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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 103 79
Rank change year-on-year -11 -24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,622 1,454 2,742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.96% 3.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.29% 21.03% 23.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 1,252 2,296
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,313
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,550 £38,094 £40,000
% change year-on-year +1.20% -4.77% -

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 6,170 6,915 11,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 14.09% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,661 4,616 8,856
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -15 1,508 £40,600 +1.50% 393
UK excluding London +7 1,352 £38,550 +1.20% 363
South East +15 359 £42,500 +6.25% 133
Work from Home -26 336 £42,500 - 134
North of England +21 335 £37,500 +11.94% 85
London -84 241 £55,000 -4.35% 76
South West -15 230 £33,500 -16.25% 36
North West +56 181 £35,000 -5.41% 49
Midlands -40 172 £34,500 -1.43% 51
East of England +5 168 £35,750 -20.56% 44
Yorkshire -38 122 £35,500 +18.33% 25
East Midlands -29 93 £31,000 -11.43% 24
West Midlands -49 79 £42,500 +21.43% 27
Wales -30 48 £41,250 -28.26% 8
Scotland +31 34 £32,500 -18.75% 17
North East -39 32 £42,500 +21.43% 13
Northern Ireland -61 6 - - 2

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
1 445 (27.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 276 (17.02%) SharePoint
3 73 (4.50%) IIS
4 32 (1.97%) Confluence
5 19 (1.17%) Apache
6 13 (0.80%) nginx
7 8 (0.49%) WordPress
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.31%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) JBoss
10 4 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Site Server
12 1 (0.062%) CMS
12 1 (0.062%) Drupal
12 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 155 (9.56%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.062%) Revit
5 1 (0.062%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.25%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.25%) Primavera
3 3 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.062%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.062%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.062%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.062%) Magento
5 1 (0.062%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.062%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (64.92%) Microsoft 365
2 900 (55.49%) Azure
3 445 (27.44%) Entra ID
4 176 (10.85%) AWS
5 102 (6.29%) OneDrive
6 61 (3.76%) SaaS
7 50 (3.08%) IaaS
8 37 (2.28%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.22%) PaaS
10 30 (1.85%) Nutanix
11 29 (1.79%) Google Workspace
12 23 (1.42%) GCP
13 22 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 21 (1.29%) Mimecast
15 20 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (0.80%) Cloudflare
17 13 (0.80%) GitHub
17 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 623 (38.41%) DNS
2 520 (32.06%) Firewall
3 507 (31.26%) DHCP
4 248 (15.29%) VPN
5 239 (14.73%) TCP/IP
6 202 (12.45%) WAN
7 190 (11.71%) LAN
8 187 (11.53%) VLAN
9 127 (7.83%) Wireless
10 125 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
11 114 (7.03%) VoIP
12 71 (4.38%) SAN
13 55 (3.39%) Network Security
14 37 (2.28%) NAS
15 27 (1.66%) Internet
16 24 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
17 20 (1.23%) SSL
18 18 (1.11%) SD-WAN
19 13 (0.80%) Broadband
19 13 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 116 (7.15%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.48%) MySQL
4 20 (1.23%) Power BI
5 16 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.12%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.12%) Looker
14 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (3.45%) JIRA
2 47 (2.90%) Git
3 24 (1.48%) GitLab
4 15 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.062%) Ant
9 1 (0.062%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.062%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.062%) JMeter
9 1 (0.062%) Maven
9 1 (0.062%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.062%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.062%) Subversion
9 1 (0.062%) Vagrant
General
1 711 (43.83%) Social Skills
2 216 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (7.46%) Finance
4 72 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 54 (3.33%) Retail
7 49 (3.02%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.34%) Law
11 34 (2.10%) Legal
12 30 (1.85%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.42%) Banking
14 19 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.86%) Local Government
16 13 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.68%) Games
17 11 (0.68%) Military
18 9 (0.55%) Advertising
19 7 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 525 (32.37%) IT Support
2 397 (24.48%) IT Engineer
3 383 (23.61%) Support Engineer
4 325 (20.04%) IT Support Engineer
5 220 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 193 (11.90%) Senior
7 179 (11.04%) Analyst
8 157 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
9 156 (9.62%) IT Technician
10 139 (8.57%) Support Technician
11 131 (8.08%) 2nd Line Support
12 126 (7.77%) Support Analyst
13 120 (7.40%) IT Support Technician
14 86 (5.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 80 (4.93%) IT Analyst
16 75 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 65 (4.01%) IT Support Analyst
18 64 (3.95%) Lead
19 62 (3.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 58 (3.58%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.22%) .NET
2 31 (1.91%) HTML
3 26 (1.60%) Web Services
4 25 (1.54%) CSS
4 25 (1.54%) XMPP
5 24 (1.48%) LDAP
6 23 (1.42%) Regular Expression
7 18 (1.11%) XML
8 16 (0.99%) .NET Framework
9 15 (0.92%) JSON
