Windows Server 2003 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2003 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2003 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 843 893
Rank change year-on-year +164 +50 +165
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2003 5 42 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.043% 0.090%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.076% 0.30% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3 31 81
10th Percentile £48,500 £23,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58,125 £53,750 £48,084
90th Percentile £58,500 - £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £43,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year +25.71% +34.62% -18.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2003 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,583 14,121 16,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 10,927 11,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -

Windows Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2003.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2003 in the UK

Windows Server 2003
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2003 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
UK excluding London +176 5 £55,000 +25.71% 6
England +152 5 £55,000 +29.41% 7
South East +105 3 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Work from Home +169 2 - - 1
Midlands +55 2 - - 2
West Midlands +45 2 - - 2

Windows Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Skype
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (60.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (60.00%) vMotion
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) SCOM
2 2 (40.00%) SCOrch
2 2 (40.00%) SCSM
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec