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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 106 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 -19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,704 1,386 2,027
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.44% 2.80% 2.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.72% 22.27% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,125 1,207
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,850 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £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 £72,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +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 6,625 6,225 9,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.61% 12.59% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,778 4,002 5,458
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,733 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.63% -20.56% +0.51%

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 10 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 10 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 -20 1,597 £42,500 +6.25% 694
UK excluding London -3 1,416 £40,000 +6.67% 463
Work from Home -6 406 £42,500 -10.53% 244
South East +2 378 £42,500 +6.25% 132
North of England +26 339 £37,500 +7.14% 112
London -60 264 £55,000 -8.33% 236
Midlands +1 238 £39,000 +11.43% 75
South West -56 199 £39,750 +6.00% 57
East of England -18 185 £37,500 -21.05% 53
North West +56 177 £37,500 -7.41% 63
West Midlands +3 132 £42,500 +18.88% 42
Yorkshire -13 129 £35,500 +9.23% 34
East Midlands -25 106 £32,250 -0.77% 33
Scotland +35 40 £32,500 -13.33% 26
Wales -70 34 £42,500 -26.09% 6
North East -62 33 £42,500 +21.43% 16
Northern Ireland -76 3 £40,000 -27.27% 10

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
1 497 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 323 (18.96%) SharePoint
3 95 (5.58%) IIS
4 29 (1.70%) Apache
5 26 (1.53%) Confluence
6 19 (1.12%) nginx
7 14 (0.82%) Skype for Business
8 9 (0.53%) 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 (0.059%) CMS
11 1 (0.059%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.059%) Moodle
11 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.059%) Site Server
Applications
1 119 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.059%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Infor LN
2 3 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.18%) 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 (0.059%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.059%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,128 (66.20%) Microsoft 365
2 919 (53.93%) Azure
3 596 (34.98%) Entra ID
4 168 (9.86%) AWS
5 122 (7.16%) OneDrive
6 58 (3.40%) SaaS
7 51 (2.99%) IaaS
8 38 (2.23%) Google Workspace
9 33 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 30 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.58%) Mimecast
13 21 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (1.17%) PaaS
15 19 (1.12%) GCP
16 17 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (0.94%) Nutanix
18 14 (0.82%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 650 (38.15%) DNS
2 584 (34.27%) Firewall
3 533 (31.28%) DHCP
4 316 (18.54%) VPN
5 275 (16.14%) TCP/IP
6 250 (14.67%) VLAN
7 196 (11.50%) WAN
8 193 (11.33%) LAN
9 144 (8.45%) Wi-Fi
10 140 (8.22%) Wireless
11 118 (6.92%) VoIP
12 74 (4.34%) Network Security
13 66 (3.87%) SAN
14 38 (2.23%) SSL
15 34 (2.00%) NAS
16 28 (1.64%) Internet
17 17 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
17 17 (1.00%) VSAN
18 15 (0.88%) IP Telephony
18 15 (0.88%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (1.64%) MySQL
4 21 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (0.88%) Power BI
6 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.12%) Big Data
12 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.12%) KNIME
12 2 (0.12%) Looker
12 2 (0.12%) Power Query
12 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (2.64%) JIRA
2 38 (2.23%) Git
3 16 (0.94%) GitLab
4 12 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.12%) Ant
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.059%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.059%) Flyway
9 1 (0.059%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.059%) SoapUI
General
1 752 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 226 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (7.69%) Finance
4 67 (3.93%) Manufacturing
5 52 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (2.99%) Retail
7 47 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.64%) Legal
9 42 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.94%) Law
11 28 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.47%) Public Sector
13 15 (0.88%) Military
14 13 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.70%) Games
16 11 (0.65%) Banking
17 10 (0.59%) Automotive
18 9 (0.53%) Advertising
18 9 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 502 (29.46%) IT Support
2 418 (24.53%) IT Engineer
3 393 (23.06%) Support Engineer
4 327 (19.19%) IT Support Engineer
5 290 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 218 (12.79%) Senior
7 202 (11.85%) Analyst
8 134 (7.86%) Systems Engineer
9 130 (7.63%) Support Analyst
10 118 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support
11 106 (6.22%) IT Technician
12 105 (6.16%) Support Technician
13 94 (5.52%) Administrator
14 92 (5.40%) IT Support Technician
15 90 (5.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 82 (4.81%) IT Analyst
17 78 (4.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 70 (4.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 65 (3.81%) Lead
20 64 (3.76%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.46%) Terraform
2 44 (2.58%) .NET
3 30 (1.76%) HTML
4 27 (1.58%) Web Services
5 26 (1.53%) CSS
6 24 (1.41%) XML
7 19 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.12%) JSON
8 17 (1.00%) LDAP
9 16 (0.94%) XMPP
10 14 (0.82%) Regular Expression
