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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 117 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 -43 +18
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,432 1,215 3,382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.78% 3.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.54% 18.46% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 1,026 2,950
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 £55,313 £55,000 £53,000
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 5,606 6,583 13,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.05% 15.07% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 4,140 10,687
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £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 4 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 4 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 -17 1,333 £40,000 -1.23% 351
UK excluding London +9 1,154 £37,500 - 307
North of England +23 312 £37,500 +11.94% 66
South East +29 296 £40,000 -3.61% 106
Work from Home -17 286 £42,500 +2.59% 132
London -62 251 £55,000 -4.35% 75
South West -12 193 £35,000 -12.50% 55
North West +67 166 £37,500 +3.45% 39
Midlands -58 141 £32,500 -7.14% 42
East of England 0 138 £35,000 -20.45% 28
Yorkshire -26 119 £35,000 +16.67% 22
East Midlands -27 77 £29,625 -15.36% 19
West Midlands -64 63 £39,500 +12.86% 23
Wales -13 37 £43,750 +14.85% 8
Scotland +19 27 £30,000 -25.00% 4
North East -25 27 £43,750 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 4

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
1 358 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 248 (17.32%) SharePoint
3 57 (3.98%) IIS
4 26 (1.82%) Confluence
5 9 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.35%) 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 (0.070%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.070%) CMS
10 1 (0.070%) Drupal
10 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.070%) nginx
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 162 (11.31%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.03%) 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 (0.070%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.35%) 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 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.070%) Magento
4 1 (0.070%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.070%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 889 (62.08%) Microsoft 365
2 792 (55.31%) Azure
3 356 (24.86%) Entra ID
4 164 (11.45%) AWS
5 98 (6.84%) OneDrive
6 59 (4.12%) SaaS
7 54 (3.77%) Google Workspace
8 50 (3.49%) IaaS
9 40 (2.79%) Nutanix
10 35 (2.44%) PaaS
11 33 (2.30%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.19%) GCP
13 16 (1.12%) Mimecast
14 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.05%) PowerApps
15 13 (0.91%) GitHub
16 12 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (0.77%) Power Automate
18 10 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
18 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 539 (37.64%) DNS
2 454 (31.70%) DHCP
3 417 (29.12%) Firewall
4 227 (15.85%) VPN
5 201 (14.04%) WAN
6 199 (13.90%) TCP/IP
7 183 (12.78%) LAN
8 136 (9.50%) VLAN
9 118 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
10 95 (6.63%) VoIP
11 82 (5.73%) Wireless
12 70 (4.89%) SAN
13 41 (2.86%) Network Security
14 40 (2.79%) Remote Desktop
15 33 (2.30%) NAS
16 22 (1.54%) SD-WAN
17 17 (1.19%) VSAN
18 16 (1.12%) Internet
19 14 (0.98%) WLAN
20 13 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.75%) MySQL
4 19 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.33%) Power BI
5 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 11 (0.77%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.14%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.14%) Looker
9 2 (0.14%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.14%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.070%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 49 (3.42%) Git
2 45 (3.14%) JIRA
3 23 (1.61%) GitLab
4 11 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
8 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.070%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.070%) Gatling
9 1 (0.070%) JMeter
9 1 (0.070%) Vagrant
General
1 603 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 173 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (8.17%) Finance
4 77 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (3.28%) Retail
7 44 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.44%) Law
9 32 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.03%) Banking
11 26 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.26%) Legal
15 11 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.77%) Local Government
16 10 (0.70%) Advertising
16 10 (0.70%) Back Office
17 9 (0.63%) Games
18 8 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 492 (34.36%) IT Support
2 362 (25.28%) IT Engineer
3 342 (23.88%) Support Engineer
4 298 (20.81%) IT Support Engineer
5 190 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 172 (12.01%) Senior
7 155 (10.82%) IT Technician
8 141 (9.85%) Analyst
9 137 (9.57%) 2nd Line Support
10 135 (9.43%) Support Technician
11 114 (7.96%) IT Support Technician
12 103 (7.19%) Systems Engineer
13 98 (6.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 97 (6.77%) Support Analyst
15 90 (6.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 62 (4.33%) Lead
17 60 (4.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 56 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
19 53 (3.70%) IT Analyst
20 52 (3.63%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.44%) .NET
2 26 (1.82%) HTML
3 21 (1.47%) XMPP
4 20 (1.40%) CSS
5 19 (1.33%) LDAP
5 19 (1.33%) Regular Expression
6 13 (0.91%) ARM Templates
6 13 (0.91%) Web Services
