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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 103 91
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 -22
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,722 1,385 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.48% 2.83% 2.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.13% 21.86% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,122 1,296
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.89% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.60% -9.41% +6.25%

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 6,589 6,337 9,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.65% 12.94% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,825 4,081 5,779
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £46,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -16.68% -1.39%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 1,607 £41,500 +1.22% 753
UK excluding London -3 1,436 £39,500 +2.60% 563
Work from Home -7 397 £42,500 -10.53% 270
South East +5 370 £42,500 +6.25% 163
North of England +25 346 £37,500 +7.14% 119
London -67 259 £55,000 -10.93% 203
Midlands -14 231 £38,000 +8.57% 119
South West -50 212 £37,500 +2.69% 46
East of England -6 195 £37,500 -18.92% 82
North West +56 184 £37,500 -6.83% 69
Yorkshire -13 129 £35,500 +9.23% 36
West Midlands +6 122 £42,500 +14.86% 80
East Midlands -25 109 £32,000 -1.54% 39
Scotland +36 40 £32,500 -37.40% 31
Wales -69 39 £45,000 -21.74% 9
North East -56 33 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Northern Ireland -81 3 £40,000 -27.27% 5

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
1 474 (27.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 327 (18.99%) SharePoint
3 99 (5.75%) IIS
4 33 (1.92%) Confluence
5 27 (1.57%) Apache
6 19 (1.10%) nginx
7 12 (0.70%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.58%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.23%) JBoss
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.058%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.058%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.058%) Moodle
11 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.058%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 129 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.17%) Infor LN
2 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.058%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.058%) Primavera
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (64.75%) Microsoft 365
2 907 (52.67%) Azure
3 552 (32.06%) Entra ID
4 173 (10.05%) AWS
5 122 (7.08%) OneDrive
6 58 (3.37%) SaaS
7 49 (2.85%) IaaS
8 37 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 33 (1.92%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 29 (1.68%) PaaS
11 26 (1.51%) Google Workspace
12 22 (1.28%) GCP
13 21 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (1.16%) Mimecast
14 20 (1.16%) Nutanix
15 16 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (0.87%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 639 (37.11%) DNS
2 574 (33.33%) Firewall
3 517 (30.02%) DHCP
4 298 (17.31%) VPN
5 261 (15.16%) TCP/IP
6 229 (13.30%) VLAN
7 196 (11.38%) WAN
8 189 (10.98%) LAN
9 147 (8.54%) Wireless
10 138 (8.01%) Wi-Fi
11 117 (6.79%) VoIP
12 73 (4.24%) Network Security
13 68 (3.95%) SAN
14 32 (1.86%) NAS
15 31 (1.80%) SSL
16 30 (1.74%) Internet
17 18 (1.05%) VSAN
18 16 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
19 14 (0.81%) IP Telephony
20 12 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (11.27%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (1.68%) MySQL
4 20 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (1.05%) Power BI
6 15 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.12%) KNIME
14 2 (0.12%) Looker
14 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 51 (2.96%) JIRA
2 45 (2.61%) Git
3 18 (1.05%) GitLab
4 14 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.12%) Ant
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.058%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.058%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.058%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 748 (43.44%) Social Skills
2 221 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (7.55%) Finance
4 71 (4.12%) Manufacturing
5 54 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (2.96%) Retail
7 50 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.56%) Legal
10 35 (2.03%) Public Sector
11 32 (1.86%) Law
12 27 (1.57%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.87%) Banking
14 14 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.75%) Military
16 12 (0.70%) Advertising
16 12 (0.70%) Games
17 9 (0.52%) Local Government
18 8 (0.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 513 (29.79%) IT Support
2 423 (24.56%) IT Engineer
3 404 (23.46%) Support Engineer
4 337 (19.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 290 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 222 (12.89%) Senior
7 200 (11.61%) Analyst
8 138 (8.01%) Systems Engineer
9 131 (7.61%) Support Analyst
10 128 (7.43%) 2nd Line Support
11 122 (7.08%) IT Technician
12 113 (6.56%) Support Technician
13 97 (5.63%) IT Support Technician
14 91 (5.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 85 (4.94%) Administrator
16 83 (4.82%) IT Analyst
17 81 (4.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 77 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 69 (4.01%) Lead
20 65 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.81%) Terraform
2 44 (2.56%) .NET
3 33 (1.92%) HTML
4 29 (1.68%) CSS
5 27 (1.57%) Web Services
6 24 (1.39%) XML
7 20 (1.16%) JSON
7 20 (1.16%) LDAP
8 19 (1.10%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.10%) XMPP
9 17 (0.99%) Regular Expression
10 13 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.70%) Middleware
12 9 (0.52%) SAML
13 7 (0.41%) WinForms
