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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 107 71
Rank change year-on-year -28 -36 +27
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,311 1,280 3,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.45% 2.95% 3.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.55% 19.39% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 1,101 3,064
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,300 £75,000 £67,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,094 £38,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% +0.25% -5.00%

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 5,340 6,600 13,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 15.20% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 4,399 10,823
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,092 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -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 8 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 8 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 1,206 £40,000 -5.88% 331
UK excluding London -10 1,031 £37,500 -1.56% 296
Work from Home -31 280 £42,500 - 111
North of England -3 275 £35,000 +4.48% 69
South East +6 270 £40,000 -11.11% 109
London -62 251 £55,000 -8.33% 76
South West -19 164 £32,500 -18.75% 36
North West +31 144 £37,500 -2.60% 32
Midlands -68 136 £32,500 -7.14% 43
Yorkshire -35 109 £34,000 +13.33% 31
East of England -14 108 £40,000 -5.88% 27
East Midlands -41 78 £29,000 -17.14% 23
West Midlands -70 57 £39,750 +13.57% 20
Scotland +2 34 £31,500 -30.00% 10
Wales -14 31 £45,000 +18.13% 9
North East -30 22 £45,000 +28.57% 7
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 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
1 315 (24.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 228 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 44 (3.36%) IIS
4 22 (1.68%) Confluence
5 9 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.38%) WordPress
7 4 (0.31%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.076%) Drupal
9 1 (0.076%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 163 (12.43%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.076%) CATIA
5 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.076%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.076%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.31%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.31%) Primavera
4 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.076%) Magento
6 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.076%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 797 (60.79%) Microsoft 365
2 706 (53.85%) Azure
3 329 (25.10%) Entra ID
4 153 (11.67%) AWS
5 97 (7.40%) OneDrive
6 58 (4.42%) Google Workspace
7 57 (4.35%) SaaS
8 45 (3.43%) IaaS
8 45 (3.43%) Nutanix
9 32 (2.44%) PaaS
10 26 (1.98%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.22%) GCP
12 14 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (1.07%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.99%) GitHub
14 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (0.84%) Mimecast
16 10 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 512 (39.05%) DNS
2 441 (33.64%) DHCP
3 383 (29.21%) Firewall
4 222 (16.93%) VPN
5 203 (15.48%) WAN
6 192 (14.65%) TCP/IP
7 184 (14.04%) LAN
8 128 (9.76%) VLAN
9 109 (8.31%) Wi-Fi
10 87 (6.64%) Wireless
11 79 (6.03%) VoIP
12 62 (4.73%) SAN
13 42 (3.20%) Remote Desktop
14 38 (2.90%) Network Security
15 31 (2.36%) NAS
16 26 (1.98%) SD-WAN
17 22 (1.68%) Internet
18 18 (1.37%) WLAN
19 15 (1.14%) IPsec
20 14 (1.07%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 63 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.75%) MySQL
4 19 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.30%) Power BI
6 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.15%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.076%) NoSQL
14 1 (0.076%) Redis
14 1 (0.076%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.076%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (3.51%) Git
1 46 (3.51%) JIRA
2 18 (1.37%) GitLab
3 11 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.31%) Subversion
7 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.076%) Gatling
9 1 (0.076%) JMeter
9 1 (0.076%) Vagrant
General
1 541 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 148 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (9.23%) Finance
4 71 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
5 49 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
5 49 (3.74%) Retail
6 43 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 42 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (2.44%) Law
9 30 (2.29%) Banking
10 26 (1.98%) Public Sector
11 19 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.99%) Games
13 13 (0.99%) Legal
14 10 (0.76%) Advertising
14 10 (0.76%) Back Office
14 10 (0.76%) Marketing
15 9 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 445 (33.94%) IT Support
2 334 (25.48%) IT Engineer
3 331 (25.25%) Support Engineer
4 283 (21.59%) IT Support Engineer
5 182 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 164 (12.51%) Senior
7 143 (10.91%) 2nd Line Support
8 126 (9.61%) IT Technician
9 113 (8.62%) Analyst
10 107 (8.16%) Support Technician
11 99 (7.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 91 (6.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 87 (6.64%) IT Support Technician
14 82 (6.25%) Support Analyst
15 74 (5.64%) Systems Engineer
16 65 (4.96%) 3rd Line Support
17 60 (4.58%) Lead
18 57 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
19 52 (3.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 49 (3.74%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.83%) .NET
2 18 (1.37%) XMPP
3 16 (1.22%) LDAP
