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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 99 95
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,698 1,440 2,063
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.90% 2.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.30% 21.97% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,176 1,392
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,100 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -11.11% -0.22%
75th Percentile £55,156 £56,040 £57,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £69,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £38,094 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.38% -10.37% +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 6,456 6,553 9,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 13.21% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,809 4,264 6,151
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.26%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 1,583 £41,000 +2.50% 523
UK excluding London -8 1,423 £39,000 +2.38% 398
Work from Home -11 387 £42,500 -5.56% 170
South East +7 362 £42,500 +6.25% 144
North of England +28 361 £37,500 +7.14% 65
London -73 245 £55,000 -8.33% 170
South West -42 216 £37,500 -2.60% 40
Midlands -24 214 £37,500 +7.14% 80
North West +58 196 £37,500 -2.60% 34
East of England -7 189 £36,500 -18.89% 60
Yorkshire -17 132 £35,500 +9.23% 17
East Midlands -25 108 £32,000 -1.54% 25
West Midlands -18 106 £42,500 +21.43% 55
Scotland +31 39 £32,500 -29.28% 16
Wales -65 39 £45,000 -21.74% 6
North East -48 33 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Northern Ireland -76 3 £40,000 -27.27% 1

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
1 464 (27.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 319 (18.79%) SharePoint
3 97 (5.71%) IIS
4 35 (2.06%) Confluence
5 27 (1.59%) Apache
6 20 (1.18%) nginx
7 10 (0.59%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.59%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.24%) JBoss
9 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.059%) CMS
11 1 (0.059%) Drupal
11 1 (0.059%) Moodle
11 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.059%) Site Server
Applications
1 131 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.94%) 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 (0.059%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.18%) Infor LN
2 3 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.12%) Exchequer
3 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.12%) Primavera
3 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.059%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.059%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.059%) Magento
4 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (64.72%) Microsoft 365
2 885 (52.12%) Azure
3 519 (30.57%) Entra ID
4 172 (10.13%) AWS
5 116 (6.83%) OneDrive
6 59 (3.47%) SaaS
7 47 (2.77%) IaaS
8 38 (2.24%) Power Platform
9 34 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 29 (1.71%) PaaS
11 23 (1.35%) Nutanix
12 22 (1.30%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (1.18%) Mimecast
14 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (1.06%) GCP
16 15 (0.88%) Cloudflare
17 14 (0.82%) Serverless
18 12 (0.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 623 (36.69%) DNS
2 562 (33.10%) Firewall
3 503 (29.62%) DHCP
4 285 (16.78%) VPN
5 252 (14.84%) TCP/IP
6 217 (12.78%) VLAN
7 192 (11.31%) WAN
8 182 (10.72%) LAN
9 150 (8.83%) Wireless
10 137 (8.07%) Wi-Fi
11 120 (7.07%) VoIP
12 72 (4.24%) Network Security
13 65 (3.83%) SAN
14 31 (1.83%) NAS
15 29 (1.71%) Internet
15 29 (1.71%) SSL
16 18 (1.06%) VSAN
17 17 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
18 15 (0.88%) IP Telephony
18 15 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (10.90%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (1.59%) MySQL
4 19 (1.12%) Power BI
5 16 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
9 8 (0.47%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.12%) KNIME
13 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 52 (3.06%) JIRA
2 45 (2.65%) Git
3 18 (1.06%) GitLab
4 14 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Ant
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.059%) Gatling
9 1 (0.059%) JMeter
9 1 (0.059%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.059%) Postman
9 1 (0.059%) Vagrant
General
1 742 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 218 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (7.13%) Finance
4 70 (4.12%) Manufacturing
5 57 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (3.06%) Retail
7 50 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (2.65%) Legal
9 44 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.18%) Public Sector
11 31 (1.83%) Law
12 22 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 16 (0.94%) Banking
14 14 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.71%) Games
15 12 (0.71%) Military
16 11 (0.65%) Advertising
17 8 (0.47%) Electronics
18 7 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 513 (30.21%) IT Support
2 420 (24.73%) IT Engineer
3 402 (23.67%) Support Engineer
4 335 (19.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 277 (16.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 217 (12.78%) Senior
7 193 (11.37%) Analyst
8 140 (8.24%) Systems Engineer
9 139 (8.19%) IT Technician
10 131 (7.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 126 (7.42%) Support Analyst
12 120 (7.07%) Support Technician
13 102 (6.01%) IT Support Technician
14 91 (5.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 81 (4.77%) IT Analyst
16 79 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 78 (4.59%) Administrator
18 76 (4.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 69 (4.06%) Lead
20 64 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (5.77%) Terraform
2 44 (2.59%) .NET
3 32 (1.88%) HTML
4 28 (1.65%) CSS
5 27 (1.59%) Web Services
6 23 (1.35%) XMPP
7 22 (1.30%) XML
8 21 (1.24%) LDAP
