Windows Server 2019 Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 448 413
Rank change year-on-year -150 -35 +23
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 116 193 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.46% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.14% 3.04% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 92 170 524
10th Percentile £27,125 £31,175 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +0.59% +1.81%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £76,250 £59,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,423 6,350 13,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.26% 15.26% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,954 4,382 11,008
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Windows Server 2019 job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend

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

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

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 April 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
England -140 108 £42,000 -1.18% 28
UK excluding London -134 69 £37,500 -6.25% 21
London -11 42 £42,000 -30.00% 11
East of England -17 25 £42,000 +19.15% 8
Work from Home -41 25 £42,000 -7.18% 8
South East -49 14 £39,250 +4.67% 15
North of England -90 11 £33,500 -18.79% 1
Midlands -66 8 £33,000 -8.97%
South West -53 6 £39,500 -21.00% 1
Yorkshire -68 6 £37,500 +15.38% 1
North West -50 5 £31,000 -27.06%
East Midlands -50 4 £33,000 -14.84%
West Midlands -52 4 £43,750 +20.69%
Wales - 4 £35,000 -
Scotland -31 1 £37,500 -6.25% 1

Windows Server 2019
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 41 (35.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (14.66%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.62%) IIS
4 5 (4.31%) Confluence
4 5 (4.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (18.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 77 (66.38%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (50.86%) Azure
3 27 (23.28%) AWS
4 25 (21.55%) Google Workspace
5 21 (18.10%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.59%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.72%) IaaS
9 2 (1.72%) PaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.86%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (55.17%) DNS
2 57 (49.14%) DHCP
3 48 (41.38%) Firewall
4 33 (28.45%) WAN
5 32 (27.59%) LAN
6 24 (20.69%) TCP/IP
7 21 (18.10%) VoIP
8 19 (16.38%) VPN
8 19 (16.38%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (12.07%) VLAN
10 12 (10.34%) Wireless
11 7 (6.03%) SAN
12 6 (5.17%) VSAN
13 5 (4.31%) WLAN
14 3 (2.59%) Cisco ISE
14 3 (2.59%) SD-WAN
15 2 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (1.72%) FIX Connectivity
15 2 (1.72%) MPLS
16 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) JIRA
2 6 (5.17%) GitLab
3 5 (4.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.31%) Git
3 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.45%) Subversion
5 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Finance
3 8 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.72%) Banking
5 2 (1.72%) Billing
5 2 (1.72%) Law
5 2 (1.72%) Local Government
5 2 (1.72%) Police
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (48.28%) IT Engineer
1 56 (48.28%) IT Support
2 52 (44.83%) Support Engineer
3 51 (43.97%) IT Support Engineer
4 40 (34.48%) 2nd Line Support
5 38 (32.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 35 (30.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (11.21%) Senior
9 9 (7.76%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) IT Technician
12 4 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support
12 4 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Analyst
12 4 (3.45%) Senior IT Technician
12 4 (3.45%) Senior Technician
12 4 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 4 (3.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.31%) Kafka
2 4 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (1.72%) .NET
3 2 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.31%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.72%) CCTV
4 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.72%) Eurex
4 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Windows
2 109 (93.97%) Windows Server
3 81 (69.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 38 (32.76%) Windows 10
5 34 (29.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (18.97%) Mac OS
7 18 (15.52%) Linux
8 10 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (5.17%) Apple iOS
9 6 (5.17%) CentOS
9 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.59%) CoreOS
12 2 (1.72%) Mac OS X
12 2 (1.72%) Solaris
12 2 (1.72%) Unix
13 1 (0.86%) Android
13 1 (0.86%) Rocky
13 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.45%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (17.24%) Mentoring
3 17 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (13.79%) ITIL
5 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (12.07%) Agile
6 14 (12.07%) Customer Service
7 13 (11.21%) Time Management
8 12 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.34%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 11 (9.48%) DevOps
10 9 (7.76%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (6.90%) Change Management
11 8 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (6.03%) CI/CD
12 7 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (5.17%) Presales
13 6 (5.17%) Project Delivery
13 6 (5.17%) Server Migrations
14 5 (4.31%) Software License Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.34%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Bash
4 9 (7.76%) SQL
5 5 (4.31%) VB
6 2 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.72%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) PHP
7 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.59%) Degree
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CCNA
6 2 (1.72%) MCDST
6 2 (1.72%) MCITP
6 2 (1.72%) MCSA
6 2 (1.72%) MCSE
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 94 (81.03%) Active Directory
2 46 (39.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (38.79%) Hyper-V
4 16 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (12.93%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (7.76%) vSphere
7 6 (5.17%) Docker
8 3 (2.59%) Terminal Server
9 2 (1.72%) Firmware
9 2 (1.72%) XenApp
10 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (12.93%) SCCM
4 11 (9.48%) SCOM
5 6 (5.17%) Ansible
5 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.17%) vCenter Server
6 5 (4.31%) McAfee ePO
6 5 (4.31%) SCVMM
6 5 (4.31%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.45%) Puppet
8 3 (2.59%) WSUS
9 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.86%) Grafana
9 1 (0.86%) Podman
9 1 (0.86%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.86%) Terraform
9 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (69.83%) Microsoft
2 51 (43.97%) VMware
3 25 (21.55%) Google
4 14 (12.07%) McAfee
5 13 (11.21%) Red Hat
6 12 (10.34%) Cisco
7 11 (9.48%) Veeam
8 9 (7.76%) HP
9 8 (6.90%) IBM
10 7 (6.03%) Dell
10 7 (6.03%) NetApp
11 5 (4.31%) Apple
11 5 (4.31%) Oracle
12 4 (3.45%) 3PAR
12 4 (3.45%) Atlassian
12 4 (3.45%) Meraki
12 4 (3.45%) SolarWinds
12 4 (3.45%) SonicWALL
13 3 (2.59%) ConnectWise
13 3 (2.59%) Fortinet