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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 115 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 -41 +24
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,408 1,195 3,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.51% 2.79% 3.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.08% 18.33% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,007 2,961
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,331 £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 5,615 6,518 13,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.03% 15.20% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,186 4,074 10,685
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £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 £82,500 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -25 1,306 £40,000 -3.61% 286
UK excluding London +11 1,126 £37,500 - 267
North of England +24 309 £37,500 +11.94% 61
South East +21 288 £40,000 -3.61% 88
Work from Home -17 282 £42,500 +1.19% 96
London -64 255 £55,000 -8.33% 51
South West -10 185 £33,500 -16.25% 40
North West +62 165 £37,500 - 37
Midlands -50 137 £32,500 -7.14% 40
East of England +2 130 £34,750 -21.02% 32
Yorkshire -32 119 £34,000 +13.33% 21
East Midlands -38 75 £29,625 -15.36% 19
West Midlands -68 61 £39,250 +12.14% 21
Wales -11 37 £45,000 +18.13% 8
Scotland +5 29 £31,500 -37.00% 4
North East -26 25 £45,000 +34.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 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
1 347 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 247 (17.54%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.91%) IIS
4 24 (1.70%) Confluence
5 9 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.36%) WordPress
7 4 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) Drupal
9 1 (0.071%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.071%) nginx
9 1 (0.071%) Site Server
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 164 (11.65%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.92%) 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 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.28%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.28%) Primavera
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 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.071%) Magento
4 1 (0.071%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 865 (61.43%) Microsoft 365
2 771 (54.76%) Azure
3 349 (24.79%) Entra ID
4 163 (11.58%) AWS
5 99 (7.03%) OneDrive
6 59 (4.19%) SaaS
7 56 (3.98%) Google Workspace
8 51 (3.62%) IaaS
9 41 (2.91%) Nutanix
10 36 (2.56%) PaaS
11 32 (2.27%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.21%) GCP
13 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (1.07%) Mimecast
13 15 (1.07%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.92%) GitHub
15 12 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.78%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 525 (37.29%) DNS
2 444 (31.53%) DHCP
3 410 (29.12%) Firewall
4 227 (16.12%) VPN
5 201 (14.28%) WAN
6 195 (13.85%) TCP/IP
7 182 (12.93%) LAN
8 136 (9.66%) VLAN
9 117 (8.31%) Wi-Fi
10 91 (6.46%) VoIP
11 81 (5.75%) Wireless
12 67 (4.76%) SAN
13 41 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
14 39 (2.77%) Network Security
15 32 (2.27%) NAS
16 23 (1.63%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.14%) VSAN
18 15 (1.07%) Internet
18 15 (1.07%) WLAN
19 14 (0.99%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.72%) SQL Server
2 77 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.85%) MySQL
4 20 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.35%) Power BI
6 14 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 12 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.14%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.14%) Looker
13 2 (0.14%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.14%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.071%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 50 (3.55%) Git
2 44 (3.13%) JIRA
3 21 (1.49%) GitLab
4 10 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.21%) Subversion
10 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.071%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.071%) Carbide.c++
11 1 (0.071%) Gatling
11 1 (0.071%) JMeter
11 1 (0.071%) Vagrant
General
1 590 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 161 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (8.59%) Finance
4 78 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.55%) Retail
7 46 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.49%) Law
8 35 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.13%) Banking
10 26 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 24 (1.70%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.49%) Legal
13 11 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (0.78%) Local Government
14 10 (0.71%) Advertising
14 10 (0.71%) Back Office
14 10 (0.71%) Games
15 8 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 481 (34.16%) IT Support
2 354 (25.14%) IT Engineer
3 335 (23.79%) Support Engineer
4 292 (20.74%) IT Support Engineer
5 189 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 174 (12.36%) Senior
7 149 (10.58%) IT Technician
8 141 (10.01%) Analyst
9 140 (9.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 129 (9.16%) Support Technician
11 108 (7.67%) IT Support Technician
12 99 (7.03%) Support Analyst
13 98 (6.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 94 (6.68%) Systems Engineer
15 91 (6.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 61 (4.33%) Lead
17 60 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 57 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
19 53 (3.76%) 3rd Line Support
20 51 (3.62%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.49%) .NET
2 24 (1.70%) HTML
3 19 (1.35%) CSS
3 19 (1.35%) XMPP
4 17 (1.21%) LDAP
4 17 (1.21%) Regular Expression
5 12 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 12 (0.85%) Web Services
6 11 (0.78%) JSON