11 13 (0.76%) ARM Templates
11 13 (0.76%) Middleware
12 12 (0.70%) SAML
13 9 (0.53%) WinForms
14 8 (0.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
15 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
16 5 (0.29%) ASP.NET
16 5 (0.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 226 (13.26%) Driving Licence
2 108 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 102 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (4.34%) Data Centre
6 66 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 53 (3.11%) Replication
8 44 (2.58%) PKI
9 43 (2.52%) Clustering
10 37 (2.17%) CCTV
10 37 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 30 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
12 28 (1.64%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (0.82%) Private Cloud
15 13 (0.76%) Operational Technology
16 11 (0.65%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1,703 (99.94%) Windows
2 402 (23.59%) Linux
3 196 (11.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 170 (9.98%) Windows 10
5 123 (7.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 62 (3.64%) Mac OS
7 57 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 45 (2.64%) Ubuntu
9 34 (2.00%) Android
10 33 (1.94%) Apple iOS
11 32 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (1.35%) CentOS
13 22 (1.29%) VMS
14 11 (0.65%) Unix
15 10 (0.59%) Rocky
16 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.41%) Debian
18 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.23%) Solaris
20 1 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (36.44%) Problem-Solving
2 454 (26.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 387 (22.71%) Customer Service
4 364 (21.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 348 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 326 (19.13%) Cybersecurity
7 294 (17.25%) ITIL
8 228 (13.38%) Migration
9 178 (10.45%) Project Delivery
10 167 (9.80%) Service Delivery
11 143 (8.39%) Root Cause Analysis
12 140 (8.22%) Mentoring
13 136 (7.98%) Business Continuity
14 131 (7.69%) Customer Experience
15 130 (7.63%) High Availability
16 129 (7.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 113 (6.63%) ITSM
18 101 (5.93%) Kalman Filter
19 99 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
20 97 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 343 (20.13%) PowerShell
2 184 (10.80%) SQL
3 80 (4.69%) Python
4 52 (3.05%) Bash
5 40 (2.35%) C#
6 33 (1.94%) Bicep
7 22 (1.29%) Ruby
7 22 (1.29%) VBA
8 14 (0.82%) Java
9 12 (0.70%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.41%) PHP
11 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.41%) VB.NET
11 7 (0.41%) VBScript
12 4 (0.23%) Perl
13 3 (0.18%) VB
14 2 (0.12%) C
14 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.059%) Go
Qualifications
1 267 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 183 (10.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 182 (10.68%) Degree
4 180 (10.56%) SC Cleared
5 121 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
6 110 (6.46%) Azure Certification
7 90 (5.28%) CCNA
8 75 (4.40%) DV Cleared
9 58 (3.40%) DBS Check
10 47 (2.76%) CCNP
11 39 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
12 28 (1.64%) MCSA
13 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 25 (1.47%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
15 24 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (1.35%) CISSP
17 21 (1.23%) A+ Certification
17 21 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 19 (1.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (11.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 145 (8.51%) SLA
3 80 (4.69%) PCI DSS
4 65 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (2.41%) GDPR
6 38 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.12%) NIST
8 15 (0.88%) QA
9 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.23%) GRC
11 3 (0.18%) COBIT
12 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.12%) RMADS
13 1 (0.059%) COSHH
13 1 (0.059%) DICOM
13 1 (0.059%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.059%) HL7
13 1 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,121 (65.79%) Active Directory
2 528 (30.99%) Hyper-V
3 480 (28.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (6.22%) vSphere
5 84 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
6 73 (4.28%) Terminal Server
7 67 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (2.05%) Docker
10 23 (1.35%) Firmware
11 20 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (1.17%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.76%) Squid
13 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.35%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.35%) VMware Server
15 5 (0.29%) DFS Replication
15 5 (0.29%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.29%) XenApp
16 3 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 416 (24.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (4.64%) Ansible
3 62 (3.64%) SCCM
4 54 (3.17%) Kubernetes
5 45 (2.64%) FortiGate
6 37 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
8 26 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
9 25 (1.47%) WSUS
10 23 (1.35%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.23%) Puppet
12 19 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 18 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 18 (1.06%) ZABBIX
14 17 (1.00%) SCOM
15 15 (0.88%) Autotask
15 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (0.82%) VxRail
17 12 (0.70%) Nagios
17 12 (0.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,329 (77.99%) Microsoft
2 705 (41.37%) VMware
3 239 (14.03%) Veeam
4 213 (12.50%) Cisco
5 118 (6.92%) SolarWinds
6 102 (5.99%) Splunk
7 86 (5.05%) Meraki
8 85 (4.99%) Citrix
9 79 (4.64%) SonicWALL
10 75 (4.40%) Nimble Storage
11 73 (4.28%) Brocade
12 72 (4.23%) Tanium
13 69 (4.05%) Apple
14 63 (3.70%) Fortinet
15 58 (3.40%) Google
16 50 (2.93%) WatchGuard
17 48 (2.82%) Red Hat
18 46 (2.70%) Sophos
19 38 (2.23%) Datto
19 38 (2.23%) Palo Alto