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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 102 77
Rank change year-on-year -15 -25 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,622 1,453 2,816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.96% 3.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.38% 20.98% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 1,251 2,364
10th Percentile £27,300 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,313 £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 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £38,094 £39,000
% change year-on-year +1.07% -2.32% -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 6,149 6,924 12,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.13% 14.10% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,654 4,619 9,085
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 £44,274
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.65% -1.61%

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 23 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 23 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 -21 1,508 £40,000 - 350
UK excluding London +7 1,351 £38,500 +1.07% 325
South East +18 361 £42,500 +6.25% 120
Work from Home -18 336 £42,500 - 119
North of England +20 332 £37,500 +11.94% 81
London -75 242 £55,000 -3.51% 67
South West -16 231 £33,500 -16.25% 31
North West +59 181 £35,000 -5.41% 44
Midlands -38 170 £34,500 -1.43% 47
East of England +11 169 £36,500 -18.89% 35
Yorkshire -34 121 £35,500 +18.33% 25
East Midlands -30 91 £31,000 -11.43% 22
West Midlands -45 79 £42,000 +20.00% 25
Wales -26 48 £41,250 -28.26% 7
Scotland +36 34 £32,500 -18.75% 14
North East -47 30 £42,500 +21.43% 14
Northern Ireland -63 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
1 447 (27.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 279 (17.20%) SharePoint
3 72 (4.44%) IIS
4 32 (1.97%) Confluence
5 17 (1.05%) Apache
6 11 (0.68%) 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
1 158 (9.74%) 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 1,055 (65.04%) Microsoft 365
2 899 (55.43%) Azure
3 447 (27.56%) Entra ID
4 176 (10.85%) AWS
5 104 (6.41%) OneDrive
6 60 (3.70%) SaaS
7 50 (3.08%) IaaS
8 38 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.22%) PaaS
10 30 (1.85%) Nutanix
11 29 (1.79%) Google Workspace
12 23 (1.42%) GCP
13 21 (1.29%) Mimecast
13 21 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (0.86%) PowerApps
16 13 (0.80%) GitHub
17 12 (0.74%) Cloudflare
17 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 625 (38.53%) DNS
2 521 (32.12%) Firewall
3 511 (31.50%) DHCP
4 252 (15.54%) VPN
5 240 (14.80%) TCP/IP
6 205 (12.64%) WAN
7 192 (11.84%) LAN
8 188 (11.59%) VLAN
9 126 (7.77%) Wireless
10 125 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
11 113 (6.97%) VoIP
12 71 (4.38%) SAN
13 54 (3.33%) Network Security
14 37 (2.28%) NAS
15 27 (1.66%) Internet
16 24 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
17 20 (1.23%) SSL
18 19 (1.17%) SD-WAN
19 13 (0.80%) Broadband
19 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 116 (7.15%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.48%) MySQL
4 21 (1.29%) Power BI
5 16 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.12%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.12%) KNIME
15 2 (0.12%) Looker
15 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.39%) JIRA
2 46 (2.84%) 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%) 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%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.062%) Vagrant
General
1 710 (43.77%) Social Skills
2 217 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (7.52%) Finance
4 75 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 53 (3.27%) Retail
7 48 (2.96%) 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
1 530 (32.68%) IT Support
2 402 (24.78%) IT Engineer
3 386 (23.80%) Support Engineer
4 329 (20.28%) IT Support Engineer
5 219 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 192 (11.84%) Senior
7 180 (11.10%) Analyst
8 158 (9.74%) 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 63 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 59 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.22%) .NET
2 31 (1.91%) HTML
3 25 (1.54%) CSS
3 25 (1.54%) Web Services
3 25 (1.54%) XMPP
4 24 (1.48%) LDAP
5 23 (1.42%) Regular Expression
6 18 (1.11%) XML
7 16 (0.99%) .NET Framework
8 15 (0.92%) JSON
9 14 (0.86%) ARM Templates
10 12 (0.74%) Middleware
11 7 (0.43%) JSON Schema
12 6 (0.37%) SAML
13 5 (0.31%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (0.31%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.31%) Keycloak
13 5 (0.31%) REST
