Windows Server Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 108 72
Rank change year-on-year -29 -36 +27
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,323 1,290 3,416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.46% 2.94% 3.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.55% 19.27% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,107 3,025
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £26,100
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.41% -7.78%
75th Percentile £57,125 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,834 £75,000 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -5.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,388 6,694 13,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 15.25% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 4,452 10,781
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,263 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,406 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% -5.56%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -28 1,220 £40,000 -5.88% 324
UK excluding London -15 1,046 £37,500 - 279
South East +28 279 £40,000 -11.11% 101
North of England 0 276 £35,000 +4.48% 65
Work from Home -41 276 £42,500 - 106
London -69 249 £55,000 -8.33% 81
South West -19 168 £32,500 -18.75% 34
North West +34 141 £35,000 -7.89% 34
Midlands -72 136 £32,500 -7.14% 39
Yorkshire -34 113 £34,000 +13.33% 25
East of England -8 110 £40,000 -5.88% 28
East Midlands -37 79 £29,000 -17.14% 21
West Midlands -72 56 £39,500 +12.86% 18
Scotland +3 34 £31,500 -21.25% 10
Wales -13 31 £45,000 +18.13% 9
North East -39 22 £45,000 +28.57% 7
Northern Ireland - 12 - -

Windows Server
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
1 318 (24.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 232 (17.54%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.40%) IIS
4 22 (1.66%) Confluence
5 9 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.30%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.076%) CMS
9 1 (0.076%) Drupal
9 1 (0.076%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 163 (12.32%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.30%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.30%) Primavera
4 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.076%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.076%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.076%) Magento
6 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 810 (61.22%) Microsoft 365
2 714 (53.97%) Azure
3 330 (24.94%) Entra ID
4 154 (11.64%) AWS
5 99 (7.48%) OneDrive
6 57 (4.31%) Google Workspace
6 57 (4.31%) SaaS
7 46 (3.48%) IaaS
8 44 (3.33%) Nutanix
9 33 (2.49%) PaaS
10 28 (2.12%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.21%) GCP
12 15 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (0.98%) GitHub
14 12 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (0.83%) Mimecast
16 10 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 516 (39.00%) DNS
2 443 (33.48%) DHCP
3 387 (29.25%) Firewall
4 226 (17.08%) VPN
5 202 (15.27%) WAN
6 191 (14.44%) TCP/IP
7 183 (13.83%) LAN
8 127 (9.60%) VLAN
9 111 (8.39%) Wi-Fi
10 86 (6.50%) Wireless
11 78 (5.90%) VoIP
12 64 (4.84%) SAN
13 41 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
14 38 (2.87%) Network Security
15 32 (2.42%) NAS
16 26 (1.97%) SD-WAN
17 20 (1.51%) Internet
18 18 (1.36%) WLAN
19 15 (1.13%) IPsec
19 15 (1.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.73%) SQL Server
2 64 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.74%) MySQL
4 19 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.28%) Power BI
6 12 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.83%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.15%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.076%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.076%) Redis
12 1 (0.076%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.076%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (3.48%) Git
2 45 (3.40%) JIRA
3 18 (1.36%) GitLab
4 11 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.30%) Subversion
8 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.076%) Gatling
10 1 (0.076%) JMeter
10 1 (0.076%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
General
1 545 (41.19%) Social Skills
2 145 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (9.15%) Finance
4 70 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (3.78%) Retail
6 49 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.34%) Law
10 30 (2.27%) Banking
11 26 (1.97%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.06%) Legal
15 12 (0.91%) Games
15 12 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.76%) Advertising
16 10 (0.76%) Back Office
16 10 (0.76%) Local Government
16 10 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 447 (33.79%) IT Support
2 336 (25.40%) IT Engineer
3 329 (24.87%) Support Engineer
4 282 (21.32%) IT Support Engineer
5 185 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 167 (12.62%) Senior
7 140 (10.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 130 (9.83%) IT Technician
9 115 (8.69%) Analyst
10 111 (8.39%) Support Technician
11 96 (7.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 90 (6.80%) IT Support Technician
13 88 (6.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 84 (6.35%) Support Analyst
15 78 (5.90%) Systems Engineer
16 64 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
17 59 (4.46%) Lead
18 58 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
19 53 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 48 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.04%) .NET
2 18 (1.36%) XMPP
3 17 (1.28%) HTML
4 16 (1.21%) LDAP
4 16 (1.21%) Regular Expression
5 14 (1.06%) CSS
6 9 (0.68%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (0.68%) JSON
7 8 (0.60%) Web Services
