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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 103 81
Rank change year-on-year -14 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,640 1,477 2,603
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.99% 2.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.29% 21.19% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 1,272 2,173
10th Percentile £27,425 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,375 £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 £39,000 £38,094 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -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 6,239 6,969 11,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 14.10% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,705 4,661 8,395
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £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 £82,500
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 27 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 27 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 -20 1,522 £41,000 +2.50% 363
UK excluding London +8 1,372 £39,000 +2.38% 326
South East +18 362 £42,500 +6.25% 122
North of England +20 342 £37,500 +11.94% 81
Work from Home -21 337 £42,500 - 131
London -83 238 £55,000 -4.35% 76
South West -15 234 £34,250 -13.84% 28
North West +51 183 £35,000 -5.41% 46
Midlands -37 175 £34,500 -1.43% 49
East of England -3 168 £36,500 -18.89% 38
Yorkshire -35 125 £35,500 +18.33% 23
East Midlands -28 94 £31,000 -11.43% 21
West Midlands -42 81 £42,500 +21.43% 28
Wales -29 49 £40,000 -30.43% 9
Scotland +31 36 £32,500 -18.75% 10
North East -41 34 £42,500 +21.43% 15
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
1 447 (27.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 276 (16.83%) SharePoint
3 75 (4.57%) IIS
4 32 (1.95%) Confluence
5 20 (1.22%) Apache
6 14 (0.85%) nginx
7 9 (0.55%) WordPress
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.30%) Skype for Business
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 (0.061%) CMS
12 1 (0.061%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 156 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.26%) 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 (0.061%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.061%) Revit
5 1 (0.061%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.061%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.061%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.061%) Magento
5 1 (0.061%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.061%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.061%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (64.57%) Microsoft 365
2 906 (55.24%) Azure
3 449 (27.38%) Entra ID
4 183 (11.16%) AWS
5 100 (6.10%) OneDrive
6 62 (3.78%) SaaS
7 50 (3.05%) IaaS
8 37 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.20%) PaaS
10 31 (1.89%) Nutanix
11 27 (1.65%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.46%) GCP
13 22 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.28%) Mimecast
15 16 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (0.85%) Cloudflare
17 13 (0.79%) GitHub
17 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 631 (38.48%) DNS
2 523 (31.89%) Firewall
3 513 (31.28%) DHCP
4 252 (15.37%) VPN
5 246 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 207 (12.62%) WAN
7 196 (11.95%) LAN
8 190 (11.59%) VLAN
9 127 (7.74%) Wireless
10 125 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
11 114 (6.95%) VoIP
12 73 (4.45%) SAN
13 55 (3.35%) Network Security
14 37 (2.26%) NAS
15 28 (1.71%) Internet
16 24 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
17 22 (1.34%) SSL
18 17 (1.04%) SD-WAN
19 15 (0.91%) VSAN
20 14 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.73%) SQL Server
2 117 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.46%) MySQL
4 20 (1.22%) Power BI
5 16 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.24%) 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 (3.41%) JIRA
2 50 (3.05%) Git
3 24 (1.46%) GitLab
4 15 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.061%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.061%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.061%) Gatling
9 1 (0.061%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) Subversion
9 1 (0.061%) Vagrant
General
1 722 (44.02%) Social Skills
2 221 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (7.50%) Finance
4 71 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (3.41%) Retail
7 53 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 44 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.32%) Law
11 34 (2.07%) Legal
12 30 (1.83%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.40%) Banking
14 19 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.85%) Local Government
16 13 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.67%) Games
17 11 (0.67%) Military
18 10 (0.61%) Advertising
19 7 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 527 (32.13%) IT Support
2 397 (24.21%) IT Engineer
3 385 (23.48%) Support Engineer
4 326 (19.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 227 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 191 (11.65%) Senior
7 183 (11.16%) Analyst
8 157 (9.57%) Systems Engineer
9 154 (9.39%) IT Technician
10 137 (8.35%) Support Technician
11 133 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
12 129 (7.87%) Support Analyst
13 119 (7.26%) IT Support Technician
14 87 (5.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 81 (4.94%) IT Analyst
16 76 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 66 (4.02%) IT Support Analyst
17 66 (4.02%) Lead
18 63 (3.84%) Administrator
18 63 (3.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.32%) .NET
