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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 101 89
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,652 1,509 2,348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 3.03% 2.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.81% 21.63% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,295 1,887
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,200 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 6,401 6,977 10,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.03% 14.02% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,795 4,663 7,471
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,858
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -

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 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 11 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 -22 1,534 £41,500 +3.75% 374
UK excluding London -5 1,384 £40,000 +6.67% 327
South East +4 363 £42,500 +6.25% 113
Work from Home -26 355 £42,500 - 142
North of England +13 347 £37,500 +11.11% 76
London -90 240 £55,000 -8.33% 81
South West -27 218 £37,500 -4.46% 40
Midlands -38 190 £37,500 +7.14% 52
North West +52 188 £37,500 +1.35% 47
East of England -14 176 £36,500 -18.89% 37
Yorkshire -34 124 £36,000 +20.00% 19
East Midlands -23 100 £32,500 -7.14% 21
West Midlands -45 90 £42,500 +21.43% 31
Wales -35 46 £41,250 -28.26% 9
Scotland +29 38 £32,500 -18.75% 9
North East -49 35 £42,500 +21.43% 13
Northern Ireland -66 6 £40,000 -27.27%

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
1 444 (26.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 291 (17.62%) SharePoint
3 83 (5.02%) IIS
4 34 (2.06%) Confluence
5 21 (1.27%) Apache
6 16 (0.97%) nginx
7 10 (0.61%) WordPress
8 7 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.24%) JBoss
9 4 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.061%) CMS
11 1 (0.061%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.061%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.061%) Site Server
Applications
1 142 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.18%) 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 (0.061%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.061%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.24%) Primavera
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Infor LN
3 3 (0.18%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
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%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.061%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (64.16%) Microsoft 365
2 903 (54.66%) Azure
3 472 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 180 (10.90%) AWS
5 104 (6.30%) OneDrive
6 64 (3.87%) SaaS
7 50 (3.03%) IaaS
8 39 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 34 (2.06%) PaaS
10 29 (1.76%) Nutanix
11 26 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.51%) GCP
12 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (1.39%) Google Workspace
14 21 (1.27%) Mimecast
15 18 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (0.91%) Cloudflare
16 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.79%) GitHub
18 12 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 619 (37.47%) DNS
2 527 (31.90%) Firewall
3 499 (30.21%) DHCP
4 259 (15.68%) VPN
5 250 (15.13%) TCP/IP
6 203 (12.29%) WAN
7 195 (11.80%) VLAN
8 190 (11.50%) LAN
9 130 (7.87%) Wireless
10 125 (7.57%) Wi-Fi
11 111 (6.72%) VoIP
12 71 (4.30%) SAN
13 62 (3.75%) Network Security
14 36 (2.18%) NAS
15 28 (1.69%) Internet
16 24 (1.45%) SSL
17 21 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
18 18 (1.09%) VSAN
19 15 (0.91%) Broadband
19 15 (0.91%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 97 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.51%) MySQL
4 21 (1.27%) Power BI
5 17 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (0.42%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.12%) KNIME
15 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (3.45%) JIRA
2 51 (3.09%) Git
3 20 (1.21%) GitLab
4 15 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.061%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.061%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.061%) Postman
8 1 (0.061%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.061%) Vagrant
General
1 726 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 219 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (7.57%) Finance
4 64 (3.87%) Manufacturing
5 63 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (3.33%) Retail
7 54 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.42%) Legal
11 33 (2.00%) Law
11 33 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 24 (1.45%) Banking
13 20 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 14 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.73%) Military
16 11 (0.67%) Games
17 10 (0.61%) Advertising
17 10 (0.61%) Local Government
18 8 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 500 (30.27%) IT Support
2 395 (23.91%) IT Engineer
3 375 (22.70%) Support Engineer
4 316 (19.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 247 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 205 (12.41%) Senior
7 192 (11.62%) Analyst
8 148 (8.96%) IT Technician
9 146 (8.84%) Systems Engineer
10 132 (7.99%) Support Analyst
11 129 (7.81%) 2nd Line Support
12 126 (7.63%) Support Technician
13 109 (6.60%) IT Support Technician
14 83 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 81 (4.90%) IT Analyst
16 72 (4.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 71 (4.30%) Administrator
17 71 (4.30%) Lead
18 69 (4.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 66 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.36%) .NET
2 31 (1.88%) HTML
3 29 (1.76%) Web Services
4 26 (1.57%) CSS
4 26 (1.57%) XMPP
5 25 (1.51%) LDAP
