Windows Server 2019 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2019 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 434 427
Rank change year-on-year -95 -7 +214
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 174 580 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.43% 4.13% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 143 499 556
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,200 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £29,750 £29,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £59,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year - +21.21% -16.46%

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 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Top 14 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 31 May 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
England -117 166 £42,500 - 100
UK excluding London -94 125 £40,000 - 88
Work from Home +14 66 £47,500 +5.56% 50
London +78 49 £57,500 +27.78% 17
Midlands +9 38 £47,500 +47.29% 23
West Midlands +34 31 £47,500 +33.80% 14
South East -32 31 £37,500 -26.97% 28
North of England -41 21 £32,500 -13.33% 15
East of England +13 19 £45,000 +5.88% 12
North West -13 15 £33,500 -25.56% 13
South West +35 9 £55,000 +33.33% 8
Scotland +123 8 £45,957 +27.66% 4
East Midlands +10 7 £47,500 +48.44% 9
Yorkshire +3 6 £32,500 -13.33% 1

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 69 (39.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (13.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.72%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (1.72%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (21.26%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 101 (58.05%) Azure
1 101 (58.05%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (17.24%) Entra ID
3 23 (13.22%) AWS
4 12 (6.90%) Google Workspace
4 12 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 9 (5.17%) IaaS
5 9 (5.17%) Nutanix
5 9 (5.17%) SaaS
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.45%) PaaS
8 5 (2.87%) GCP
9 4 (2.30%) GitHub
9 4 (2.30%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.15%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 78 (44.83%) Firewall
2 50 (28.74%) DNS
3 48 (27.59%) DHCP
4 46 (26.44%) WAN
5 45 (25.86%) TCP/IP
6 41 (23.56%) LAN
7 31 (17.82%) VLAN
8 19 (10.92%) VPN
9 18 (10.34%) SAN
10 11 (6.32%) BGP
10 11 (6.32%) OSPF
10 11 (6.32%) WLAN
11 10 (5.75%) SD-WAN
12 9 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (5.17%) Wireless
13 7 (4.02%) VoIP
14 6 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (3.45%) Multicast
15 5 (2.87%) NAS
15 5 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.45%) DB2
3 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.15%) MySQL
4 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Git
2 2 (1.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 60 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.52%) Retail
3 21 (12.07%) Finance
4 14 (8.05%) Automotive
5 12 (6.90%) Banking
6 11 (6.32%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Back Office
8 6 (3.45%) Legal
9 5 (2.87%) Law
9 5 (2.87%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.72%) Electronics
12 2 (1.15%) Games
12 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.15%) Local Government
12 2 (1.15%) Military
12 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.56%) Support Engineer
2 34 (19.54%) Analyst
3 32 (18.39%) IT Support
4 31 (17.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) 3rd Line Support
5 26 (14.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) Support Analyst
6 25 (14.37%) IT Engineer
7 23 (13.22%) IT Analyst
8 19 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (10.34%) IT Support Analyst
10 17 (9.77%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (9.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 16 (9.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (7.47%) Technical Support
13 12 (6.90%) Administrator
13 12 (6.90%) Wintel Engineer
14 11 (6.32%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 11 (6.32%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.15%) REST
2 1 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 18 (10.34%) Onboarding
1 18 (10.34%) Replication
2 14 (8.05%) Driving Licence
3 12 (6.90%) Smartphone
4 10 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.60%) FMCG
6 7 (4.02%) Clustering
7 6 (3.45%) CCTV
8 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.72%) EPoS
9 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.15%) iPhone
10 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 170 (97.70%) Windows
2 147 (84.48%) Windows Server
3 99 (56.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 63 (36.21%) Windows 10
5 41 (23.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 30 (17.24%) Linux
7 18 (10.34%) Mac OS X
8 13 (7.47%) Ubuntu
9 12 (6.90%) Mac OS
10 7 (4.02%) Android
10 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (4.02%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (2.87%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.15%) Debian
12 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.57%) Unix
13 1 (0.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.74%) ITIL
2 24 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
3 22 (12.64%) Mentoring
4 21 (12.07%) Patch Management
5 18 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 17 (9.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (9.77%) Incident Management
6 17 (9.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (9.20%) Collaborative Working
7 16 (9.20%) Computer Science
7 16 (9.20%) Customer Service
7 16 (9.20%) Data Security
7 16 (9.20%) DevOps
7 16 (9.20%) Network Design
7 16 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (8.05%) Time Management
8 14 (8.05%) Virtual Environments
9 13 (7.47%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.13%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.82%) SQL
3 2 (1.15%) Bash
3 2 (1.15%) Korn
4 1 (0.57%) Java
4 1 (0.57%) Python
4 1 (0.57%) VB
4 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (25.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (25.29%) Degree
3 23 (13.22%) MCSE
4 16 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.05%) HND
6 13 (7.47%) HNC
6 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
7 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
8 9 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.30%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.30%) MCSA
11 3 (1.72%) MCP
12 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.57%) Dell Certification
13 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) SLA
2 9 (5.17%) GDPR
3 6 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.15%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 118 (67.82%) Active Directory
2 71 (40.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (27.59%) Hyper-V
4 16 (9.20%) XenApp
5 15 (8.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (8.05%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.02%) vSphere
8 6 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (1.15%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.15%) Docker
10 2 (1.15%) NFS
10 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.57%) Firmware
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 57 (32.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (18.39%) SCCM
3 17 (9.77%) SCOM
4 15 (8.62%) NetBackup
5 11 (6.32%) Ansible
5 11 (6.32%) Terraform
6 5 (2.87%) Backup Exec
6 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
7 4 (2.30%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (2.30%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.15%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.15%) SCSM
9 2 (1.15%) SmoothWall
10 1 (0.57%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.57%) WMI
10 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 126 (72.41%) Microsoft
2 78 (44.83%) VMware
3 54 (31.03%) Cisco
4 23 (13.22%) Veeam
5 21 (12.07%) Meraki
6 19 (10.92%) CheckPoint
6 19 (10.92%) Citrix
6 19 (10.92%) ServiceNow
7 18 (10.34%) SonicWALL
8 17 (9.77%) Dell
9 16 (9.20%) Apple
10 14 (8.05%) SolarWinds
11 12 (6.90%) Google
12 11 (6.32%) EMC
12 11 (6.32%) Fortinet
12 11 (6.32%) Ubiquiti
13 9 (5.17%) MobileIron
13 9 (5.17%) Progress
13 9 (5.17%) Riverbed
14 7 (4.02%) Red Hat