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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 107 72
Rank change year-on-year -11 -35 +21
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,451 1,246 3,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.81% 3.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.67% 19.09% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 1,058 2,939
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 5,653 6,528 13,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 14.75% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,234 4,213 10,765
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,400 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -11 1,356 £40,000 -1.23% 315
UK excluding London +18 1,171 £37,500 - 300
North of England +33 310 £37,500 +11.94% 72
South East +23 303 £40,000 - 99
Work from Home -21 288 £42,500 +1.19% 114
London -66 253 £52,500 -8.70% 54
South West -8 201 £36,250 -9.38% 52
North West +73 169 £37,500 +7.14% 43
East of England +9 145 £36,500 -17.05% 28
Midlands -39 142 £32,500 -7.14% 39
Yorkshire -28 115 £35,250 +17.50% 20
East Midlands -36 74 £30,000 -14.29% 15
West Midlands -52 67 £40,750 +16.43% 24
Wales -18 37 £42,500 +11.57% 8
North East -32 26 £43,750 +25.00% 10
Scotland +17 24 £29,000 -27.50% 8
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 3

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
1 377 (25.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 251 (17.30%) SharePoint
3 59 (4.07%) IIS
4 27 (1.86%) Confluence
5 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (0.41%) WordPress
7 4 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.21%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) Site Server
10 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.069%) CMS
10 1 (0.069%) Drupal
10 1 (0.069%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.069%) nginx
10 1 (0.069%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 161 (11.10%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.28%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.28%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.069%) Magento
4 1 (0.069%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 904 (62.30%) Microsoft 365
2 811 (55.89%) Azure
3 375 (25.84%) Entra ID
4 167 (11.51%) AWS
5 99 (6.82%) OneDrive
6 60 (4.14%) SaaS
7 52 (3.58%) Google Workspace
8 51 (3.51%) IaaS
9 39 (2.69%) Nutanix
10 36 (2.48%) PaaS
11 34 (2.34%) Power Platform
12 18 (1.24%) GCP
13 16 (1.10%) Mimecast
14 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.03%) PowerApps
15 14 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (0.96%) GitHub
16 12 (0.83%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
18 9 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 548 (37.77%) DNS
2 459 (31.63%) DHCP
3 432 (29.77%) Firewall
4 228 (15.71%) VPN
5 202 (13.92%) TCP/IP
5 202 (13.92%) WAN
6 185 (12.75%) LAN
7 141 (9.72%) VLAN
8 120 (8.27%) Wi-Fi
9 94 (6.48%) VoIP
10 86 (5.93%) Wireless
11 74 (5.10%) SAN
12 43 (2.96%) Network Security
13 34 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
14 32 (2.21%) NAS
15 22 (1.52%) SD-WAN
16 18 (1.24%) Internet
17 17 (1.17%) VSAN
18 13 (0.90%) IPsec
18 13 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 94 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.65%) MySQL
4 19 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.31%) Power BI
5 13 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 11 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.14%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.14%) Looker
10 2 (0.14%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.14%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.069%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (3.31%) Git
1 48 (3.31%) JIRA
2 24 (1.65%) GitLab
3 12 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.14%) Subversion
7 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.069%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.069%) Carbide.c++
8 1 (0.069%) Gatling
8 1 (0.069%) JMeter
8 1 (0.069%) Vagrant
General
1 629 (43.35%) Social Skills
2 180 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (8.06%) Finance
4 78 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
5 55 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (3.24%) Retail
7 44 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.41%) Law
9 30 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.93%) Banking
11 26 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.31%) Legal
15 12 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.83%) Local Government
16 10 (0.69%) Back Office
17 9 (0.62%) Advertising
17 9 (0.62%) Games
18 7 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 494 (34.05%) IT Support
2 365 (25.16%) IT Engineer
3 346 (23.85%) Support Engineer
4 300 (20.68%) IT Support Engineer
5 196 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 173 (11.92%) Senior
7 158 (10.89%) IT Technician
8 144 (9.92%) Analyst
9 135 (9.30%) Support Technician
10 134 (9.24%) 2nd Line Support
11 117 (8.06%) IT Support Technician
12 115 (7.93%) Systems Engineer
13 99 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 98 (6.75%) Support Analyst
15 89 (6.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 61 (4.20%) Lead
16 61 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 55 (3.79%) IT Analyst
18 52 (3.58%) Architect
19 50 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.21%) .NET
2 26 (1.79%) HTML
3 23 (1.59%) XMPP
4 22 (1.52%) LDAP
5 21 (1.45%) Regular Expression
6 20 (1.38%) CSS
7 13 (0.90%) ARM Templates
7 13 (0.90%) JSON
7 13 (0.90%) Web Services
8 11 (0.76%) XML
9 10 (0.69%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.48%) Middleware
11 6 (0.41%) SAML
12 5 (0.34%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.34%) FreeSWITCH
