500 +17.28% 13
Buckinghamshire -3 31 £67,500 +80.00% 4
Oxfordshire -30 21 £42,500 +2.41% 8
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 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 29 (23.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (8.73%) Apache
4 10 (7.94%) nginx
5 6 (4.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.00%) Azure
2 59 (46.83%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.73%) Google Workspace
5 10 (7.94%) AWS
5 10 (7.94%) Power Automate
6 6 (4.76%) GCP
6 6 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.97%) PaaS
7 5 (3.97%) SaaS
8 4 (3.17%) IaaS
9 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 81 (64.29%) Firewall
2 69 (54.76%) DNS
3 32 (25.40%) DHCP
4 28 (22.22%) VPN
4 28 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (17.46%) VLAN
6 17 (13.49%) VoIP
7 14 (11.11%) SSL
8 11 (8.73%) NAS
9 10 (7.94%) WAN
10 9 (7.14%) LAN
10 9 (7.14%) TCP/IP
11 8 (6.35%) NetScaler
11 8 (6.35%) SAN
11 8 (6.35%) Wireshark
12 6 (4.76%) Wireless
13 3 (2.38%) Network Security
13 3 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.38%) Power BI
3 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) Postman
2 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (13.49%) Manufacturing
4 10 (7.94%) Retail
5 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Aviation
7 1 (0.79%) Games
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) IT Support
2 29 (23.02%) Support Engineer
3 28 (22.22%) Architect
3 28 (22.22%) Senior
4 26 (20.63%) IT Engineer
5 25 (19.84%) IT Support Engineer
6 20 (15.87%) Applications Architect
7 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (11.11%) Security Architect
9 12 (9.52%) NOC Manager
9 12 (9.52%) Operations Manager
10 11 (8.73%) Senior IT Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Senior IT Support
10 11 (8.73%) Senior Support Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Support Technician
11 10 (7.94%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (6.35%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (6.35%) IT Technician
13 7 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.25%) Regular Expression
2 19 (15.08%) LDAP
2 19 (15.08%) XMPP
3 8 (6.35%) JSON
4 7 (5.56%) JSON Schema
4 7 (5.56%) Web Services
4 7 (5.56%) XML
5 2 (1.59%) .NET
5 2 (1.59%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (0.79%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (0.79%) CSS
6 1 (0.79%) CSS3
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) HTML5
6 1 (0.79%) jQuery
6 1 (0.79%) Laravel
6 1 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.43%) Driving Licence
2 11 (8.73%) PKI
3 10 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 126 (100.00%) Windows
2 47 (37.30%) Linux
3 28 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (18.25%) Windows 10
5 11 (8.73%) Mac OS
5 11 (8.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.79%) Rocky
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (24.60%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (20.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (19.05%) Customer Service
5 24 (19.05%) ITIL
6 23 (18.25%) SIEM
7 20 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (15.08%) Validation
9 17 (13.49%) Project Delivery
9 17 (13.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (12.70%) Antivirus Management
10 16 (12.70%) Application Security
10 16 (12.70%) High Availability
10 16 (12.70%) Pattern Matching
10 16 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (11.11%) Architectural Design
12 12 (9.52%) Resource Management
12 12 (9.52%) Server Management
13 11 (8.73%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.38%) SQL
4 2 (1.59%) C#
4 2 (1.59%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.79%) Bash
5 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.79%) PHP
5 1 (0.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (24.60%) DV Cleared
4 18 (14.29%) Degree
5 15 (11.90%) Azure Certification
5 15 (11.90%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (11.11%) DBS Check
7 11 (8.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (8.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.17%) CCNA
9 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.38%) A+ Certification
10 3 (2.38%) ICAEW
11 2 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.59%) MCSE
12 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (13.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 11 (8.73%) SLA
4 7 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.38%) NIST
6 2 (1.59%) GDPR
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
System Software
1 74 (58.73%) Active Directory
2 35 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (22.22%) vSphere
4 17 (13.49%) Hyper-V
5 13 (10.32%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.97%) Squid
8 3 (2.38%) BitLocker
8 3 (2.38%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.59%) Docker
9 2 (1.59%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (30.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.73%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (3.97%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.59%) vRealize
5 1 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Autotask
5 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 99 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 70 (55.56%) VMware
3 21 (16.67%) Veeam
4 19 (15.08%) Red Hat
5 15 (11.90%) Apple
5 15 (11.90%) McAfee
6 13 (10.32%) Cisco
7 12 (9.52%) Datto
7 12 (9.52%) Google
8 11 (8.73%) SonicWALL
9 8 (6.35%) Citrix
9 8 (6.35%) NetApp
10 7 (5.56%) Sophos
11 4 (3.17%) ConnectWise
12 3 (2.38%) Barracuda Networks
13 2 (1.59%) Meraki
14 1 (0.79%) Aruba
14 1 (0.79%) EMC
14 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow