Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 440 575
Rank change year-on-year +20 +135 -94
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 580 715 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.11% 4.25% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 515 541 626
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £67,500 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -11.39% -1.25%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2019 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,127 16,835 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 15.95% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,964 11,378 16,793
10th Percentile £25,759 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows Server 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 17 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 24 April 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
England +47 553 £42,500 +2.41% 114
UK excluding London -8 494 £40,000 +14.29% 100
Work from Home +83 182 £47,500 +11.76% 41
South East -9 154 £51,350 +63.02% 27
North of England +30 104 £37,500 -11.76% 25
Midlands +14 83 £35,000 +6.06% 16
South West -11 83 £36,250 -11.59% 10
London +73 76 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Yorkshire +102 62 £35,000 +8.70% 9
East of England +54 53 £32,500 +12.07% 20
West Midlands +16 43 £39,000 +18.18% 10
East Midlands +8 39 £31,250 -26.47% 6
North West -30 31 £45,000 - 13
North East +7 11 £27,500 -53.19% 3
Wales +11 9 £29,375 +6.82% 2
Scotland -68 7 £36,000 -10.00% 2
Northern Ireland +10 2 £40,000 +23.08%

Windows Server 2019
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
1 146 (25.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (15.52%) SharePoint
3 24 (4.14%) IIS
4 14 (2.41%) Confluence
5 11 (1.90%) WordPress
6 7 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.17%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.17%) Site Server
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) uWSGI
Applications
1 88 (15.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 328 (56.55%) Microsoft 365
2 281 (48.45%) Azure
3 102 (17.59%) Entra ID
4 58 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 51 (8.79%) AWS
6 34 (5.86%) Mimecast
7 25 (4.31%) SaaS
8 19 (3.28%) IaaS
8 19 (3.28%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.10%) Azure Storage
10 16 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (2.59%) Google Workspace
12 12 (2.07%) OCI
12 12 (2.07%) PaaS
13 11 (1.90%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.21%) PowerApps
17 6 (1.03%) OpenShift
18 5 (0.86%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 210 (36.21%) DNS
2 188 (32.41%) Firewall
3 185 (31.90%) DHCP
4 95 (16.38%) TCP/IP
5 85 (14.66%) VPN
5 85 (14.66%) WAN
6 80 (13.79%) LAN
7 66 (11.38%) SAN
8 63 (10.86%) VLAN
9 55 (9.48%) Wireless
10 49 (8.45%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (4.48%) VoIP
12 20 (3.45%) Network Security
12 20 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
13 18 (3.10%) NAS
14 15 (2.59%) Fibre Channel
15 14 (2.41%) Internet
16 13 (2.24%) SD-WAN
17 12 (2.07%) iSCSI
17 12 (2.07%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.28%) MySQL
5 9 (1.55%) DB2
6 8 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.03%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.03%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.86%) Power BI
9 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.69%) UniData
10 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.93%) JIRA
2 8 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.86%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) MSI
6 3 (0.52%) GitLab
7 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 207 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.76%) Finance
3 33 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.62%) Retail
5 18 (3.10%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.07%) Automotive
9 12 (2.07%) Back Office
9 12 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.21%) Aviation
11 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.86%) Banking
12 5 (0.86%) Games
12 5 (0.86%) Law
13 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Legal
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 134 (23.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (19.14%) IT Engineer
3 91 (15.69%) IT Support
4 86 (14.83%) Senior
5 80 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 67 (11.55%) Analyst
7 66 (11.38%) Administrator
8 55 (9.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 41 (7.07%) 2nd Line Support
10 36 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (5.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (5.17%) DBA
12 30 (5.17%) Service Analyst
12 30 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
13 27 (4.66%) DV Cleared DBA
13 27 (4.66%) Lead
13 27 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
14 25 (4.31%) Support Specialist
15 23 (3.97%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (3.62%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.10%) ARM Templates