12 5 (0.34%) JSON Schema
12 5 (0.34%) Keycloak
12 5 (0.34%) REST
13 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 171 (11.78%) Driving Licence
2 102 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (5.93%) Data Centre
4 79 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 41 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 39 (2.69%) PKI
10 36 (2.48%) Replication
11 25 (1.72%) Clustering
12 24 (1.65%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.10%) CCTV
14 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
15 12 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
16 11 (0.76%) EPoS
16 11 (0.76%) Private Cloud
17 10 (0.69%) Educational Technology
17 10 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,451 (100.00%) Windows
2 342 (23.57%) Linux
3 207 (14.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 163 (11.23%) Windows 10
5 135 (9.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 70 (4.82%) Mac OS
7 61 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 60 (4.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 50 (3.45%) Apple iOS
10 38 (2.62%) Ubuntu
11 30 (2.07%) Android
12 24 (1.65%) CentOS
13 23 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 19 (1.31%) VMS
15 12 (0.83%) Unix
16 9 (0.62%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.48%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.34%) Debian
19 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
20 3 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
2 376 (25.91%) Customer Service
3 279 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 265 (18.26%) ITIL
5 235 (16.20%) Cybersecurity
6 225 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (14.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 158 (10.89%) Service Delivery
9 131 (9.03%) Migration
10 123 (8.48%) Mentoring
10 123 (8.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 107 (7.37%) High Availability
12 102 (7.03%) Customer Experience
13 97 (6.69%) ITSM
14 96 (6.62%) Project Delivery
15 95 (6.55%) Kalman Filter
16 93 (6.41%) Business Continuity
17 90 (6.20%) Root Cause Analysis
18 86 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
19 84 (5.79%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 291 (20.06%) PowerShell
2 161 (11.10%) SQL
3 86 (5.93%) Python
4 35 (2.41%) Bash
5 26 (1.79%) C#
6 20 (1.38%) VBA
7 16 (1.10%) Bicep
8 13 (0.90%) Java
9 11 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.76%) PHP
10 9 (0.62%) VB.NET
11 8 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.48%) VBScript
13 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.41%) VB
14 3 (0.21%) Go
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.069%) ABAP
16 1 (0.069%) Korn
16 1 (0.069%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 151 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.99%) Degree
4 122 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 87 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 77 (5.31%) DBS Check
7 73 (5.03%) Azure Certification
8 58 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (3.31%) CCNA
10 31 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
11 22 (1.52%) A+ Certification
12 21 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.24%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.24%) CCNP
14 18 (1.24%) MCSE
15 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 16 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.90%) MCSA
18 11 (0.76%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 132 (9.10%) SLA
3 82 (5.65%) PCI DSS
4 71 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.93%) GDPR
6 27 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 25 (1.72%) NIST
8 6 (0.41%) QA
9 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.21%) COBIT
10 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.14%) RMADS
12 1 (0.069%) DICOM
12 1 (0.069%) HL7
12 1 (0.069%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.069%) ITGC
12 1 (0.069%) NCSC
12 1 (0.069%) TickIT
System Software
1 994 (68.50%) Active Directory
2 392 (27.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 387 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 112 (7.72%) vSphere
5 75 (5.17%) Terminal Server
6 44 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (2.89%) Docker
8 30 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
9 25 (1.72%) VMware NSX
10 24 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.62%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 7 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.41%) Firmware
16 5 (0.34%) BitLocker
17 4 (0.28%) VMware Server
18 3 (0.21%) DFS Replication
18 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 247 (17.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 95 (6.55%) Terraform
3 78 (5.38%) Ansible
4 65 (4.48%) Kubernetes
5 45 (3.10%) SCCM
6 42 (2.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 34 (2.34%) vCenter Server
8 28 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.86%) FortiGate
10 25 (1.72%) WSUS
11 22 (1.52%) Autotask
12 21 (1.45%) VxRail
13 20 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.10%) Nagios
15 15 (1.03%) Packer
16 14 (0.96%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.83%) Grafana
17 12 (0.83%) SCOM
18 9 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
18 9 (0.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,069 (73.67%) Microsoft
2 606 (41.76%) VMware
3 168 (11.58%) Veeam
4 128 (8.82%) Cisco
5 115 (7.93%) Splunk
6 103 (7.10%) SolarWinds
7 93 (6.41%) Nimble Storage
8 73 (5.03%) Brocade
9 72 (4.96%) Tanium
10 63 (4.34%) Google
11 54 (3.72%) Red Hat
12 53 (3.65%) Apple
12 53 (3.65%) Citrix
12 53 (3.65%) Meraki
13 50 (3.45%) Dell
14 49 (3.38%) HP
15 36 (2.48%) ServiceNow
16 33 (2.27%) Oracle
17 31 (2.14%) McAfee
18 27 (1.86%) Sophos