Windows Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 76 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2,094 1,983 2,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.21% 4.12% 3.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.69% 23.37% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 1,565 2,559
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8,838 8,487 14,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.54% 17.63% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,376 5,618 9,333
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East +6 573 £42,500 +11.11% 104
Midlands +25 456 £36,750 -8.70% 55
North of England +2 436 £38,000 -12.14% 116
South West +8 265 £37,500 -6.25% 50
West Midlands +12 253 £36,500 -8.75% 38
East Midlands +20 199 £40,000 -7.51% 17
Yorkshire +32 190 £42,500 +19.72% 44
East of England -10 185 £38,000 +8.57% 45
North West -38 181 £41,500 -14.43% 58
Scotland -56 115 £46,500 +10.71% 17
North East +14 65 £35,000 -26.32% 18
Wales +36 53 £40,000 +2.56% 9
Isle of Man -5 9 £37,500 +25.00%
Northern Ireland -4 3 £34,628 -20.85% 16
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 448 (21.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 314 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 57 (2.72%) IIS
4 17 (0.81%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) CMS
6 12 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
7 9 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
8 8 (0.38%) Apache
9 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.29%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.19%) TWiki
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 263 (12.56%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
6 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.14%) Pro Tools
7 1 (0.048%) CATIA
7 1 (0.048%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.048%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,193 (56.97%) Microsoft 365
2 1,008 (48.14%) Azure
3 375 (17.91%) Entra ID
4 225 (10.74%) AWS
5 155 (7.40%) OneDrive
6 70 (3.34%) IaaS
7 61 (2.91%) SaaS
8 50 (2.39%) GCP
9 42 (2.01%) PaaS
10 41 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
11 37 (1.77%) Mimecast
12 36 (1.72%) Nutanix
13 32 (1.53%) Google Workspace
14 28 (1.34%) Power Platform
15 22 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (0.81%) Azure Storage
18 16 (0.76%) GitHub
19 14 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 647 (30.90%) Firewall
2 520 (24.83%) DNS
3 422 (20.15%) DHCP
4 292 (13.94%) WAN
5 270 (12.89%) TCP/IP
6 254 (12.13%) LAN
7 234 (11.17%) VPN
8 199 (9.50%) SAN
9 179 (8.55%) Wi-Fi
10 154 (7.35%) VLAN
11 131 (6.26%) VoIP
12 105 (5.01%) Wireless
13 86 (4.11%) NAS
14 74 (3.53%) Internet
15 56 (2.67%) Network Security
16 45 (2.15%) SD-WAN
17 38 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
18 33 (1.58%) WLAN
19 27 (1.29%) VSAN
20 26 (1.24%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 54 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.58%) MySQL
4 25 (1.19%) DB2
5 23 (1.10%) Power BI
6 21 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 13 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.48%) MariaDB
9 7 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.29%) Big Data
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.24%) Redis
12 4 (0.19%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.14%) Metabase
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.14%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (1.67%) JIRA
2 17 (0.81%) Git
3 13 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.43%) eggPlant
5 9 (0.43%) Trac
6 6 (0.29%) Robot Framework
6 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.24%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.14%) GitLab
9 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.096%) Hudson
10 2 (0.096%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.048%) GoCD
11 1 (0.048%) TeamCity
General
1 608 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 195 (9.31%) Finance
3 155 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (4.35%) Law
5 68 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
6 64 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 63 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (2.91%) Retail
9 58 (2.77%) Manufacturing
10 57 (2.72%) Public Sector
11 45 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (1.91%) Legal
13 39 (1.86%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.43%) Automotive
15 25 (1.19%) Marketing
16 20 (0.96%) Banking
17 19 (0.91%) Military
18 18 (0.86%) Advertising
18 18 (0.86%) Electronics
19 10 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 431 (20.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 402 (19.20%) Support Engineer
3 377 (18.00%) IT Support
4 333 (15.90%) IT Engineer
5 212 (10.12%) Analyst
6 196 (9.36%) IT Support Engineer
7 187 (8.93%) Senior
8 154 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support
9 137 (6.54%) IT Technician
10 117 (5.59%) 3rd Line Support
11 116 (5.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 108 (5.16%) Lead
13 102 (4.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 99 (4.73%) IT Analyst
15 94 (4.49%) Support Technician
16 93 (4.44%) Technical Support
17 86 (4.11%) Support Analyst
18 85 (4.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 85 (4.06%) IT Manager
19 80 (3.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.96%) .NET
2 17 (0.81%) ARM Templates
3 16 (0.76%) HTML
4 15 (0.72%) REST
5 9 (0.43%) .NET Core
6 6 (0.29%) XML
7 5 (0.24%) ADO
7 5 (0.24%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.24%) Blazor
7 5 (0.24%) CSS
7 5 (0.24%) LAMP
7 5 (0.24%) LDAP
7 5 (0.24%) Middleware
7 5 (0.24%) Web Services
8 4 (0.19%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.14%) JSON
9 3 (0.14%) React
9 3 (0.14%) Sass
