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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 105 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -21
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,720 1,389 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.45% 2.83% 2.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.81% 22.98% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 1,129 1,168
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £28,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -11.18% +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 6,664 6,045 9,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.63% 12.32% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,790 4,000 5,332
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +0.60%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 1,612 £42,500 +6.25% 650
UK excluding London -13 1,427 £40,000 +5.96% 457
Work from Home -7 411 £42,500 -10.53% 237
South East +3 379 £42,500 +6.25% 125
North of England +26 345 £37,500 +7.14% 116
London -64 268 £55,000 -8.33% 198
Midlands -2 239 £40,000 +14.29% 71
South West -57 200 £39,750 +6.00% 61
East of England -17 187 £37,500 -21.05% 50
North West +45 181 £37,500 -7.41% 67
West Midlands +14 132 £42,500 +14.86% 36
Yorkshire -13 130 £35,500 +9.23% 35
East Midlands -21 107 £35,000 +7.69% 35
Scotland +28 39 £32,500 -13.33% 26
North East -59 34 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Wales -64 34 £43,750 -23.91% 6
Northern Ireland -72 4 £40,000 -27.27% 11

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
1 509 (29.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 330 (19.19%) SharePoint
3 94 (5.47%) IIS
4 29 (1.69%) Apache
5 24 (1.40%) Confluence
6 19 (1.10%) nginx
7 14 (0.81%) Skype for Business
8 9 (0.52%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) JBoss
9 4 (0.23%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.058%) CMS
11 1 (0.058%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.058%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.058%) Moodle
11 1 (0.058%) Site Server
11 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 115 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
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%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,143 (66.45%) Microsoft 365
2 939 (54.59%) Azure
3 615 (35.76%) Entra ID
4 169 (9.83%) AWS
5 127 (7.38%) OneDrive
6 57 (3.31%) SaaS
7 53 (3.08%) IaaS
8 40 (2.33%) Google Workspace
9 33 (1.92%) Power Platform
10 31 (1.80%) Mimecast
11 30 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
12 29 (1.69%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
14 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.16%) GCP
15 20 (1.16%) PaaS
16 18 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (0.93%) Nutanix
18 14 (0.81%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 664 (38.60%) DNS
2 598 (34.77%) Firewall
3 546 (31.74%) DHCP
4 324 (18.84%) VPN
5 286 (16.63%) TCP/IP
6 259 (15.06%) VLAN
7 196 (11.40%) WAN
8 193 (11.22%) LAN
9 148 (8.60%) Wi-Fi
10 143 (8.31%) Wireless
11 119 (6.92%) VoIP
12 76 (4.42%) Network Security
13 68 (3.95%) SAN
14 38 (2.21%) SSL
15 34 (1.98%) NAS
16 28 (1.63%) Internet
17 18 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
17 18 (1.05%) VSAN
18 17 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
19 16 (0.93%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 88 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (1.57%) MySQL
4 21 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.81%) Power BI
7 11 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.12%) Big Data
13 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.12%) Db2
13 2 (0.12%) KNIME
13 2 (0.12%) Looker
13 2 (0.12%) Power Query
13 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (2.56%) JIRA
2 38 (2.21%) Git
3 15 (0.87%) GitLab
4 11 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
7 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.12%) Ant
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.058%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.058%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 758 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 231 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (7.79%) Finance
4 67 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 54 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.91%) Retail
8 49 (2.85%) Telecoms
9 47 (2.73%) Legal
10 42 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (2.03%) Law
12 28 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 25 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 15 (0.87%) Military
15 13 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.70%) Games
17 11 (0.64%) Banking
18 9 (0.52%) Advertising
18 9 (0.52%) Automotive
18 9 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 501 (29.13%) IT Support
2 418 (24.30%) IT Engineer
3 389 (22.62%) Support Engineer
4 323 (18.78%) IT Support Engineer
5 295 (17.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 225 (13.08%) Senior
7 203 (11.80%) Analyst
8 135 (7.85%) Systems Engineer
9 130 (7.56%) Support Analyst
10 116 (6.74%) 2nd Line Support
11 107 (6.22%) IT Technician
12 105 (6.10%) Support Technician
13 97 (5.64%) Administrator
14 92 (5.35%) IT Support Technician
15 89 (5.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 83 (4.83%) IT Analyst
17 79 (4.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 69 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 65 (3.78%) IT Manager
19 65 (3.78%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.41%) Terraform
2 44 (2.56%) .NET
3 30 (1.74%) HTML
4 27 (1.57%) Web Services
5 26 (1.51%) CSS
6 25 (1.45%) XML
7 19 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.10%) JSON
8 17 (0.99%) LDAP
9 16 (0.93%) XMPP
10 14 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 14 (0.81%) Regular Expression