14 6 (0.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (0.29%) ASP.NET
15 5 (0.29%) jQuery
15 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 212 (12.31%) Driving Licence
2 105 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 103 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 93 (5.40%) Data Centre
5 80 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 44 (2.56%) Replication
9 42 (2.44%) Clustering
9 42 (2.44%) PKI
10 38 (2.21%) CCTV
11 37 (2.15%) Security Posture
12 30 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
14 18 (1.05%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.05%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (0.75%) Operational Technology
17 12 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,722 (100.00%) Windows
2 422 (24.51%) Linux
3 198 (11.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 165 (9.58%) Windows 10
5 124 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 62 (3.60%) Mac OS
7 58 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 52 (3.02%) Ubuntu
9 37 (2.15%) Android
9 37 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 36 (2.09%) Apple iOS
11 26 (1.51%) CentOS
12 24 (1.39%) VMS
13 15 (0.87%) Unix
14 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.46%) Rocky
16 7 (0.41%) Debian
17 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.17%) Solaris
19 1 (0.058%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (34.96%) Problem-Solving
2 448 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 394 (22.88%) Customer Service
4 351 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 341 (19.80%) Disaster Recovery
6 316 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
7 293 (17.02%) ITIL
8 219 (12.72%) Migration
9 186 (10.80%) Service Delivery
10 175 (10.16%) Project Delivery
11 141 (8.19%) Mentoring
12 134 (7.78%) Business Continuity
13 132 (7.67%) Customer Experience
14 131 (7.61%) High Availability
14 131 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
15 126 (7.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 112 (6.50%) ITSM
17 100 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 97 (5.63%) Kalman Filter
19 90 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 342 (19.86%) PowerShell
2 194 (11.27%) SQL
3 89 (5.17%) Python
4 51 (2.96%) Bash
5 41 (2.38%) C#
6 32 (1.86%) Bicep
7 24 (1.39%) VBA
8 19 (1.10%) Ruby
9 16 (0.93%) Java
10 13 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.46%) PHP
12 8 (0.46%) VBScript
13 7 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.23%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) VB
16 2 (0.12%) C
16 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 268 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 188 (10.92%) Degree
3 176 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 174 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 114 (6.62%) Cisco Certification
6 110 (6.39%) Azure Certification
7 85 (4.94%) CCNA
8 82 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 73 (4.24%) DBS Check
10 43 (2.50%) CCNP
10 43 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
11 25 (1.45%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.39%) A+ Certification
12 24 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 23 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 22 (1.28%) CISSP
14 22 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.28%) MCSA
15 21 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (11.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 145 (8.42%) SLA
3 81 (4.70%) PCI DSS
4 73 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.79%) GDPR
6 41 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.10%) NIST
8 14 (0.81%) QA
9 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.17%) COBIT
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) RMADS
12 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.058%) COSHH
13 1 (0.058%) DICOM
13 1 (0.058%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.058%) HL7
13 1 (0.058%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,121 (65.10%) Active Directory
2 512 (29.73%) Hyper-V
3 485 (28.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 105 (6.10%) vSphere
5 78 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
6 73 (4.24%) Terminal Server
7 67 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (2.26%) Docker
9 36 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
10 26 (1.51%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.10%) Firmware
12 17 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (0.81%) Squid
14 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 8 (0.46%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.41%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.35%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.17%) Xen
17 3 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 391 (22.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (5.05%) Ansible
3 63 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 56 (3.25%) SCCM
5 40 (2.32%) FortiGate
6 34 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 26 (1.51%) WSUS
9 25 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
10 20 (1.16%) SCOM
11 18 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.99%) ZABBIX
13 16 (0.93%) Puppet
14 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
14 15 (0.87%) VxRail
15 13 (0.75%) Nagios
15 13 (0.75%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.70%) Nessus
16 12 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,339 (77.76%) Microsoft
2 711 (41.29%) VMware
3 233 (13.53%) Veeam
4 193 (11.21%) Cisco
5 108 (6.27%) SolarWinds
5 108 (6.27%) Splunk
6 75 (4.36%) Nimble Storage
7 74 (4.30%) SonicWALL
8 73 (4.24%) Brocade
9 72 (4.18%) Meraki
9 72 (4.18%) Tanium
10 67 (3.89%) Apple
10 67 (3.89%) Citrix
11 57 (3.31%) Fortinet
12 55 (3.19%) Red Hat
13 46 (2.67%) Google
14 43 (2.50%) Sophos
15 39 (2.26%) HP
15 39 (2.26%) Oracle
16 37 (2.15%) WatchGuard