2 33 (2.01%) HTML
3 28 (1.71%) Web Services
4 27 (1.65%) CSS
5 25 (1.52%) XMPP
6 24 (1.46%) LDAP
7 23 (1.40%) Regular Expression
8 20 (1.22%) XML
9 18 (1.10%) .NET Framework
10 15 (0.91%) JSON
11 14 (0.85%) ARM Templates
12 12 (0.73%) Middleware
13 7 (0.43%) JSON Schema
14 6 (0.37%) SAML
15 5 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
15 5 (0.30%) ASP.NET
15 5 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (0.30%) Keycloak
15 5 (0.30%) REST
16 4 (0.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 201 (12.26%) Driving Licence
2 110 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
4 100 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 87 (5.30%) Onboarding
6 83 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.80%) PKI
9 41 (2.50%) Replication
10 39 (2.38%) Clustering
11 34 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.71%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.34%) CCTV
14 19 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.85%) Cloud Native
17 13 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
18 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
18 12 (0.73%) Private Cloud
19 11 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,640 (100.00%) Windows
2 406 (24.76%) Linux
3 228 (13.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 160 (9.76%) Windows 10
5 127 (7.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 66 (4.02%) Mac OS
8 45 (2.74%) Ubuntu
9 42 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (2.38%) Apple iOS
11 30 (1.83%) Android
12 29 (1.77%) CentOS
13 20 (1.22%) VMS
14 18 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.37%) Debian
15 6 (0.37%) Unix
15 6 (0.37%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.30%) Rocky
16 5 (0.30%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
2 420 (25.61%) Customer Service
3 335 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 304 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 291 (17.74%) ITIL
6 275 (16.77%) Cybersecurity
7 271 (16.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 188 (11.46%) Migration
9 184 (11.22%) Service Delivery
10 151 (9.21%) Customer Experience
11 150 (9.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 137 (8.35%) Mentoring
13 136 (8.29%) High Availability
14 135 (8.23%) Project Delivery
15 119 (7.26%) Kalman Filter
16 112 (6.83%) Business Continuity
17 110 (6.71%) ITSM
18 109 (6.65%) Root Cause Analysis
19 107 (6.52%) Web Filtering
20 104 (6.34%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 316 (19.27%) PowerShell
2 187 (11.40%) SQL
3 94 (5.73%) Python
4 45 (2.74%) Bash
5 36 (2.20%) C#
6 24 (1.46%) VBA
7 20 (1.22%) Bicep
8 15 (0.91%) Java
9 13 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.67%) 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 4 (0.24%) 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 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 190 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 151 (9.21%) Degree
4 138 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 93 (5.67%) Azure Certification
6 90 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 86 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
8 78 (4.76%) DBS Check
9 70 (4.27%) CCNA
10 27 (1.65%) CCNP
10 27 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
11 22 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 21 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (1.10%) A+ Certification
15 17 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.91%) MCSA
16 15 (0.91%) MCSE
17 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (11.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 145 (8.84%) SLA
3 104 (6.34%) PCI DSS
4 73 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.20%) GDPR
6 30 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.22%) NIST
8 7 (0.43%) QA
9 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.061%) COSHH
12 1 (0.061%) DICOM
12 1 (0.061%) HL7
12 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.061%) ITGC
12 1 (0.061%) NCSC
12 1 (0.061%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,107 (67.50%) Active Directory
2 487 (29.70%) Hyper-V
3 448 (27.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (6.59%) vSphere
5 98 (5.98%) Terminal Server
6 62 (3.78%) VMware ESXi
7 52 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (2.80%) Docker
9 24 (1.46%) VMware NSX
10 22 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.85%) Squid
12 11 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (0.55%) Firmware
13 9 (0.55%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.37%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.37%) VMware Server
16 5 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 308 (18.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 97 (5.91%) Terraform
3 88 (5.37%) Ansible
4 71 (4.33%) Kubernetes
5 37 (2.26%) SCCM
6 35 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 29 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (1.65%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.52%) WSUS
10 24 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
12 20 (1.22%) ZABBIX
13 19 (1.16%) VxRail
14 18 (1.10%) Autotask
15 16 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (0.98%) SCOM
16 15 (0.91%) Nagios
16 15 (0.91%) Packer
17 14 (0.85%) Grafana
18 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,251 (76.28%) Microsoft
2 683 (41.65%) VMware
3 224 (13.66%) Veeam
4 159 (9.70%) Cisco
5 141 (8.60%) Splunk
6 129 (7.87%) SolarWinds
7 109 (6.65%) Nimble Storage
8 97 (5.91%) Brocade
9 96 (5.85%) Tanium
10 60 (3.66%) Meraki
11 58 (3.54%) Red Hat
12 52 (3.17%) Citrix
13 50 (3.05%) Apple
14 46 (2.80%) HP
15 45 (2.74%) ServiceNow
16 43 (2.62%) Google
16 43 (2.62%) Sophos
17 41 (2.50%) Dell
18 38 (2.32%) SonicWALL
19 37 (2.26%) Fortinet