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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 93 68
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 +33
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,342 1,304 3,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.52% 3.10% 3.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.92% 20.07% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,122 3,143
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,000 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +1.32% -5.00%

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 5,386 6,497 13,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 15.43% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,932 4,403 10,956
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,306 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% +7.35% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -5.56%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -30 1,233 £40,000 -5.88% 280
UK excluding London -22 1,047 £37,500 -2.60% 269
Work from Home -51 295 £42,500 -2.30% 200
North of England -5 278 £35,000 +1.45% 54
South East +13 277 £40,000 -11.11% 94
London -64 261 £52,500 -12.50% 54
South West -23 162 £32,500 -18.75% 39
North West +13 144 £35,000 -9.09% 22
Midlands -68 139 £32,500 -7.14% 37
East of England -27 113 £40,000 -5.88% 32
Yorkshire -39 113 £34,000 +13.33% 22
East Midlands -62 79 £29,000 -17.14% 21
West Midlands -70 59 £41,250 +10.00% 16
Scotland -17 34 £37,500 -6.25% 10
Wales -10 30 £45,000 +18.13% 7
North East -42 21 £45,000 +28.57% 11
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 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
1 345 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 236 (17.59%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.13%) IIS
4 21 (1.56%) Confluence
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.30%) WordPress
8 3 (0.22%) Apache
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.075%) Drupal
10 1 (0.075%) nginx
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.075%) Site Server
Applications
1 167 (12.44%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) CATIA
3 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.22%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.22%) Windchill
4 1 (0.075%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.30%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.30%) Primavera
4 3 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.075%) Magento
5 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 824 (61.40%) Microsoft 365
2 741 (55.22%) Azure
3 343 (25.56%) Entra ID
4 155 (11.55%) AWS
5 105 (7.82%) OneDrive
6 64 (4.77%) Google Workspace
7 59 (4.40%) SaaS
8 46 (3.43%) Nutanix
9 44 (3.28%) IaaS
10 31 (2.31%) PaaS
11 26 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 18 (1.34%) GCP
13 16 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
14 15 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 13 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (0.89%) GitHub
16 12 (0.89%) Mimecast
17 9 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 545 (40.61%) DNS
2 479 (35.69%) DHCP
3 399 (29.73%) Firewall
4 229 (17.06%) VPN
5 212 (15.80%) WAN
6 205 (15.28%) TCP/IP
7 191 (14.23%) LAN
8 139 (10.36%) VLAN
9 113 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
10 87 (6.48%) Wireless
11 78 (5.81%) VoIP
12 64 (4.77%) SAN
13 46 (3.43%) Remote Desktop
14 41 (3.06%) Network Security
15 34 (2.53%) SD-WAN
16 28 (2.09%) NAS
17 20 (1.49%) Internet
18 17 (1.27%) WLAN
19 15 (1.12%) IPsec
20 14 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 72 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (1.34%) MySQL
4 17 (1.27%) Power BI
5 16 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.15%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.075%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.075%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.075%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.075%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (3.58%) JIRA
2 42 (3.13%) Git
3 16 (1.19%) GitLab
4 11 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.30%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.075%) Gatling
10 1 (0.075%) JMeter
10 1 (0.075%) Vagrant
General
1 557 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 152 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (9.24%) Finance
4 77 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
5 49 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
5 49 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 46 (3.43%) Retail
7 40 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (2.83%) Law
9 30 (2.24%) Banking
10 25 (1.86%) Public Sector
11 18 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.12%) Games
13 13 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.82%) Back Office
14 11 (0.82%) Legal
15 10 (0.75%) Advertising
16 9 (0.67%) Front Office
16 9 (0.67%) Marketing
17 8 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 461 (34.35%) IT Support
2 344 (25.63%) IT Engineer
2 344 (25.63%) Support Engineer
3 293 (21.83%) IT Support Engineer
4 189 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 166 (12.37%) Senior
6 156 (11.62%) 2nd Line Support
7 127 (9.46%) IT Technician
8 113 (8.42%) Analyst
9 110 (8.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 110 (8.20%) Support Technician
10 102 (7.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 89 (6.63%) IT Support Technician
12 86 (6.41%) Support Analyst
13 84 (6.26%) Systems Engineer
14 71 (5.29%) 3rd Line Support
15 62 (4.62%) Lead
16 56 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
16 56 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (3.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.86%) .NET
2 15 (1.12%) LDAP
2 15 (1.12%) XMPP
