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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 101 88
Rank change year-on-year -22 -13 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,670 1,497 2,332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.54% 2.99% 2.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.15% 21.63% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,275 1,807
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £37,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year +5.33% -7.41% +1.25%

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 6,387 6,921 10,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 13.83% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,785 4,602 7,246
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,726
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -2.17%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -25 1,554 £42,000 +5.00% 349
UK excluding London -8 1,394 £39,500 +5.33% 327
Work from Home -24 369 £42,500 - 125
South East +3 361 £42,500 +6.25% 127
North of England +23 355 £37,500 +11.94% 68
London -84 247 £55,000 -8.33% 72
South West -37 217 £37,500 -3.45% 39
Midlands -27 196 £37,500 +7.14% 50
North West +60 193 £37,500 +1.35% 34
East of England -14 179 £36,500 -18.89% 38
Yorkshire -25 128 £36,000 +20.00% 22
East Midlands -21 102 £32,500 -7.14% 13
West Midlands -21 94 £42,500 +21.43% 37
Wales -39 42 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Scotland +26 39 £32,500 -18.75% 11
North East -49 34 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Northern Ireland -76 5 £40,000 -27.27% 2

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
1 453 (27.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 301 (18.02%) SharePoint
3 89 (5.33%) IIS
4 35 (2.10%) Confluence
5 23 (1.38%) Apache
6 18 (1.08%) nginx
7 10 (0.60%) WordPress
8 8 (0.48%) Skype for Business
9 6 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.24%) SAS
11 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.060%) CMS
12 1 (0.060%) Drupal
12 1 (0.060%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.060%) Site Server
Applications
1 134 (8.02%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.060%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.24%) Primavera
3 3 (0.18%) Infor LN
3 3 (0.18%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.060%) Magento
5 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (64.25%) Microsoft 365
2 893 (53.47%) Azure
3 484 (28.98%) Entra ID
4 171 (10.24%) AWS
5 106 (6.35%) OneDrive
6 62 (3.71%) SaaS
7 46 (2.75%) IaaS
8 39 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 33 (1.98%) PaaS
10 31 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.62%) Nutanix
12 22 (1.32%) GCP
12 22 (1.32%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.20%) Mimecast
14 18 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (0.90%) Cloudflare
17 13 (0.78%) GitHub
18 12 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 620 (37.13%) DNS
2 540 (32.34%) Firewall
3 498 (29.82%) DHCP
4 263 (15.75%) VPN
5 250 (14.97%) TCP/IP
6 200 (11.98%) VLAN
7 194 (11.62%) WAN
8 184 (11.02%) LAN
9 139 (8.32%) Wireless
10 126 (7.54%) Wi-Fi
11 111 (6.65%) VoIP
12 69 (4.13%) Network Security
12 69 (4.13%) SAN
13 35 (2.10%) NAS
14 28 (1.68%) Internet
15 27 (1.62%) SSL
16 19 (1.14%) VSAN
17 18 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
18 16 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
19 14 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 96 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.50%) MySQL
4 20 (1.20%) Power BI
5 16 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
9 8 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.12%) KNIME
13 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 56 (3.35%) JIRA
2 49 (2.93%) Git
3 18 (1.08%) GitLab
4 14 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.12%) Ant
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.060%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.060%) Gatling
8 1 (0.060%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.060%) Postman
8 1 (0.060%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.060%) Vagrant
General
1 737 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 221 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (7.49%) Finance
4 70 (4.19%) Manufacturing
5 63 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (3.17%) Retail
7 49 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (2.51%) Legal
10 39 (2.34%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.68%) Law
13 22 (1.32%) Banking
14 21 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.72%) Games
16 12 (0.72%) Military
17 10 (0.60%) Advertising
18 8 (0.48%) Electronics
18 8 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 494 (29.58%) IT Support
2 402 (24.07%) IT Engineer
3 378 (22.63%) Support Engineer
4 318 (19.04%) IT Support Engineer
5 262 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 208 (12.46%) Senior
7 193 (11.56%) Analyst
8 150 (8.98%) Systems Engineer
9 143 (8.56%) IT Technician
10 132 (7.90%) Support Analyst
11 127 (7.60%) 2nd Line Support
12 122 (7.31%) Support Technician
13 105 (6.29%) IT Support Technician
14 85 (5.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 80 (4.79%) IT Analyst
16 73 (4.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 73 (4.37%) Administrator
16 73 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 70 (4.19%) Lead
18 65 (3.89%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (6.17%) Terraform
2 41 (2.46%) .NET
3 31 (1.86%) HTML
4 29 (1.74%) Web Services
5 26 (1.56%) CSS
6 25 (1.50%) XMPP
7 24 (1.44%) LDAP
8 23 (1.38%) Regular Expression
9 22 (1.32%) XML
10 18 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 17 (1.02%) JSON
12 12 (0.72%) Middleware
13 11 (0.66%) ARM Templates
14 7 (0.42%) JSON Schema
