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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 85 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 -25 +72
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,434 1,950 2,435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.85% 2.88% 4.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.99% 22.27% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 1,125 2,135
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% +3.66% +2.50%

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 5,738 8,756 9,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 12.95% 17.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,046 5,119 7,473
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,498 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £45,100
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.32% +0.22%

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 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Top 18 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 4 November 2025. 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 -9 1,350 £40,000 -11.11% 769
UK excluding London -6 1,106 £38,500 -9.41% 685
Work from Home -63 323 £45,497 -4.22% 271
South East +8 287 £40,000 -11.11% 289
London -25 272 £60,000 -7.69% 225
South West +34 236 £37,500 -11.76% 93
North of England -36 227 £35,500 -11.80% 127
East of England +18 179 £47,500 +3.26% 55
Midlands -23 151 £35,000 -12.50% 89
Yorkshire -6 107 £32,500 -27.78% 28
East Midlands +7 91 £30,000 -7.69% 41
North West -34 91 £40,250 +0.63% 84
West Midlands -34 60 £40,000 -5.88% 46
North East -8 29 £35,000 -2.78% 16
Wales -5 26 £60,000 +45.45% 16
Scotland -64 16 £37,500 -6.25% 26
Northern Ireland -6 2 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £65,000 -

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
1 482 (33.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 237 (16.53%) SharePoint
3 79 (5.51%) IIS
4 18 (1.26%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
6 13 (0.91%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.56%) CMS
8 7 (0.49%) Confluence
8 7 (0.49%) WinCC
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
12 3 (0.21%) Apache
13 2 (0.14%) ArchestrA
13 2 (0.14%) WordPress
14 1 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 87 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.35%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.14%) CATIA
7 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.070%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.35%) PlanetPress Connect
3 5 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.35%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.28%) Sage 1000
4 4 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.070%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.070%) Eikon
7 1 (0.070%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.070%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 932 (64.99%) Azure
2 909 (63.39%) Microsoft 365
3 337 (23.50%) Entra ID
4 152 (10.60%) AWS
5 78 (5.44%) SaaS
6 69 (4.81%) IaaS
7 62 (4.32%) OneDrive
8 51 (3.56%) PaaS
9 49 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 40 (2.79%) Power Platform
11 30 (2.09%) GCP
11 30 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 25 (1.74%) GitHub
13 24 (1.67%) Google Workspace
14 21 (1.46%) Nutanix
15 20 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (1.12%) Mimecast
18 14 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 528 (36.82%) DNS
2 492 (34.31%) Firewall
3 487 (33.96%) DHCP
4 228 (15.90%) TCP/IP
5 212 (14.78%) VPN
6 194 (13.53%) VLAN
7 189 (13.18%) WAN
8 170 (11.85%) LAN
9 110 (7.67%) Wi-Fi
10 106 (7.39%) VoIP
11 90 (6.28%) SAN
12 67 (4.67%) Wireless
13 41 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
14 37 (2.58%) SD-WAN
15 36 (2.51%) Internet
16 25 (1.74%) Network Security
17 22 (1.53%) IP Telephony
18 21 (1.46%) SSL
19 18 (1.26%) Kerberos
19 18 (1.26%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 99 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (2.09%) MySQL
4 14 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.63%) DTS
9 8 (0.56%) Data Hub
9 8 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.56%) SQL CLR
10 7 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (0.49%) Power BI
11 6 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.28%) MS Access
12 4 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.21%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (2.86%) Git
2 14 (0.98%) JIRA
3 9 (0.63%) GitLab
4 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.28%) Toad
6 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.070%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.070%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.070%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.070%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.070%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 626 (43.65%) Social Skills
2 123 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (7.18%) Finance
4 72 (5.02%) Manufacturing
5 55 (3.84%) Law
6 51 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 48 (3.35%) Legal
8 47 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 44 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (2.58%) Retail
12 17 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.12%) Advertising
13 16 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.05%) Marketing
15 14 (0.98%) Banking
16 12 (0.84%) Automotive
16 12 (0.84%) Back Office
17 10 (0.70%) Billing
17 10 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 377 (26.29%) IT Support
2 311 (21.69%) Support Engineer
3 275 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 211 (14.71%) IT Engineer
5 174 (12.13%) Analyst
6 152 (10.60%) IT Support Engineer
7 141 (9.83%) Senior
8 136 (9.48%) 2nd Line Support
8 136 (9.48%) 3rd Line Support
9 132 (9.21%) Support Analyst
9 132 (9.21%) Systems Engineer
10 110 (7.67%) Technical Support
11 82 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 81 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
13 76 (5.30%) Infrastructure Support
13 76 (5.30%) Support Technician
14 73 (5.09%) IT Analyst
15 65 (4.53%) 1st Line Support