3 14 (1.04%) Regular Expression
4 13 (0.97%) HTML
5 11 (0.82%) CSS
5 11 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (0.67%) Web Services
7 7 (0.52%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.52%) JSON
8 6 (0.45%) Middleware
8 6 (0.45%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.37%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (0.37%) Kafka
9 5 (0.37%) REST
10 4 (0.30%) FIDO
10 4 (0.30%) JSON Schema
10 4 (0.30%) OAuth
10 4 (0.30%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.30%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.67%) Driving Licence
2 86 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 68 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 58 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.35%) Public Cloud
8 40 (2.98%) Replication
9 29 (2.16%) PKI
10 24 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.12%) CCTV
13 14 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
14 13 (0.97%) Clustering
15 12 (0.89%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.89%) iPad
15 12 (0.89%) Thin Client
16 11 (0.82%) CMDB
16 11 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,342 (100.00%) Windows
2 278 (20.72%) Linux
3 182 (13.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 176 (13.11%) Windows 10
5 104 (7.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 58 (4.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 57 (4.25%) Apple iOS
8 56 (4.17%) Mac OS
9 48 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 38 (2.83%) Android
11 30 (2.24%) Ubuntu
12 20 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (1.12%) CentOS
13 15 (1.12%) Unix
14 11 (0.82%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.67%) VMS
15 9 (0.67%) Windows 8
16 5 (0.37%) Debian
17 4 (0.30%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (25.11%) Customer Service
3 297 (22.13%) ITIL
4 252 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 186 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
6 168 (12.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 155 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (11.40%) Service Delivery
9 130 (9.69%) Mentoring
10 114 (8.49%) Migration
11 113 (8.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 97 (7.23%) ITSM
13 89 (6.63%) High Availability
14 85 (6.33%) Business Continuity
15 84 (6.26%) Change Management
15 84 (6.26%) Customer Experience
16 82 (6.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 80 (5.96%) DevOps
18 74 (5.51%) Kalman Filter
19 72 (5.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 277 (20.64%) PowerShell
2 143 (10.66%) SQL
3 73 (5.44%) Python
4 31 (2.31%) Bash
5 14 (1.04%) C#
6 13 (0.97%) Bicep
7 12 (0.89%) VB.NET
8 10 (0.75%) VBA
9 9 (0.67%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.52%) PHP
10 7 (0.52%) VB
11 6 (0.45%) Java
12 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.30%) VBScript
14 2 (0.15%) Go
14 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.075%) Delphi
15 1 (0.075%) Korn
15 1 (0.075%) Perl
Qualifications
1 215 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 127 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.12%) Degree
4 95 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 87 (6.48%) DV Cleared
6 67 (4.99%) DBS Check
7 51 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 42 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (2.38%) CCNA
10 30 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.42%) A+ Certification
11 19 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (1.27%) CCNP
12 17 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.27%) MCSE
13 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 10 (0.75%) HNC
14 10 (0.75%) HND
14 10 (0.75%) MCSA
15 9 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (8.27%) SLA
2 109 (8.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (5.14%) PCI DSS
4 63 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.64%) GDPR
6 20 (1.49%) NIST
7 15 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.45%) QA
9 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.075%) COBIT
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.075%) ITGC
12 1 (0.075%) RMADS
System Software
1 928 (69.15%) Active Directory
2 333 (24.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 332 (24.74%) Hyper-V
4 86 (6.41%) vSphere
5 59 (4.40%) Terminal Server
6 44 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
7 35 (2.61%) Docker
8 29 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 22 (1.64%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.97%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.89%) Firmware
13 9 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
17 3 (0.22%) Squid
18 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.15%) XenApp
19 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 232 (17.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (6.04%) Terraform
3 67 (4.99%) Ansible
4 51 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 46 (3.43%) SCCM
6 41 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 36 (2.68%) vCenter Server
8 24 (1.79%) WSUS
9 21 (1.56%) Autotask
10 19 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 19 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (1.34%) SCOM
12 17 (1.27%) VxRail
13 11 (0.82%) Grafana
13 11 (0.82%) Nagios
14 10 (0.75%) vRealize
15 9 (0.67%) Packer
15 9 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 905 (67.44%) Microsoft
2 532 (39.64%) VMware
3 129 (9.61%) Veeam
4 115 (8.57%) Cisco
5 88 (6.56%) SolarWinds
5 88 (6.56%) Splunk
6 84 (6.26%) Nimble Storage
7 66 (4.92%) Google
8 60 (4.47%) Dell
9 56 (4.17%) Brocade
9 56 (4.17%) Tanium
10 52 (3.87%) HP
11 50 (3.73%) Apple
12 49 (3.65%) Citrix
13 40 (2.98%) Red Hat
14 37 (2.76%) Meraki
15 34 (2.53%) ServiceNow
16 30 (2.24%) McAfee
16 30 (2.24%) Oracle
17 28 (2.09%) Dell Compellent