14 7 (0.42%) SAML
15 5 (0.30%) ASP.NET
15 5 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
16 4 (0.24%) ADO
16 4 (0.24%) boto
16 4 (0.24%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 200 (11.98%) Driving Licence
2 106 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 100 (5.99%) Data Centre
4 99 (5.93%) Onboarding
5 89 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 44 (2.63%) Replication
9 42 (2.51%) PKI
10 41 (2.46%) Clustering
11 35 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.92%) Security Posture
13 30 (1.80%) CCTV
14 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
15 19 (1.14%) Private Cloud
16 16 (0.96%) Cloud Native
17 15 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
18 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
19 11 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,670 (100.00%) Windows
2 418 (25.03%) Linux
3 204 (12.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 146 (8.74%) Windows 10
5 122 (7.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 64 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (2.99%) Ubuntu
9 38 (2.28%) Apple iOS
10 37 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 35 (2.10%) Android
12 24 (1.44%) CentOS
13 19 (1.14%) VMS
14 14 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.72%) Unix
16 6 (0.36%) Debian
17 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.30%) Rocky
18 3 (0.18%) Solaris
19 1 (0.060%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (34.79%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (23.77%) Customer Service
3 392 (23.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 336 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 306 (18.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 292 (17.49%) Cybersecurity
7 286 (17.13%) ITIL
8 192 (11.50%) Migration
9 191 (11.44%) Service Delivery
10 162 (9.70%) Project Delivery
11 145 (8.68%) Mentoring
12 143 (8.56%) High Availability
13 137 (8.20%) Customer Experience
14 133 (7.96%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 127 (7.60%) Business Continuity
16 124 (7.43%) Root Cause Analysis
17 108 (6.47%) ITSM
17 108 (6.47%) Kalman Filter
18 100 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (5.39%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 326 (19.52%) PowerShell
2 192 (11.50%) SQL
3 94 (5.63%) Python
4 48 (2.87%) Bash
5 37 (2.22%) C#
6 27 (1.62%) Bicep
7 24 (1.44%) VBA
8 18 (1.08%) Java
9 12 (0.72%) Ruby
10 10 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.54%) PHP
12 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.42%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.42%) VBScript
14 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.18%) VB
16 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 270 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 176 (10.54%) Degree
3 175 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 156 (9.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 109 (6.53%) Azure Certification
6 97 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
7 88 (5.27%) DV Cleared
8 84 (5.03%) DBS Check
9 76 (4.55%) CCNA
10 35 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
11 29 (1.74%) CCNP
12 26 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.32%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 20 (1.20%) A+ Certification
17 17 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
17 17 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.90%) MCSA
19 14 (0.84%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (11.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 155 (9.28%) SLA
3 87 (5.21%) PCI DSS
4 78 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.81%) GDPR
6 35 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (1.32%) NIST
8 9 (0.54%) QA
9 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.18%) COBIT
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.18%) RMADS
11 1 (0.060%) COSHH
11 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.060%) DICOM
11 1 (0.060%) GRC
11 1 (0.060%) HL7
11 1 (0.060%) ITGC
11 1 (0.060%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,100 (65.87%) Active Directory
2 487 (29.16%) Hyper-V
3 466 (27.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 109 (6.53%) vSphere
5 82 (4.91%) Terminal Server
6 61 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
6 61 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
7 46 (2.75%) Docker
8 34 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (1.62%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.84%) Firmware
11 14 (0.84%) Squid
12 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 9 (0.54%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.36%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 347 (20.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (5.45%) Ansible
3 68 (4.07%) Kubernetes
4 47 (2.81%) SCCM
5 39 (2.34%) FortiGate
6 31 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.68%) vCenter Server
8 24 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
9 22 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (1.32%) WSUS
10 18 (1.08%) SCOM
11 17 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (1.02%) VxRail
11 17 (1.02%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
12 15 (0.90%) Packer
13 14 (0.84%) Nagios
13 14 (0.84%) Puppet
14 13 (0.78%) Grafana
15 11 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,311 (78.50%) Microsoft
2 687 (41.14%) VMware
3 220 (13.17%) Veeam
4 177 (10.60%) Cisco
5 124 (7.43%) Splunk
6 111 (6.65%) SolarWinds
7 88 (5.27%) Nimble Storage
8 81 (4.85%) Brocade
9 80 (4.79%) Tanium
10 64 (3.83%) Meraki
11 61 (3.65%) SonicWALL
12 58 (3.47%) Apple
12 58 (3.47%) Red Hat
13 57 (3.41%) Citrix
14 46 (2.75%) ServiceNow
15 45 (2.69%) Fortinet
16 44 (2.63%) Sophos
17 41 (2.46%) Oracle
18 40 (2.40%) HP
19 39 (2.34%) Google