10 14 (0.81%) SAML
11 13 (0.76%) Middleware
12 9 (0.52%) WinForms
13 8 (0.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
15 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (0.29%) jQuery
16 5 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 232 (13.49%) Driving Licence
2 111 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (4.42%) Data Centre
6 68 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (3.20%) Replication
8 54 (3.14%) Management Information System
9 44 (2.56%) Clustering
9 44 (2.56%) PKI
10 38 (2.21%) CCTV
10 38 (2.21%) Security Posture
11 30 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
12 28 (1.63%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.10%) Cloud Native
15 14 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.81%) Operational Technology
15 14 (0.81%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1,719 (99.94%) Windows
2 405 (23.55%) Linux
3 197 (11.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 170 (9.88%) Windows 10
5 124 (7.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 63 (3.66%) macOS
7 57 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 43 (2.50%) Ubuntu
9 35 (2.03%) Android
10 33 (1.92%) Apple iOS
11 31 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (1.34%) CentOS
13 22 (1.28%) VMS
14 11 (0.64%) Unix
15 10 (0.58%) Rocky
16 7 (0.41%) Debian
16 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.23%) Solaris
19 1 (0.058%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (36.34%) Problem-Solving
2 459 (26.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 386 (22.44%) Customer Service
4 366 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 350 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 336 (19.53%) Cybersecurity
7 296 (17.21%) ITIL
8 229 (13.31%) Migration
9 185 (10.76%) Project Delivery
10 172 (10.00%) Service Delivery
11 144 (8.37%) Mentoring
12 143 (8.31%) Root Cause Analysis
13 138 (8.02%) Business Continuity
14 132 (7.67%) High Availability
15 131 (7.62%) Customer Experience
15 131 (7.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 111 (6.45%) ITSM
17 102 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 101 (5.87%) Kalman Filter
19 97 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 351 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 183 (10.64%) SQL
3 81 (4.71%) Python
4 53 (3.08%) Bash
5 40 (2.33%) C#
6 34 (1.98%) Bicep
7 22 (1.28%) Ruby
8 21 (1.22%) VBA
9 13 (0.76%) Java
10 11 (0.64%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.41%) PHP
12 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.41%) VBScript
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) VB
15 2 (0.12%) C
15 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.058%) Go
Qualifications
1 267 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 186 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 185 (10.76%) Degree
4 181 (10.52%) SC Cleared
5 123 (7.15%) Cisco Certification
6 112 (6.51%) Azure Certification
7 92 (5.35%) CCNA
8 75 (4.36%) DV Cleared
9 58 (3.37%) DBS Check
10 48 (2.79%) CCNP
11 38 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
12 29 (1.69%) MCSA
12 29 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 26 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 24 (1.40%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (1.34%) CISSP
16 22 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 20 (1.16%) A+ Certification
17 20 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (11.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 144 (8.37%) SLA
3 81 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 67 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.50%) GDPR
6 38 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.16%) NIST
8 16 (0.93%) QA
9 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.23%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) COBIT
13 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.12%) RMADS
14 1 (0.058%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 1 (0.058%) COSHH
14 1 (0.058%) GxP
14 1 (0.058%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,134 (65.93%) Active Directory
2 534 (31.05%) Hyper-V
3 483 (28.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (6.16%) vSphere
5 85 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
6 73 (4.24%) Terminal Server
7 68 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (1.98%) Docker
10 24 (1.40%) Firmware
11 20 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (1.16%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.70%) Squid
13 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.35%) VMware Server
15 5 (0.29%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.29%) XenApp
16 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 430 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (4.65%) Ansible
3 63 (3.66%) SCCM
4 53 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 49 (2.85%) FortiGate
6 41 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
7 27 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
8 25 (1.45%) WSUS
9 23 (1.34%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.22%) Puppet
11 19 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (1.05%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.99%) ZABBIX
14 16 (0.93%) SCOM
15 15 (0.87%) Autotask
15 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (0.81%) VxRail
17 12 (0.70%) Nagios
17 12 (0.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,343 (78.08%) Microsoft
2 709 (41.22%) VMware
3 238 (13.84%) Veeam
4 216 (12.56%) Cisco
5 118 (6.86%) SolarWinds
6 102 (5.93%) Splunk
7 87 (5.06%) Meraki
8 85 (4.94%) Citrix
9 82 (4.77%) SonicWALL
10 75 (4.36%) Nimble Storage
11 73 (4.24%) Brocade
12 72 (4.19%) Tanium
13 70 (4.07%) Apple
14 65 (3.78%) Fortinet
15 60 (3.49%) Google
16 53 (3.08%) WatchGuard
17 47 (2.73%) Red Hat
18 45 (2.62%) Sophos
19 40 (2.33%) Palo Alto
20 38 (2.21%) Datto