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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 102 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,656 1,510 2,335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.03% 2.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.82% 21.56% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 1,297 1,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,688 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,100 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,313 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.33% -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 6,414 7,004 10,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 14.04% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,808 4,686 7,495
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,813 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,692 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £48,256
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.96% -8.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.39% -14.44% -

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -26 1,538 £41,500 +3.75% 377
UK excluding London -6 1,387 £39,500 +5.33% 322
South East +2 366 £42,500 +6.25% 115
Work from Home -19 359 £42,500 - 143
North of England +13 346 £37,500 +11.11% 72
London -97 242 £55,000 -7.17% 84
South West -20 223 £37,500 -4.46% 38
North West +58 189 £37,500 +1.35% 47
Midlands -32 185 £37,500 +7.14% 52
East of England -11 176 £36,500 -18.89% 36
Yorkshire -38 123 £36,500 +21.67% 15
East Midlands -29 98 £32,500 -7.14% 22
West Midlands -44 87 £42,500 +21.43% 30
Wales -39 46 £41,250 -28.26% 10
Scotland +25 39 £32,500 -18.75% 10
North East -45 34 £42,500 +21.43% 12
Northern Ireland -66 6 £40,000 -27.27%

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
1 444 (26.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 288 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 81 (4.89%) IIS
4 35 (2.11%) Confluence
5 21 (1.27%) Apache
6 15 (0.91%) nginx
7 10 (0.60%) WordPress
8 6 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Site Server
12 1 (0.060%) CMS
12 1 (0.060%) Drupal
12 1 (0.060%) HCL Domino
12 1 (0.060%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 148 (8.94%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.060%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Primavera
3 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.060%) Magento
5 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (64.19%) Microsoft 365
2 903 (54.53%) Azure
3 471 (28.44%) Entra ID
4 182 (10.99%) AWS
5 103 (6.22%) OneDrive
6 63 (3.80%) SaaS
7 50 (3.02%) IaaS
8 39 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 34 (2.05%) PaaS
10 29 (1.75%) Nutanix
11 26 (1.57%) Google Workspace
12 25 (1.51%) GCP
12 25 (1.51%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.27%) Mimecast
15 18 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (0.91%) Cloudflare
16 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.79%) GitHub
18 12 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 620 (37.44%) DNS
2 529 (31.94%) Firewall
3 501 (30.25%) DHCP
4 260 (15.70%) VPN
5 250 (15.10%) TCP/IP
6 205 (12.38%) WAN
7 195 (11.78%) VLAN
8 191 (11.53%) LAN
9 129 (7.79%) Wireless
10 126 (7.61%) Wi-Fi
11 112 (6.76%) VoIP
12 71 (4.29%) SAN
13 61 (3.68%) Network Security
14 37 (2.23%) NAS
15 28 (1.69%) Internet
16 24 (1.45%) SSL
17 21 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
18 18 (1.09%) VSAN
19 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
20 15 (0.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 98 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.51%) MySQL
4 21 (1.27%) Power BI
5 17 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 12 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (0.42%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.12%) Looker
15 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 58 (3.50%) JIRA
2 53 (3.20%) Git
3 23 (1.39%) GitLab
4 15 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Ant
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.060%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.060%) JMeter
8 1 (0.060%) Postman
8 1 (0.060%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.060%) Subversion
General
1 724 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 219 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (7.73%) Finance
4 66 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (3.74%) Manufacturing
6 56 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (3.38%) Retail
7 44 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.42%) Legal
10 33 (1.99%) Law
10 33 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.45%) Banking
12 20 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 14 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.72%) Military
15 11 (0.66%) Games
16 10 (0.60%) Advertising
16 10 (0.60%) Local Government
17 8 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 511 (30.86%) IT Support
2 398 (24.03%) IT Engineer
3 381 (23.01%) Support Engineer
4 323 (19.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 245 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 204 (12.32%) Senior
7 189 (11.41%) Analyst
8 150 (9.06%) IT Technician
9 146 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
10 130 (7.85%) 2nd Line Support
10 130 (7.85%) Support Analyst
11 128 (7.73%) Support Technician
12 111 (6.70%) IT Support Technician
13 84 (5.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 81 (4.89%) IT Analyst
15 73 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 71 (4.29%) Administrator
17 70 (4.23%) Lead
18 69 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 66 (3.99%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.36%) .NET
2 33 (1.99%) HTML
3 29 (1.75%) Web Services
4 27 (1.63%) CSS
5 26 (1.57%) XMPP
6 25 (1.51%) LDAP
7 23 (1.39%) Regular Expression