7 12 (0.84%) JSON
8 10 (0.70%) .NET Framework
9 9 (0.63%) XML
10 6 (0.42%) SAML
11 5 (0.35%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.35%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (0.35%) Keycloak
11 5 (0.35%) REST
12 4 (0.28%) JSON Schema
12 4 (0.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 162 (11.31%) Driving Licence
2 101 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (6.01%) Data Centre
4 75 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 70 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.14%) Public Cloud
8 44 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.93%) Replication
10 38 (2.65%) PKI
11 24 (1.68%) Clustering
12 22 (1.54%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.05%) CCTV
14 14 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
15 13 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
16 12 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.77%) Private Cloud
18 10 (0.70%) CMDB
18 10 (0.70%) IoT
18 10 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,432 (100.00%) Windows
2 323 (22.56%) Linux
3 196 (13.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 161 (11.24%) Windows 10
5 132 (9.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (4.61%) Mac OS
7 60 (4.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 59 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 50 (3.49%) Apple iOS
10 38 (2.65%) Ubuntu
11 34 (2.37%) Android
12 24 (1.68%) CentOS
13 23 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
14 18 (1.26%) VMS
15 13 (0.91%) Unix
16 9 (0.63%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.49%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.35%) Debian
19 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
20 3 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
2 367 (25.63%) Customer Service
3 269 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 269 (18.78%) ITIL
4 221 (15.43%) Cybersecurity
5 216 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 204 (14.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 153 (10.68%) Service Delivery
8 124 (8.66%) Mentoring
9 118 (8.24%) Migration
10 115 (8.03%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 107 (7.47%) High Availability
12 99 (6.91%) ITSM
13 92 (6.42%) Business Continuity
13 92 (6.42%) Customer Experience
14 91 (6.35%) Root Cause Analysis
15 89 (6.22%) Project Delivery
16 87 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
17 86 (6.01%) Kalman Filter
18 76 (5.31%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 293 (20.46%) PowerShell
2 154 (10.75%) SQL
3 84 (5.87%) Python
4 34 (2.37%) Bash
5 26 (1.82%) C#
6 19 (1.33%) VBA
7 16 (1.12%) Bicep
8 12 (0.84%) Java
9 11 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.77%) PHP
9 11 (0.77%) VB.NET
10 8 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.49%) VBScript
12 6 (0.42%) VB
13 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.14%) Go
14 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.070%) ABAP
15 1 (0.070%) C
15 1 (0.070%) Korn
Qualifications
1 247 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 144 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 138 (9.64%) Degree
4 124 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 87 (6.08%) DV Cleared
6 76 (5.31%) DBS Check
7 70 (4.89%) Azure Certification
8 51 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (3.00%) CCNA
10 30 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
11 22 (1.54%) A+ Certification
12 20 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.33%) MCSE
14 17 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 17 (1.19%) CCNP
15 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 13 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.84%) MCSA
18 11 (0.77%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 126 (8.80%) SLA
3 73 (5.10%) PCI DSS
4 70 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.82%) NIST
6 25 (1.75%) GDPR
7 24 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.42%) QA
9 4 (0.28%) 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 (0.070%) DICOM
12 1 (0.070%) GRC
12 1 (0.070%) HL7
12 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.070%) ITGC
12 1 (0.070%) NCSC
System Software
1 978 (68.30%) Active Directory
2 384 (26.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 375 (26.19%) Hyper-V
4 108 (7.54%) vSphere
5 67 (4.68%) Terminal Server
6 43 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
7 40 (2.79%) Docker
8 27 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.82%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.77%) Terminal Services
12 8 (0.56%) Firmware
12 8 (0.56%) Squid
13 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.28%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.21%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 240 (16.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 97 (6.77%) Terraform
3 78 (5.45%) Ansible
4 63 (4.40%) Kubernetes
5 47 (3.28%) SCCM
6 41 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 37 (2.58%) vCenter Server
8 28 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (1.68%) FortiGate
9 24 (1.68%) WSUS
10 23 (1.61%) Autotask
11 21 (1.47%) VxRail
12 20 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.12%) Nagios
14 15 (1.05%) Packer
14 15 (1.05%) SCOM
15 14 (0.98%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.77%) Grafana
17 9 (0.63%) Backup Exec
17 9 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,037 (72.42%) Microsoft
2 587 (40.99%) VMware
3 162 (11.31%) Veeam
4 121 (8.45%) Cisco
5 106 (7.40%) Splunk
6 98 (6.84%) SolarWinds
7 88 (6.15%) Nimble Storage
8 65 (4.54%) Brocade
9 64 (4.47%) Google
9 64 (4.47%) Tanium
10 54 (3.77%) Apple
10 54 (3.77%) Dell
11 52 (3.63%) Citrix
11 52 (3.63%) Red Hat
12 50 (3.49%) HP
12 50 (3.49%) Meraki
13 32 (2.23%) McAfee
13 32 (2.23%) Oracle
13 32 (2.23%) ServiceNow
14 27 (1.89%) Sophos