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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 96 71
Rank change year-on-year -36 -25 +28
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,352 1,297 3,494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.51% 3.06% 3.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.14% 20.08% 25.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 1,116 3,107
10th Percentile £27,375 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,203 £75,000 £67,500
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 5,378 6,459 13,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.00% 15.25% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,919 4,359 10,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,918 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -35 1,243 £40,000 -5.88% 293
UK excluding London -20 1,058 £37,500 -1.56% 279
Work from Home -47 297 £42,500 - 102
North of England -9 281 £35,000 +3.70% 58
South East +15 276 £40,000 -11.11% 97
London -69 262 £52,500 -12.50% 54
South West -19 168 £32,500 -18.75% 41
North West +14 147 £35,000 -9.09% 23
Midlands -69 142 £32,500 -7.14% 35
Yorkshire -42 113 £34,000 +13.33% 25
East of England -16 111 £40,000 -5.88% 35
East Midlands -54 80 £29,000 -17.14% 20
West Midlands -72 61 £40,000 +8.11% 15
Scotland -18 35 £31,500 -21.25% 9
Wales -13 31 £45,000 +18.13% 8
North East -37 21 £45,000 +28.57% 11
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 9

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
1 341 (25.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 235 (17.38%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.11%) IIS
4 22 (1.63%) Confluence
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.22%) Apache
7 3 (0.22%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.074%) CMS
9 1 (0.074%) Drupal
9 1 (0.074%) nginx
9 1 (0.074%) Site Server
Applications
1 169 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.15%) CATIA
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.15%) Windchill
5 1 (0.074%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.30%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.30%) Primavera
4 3 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.074%) Magento
6 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.074%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.074%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 829 (61.32%) Microsoft 365
2 740 (54.73%) Azure
3 347 (25.67%) Entra ID
4 156 (11.54%) AWS
5 104 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 63 (4.66%) Google Workspace
6 63 (4.66%) SaaS
7 46 (3.40%) Nutanix
8 44 (3.25%) IaaS
9 31 (2.29%) PaaS
10 26 (1.92%) Power Platform
11 18 (1.33%) GCP
12 15 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (0.89%) GitHub
15 12 (0.89%) Mimecast
16 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 540 (39.94%) DNS
2 475 (35.13%) DHCP
3 398 (29.44%) Firewall
4 231 (17.09%) VPN
5 213 (15.75%) WAN
6 201 (14.87%) TCP/IP
7 192 (14.20%) LAN
8 136 (10.06%) VLAN
9 111 (8.21%) Wi-Fi
10 88 (6.51%) Wireless
11 79 (5.84%) VoIP
12 66 (4.88%) SAN
13 45 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
14 38 (2.81%) Network Security
15 33 (2.44%) SD-WAN
16 29 (2.14%) NAS
17 20 (1.48%) Internet
18 17 (1.26%) WLAN
19 15 (1.11%) IPsec
20 14 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 71 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (1.55%) MySQL
4 18 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.26%) Power BI
6 13 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.15%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.15%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.074%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.074%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.074%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.074%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (3.48%) JIRA
2 43 (3.18%) Git
3 17 (1.26%) GitLab
4 11 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Subversion
9 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.074%) Gatling
11 1 (0.074%) JMeter
11 1 (0.074%) Vagrant
General
1 560 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 153 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (9.39%) Finance
4 76 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 49 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.55%) Retail
8 41 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.88%) Law
10 30 (2.22%) Banking
11 25 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.04%) Games
14 13 (0.96%) Legal
15 10 (0.74%) Advertising
15 10 (0.74%) Back Office
16 9 (0.67%) Front Office
16 9 (0.67%) Marketing
17 8 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 463 (34.25%) IT Support
2 346 (25.59%) Support Engineer
3 344 (25.44%) IT Engineer
4 293 (21.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 189 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 165 (12.20%) Senior
7 157 (11.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 127 (9.39%) IT Technician
9 119 (8.80%) Analyst
10 111 (8.21%) Support Technician
11 109 (8.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 101 (7.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 89 (6.58%) IT Support Technician
13 89 (6.58%) Support Analyst
14 82 (6.07%) Systems Engineer
15 71 (5.25%) 3rd Line Support
16 65 (4.81%) Lead
17 57 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (4.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 51 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.85%) .NET
2 15 (1.11%) LDAP
2 15 (1.11%) XMPP
3 14 (1.04%) HTML
3 14 (1.04%) Regular Expression
4 12 (0.89%) CSS