2 13 (2.24%) .NET
3 12 (2.07%) WPF
4 11 (1.90%) LAMP
5 8 (1.38%) LDAP
6 3 (0.52%) SAML
7 2 (0.34%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.34%) X-Windows
7 2 (0.34%) YAML
8 1 (0.17%) EDI
8 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.17%) JSON
8 1 (0.17%) Kafka
8 1 (0.17%) Middleware
8 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.17%) Web Services
8 1 (0.17%) WSH
8 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.48%) Driving Licence
1 55 (9.48%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (6.03%) PKI
3 31 (5.34%) Replication
4 26 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.45%) Clustering
7 17 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.24%) CCTV
9 11 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.03%) EMC VNX
12 6 (1.03%) Handset
12 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) iPad
12 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 552 (95.17%) Windows
2 421 (72.59%) Windows Server
3 418 (72.07%) Windows Server 2016
4 252 (43.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 233 (40.17%) Windows 10
6 115 (19.83%) Linux
7 43 (7.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 40 (6.90%) CentOS
9 32 (5.52%) Windows 7
10 27 (4.66%) Apple iOS
11 22 (3.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 19 (3.28%) Windows NT
13 17 (2.93%) Windows XP
14 15 (2.59%) Mac OS
14 15 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (2.59%) Ubuntu
14 15 (2.59%) VMS
15 11 (1.90%) Android
16 9 (1.55%) Mac OS X
17 6 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (27.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 153 (26.38%) ITIL
3 137 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (19.83%) Customer Service
5 70 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 59 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 58 (10.00%) Service Management
8 50 (8.62%) Performance Monitoring
9 48 (8.28%) Project Management
10 46 (7.93%) Time Management
11 42 (7.24%) Change Management
11 42 (7.24%) Storage Management
12 38 (6.55%) User Experience
13 37 (6.38%) Agile
14 36 (6.21%) Service Delivery
15 35 (6.03%) Server Management
16 33 (5.69%) Line Management
17 32 (5.52%) Actionable Insight
18 30 (5.17%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 192 (33.10%) PowerShell
2 79 (13.62%) SQL
3 47 (8.10%) Bash
4 28 (4.83%) C#
5 19 (3.28%) Python
5 19 (3.28%) VB
6 15 (2.59%) VBScript
7 14 (2.41%) Bicep
8 6 (1.03%) Perl
9 2 (0.34%) Java
9 2 (0.34%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.17%) C
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (21.38%) Degree
1 124 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 76 (13.10%) DV Cleared
3 54 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.93%) DBS Check
5 34 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (3.97%) CCNP
7 23 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (3.62%) CCNA
9 17 (2.93%) HNC
10 15 (2.59%) MCSE
11 14 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 13 (2.24%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.90%) A+ Certification
13 11 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
14 10 (1.72%) MCSA
15 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
16 8 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.14%) SLA
2 21 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.38%) GDPR
5 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) NIST
7 3 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) QA
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 384 (66.21%) Active Directory
2 196 (33.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (27.07%) Hyper-V
4 50 (8.62%) vSphere
5 44 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (7.07%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (5.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (3.79%) Firmware
9 7 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 6 (1.03%) Docker
11 5 (0.86%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.69%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 129 (22.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 119 (20.52%) SCCM
3 73 (12.59%) WSUS
4 40 (6.90%) SCOM
5 38 (6.55%) vCenter Server
6 26 (4.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 23 (3.97%) Terraform
8 22 (3.79%) Ansible
9 20 (3.45%) Kubernetes
10 19 (3.28%) EMC NetWorker
11 18 (3.10%) NetBackup
12 17 (2.93%) Failover Clustering
13 14 (2.41%) Sysprep
14 13 (2.24%) McAfee ePO
15 10 (1.72%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (1.55%) Autotask
17 8 (1.38%) SCVMM
17 8 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
18 7 (1.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 465 (80.17%) Microsoft
2 267 (46.03%) VMware
3 83 (14.31%) Cisco
4 69 (11.90%) Veeam
5 56 (9.66%) Apple
6 53 (9.14%) Citrix
7 49 (8.45%) Oracle
8 44 (7.59%) Red Hat
9 42 (7.24%) Sophos
10 39 (6.72%) HP
11 35 (6.03%) Palo Alto
12 33 (5.69%) Aruba
13 28 (4.83%) Meraki
14 26 (4.48%) Dell
15 25 (4.31%) Google
16 23 (3.97%) Juniper
17 20 (3.45%) Barracuda Networks
18 19 (3.28%) 3PAR
18 19 (3.28%) EMC
19 18 (3.10%) Adobe