Windows Server 2012 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 485 397
Rank change year-on-year -61 -88 -71
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 52 46 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.15% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.30% 0.94% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45 46 359
10th Percentile £23,050 £25,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,188 £48,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,625 £55,675
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year -1.18% +7.59% -2.23%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,003 4,891 10,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.01% 16.47% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,089 2,945 8,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server 2012 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Windows Server 2012 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2012.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2012
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
East of England -18 14 £36,500 -41.60% 1
South East -31 12 £26,750 -28.67% 6
Scotland - 8 £22,500 - 1
Midlands -32 6 £48,750 -2.19%
North of England -50 6 £33,500 +3.08% 2
South West -52 5 £65,000 +40.54% 2
Yorkshire -40 4 £33,500 +3.08% 1
East Midlands -29 3 £45,000 -2.17%
West Midlands -33 3 £53,688 -
North West -7 2 £60,000 +93.55% 1
Wales -40 1 £34,000 -
Windows Server 2012
UK

Windows Server 2012
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (42.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (17.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (9.62%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (9.62%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (9.62%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.85%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.62%) OneDrive
4 5 (9.62%) SaaS
5 3 (5.77%) AWS
5 3 (5.77%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) DNS
2 16 (30.77%) DHCP
3 13 (25.00%) Firewall
4 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (11.54%) LAN
5 6 (11.54%) WAN
6 5 (9.62%) Broadband
6 5 (9.62%) SAN
7 3 (5.77%) VLAN
7 3 (5.77%) VoIP
7 3 (5.77%) VPN
8 2 (3.85%) Mobile Broadband
8 2 (3.85%) Softphone
9 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.92%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (1.92%) Network Security
9 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.92%) VSAN
9 1 (1.92%) Wireless
9 1 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) MySQL
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle Database
2 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) IT Support
2 16 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 15 (28.85%) IT Engineer
4 14 (26.92%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (13.46%) DBA
7 7 (13.46%) MySQL DBA
7 7 (13.46%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (11.54%) Support Technician
8 6 (11.54%) Wintel Engineer
9 5 (9.62%) Junior
9 5 (9.62%) Junior IT Engineer
9 5 (9.62%) Junior IT Support
9 5 (9.62%) Junior Support Engineer
9 5 (9.62%) Remote Support Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.85%) iPhone
6 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 43 (82.69%) Windows Server
3 31 (59.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (36.54%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (36.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (25.00%) Linux
6 7 (13.46%) Windows 10
7 6 (11.54%) Mac OS
8 2 (3.85%) Android
8 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.92%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (21.15%) ITIL
3 9 (17.31%) Agile
3 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (17.31%) Customer Service
4 8 (15.38%) Change Management
5 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.54%) Server Virtualisation
7 5 (9.62%) ERP
7 5 (9.62%) Software License Management
8 4 (7.69%) DevOps
8 4 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (7.69%) Security Operations
9 3 (5.77%) Proactive Maintenance
9 3 (5.77%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (5.77%) Server Management
10 2 (3.85%) Availability Management
10 2 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (3.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.92%) MCSE
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) Active Directory
2 19 (36.54%) Hyper-V
3 18 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.85%) BitLocker
6 2 (3.85%) vSphere
7 1 (1.92%) iptables
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) SCCM
2 7 (13.46%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) Progress Chef
2 7 (13.46%) Puppet
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (11.54%) SCOM
4 5 (9.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (7.69%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 36 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (44.23%) VMware
3 13 (25.00%) Dell
4 12 (23.08%) HP
4 12 (23.08%) Veeam
5 7 (13.46%) Oracle
6 6 (11.54%) IBM
6 6 (11.54%) McAfee
7 5 (9.62%) NetApp
7 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
8 4 (7.69%) 3PAR
9 3 (5.77%) Acronis
9 3 (5.77%) Cisco
9 3 (5.77%) Google
9 3 (5.77%) Sophos
10 2 (3.85%) Bomgar
10 2 (3.85%) Citrix
10 2 (3.85%) iManage
10 2 (3.85%) Isilon
11 1 (1.92%) Mitel