9 3 (0.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 142 (6.78%) Driving Licence
2 137 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 99 (4.73%) PKI
4 95 (4.54%) Replication
5 93 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 89 (4.25%) Clustering
7 88 (4.20%) Management Information System
8 40 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.58%) Client/Server
10 31 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.19%) Operational Technology
13 18 (0.86%) Cyberattack
14 16 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (0.76%) NHS
15 12 (0.57%) CMDB
16 11 (0.53%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (0.53%) Fat Client
16 11 (0.53%) SCADA
16 11 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2,093 (99.95%) Windows
2 403 (19.25%) Windows 10
3 382 (18.24%) Linux
4 300 (14.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 284 (13.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 248 (11.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 75 (3.58%) Windows 7
8 64 (3.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 54 (2.58%) Android
10 51 (2.44%) Apple iOS
11 40 (1.91%) Ubuntu
12 39 (1.86%) Windows 8
13 36 (1.72%) Mac OS
14 34 (1.62%) CentOS
15 29 (1.38%) Unix
16 28 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 22 (1.05%) VMS
18 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
19 16 (0.76%) Mac OS X
20 13 (0.62%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (24.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 417 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
3 378 (18.05%) ITIL
4 331 (15.81%) Customer Service
5 262 (12.51%) Cybersecurity
6 161 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 122 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 122 (5.83%) Service Management
8 113 (5.40%) Agile
9 109 (5.21%) Service Delivery
10 100 (4.78%) DevOps
11 99 (4.73%) Project Delivery
12 96 (4.58%) Incident Management
13 92 (4.39%) Project Management
14 87 (4.15%) Change Management
14 87 (4.15%) Migration
15 84 (4.01%) Time Management
16 79 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (3.63%) Patch Management
18 61 (2.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 348 (16.62%) PowerShell
2 240 (11.46%) SQL
3 78 (3.72%) Python
4 44 (2.10%) VB
5 38 (1.81%) C#
6 37 (1.77%) Bash
7 31 (1.48%) VBScript
8 19 (0.91%) Java
8 19 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 17 (0.81%) ActionScript
9 17 (0.81%) Bicep
10 14 (0.67%) C++
11 12 (0.57%) PHP
12 10 (0.48%) Delphi
13 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.14%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.14%) R
16 2 (0.096%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.096%) VBA
Qualifications
1 294 (14.04%) Degree
2 255 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 187 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 177 (8.45%) SC Cleared
5 130 (6.21%) DV Cleared
6 107 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
7 98 (4.68%) CCNA
8 75 (3.58%) DBS Check
9 66 (3.15%) MCSE
10 57 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (2.05%) MCSA
12 35 (1.67%) Azure Certification
13 29 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 29 (1.38%) MCP
14 26 (1.24%) CCNP
15 24 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 23 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
16 23 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 18 (0.86%) HND
17 18 (0.86%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.26%) SLA
2 64 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 58 (2.77%) GDPR
4 38 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.91%) QA
6 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (0.48%) NIST
8 9 (0.43%) ITGC
8 9 (0.43%) PMO
9 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.14%) GRC
10 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.14%) NCSC
11 2 (0.096%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.096%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.048%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,295 (61.84%) Active Directory
2 635 (30.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 517 (24.69%) Hyper-V
4 154 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
5 147 (7.02%) vSphere
6 89 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 50 (2.39%) XenApp
9 37 (1.77%) XenDesktop
10 35 (1.67%) Docker
11 28 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
11 28 (1.34%) VMware NSX
12 27 (1.29%) Firmware
13 18 (0.86%) NFS
14 17 (0.81%) OpenSSH
15 16 (0.76%) pfSense
15 16 (0.76%) Terminal Services
16 13 (0.62%) VirtualBox
17 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 11 (0.53%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 315 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 226 (10.79%) SCCM
3 114 (5.44%) vCenter Server
4 85 (4.06%) WSUS
5 68 (3.25%) SCOM
6 67 (3.20%) Ansible
7 56 (2.67%) Terraform
8 54 (2.58%) Kubernetes
9 45 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 33 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
11 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
11 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 25 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
13 21 (1.00%) IBM BigFix
14 19 (0.91%) Grafana
15 18 (0.86%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.81%) PowerCLI
16 17 (0.81%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.76%) Autotask
18 15 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,263 (60.32%) Microsoft
2 979 (46.75%) VMware
3 284 (13.56%) Cisco
4 199 (9.50%) Veeam
5 173 (8.26%) Citrix
6 111 (5.30%) HP
7 106 (5.06%) Dell
8 70 (3.34%) Meraki
9 68 (3.25%) Sophos
10 67 (3.20%) Apple
11 58 (2.77%) Google
12 54 (2.58%) Red Hat
13 52 (2.48%) Oracle
14 47 (2.24%) Fortinet
15 44 (2.10%) Aruba
16 38 (1.81%) IBM
17 32 (1.53%) Datto
17 32 (1.53%) SolarWinds
18 31 (1.48%) Mitel
18 31 (1.48%) ServiceNow