5 11 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (0.59%) Web Services
7 7 (0.52%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.52%) JSON
8 5 (0.37%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (0.37%) Middleware
8 5 (0.37%) OAuth
8 5 (0.37%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.37%) OpenID
8 5 (0.37%) REST
8 5 (0.37%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.37%) SAML
9 4 (0.30%) ADO
9 4 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (12.72%) Driving Licence
2 87 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 58 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 39 (2.88%) Replication
9 29 (2.14%) PKI
10 26 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.18%) CCTV
12 16 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
14 13 (0.96%) Clustering
15 12 (0.89%) Fat Client
15 12 (0.89%) iPad
15 12 (0.89%) Thin Client
16 11 (0.81%) Social Media
17 10 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,352 (100.00%) Windows
2 281 (20.78%) Linux
3 182 (13.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 176 (13.02%) Windows 10
5 101 (7.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 60 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (4.14%) Mac OS
8 55 (4.07%) Apple iOS
9 49 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 36 (2.66%) Android
11 31 (2.29%) Ubuntu
12 22 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (1.11%) CentOS
13 15 (1.11%) Unix
14 11 (0.81%) Windows 7
15 10 (0.74%) VMS
16 9 (0.67%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.37%) Debian
18 4 (0.30%) Solaris
19 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
2 334 (24.70%) Customer Service
3 292 (21.60%) ITIL
4 259 (19.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 189 (13.98%) Cybersecurity
6 169 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 161 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 152 (11.24%) Service Delivery
9 127 (9.39%) Mentoring
10 114 (8.43%) Migration
11 113 (8.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 95 (7.03%) ITSM
13 89 (6.58%) High Availability
14 86 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
15 85 (6.29%) Change Management
15 85 (6.29%) Customer Experience
16 84 (6.21%) Business Continuity
17 79 (5.84%) DevOps
18 74 (5.47%) Kalman Filter
19 71 (5.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 276 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 144 (10.65%) SQL
3 72 (5.33%) Python
4 29 (2.14%) Bash
5 14 (1.04%) C#
6 13 (0.96%) Bicep
7 12 (0.89%) VB.NET
8 11 (0.81%) VBA
9 9 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.52%) Java
11 7 (0.52%) PHP
11 7 (0.52%) VB
12 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.37%) VBScript
13 2 (0.15%) Go
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.074%) Delphi
14 1 (0.074%) Korn
14 1 (0.074%) Perl
Qualifications
1 222 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 130 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.99%) Degree
4 99 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 87 (6.43%) DV Cleared
6 70 (5.18%) DBS Check
7 50 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 42 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (2.37%) CCNA
10 29 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
11 19 (1.41%) A+ Certification
11 19 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.26%) MCSE
13 16 (1.18%) CCNP
14 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (0.81%) HNC
15 11 (0.81%) HND
16 10 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.74%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.43%) SLA
2 110 (8.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (5.10%) PCI DSS
4 63 (4.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.63%) GDPR
6 19 (1.41%) NIST
7 16 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.44%) QA
9 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.074%) COBIT
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.074%) ITGC
13 1 (0.074%) RMADS
System Software
1 929 (68.71%) Active Directory
2 334 (24.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 331 (24.48%) Hyper-V
4 88 (6.51%) vSphere
5 59 (4.36%) Terminal Server
6 44 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
7 35 (2.59%) Docker
8 33 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (1.70%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.96%) Terminal Services
12 12 (0.89%) Firmware
13 9 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.30%) Squid
17 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.15%) XenApp
18 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 229 (16.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (6.14%) Terraform
3 69 (5.10%) Ansible
4 52 (3.85%) Kubernetes
5 46 (3.40%) SCCM
6 42 (3.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 36 (2.66%) vCenter Server
8 24 (1.78%) WSUS
9 21 (1.55%) Autotask
10 20 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (1.41%) FortiGate
12 18 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
12 18 (1.33%) SCOM
12 18 (1.33%) VxRail
13 11 (0.81%) Grafana
13 11 (0.81%) Nagios
14 10 (0.74%) Packer
14 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.74%) Puppet
14 10 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 910 (67.31%) Microsoft
2 533 (39.42%) VMware
3 128 (9.47%) Veeam
4 114 (8.43%) Cisco
5 89 (6.58%) SolarWinds
5 89 (6.58%) Splunk
6 84 (6.21%) Nimble Storage
7 65 (4.81%) Google
8 60 (4.44%) Dell
9 56 (4.14%) Brocade
9 56 (4.14%) Tanium
10 52 (3.85%) HP
11 49 (3.62%) Apple
11 49 (3.62%) Citrix
12 42 (3.11%) Red Hat
13 38 (2.81%) Meraki
14 33 (2.44%) ServiceNow
15 31 (2.29%) Oracle
16 30 (2.22%) McAfee
17 28 (2.07%) Dell Compellent