8 20 (1.21%) XML
9 18 (1.09%) .NET Framework
10 15 (0.91%) JSON
11 14 (0.85%) ARM Templates
12 12 (0.72%) Middleware
13 7 (0.42%) JSON Schema
13 7 (0.42%) SAML
14 5 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (0.30%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (0.30%) Keycloak
14 5 (0.30%) REST
15 4 (0.24%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 205 (12.38%) Driving Licence
2 107 (6.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 89 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 89 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 81 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.78%) Replication
8 42 (2.54%) Clustering
8 42 (2.54%) PKI
9 33 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.87%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.51%) CCTV
12 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
13 16 (0.97%) Cloud Native
14 14 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (0.85%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,656 (100.00%) Windows
2 408 (24.64%) Linux
3 205 (12.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 155 (9.36%) Windows 10
5 127 (7.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (4.05%) Mac OS
6 67 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 49 (2.96%) Ubuntu
8 39 (2.36%) Apple iOS
9 38 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 32 (1.93%) Android
11 28 (1.69%) CentOS
12 19 (1.15%) VMS
13 16 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.30%) Debian
14 5 (0.30%) Rocky
14 5 (0.30%) Unix
14 5 (0.30%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (34.60%) Problem-Solving
2 408 (24.64%) Customer Service
3 358 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 323 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (17.51%) ITIL
6 286 (17.27%) Cybersecurity
6 286 (17.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 187 (11.29%) Service Delivery
8 177 (10.69%) Migration
9 147 (8.88%) Project Delivery
10 145 (8.76%) High Availability
11 142 (8.57%) Mentoring
12 139 (8.39%) Customer Experience
13 135 (8.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 124 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
15 123 (7.43%) Business Continuity
16 114 (6.88%) ITSM
17 107 (6.46%) Kalman Filter
18 97 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code
19 92 (5.56%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 327 (19.75%) PowerShell
2 190 (11.47%) SQL
3 99 (5.98%) Python
4 49 (2.96%) Bash
5 37 (2.23%) C#
6 26 (1.57%) Bicep
7 24 (1.45%) VBA
8 16 (0.97%) Java
9 12 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.66%) PHP
11 10 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.54%) Ruby
13 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.42%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.42%) VBScript
15 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) VB
16 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 279 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 179 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 164 (9.90%) Degree
4 148 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 101 (6.10%) Azure Certification
6 93 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
7 91 (5.50%) DV Cleared
8 80 (4.83%) DBS Check
9 74 (4.47%) CCNA
10 31 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
11 27 (1.63%) CCNP
12 26 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (1.09%) A+ Certification
16 17 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (0.91%) MCSA
17 15 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (10.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 156 (9.42%) SLA
3 88 (5.31%) PCI DSS
4 79 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (2.48%) GDPR
6 31 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 22 (1.33%) NIST
8 8 (0.48%) QA
9 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.18%) COBIT
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.18%) RMADS
11 1 (0.060%) COSHH
11 1 (0.060%) DICOM
11 1 (0.060%) GRC
11 1 (0.060%) HL7
11 1 (0.060%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.060%) ITGC
11 1 (0.060%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,100 (66.43%) Active Directory
2 484 (29.23%) Hyper-V
3 459 (27.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (6.64%) vSphere
5 82 (4.95%) Terminal Server
6 61 (3.68%) VMware ESXi
7 57 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
8 50 (3.02%) Docker
9 27 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 26 (1.57%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.85%) Squid
13 12 (0.72%) Firmware
14 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 9 (0.54%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.36%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 4 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 329 (19.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 107 (6.46%) Terraform
3 95 (5.74%) Ansible
4 75 (4.53%) Kubernetes
5 47 (2.84%) SCCM
6 36 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 32 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
8 24 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 24 (1.45%) WSUS
9 23 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.15%) VxRail
10 19 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 18 (1.09%) SCOM
12 17 (1.03%) Nagios
13 16 (0.97%) Autotask
13 16 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
14 15 (0.91%) Packer
15 14 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,273 (76.87%) Microsoft
2 681 (41.12%) VMware
3 219 (13.22%) Veeam
4 171 (10.33%) Cisco
5 128 (7.73%) Splunk
6 113 (6.82%) SolarWinds
7 90 (5.43%) Nimble Storage
8 81 (4.89%) Brocade
9 80 (4.83%) Tanium
10 61 (3.68%) Meraki
10 61 (3.68%) Red Hat
11 57 (3.44%) Apple
12 51 (3.08%) Citrix
13 49 (2.96%) ServiceNow
14 47 (2.84%) SonicWALL
15 45 (2.72%) Sophos
16 44 (2.66%) Fortinet
17 43 (2.60%) Google
17 43 (2.60%) HP
18 41 (2.48%) Oracle