16 64 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 61 (4.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.51%) .NET
2 23 (1.60%) LDAP
3 12 (0.84%) SAML
4 11 (0.77%) HTML
5 10 (0.70%) CSS
5 10 (0.70%) Node.js
6 9 (0.63%) .NET Core
6 9 (0.63%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.56%) Dapper ORM
7 8 (0.56%) Entity Framework
8 6 (0.42%) 802.1X
8 6 (0.42%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.35%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.35%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (0.35%) YAML
10 4 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.28%) RESTful
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.51%) Driving Licence
2 86 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 78 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 60 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.84%) Data Centre
6 54 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 43 (3.00%) PKI
8 37 (2.58%) Clustering
9 36 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (2.09%) Replication
11 27 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.39%) CCTV
13 18 (1.26%) CMDB
14 17 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.05%) Hedge funds
17 14 (0.98%) Client/Server
18 13 (0.91%) Public Cloud
19 12 (0.84%) SCADA
19 12 (0.84%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,434 (100.00%) Windows
2 298 (20.78%) Linux
3 173 (12.06%) Windows 10
4 172 (11.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 168 (11.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 83 (5.79%) Mac OS
7 55 (3.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 38 (2.65%) Android
9 29 (2.02%) Apple iOS
10 28 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (1.81%) Unix
12 17 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.77%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.63%) Debian
15 8 (0.56%) Rocky
15 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.49%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.42%) CentOS
17 6 (0.42%) Solaris
18 5 (0.35%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 359 (25.03%) Customer Service
3 349 (24.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 268 (18.69%) ITIL
5 186 (12.97%) Migration
6 175 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
7 151 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 148 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (10.04%) Mentoring
10 105 (7.32%) Service Delivery
11 90 (6.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 85 (5.93%) Kalman Filter
13 84 (5.86%) DevOps
14 83 (5.79%) Web Filtering
15 81 (5.65%) Incident Management
15 81 (5.65%) Service Management
16 80 (5.58%) Roadmaps
17 77 (5.37%) Customer Experience
17 77 (5.37%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 75 (5.23%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 346 (24.13%) PowerShell
2 132 (9.21%) SQL
3 70 (4.88%) Python
4 26 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.74%) C#
6 24 (1.67%) Bash
6 24 (1.67%) VB
7 14 (0.98%) VBA
8 12 (0.84%) PHP
9 8 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.56%) VB.NET
10 7 (0.49%) VBScript
11 6 (0.42%) Bicep
12 3 (0.21%) Tcl
13 2 (0.14%) Go
13 2 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 1 (0.070%) Java
14 1 (0.070%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 175 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 145 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 136 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 130 (9.07%) Degree
5 67 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 65 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (4.25%) CCNA
8 46 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 45 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
10 41 (2.86%) MCP
10 41 (2.86%) MCSA
11 35 (2.44%) MCSE
12 32 (2.23%) DBS Check
12 32 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 28 (1.95%) A+ Certification
14 25 (1.74%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.74%) CCNP
15 19 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 83 (5.79%) SLA
3 74 (5.16%) PCI DSS
4 55 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (3.70%) GDPR
6 24 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (1.46%) QA
8 11 (0.77%) NIST
9 7 (0.49%) GxP
9 7 (0.49%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.35%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.35%) ITGC
11 3 (0.21%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
11 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.070%) DICOM
13 1 (0.070%) HL7
System Software
1 1,008 (70.29%) Active Directory
2 434 (30.26%) Hyper-V
3 368 (25.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (5.37%) Terminal Server
5 63 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
6 60 (4.18%) vSphere
7 49 (3.42%) Docker
8 38 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
10 22 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.05%) XenApp
12 10 (0.70%) Firmware
13 9 (0.63%) Terminal Services
14 8 (0.56%) vCloud
15 7 (0.49%) NFS
16 6 (0.42%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 5 (0.35%) ISA Server
17 5 (0.35%) Kamailio
17 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 377 (26.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 103 (7.18%) SCCM
3 65 (4.53%) Kubernetes
4 56 (3.91%) Ansible
5 55 (3.84%) Terraform
6 37 (2.58%) vCenter Server
7 36 (2.51%) WSUS
8 33 (2.30%) Autotask
9 27 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (1.81%) SCOM
11 19 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (1.19%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.12%) Backup Exec
13 16 (1.12%) Prometheus
14 14 (0.98%) Nagios
15 13 (0.91%) Puppet
15 13 (0.91%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
17 10 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
18 9 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,048 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 578 (40.31%) VMware
3 194 (13.53%) Veeam
4 160 (11.16%) Cisco
5 114 (7.95%) SolarWinds
6 82 (5.72%) Splunk
7 81 (5.65%) Tanium
8 79 (5.51%) Nimble Storage
9 72 (5.02%) Brocade
10 64 (4.46%) Apple
11 63 (4.39%) Citrix
12 53 (3.70%) Google
13 41 (2.86%) Oracle
14 40 (2.79%) Datto
14 40 (2.79%) Meraki
15 33 (2.30%) ServiceNow
15 33 (2.30%) Sophos
16 31 (2.16%) HP
16 31 (2.16%) Red Hat
17 30 (2.09%) Dell