3 16 (1.22%) Regular Expression
4 15 (1.14%) HTML
5 13 (0.99%) CSS
6 9 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (0.61%) JSON
7 8 (0.61%) Web Services
8 6 (0.46%) REST
9 5 (0.38%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (0.38%) OAuth
9 5 (0.38%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.38%) OpenID
9 5 (0.38%) SAML
10 4 (0.31%) ADO
10 4 (0.31%) Middleware
10 4 (0.31%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (12.05%) Driving Licence
2 89 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (5.19%) Data Centre
5 52 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 38 (2.90%) Replication
9 31 (2.36%) PKI
10 28 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.14%) CCTV
12 15 (1.14%) Clustering
12 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
13 12 (0.92%) Fat Client
13 12 (0.92%) Thin Client
14 11 (0.84%) CMDB
14 11 (0.84%) iPad
14 11 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,311 (100.00%) Windows
2 277 (21.13%) Linux
3 168 (12.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 166 (12.66%) Windows 10
5 99 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 58 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (4.27%) Apple iOS
8 55 (4.20%) Mac OS
9 52 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 37 (2.82%) Android
11 32 (2.44%) Ubuntu
12 22 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (1.30%) CentOS
14 14 (1.07%) Unix
15 12 (0.92%) VMS
16 9 (0.69%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.53%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.38%) Debian
19 3 (0.23%) CoreOS
19 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (32.11%) Problem-Solving
2 315 (24.03%) Customer Service
3 274 (20.90%) ITIL
4 251 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 184 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
6 169 (12.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 163 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 142 (10.83%) Service Delivery
9 120 (9.15%) Mentoring
10 104 (7.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 100 (7.63%) Migration
12 89 (6.79%) High Availability
12 89 (6.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 87 (6.64%) ITSM
14 85 (6.48%) Change Management
15 84 (6.41%) Business Continuity
16 76 (5.80%) Customer Experience
17 74 (5.64%) DevOps
18 72 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
19 71 (5.42%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 271 (20.67%) PowerShell
2 139 (10.60%) SQL
3 73 (5.57%) Python
4 29 (2.21%) Bash
5 14 (1.07%) Bicep
5 14 (1.07%) C#
6 12 (0.92%) VB.NET
7 10 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.76%) VBA
8 9 (0.69%) PHP
9 8 (0.61%) Java
9 8 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.46%) VB
11 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.38%) VBScript
12 2 (0.15%) Go
12 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.076%) Delphi
13 1 (0.076%) Korn
13 1 (0.076%) Perl
Qualifications
1 218 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 124 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 112 (8.54%) Degree
4 102 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 86 (6.56%) DV Cleared
6 71 (5.42%) DBS Check
7 51 (3.89%) Azure Certification
8 39 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.36%) CCNA
10 28 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
11 20 (1.53%) A+ Certification
12 19 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 18 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (1.30%) MCSE
15 15 (1.14%) CCNP
16 11 (0.84%) HNC
16 11 (0.84%) HND
16 11 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.77%) SLA
2 100 (7.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 62 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (4.65%) PCI DSS
5 24 (1.83%) GDPR
6 20 (1.53%) NIST
7 16 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.53%) QA
9 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.15%) COBIT
11 2 (0.15%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.076%) DICOM
12 1 (0.076%) HL7
12 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.076%) ITGC
12 1 (0.076%) NCSC
12 1 (0.076%) RMADS
System Software
1 888 (67.73%) Active Directory
2 334 (25.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 312 (23.80%) Hyper-V
4 95 (7.25%) vSphere
5 51 (3.89%) Terminal Server
6 44 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
7 36 (2.75%) Docker
8 29 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (1.75%) VMware NSX
11 14 (1.07%) Terminal Services
12 11 (0.84%) Firmware
13 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.38%) Squid
17 4 (0.31%) BitLocker
18 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
19 1 (0.076%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 211 (16.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (6.79%) Terraform
3 71 (5.42%) Ansible
4 54 (4.12%) Kubernetes
5 46 (3.51%) SCCM
6 41 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 37 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.91%) WSUS
9 21 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.45%) FortiGate
10 19 (1.45%) VxRail
11 18 (1.37%) Autotask
12 17 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (1.30%) SCOM
13 12 (0.92%) Grafana
13 12 (0.92%) Nagios
13 12 (0.92%) Packer
14 10 (0.76%) Puppet
14 10 (0.76%) vRealize
14 10 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 885 (67.51%) Microsoft
2 517 (39.44%) VMware
3 119 (9.08%) Veeam
4 111 (8.47%) Cisco
5 84 (6.41%) Splunk
6 81 (6.18%) SolarWinds
7 75 (5.72%) Nimble Storage
8 61 (4.65%) Google
9 59 (4.50%) Dell
10 53 (4.04%) HP
11 50 (3.81%) Apple
12 48 (3.66%) Brocade
12 48 (3.66%) Tanium
13 47 (3.59%) Citrix
14 45 (3.43%) Red Hat
15 38 (2.90%) Meraki
16 31 (2.36%) McAfee
16 31 (2.36%) ServiceNow
17 30 (2.29%) Oracle
18 27 (2.06%) Dell Compellent