Windows Server 2019 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server 2019 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 544 376 384
Rank change year-on-year -168 +8 -118
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 116 172 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.50% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.40% 3.62% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 104 142 191
10th Percentile £25,250 £29,550 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £41,000 £46,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,827 4,749 7,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.77% 13.82% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,711 2,935 4,323
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -3.23%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK excluding London

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -41 40 £42,500 +30.77% 10
East of England -45 35 £36,500 -18.89% 2
South East -69 26 £39,000 -10.86% 19
Yorkshire -14 21 £42,500 +30.77% 4
North West -14 17 £43,750 +30.60% 5
South West -100 10 £50,000 +3.09% 5
Midlands -58 5 £43,000 -14.00% 7
West Midlands -57 3 £43,000 -33.85% 3
East Midlands -41 2 £56,250 +50.00% 4
North East - 2 - - 1
Windows Server 2019
UK

Windows Server 2019
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 36 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (19.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) Confluence
4 2 (1.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.86%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (68.10%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (63.79%) Azure
3 40 (34.48%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.07%) AWS
5 12 (10.34%) Google Workspace
6 11 (9.48%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.90%) Cohesity
7 8 (6.90%) Mimecast
8 5 (4.31%) IaaS
8 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Stack
9 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (3.45%) SaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (36.21%) DNS
2 41 (35.34%) Firewall
3 34 (29.31%) DHCP
4 29 (25.00%) WAN
5 24 (20.69%) LAN
6 23 (19.83%) VLAN
7 22 (18.97%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (18.10%) VoIP
9 18 (15.52%) VPN
10 15 (12.93%) Wireless
11 10 (8.62%) SAN
11 10 (8.62%) TCP/IP
12 9 (7.76%) SSL
13 8 (6.90%) Network Security
14 6 (5.17%) SNMP
15 5 (4.31%) VSAN
16 4 (3.45%) DMZ
16 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
16 4 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
16 4 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
2 5 (4.31%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.86%) Postman
5 1 (0.86%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.62%) Legal
4 6 (5.17%) Finance
4 6 (5.17%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Advertising
6 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.59%) Military
8 2 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.86%) Games
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (45.69%) IT Support
2 37 (31.90%) IT Engineer
3 33 (28.45%) Support Engineer
4 32 (27.59%) IT Support Engineer
5 25 (21.55%) Analyst
6 16 (13.79%) Support Analyst
7 15 (12.93%) IT Analyst
7 15 (12.93%) IT Support Analyst
7 15 (12.93%) Wintel Engineer
8 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (10.34%) Senior
10 10 (8.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 9 (7.76%) Senior IT Engineer
11 9 (7.76%) Senior IT Support
11 9 (7.76%) Senior Support Engineer
12 8 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (6.03%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (5.17%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
1 4 (3.45%) HTML
1 4 (3.45%) JSON
1 4 (3.45%) Terraform
2 3 (2.59%) .NET
2 3 (2.59%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.59%) SAML
3 2 (1.72%) WinForms
4 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.86%) REST
4 1 (0.86%) SOAP
4 1 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.41%) Driving Licence
2 13 (11.21%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.17%) Clustering
3 6 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.31%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.45%) Social Media
6 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.59%) NHS
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Windows
2 108 (93.10%) Windows Server
3 64 (55.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (15.52%) Linux
5 17 (14.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (12.07%) Windows 10
7 10 (8.62%) Mac OS
8 9 (7.76%) CentOS
8 9 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (4.31%) Apple iOS
10 5 (4.31%) CoreOS
10 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.72%) VMS
12 1 (0.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (30.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 32 (27.59%) Customer Service
5 26 (22.41%) ITIL
6 23 (19.83%) Project Delivery
7 18 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (12.93%) Time Management
9 14 (12.07%) Service Management
10 13 (11.21%) Business Continuity
11 12 (10.34%) Logistics
12 10 (8.62%) Asset Management
12 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (7.76%) Change Management
13 9 (7.76%) Data Privacy
13 9 (7.76%) High Availability
13 9 (7.76%) Kalman Filter
13 9 (7.76%) Mobile Device Management
13 9 (7.76%) Server Building
14 8 (6.90%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.62%) SQL
3 9 (7.76%) Bash
3 9 (7.76%) Python
4 4 (3.45%) PHP
5 3 (2.59%) C#
5 3 (2.59%) VB
6 2 (1.72%) XAML
7 1 (0.86%) C
7 1 (0.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (13.79%) DBS Check
3 16 (13.79%) Degree
4 12 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 11 (9.48%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (8.62%) CCNA
6 10 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (7.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (7.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.45%) MCSA
9 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (2.59%) HNC
10 3 (2.59%) HND
11 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (30.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (6.90%) SLA
4 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 88 (75.86%) Active Directory
2 58 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 48 (41.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (9.48%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.03%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.45%) Docker
6 4 (3.45%) Firmware
7 3 (2.59%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (31.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.76%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (7.76%) WSUS
3 8 (6.90%) SCCM
4 6 (5.17%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (5.17%) SCOM
5 5 (4.31%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (4.31%) SCVMM
5 5 (4.31%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 4 (3.45%) Ansible
6 4 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.45%) Iperf
6 4 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 4 (3.45%) Nagios
6 4 (3.45%) Podman
6 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.86%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (81.03%) Microsoft
2 58 (50.00%) VMware
3 26 (22.41%) Cisco
4 19 (16.38%) Veeam
5 14 (12.07%) Apple
6 13 (11.21%) Google
6 13 (11.21%) SonicWALL
7 11 (9.48%) McAfee
8 10 (8.62%) NetApp
9 9 (7.76%) Datto
10 8 (6.90%) iManage
10 8 (6.90%) Meraki
11 7 (6.03%) Dell
11 7 (6.03%) Fortinet
12 6 (5.17%) HP
12 6 (5.17%) IBM
12 6 (5.17%) Ruckus Wireless
12 6 (5.17%) SolarWinds
13 5 (4.31%) Red Hat
14 4 (3.45%) CheckPoint