14 4 (0.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 198 (12.21%) 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 80 (4.93%) 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 27 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.29%) CCTV
14 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
16 13 (0.80%) Cloud Native
16 13 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
17 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.68%) IoT
18 11 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,622 (100.00%) Windows
2 397 (24.48%) Linux
3 226 (13.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 158 (9.74%) Windows 10
5 125 (7.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (4.01%) Mac OS
7 64 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 43 (2.65%) Ubuntu
8 43 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 38 (2.34%) Apple iOS
10 29 (1.79%) Android
11 26 (1.60%) CentOS
12 20 (1.23%) VMS
13 18 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.43%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.37%) Debian
15 6 (0.37%) Unix
15 6 (0.37%) Windows 8
16 5 (0.31%) Rocky
17 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
2 424 (26.14%) Customer Service
3 325 (20.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 293 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (17.88%) ITIL
6 274 (16.89%) Cybersecurity
7 262 (16.15%) Disaster Recovery
8 183 (11.28%) Migration
9 182 (11.22%) Service Delivery
10 149 (9.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 147 (9.06%) Customer Experience
12 135 (8.32%) Mentoring
13 133 (8.20%) Project Delivery
14 129 (7.95%) High Availability
15 121 (7.46%) Kalman Filter
16 109 (6.72%) ITSM
17 108 (6.66%) Web Filtering
18 106 (6.54%) Business Continuity
18 106 (6.54%) Email Filtering
18 106 (6.54%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 311 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 182 (11.22%) SQL
3 90 (5.55%) Python
4 41 (2.53%) Bash
5 34 (2.10%) C#
6 24 (1.48%) VBA
7 19 (1.17%) Bicep
8 15 (0.92%) Java
9 13 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.68%) PHP
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.43%) Ruby
12 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.43%) VBScript
13 5 (0.31%) VB
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) Perl
15 2 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 290 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 187 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.68%) Degree
4 135 (8.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 91 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 91 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 85 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (4.87%) DBS Check
8 69 (4.25%) CCNA
9 28 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
10 26 (1.60%) CCNP
11 21 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.17%) A+ Certification
13 19 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.11%) 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
1 187 (11.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 143 (8.82%) SLA
3 104 (6.41%) PCI DSS
4 72 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.16%) GDPR
6 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.23%) NIST
8 5 (0.31%) 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 1,103 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 478 (29.47%) Hyper-V
3 439 (27.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 106 (6.54%) vSphere
5 98 (6.04%) Terminal Server
6 57 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 49 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (2.77%) Docker
9 24 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (1.48%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.80%) Squid
11 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.43%) Firmware
13 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.37%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.37%) VMware Server
14 6 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 304 (18.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 93 (5.73%) Terraform
3 88 (5.43%) Ansible
4 70 (4.32%) Kubernetes
5 37 (2.28%) 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
13 19 (1.17%) ZABBIX
14 18 (1.11%) VxRail
15 16 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (0.99%) SCOM
16 15 (0.92%) Nagios
16 15 (0.92%) Packer
17 14 (0.86%) Grafana
18 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,240 (76.45%) Microsoft
2 675 (41.62%) VMware
3 217 (13.38%) Veeam
4 158 (9.74%) Cisco
5 141 (8.69%) Splunk
6 128 (7.89%) SolarWinds
7 109 (6.72%) Nimble Storage
8 97 (5.98%) Brocade
9 96 (5.92%) Tanium
10 59 (3.64%) Meraki
11 55 (3.39%) Red Hat
12 50 (3.08%) Citrix
13 49 (3.02%) 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 36 (2.22%) SonicWALL
20 35 (2.16%) Fortinet