8 6 (0.45%) REST
9 5 (0.38%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.38%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (0.38%) OAuth
9 5 (0.38%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.38%) OpenID
9 5 (0.38%) SAML
9 5 (0.38%) XML
10 4 (0.30%) ADO
10 4 (0.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.87%) Driving Licence
2 91 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 72 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
4 70 (5.29%) Data Centre
5 52 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 39 (2.95%) Replication
8 31 (2.34%) PKI
9 28 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.28%) Clustering
12 16 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.13%) CCTV
14 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (0.83%) CMDB
15 11 (0.83%) Fat Client
15 11 (0.83%) iPad
15 11 (0.83%) Thin Client
16 10 (0.76%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1,323 (100.00%) Windows
2 278 (21.01%) Linux
3 168 (12.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 165 (12.47%) Windows 10
5 103 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (4.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (4.23%) Mac OS
8 55 (4.16%) Apple iOS
9 53 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 37 (2.80%) Android
11 32 (2.42%) Ubuntu
12 22 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (1.28%) CentOS
14 14 (1.06%) Unix
15 13 (0.98%) VMS
16 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.53%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.38%) Debian
19 3 (0.23%) CoreOS
19 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (24.11%) Customer Service
3 272 (20.56%) ITIL
4 257 (19.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 190 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
6 170 (12.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 168 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 143 (10.81%) Service Delivery
9 114 (8.62%) Mentoring
10 103 (7.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 99 (7.48%) Migration
12 92 (6.95%) High Availability
13 91 (6.88%) Root Cause Analysis
14 87 (6.58%) ITSM
15 84 (6.35%) Business Continuity
16 82 (6.20%) Change Management
17 77 (5.82%) Customer Experience
18 74 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 73 (5.52%) DevOps
20 71 (5.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 273 (20.63%) PowerShell
2 139 (10.51%) SQL
3 73 (5.52%) Python
4 28 (2.12%) Bash
5 17 (1.28%) C#
6 14 (1.06%) Bicep
7 12 (0.91%) VB.NET
8 11 (0.83%) VBA
9 10 (0.76%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.68%) PHP
11 8 (0.60%) Java
12 7 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.45%) VB
14 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.38%) VBScript
15 2 (0.15%) Go
15 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.076%) Delphi
16 1 (0.076%) Korn
16 1 (0.076%) Perl
Qualifications
1 218 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 124 (9.37%) SC Cleared
3 115 (8.69%) Degree
4 102 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 85 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 71 (5.37%) DBS Check
7 54 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 39 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.34%) CCNA
10 28 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
11 21 (1.59%) A+ Certification
12 19 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (1.36%) MCSE
14 14 (1.06%) CCNP
15 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 11 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.83%) HNC
16 11 (0.83%) HND
16 11 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.84%) SLA
2 103 (7.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 64 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.69%) PCI DSS
5 25 (1.89%) GDPR
6 21 (1.59%) NIST
7 17 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.53%) QA
9 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.15%) COBIT
11 2 (0.15%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.076%) DICOM
12 1 (0.076%) HL7
12 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.076%) ITGC
12 1 (0.076%) NCSC
12 1 (0.076%) RMADS
System Software
1 891 (67.35%) Active Directory
2 343 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 318 (24.04%) Hyper-V
4 96 (7.26%) vSphere
5 51 (3.85%) Terminal Server
6 45 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
7 37 (2.80%) Docker
8 28 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
10 22 (1.66%) VMware NSX
11 15 (1.13%) Terminal Services
12 11 (0.83%) Firmware
13 9 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.38%) Squid
17 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
18 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
19 1 (0.076%) iptables
Systems Management
1 211 (15.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (6.73%) Terraform
3 71 (5.37%) Ansible
4 54 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 48 (3.63%) SCCM
6 41 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 37 (2.80%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.89%) WSUS
9 22 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.44%) FortiGate
10 19 (1.44%) VxRail
11 18 (1.36%) Autotask
12 17 (1.28%) SCOM
13 16 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (0.98%) Nagios
15 12 (0.91%) Grafana
15 12 (0.91%) Packer
16 10 (0.76%) Puppet
16 10 (0.76%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 901 (68.10%) Microsoft
2 526 (39.76%) VMware
3 124 (9.37%) Veeam
4 111 (8.39%) Cisco
5 84 (6.35%) Splunk
6 80 (6.05%) SolarWinds
7 74 (5.59%) Nimble Storage
8 60 (4.54%) Google
9 57 (4.31%) Dell
10 52 (3.93%) HP
11 50 (3.78%) Apple
12 48 (3.63%) Brocade
12 48 (3.63%) Citrix
12 48 (3.63%) Tanium
13 46 (3.48%) Red Hat
14 39 (2.95%) Meraki
15 31 (2.34%) McAfee
16 30 (2.27%) Oracle
16 30 (2.27%) ServiceNow
17 26 (1.97%) Dell Compellent