10 14 (0.86%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.74%) Middleware
12 7 (0.43%) JSON Schema
13 6 (0.37%) SAML
14 5 (0.31%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (0.31%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (0.31%) Keycloak
14 5 (0.31%) REST
15 4 (0.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 197 (12.15%) Driving Licence
2 109 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
4 99 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 84 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
6 81 (4.99%) Onboarding
7 51 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.84%) PKI
9 39 (2.40%) Replication
10 38 (2.34%) Clustering
11 33 (2.03%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.73%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.29%) CCTV
14 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.86%) Cloud Native
17 13 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
18 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
18 12 (0.74%) Private Cloud
19 11 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,622 (100.00%) Windows
2 398 (24.54%) Linux
3 225 (13.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 156 (9.62%) Windows 10
5 125 (7.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (4.01%) Mac OS
7 64 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (2.71%) Ubuntu
9 42 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 38 (2.34%) Apple iOS
11 29 (1.79%) Android
12 26 (1.60%) CentOS
13 20 (1.23%) VMS
14 18 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.43%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.37%) Debian
16 6 (0.37%) Unix
16 6 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.31%) Rocky
18 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
2 420 (25.89%) Customer Service
3 327 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 297 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 287 (17.69%) ITIL
6 272 (16.77%) Cybersecurity
7 264 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 187 (11.53%) Migration
9 181 (11.16%) Service Delivery
10 148 (9.12%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 147 (9.06%) Customer Experience
12 135 (8.32%) Mentoring
12 135 (8.32%) Project Delivery
13 130 (8.01%) High Availability
14 120 (7.40%) Kalman Filter
15 109 (6.72%) ITSM
16 108 (6.66%) Business Continuity
17 107 (6.60%) Web Filtering
18 106 (6.54%) Root Cause Analysis
19 105 (6.47%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 315 (19.42%) PowerShell
2 183 (11.28%) SQL
3 91 (5.61%) Python
4 42 (2.59%) Bash
5 34 (2.10%) C#
6 24 (1.48%) VBA
7 21 (1.29%) Bicep
8 15 (0.92%) Java
9 13 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.68%) PHP
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.49%) Ruby
13 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.43%) VBScript
14 5 (0.31%) VB
15 3 (0.18%) Go
15 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.18%) Perl
16 2 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 189 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.56%) Degree
4 137 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 93 (5.73%) Azure Certification
6 90 (5.55%) DV Cleared
7 85 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (4.87%) DBS Check
9 69 (4.25%) CCNA
10 28 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
11 26 (1.60%) CCNP
12 21 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (1.17%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.99%) MCSA
17 15 (0.92%) MCSE
18 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (11.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 143 (8.82%) SLA
3 104 (6.41%) PCI DSS
4 73 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.16%) GDPR
6 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.23%) NIST
8 6 (0.37%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.18%) COBIT
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.18%) RMADS
11 2 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.062%) COSHH
12 1 (0.062%) DICOM
12 1 (0.062%) HL7
12 1 (0.062%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.062%) ITGC
12 1 (0.062%) NCSC
12 1 (0.062%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,099 (67.76%) Active Directory
2 479 (29.53%) Hyper-V
3 441 (27.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (6.54%) vSphere
5 98 (6.04%) Terminal Server
6 58 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
7 49 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (2.84%) Docker
9 24 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (1.42%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.86%) Squid
12 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (0.55%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.43%) Firmware
14 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.37%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.37%) VMware Server
15 6 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 306 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 97 (5.98%) Terraform
3 88 (5.43%) Ansible
4 71 (4.38%) Kubernetes
5 38 (2.34%) SCCM
6 35 (2.16%) FortiGate
7 29 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 26 (1.60%) WSUS
10 25 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
12 20 (1.23%) Autotask
12 20 (1.23%) ZABBIX
13 18 (1.11%) VxRail
14 16 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (0.99%) SCOM
15 15 (0.92%) Nagios
15 15 (0.92%) Packer
16 14 (0.86%) Grafana
17 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,240 (76.45%) Microsoft
2 675 (41.62%) VMware
3 217 (13.38%) Veeam
4 156 (9.62%) Cisco
5 141 (8.69%) Splunk
6 129 (7.95%) SolarWinds
7 109 (6.72%) Nimble Storage
8 97 (5.98%) Brocade
9 96 (5.92%) Tanium
10 58 (3.58%) Meraki
11 55 (3.39%) Red Hat
12 51 (3.14%) Citrix
13 48 (2.96%) Apple
14 46 (2.84%) HP
15 45 (2.77%) ServiceNow
16 44 (2.71%) Google
17 42 (2.59%) Sophos
18 40 (2.47%) Dell
19 37 (2.28%) SonicWALL
20 35 (2.16%) Fortinet