6 23 (1.39%) Regular Expression
7 22 (1.33%) XML
8 18 (1.09%) .NET Framework
9 17 (1.03%) JSON
10 13 (0.79%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.73%) Middleware
12 7 (0.42%) JSON Schema
12 7 (0.42%) SAML
13 5 (0.30%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.30%) REST
14 4 (0.24%) ADO
14 4 (0.24%) GraphQL
14 4 (0.24%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 203 (12.29%) Driving Licence
2 107 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 97 (5.87%) Data Centre
4 94 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 89 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.78%) Replication
9 44 (2.66%) PKI
10 41 (2.48%) Clustering
11 33 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.94%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.57%) CCTV
14 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
15 16 (0.97%) Cloud Native
16 15 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (0.85%) Private Cloud
18 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
19 11 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1,652 (100.00%) Windows
2 406 (24.58%) Linux
3 204 (12.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 150 (9.08%) Windows 10
5 124 (7.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 68 (4.12%) Mac OS
7 67 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 49 (2.97%) Ubuntu
9 39 (2.36%) Apple iOS
10 36 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 34 (2.06%) Android
12 27 (1.63%) CentOS
13 19 (1.15%) VMS
14 14 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.30%) Debian
15 5 (0.30%) Rocky
15 5 (0.30%) Unix
16 3 (0.18%) Solaris
16 3 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (34.56%) Problem-Solving
2 405 (24.52%) Customer Service
3 362 (21.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 326 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 293 (17.74%) ITIL
6 289 (17.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 283 (17.13%) Cybersecurity
8 191 (11.56%) Service Delivery
9 179 (10.84%) Migration
10 154 (9.32%) Project Delivery
11 144 (8.72%) High Availability
12 143 (8.66%) Mentoring
13 139 (8.41%) Customer Experience
14 135 (8.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 125 (7.57%) Root Cause Analysis
16 122 (7.38%) Business Continuity
17 113 (6.84%) ITSM
18 106 (6.42%) Kalman Filter
19 96 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
20 91 (5.51%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 328 (19.85%) PowerShell
2 189 (11.44%) SQL
3 99 (5.99%) Python
4 49 (2.97%) Bash
5 37 (2.24%) C#
6 26 (1.57%) Bicep
7 24 (1.45%) VBA
8 18 (1.09%) Java
9 10 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.61%) Ruby
9 10 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.54%) PHP
11 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.42%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.42%) VBScript
13 4 (0.24%) Perl
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) VB
15 2 (0.12%) C
15 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 276 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 179 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 167 (10.11%) Degree
4 148 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 104 (6.30%) Azure Certification
6 96 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
7 89 (5.39%) DV Cleared
8 79 (4.78%) DBS Check
9 76 (4.60%) CCNA
10 32 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
11 29 (1.76%) CCNP
12 26 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 20 (1.21%) A+ Certification
16 17 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (0.91%) MCSA
17 15 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (10.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 157 (9.50%) SLA
3 87 (5.27%) PCI DSS
4 79 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (2.54%) GDPR
6 33 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (1.33%) 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 (0.061%) COSHH
11 1 (0.061%) DICOM
11 1 (0.061%) GRC
11 1 (0.061%) HL7
11 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.061%) ITGC
11 1 (0.061%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,095 (66.28%) Active Directory
2 479 (29.00%) Hyper-V
3 459 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (6.66%) vSphere
5 82 (4.96%) Terminal Server
6 61 (3.69%) VMware ESXi
7 57 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
8 49 (2.97%) Docker
9 28 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (1.51%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.85%) Squid
13 11 (0.67%) Firmware
14 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 9 (0.54%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.36%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
18 3 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (20.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 106 (6.42%) Terraform
3 94 (5.69%) Ansible
4 72 (4.36%) Kubernetes
5 48 (2.91%) SCCM
6 37 (2.24%) FortiGate
7 32 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
8 24 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 24 (1.45%) WSUS
9 21 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 18 (1.09%) SCOM
12 17 (1.03%) VxRail
13 16 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (0.97%) Nagios
14 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
14 15 (0.91%) Packer
15 14 (0.85%) Autotask
15 14 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,275 (77.18%) Microsoft
2 680 (41.16%) VMware
3 218 (13.20%) Veeam
4 172 (10.41%) Cisco
5 127 (7.69%) Splunk
6 113 (6.84%) SolarWinds
7 90 (5.45%) Nimble Storage
8 81 (4.90%) Brocade
9 80 (4.84%) Tanium
10 62 (3.75%) Red Hat
11 61 (3.69%) Meraki
12 55 (3.33%) Apple
13 51 (3.09%) Citrix
14 50 (3.03%) SonicWALL
15 48 (2.91%) ServiceNow
16 45 (2.72%) Sophos
17 44 (2.66%) Fortinet
18 43 (2.60%) HP
19 42 (2.54%) Oracle
20 41 (2.48%) Google