7 9 (0.64%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.57%) XML
9 7 (0.50%) SAML
10 5 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.36%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (0.36%) Keycloak
10 5 (0.36%) OAuth
10 5 (0.36%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.36%) OpenID
10 5 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.36%) Driving Licence
2 97 (6.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (5.82%) Data Centre
4 74 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 46 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 44 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 41 (2.91%) Replication
10 36 (2.56%) PKI
11 24 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.63%) Clustering
13 16 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
14 15 (1.07%) CCTV
15 13 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (0.78%) CMDB
16 11 (0.78%) Private Cloud
17 10 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,408 (100.00%) Windows
2 310 (22.02%) Linux
3 185 (13.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 161 (11.43%) Windows 10
5 126 (8.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (4.62%) Mac OS
7 60 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 56 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 53 (3.76%) Apple iOS
10 37 (2.63%) Android
11 36 (2.56%) Ubuntu
12 24 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
13 22 (1.56%) CentOS
14 17 (1.21%) VMS
15 13 (0.92%) Unix
16 9 (0.64%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.50%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.36%) Debian
19 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
20 3 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
2 353 (25.07%) Customer Service
3 274 (19.46%) ITIL
4 264 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 218 (15.48%) Cybersecurity
6 208 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 155 (11.01%) Service Delivery
9 123 (8.74%) Mentoring
10 111 (7.88%) Migration
11 110 (7.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 104 (7.39%) High Availability
13 97 (6.89%) ITSM
14 93 (6.61%) Root Cause Analysis
15 91 (6.46%) Business Continuity
16 88 (6.25%) Customer Experience
17 87 (6.18%) Project Delivery
18 84 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 78 (5.54%) Change Management
19 78 (5.54%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 291 (20.67%) PowerShell
2 155 (11.01%) SQL
3 82 (5.82%) Python
4 32 (2.27%) Bash
5 24 (1.70%) C#
6 17 (1.21%) VBA
7 16 (1.14%) Bicep
8 13 (0.92%) VB.NET
9 11 (0.78%) Java
9 11 (0.78%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.71%) PHP
11 8 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.50%) VBScript
13 6 (0.43%) VB
14 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.14%) Go
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.071%) ABAP
16 1 (0.071%) C
16 1 (0.071%) Korn
Qualifications
1 232 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 134 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 133 (9.45%) Degree
4 121 (8.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 85 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 74 (5.26%) DBS Check
7 65 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 47 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (2.77%) CCNA
10 30 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
11 23 (1.63%) A+ Certification
12 20 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.42%) MCSE
13 18 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (1.21%) CCNP
15 16 (1.14%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 12 (0.85%) MCSA
18 11 (0.78%) HNC
18 11 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (9.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 121 (8.59%) SLA
3 70 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 68 (4.83%) PCI DSS
5 26 (1.85%) GDPR
6 25 (1.78%) NIST
7 23 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.43%) QA
9 4 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.21%) COBIT
10 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.14%) GRC
11 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.071%) DICOM
12 1 (0.071%) HL7
12 1 (0.071%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.071%) ITGC
12 1 (0.071%) NCSC
12 1 (0.071%) RMADS
System Software
1 952 (67.61%) Active Directory
2 375 (26.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 359 (25.50%) Hyper-V
4 102 (7.24%) vSphere
5 60 (4.26%) Terminal Server
6 43 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
7 38 (2.70%) Docker
8 27 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.70%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.78%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.57%) Firmware
14 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 7 (0.50%) Squid
14 7 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.28%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.21%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 232 (16.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 94 (6.68%) Terraform
3 76 (5.40%) Ansible
4 60 (4.26%) Kubernetes
5 49 (3.48%) SCCM
6 43 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 36 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 28 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.63%) Autotask
9 23 (1.63%) FortiGate
10 22 (1.56%) WSUS
11 21 (1.49%) VxRail
12 19 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.14%) SCOM
14 15 (1.07%) Nagios
15 14 (0.99%) Packer
16 13 (0.92%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.78%) Grafana
18 10 (0.71%) Puppet
19 9 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,008 (71.59%) Microsoft
2 570 (40.48%) VMware
3 149 (10.58%) Veeam
4 118 (8.38%) Cisco
5 96 (6.82%) Splunk
6 89 (6.32%) SolarWinds
7 80 (5.68%) Nimble Storage
8 66 (4.69%) Google
9 57 (4.05%) Brocade
10 56 (3.98%) Tanium
11 55 (3.91%) Dell
12 53 (3.76%) Apple
13 52 (3.69%) Citrix
14 51 (3.62%) HP
15 48 (3.41%) Red Hat
16 47 (3.34%) Meraki
17 32 (2.27%) McAfee
17 32 (2.27%) Oracle
18 30 (2.13%) ServiceNow
19 26 (1.85%) Sophos