9 20 (1.18%) Regular Expression
10 19 (1.12%) .NET Framework
11 17 (1.00%) JSON
12 12 (0.71%) Middleware
13 10 (0.59%) ARM Templates
14 9 (0.53%) SAML
15 6 (0.35%) WinForms
16 5 (0.29%) ASP.NET
16 5 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
16 5 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
17 4 (0.24%) jQuery
17 4 (0.24%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 202 (11.90%) Driving Licence
2 104 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 103 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 99 (5.83%) Data Centre
5 81 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.47%) Replication
9 40 (2.36%) Clustering
10 39 (2.30%) PKI
11 38 (2.24%) CCTV
12 34 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.94%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
14 19 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 16 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 15 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
17 13 (0.77%) Operational Technology
18 12 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1,698 (100.00%) Windows
2 417 (24.56%) Linux
3 194 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 157 (9.25%) Windows 10
5 122 (7.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 64 (3.77%) Mac OS
7 60 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 53 (3.12%) Ubuntu
9 39 (2.30%) Apple iOS
10 38 (2.24%) Android
10 38 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 28 (1.65%) CentOS
12 22 (1.30%) VMS
13 13 (0.77%) Unix
13 13 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.47%) Rocky
15 7 (0.41%) Debian
16 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.18%) Solaris
18 1 (0.059%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (34.81%) Problem-Solving
2 424 (24.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 399 (23.50%) Customer Service
4 346 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 322 (18.96%) Disaster Recovery
6 311 (18.32%) Cybersecurity
7 289 (17.02%) ITIL
8 196 (11.54%) Migration
9 195 (11.48%) Service Delivery
10 171 (10.07%) Project Delivery
11 141 (8.30%) Mentoring
12 135 (7.95%) High Availability
13 132 (7.77%) Business Continuity
14 129 (7.60%) Customer Experience
15 126 (7.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 123 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
17 107 (6.30%) ITSM
18 97 (5.71%) Kalman Filter
19 96 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
20 87 (5.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 326 (19.20%) PowerShell
2 189 (11.13%) SQL
3 85 (5.01%) Python
4 47 (2.77%) Bash
5 40 (2.36%) C#
6 26 (1.53%) Bicep
7 24 (1.41%) VBA
8 16 (0.94%) Java
8 16 (0.94%) Ruby
9 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.53%) PHP
12 8 (0.47%) VBScript
13 7 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) VB
16 2 (0.12%) C
16 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 261 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 184 (10.84%) Degree
3 168 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 168 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 108 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
5 107 (6.30%) Azure Certification
6 87 (5.12%) DBS Check
7 83 (4.89%) DV Cleared
8 82 (4.83%) CCNA
9 39 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
10 38 (2.24%) CCNP
11 23 (1.35%) A+ Certification
12 22 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 21 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 21 (1.24%) MCSA
13 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 20 (1.18%) MCSE
14 20 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (11.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 150 (8.83%) SLA
3 79 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 72 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.71%) GDPR
6 39 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.12%) NIST
8 9 (0.53%) QA
9 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.18%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.18%) COBIT
11 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.18%) RMADS
12 2 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.059%) COSHH
13 1 (0.059%) DICOM
13 1 (0.059%) HL7
13 1 (0.059%) ITGC
13 1 (0.059%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,100 (64.78%) Active Directory
2 497 (29.27%) Hyper-V
3 475 (27.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 103 (6.07%) vSphere
5 73 (4.30%) Terminal Server
6 67 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 64 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (2.30%) Docker
9 35 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (1.59%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.82%) Firmware
12 14 (0.82%) Squid
13 9 (0.53%) Terminal Services
14 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.35%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.18%) Xen
16 3 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 375 (22.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (5.36%) Ansible
3 62 (3.65%) Kubernetes
4 48 (2.83%) SCCM
5 37 (2.18%) FortiGate
6 33 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.77%) vCenter Server
8 23 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
8 23 (1.35%) WSUS
9 19 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (1.12%) SCOM
10 17 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (0.94%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
12 15 (0.88%) Puppet
12 15 (0.88%) VxRail
13 14 (0.82%) Packer
14 12 (0.71%) Nagios
14 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.65%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,325 (78.03%) Microsoft
2 698 (41.11%) VMware
3 224 (13.19%) Veeam
4 178 (10.48%) Cisco
5 109 (6.42%) Splunk
6 104 (6.12%) SolarWinds
7 77 (4.53%) Nimble Storage
8 73 (4.30%) Brocade
9 72 (4.24%) SonicWALL
9 72 (4.24%) Tanium
10 65 (3.83%) Apple
11 63 (3.71%) Meraki
12 61 (3.59%) Citrix
13 58 (3.42%) Red Hat
14 52 (3.06%) Fortinet
15 42 (2.47%) Sophos
16 40 (2.36%) HP
17 39 (2.30%) Google
17 39 (2.30%) ServiceNow
18 37 (2.18%) Oracle