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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 102 81
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,646 1,476 2,595
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.99% 2.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.30% 21.23% 23.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 1,272 2,167
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,375 £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 £65,250
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 6,259 6,954 11,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 14.10% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,721 4,647 8,383
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,950 £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 £39,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% -12.22% -

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 28 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 28 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 1,526 £41,000 +2.50% 361
UK excluding London +5 1,377 £39,000 +2.38% 326
South East +21 364 £42,500 +6.25% 122
North of England +19 342 £37,500 +11.94% 78
Work from Home -22 341 £42,500 - 138
London -96 238 £55,000 -4.35% 78
South West -15 235 £33,500 -15.72% 30
North West +65 184 £35,000 -5.41% 45
Midlands -35 175 £34,500 -1.43% 50
East of England -1 169 £36,500 -18.89% 36
Yorkshire -38 124 £35,500 +18.33% 20
East Midlands -26 95 £31,000 -11.43% 20
West Midlands -33 80 £42,500 +21.43% 30
Wales -34 49 £40,000 -30.43% 9
Scotland +33 36 £32,500 -18.75% 12
North East -37 34 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Northern Ireland -62 7 £40,000 -27.27% 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
1 449 (27.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 276 (16.77%) SharePoint
3 74 (4.50%) IIS
4 32 (1.94%) 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
1 157 (9.54%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.25%) 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 (0.36%) 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 1,065 (64.70%) Microsoft 365
2 911 (55.35%) Azure
3 453 (27.52%) Entra ID
4 184 (11.18%) AWS
5 100 (6.08%) OneDrive
6 62 (3.77%) SaaS
7 50 (3.04%) IaaS
8 38 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.19%) PaaS
10 31 (1.88%) Nutanix
11 27 (1.64%) 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 (0.97%) 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
1 637 (38.70%) DNS
2 528 (32.08%) Firewall
3 520 (31.59%) DHCP
4 256 (15.55%) VPN
5 250 (15.19%) TCP/IP
6 207 (12.58%) WAN
7 196 (11.91%) LAN
8 191 (11.60%) VLAN
9 127 (7.72%) Wireless
10 126 (7.65%) Wi-Fi
11 115 (6.99%) VoIP
12 72 (4.37%) SAN
13 57 (3.46%) Network Security
14 36 (2.19%) NAS
15 28 (1.70%) Internet
16 24 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
17 22 (1.34%) SSL
18 17 (1.03%) SD-WAN
19 15 (0.91%) VSAN
20 14 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 116 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.46%) MySQL
4 21 (1.28%) Power BI
5 16 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.12%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.12%) Looker
14 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (3.40%) JIRA
2 49 (2.98%) 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 (0.36%) 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%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.061%) Vagrant
General
1 725 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 226 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (7.41%) Finance
4 71 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (3.40%) Retail
7 53 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 44 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.31%) Law
11 35 (2.13%) Legal
12 30 (1.82%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.34%) Banking
14 19 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.85%) Local Government
16 13 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.67%) Military
18 10 (0.61%) Advertising
18 10 (0.61%) Games
19 8 (0.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 529 (32.14%) IT Support
2 399 (24.24%) IT Engineer
3 386 (23.45%) Support Engineer
4 327 (19.87%) IT Support Engineer
5 230 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 192 (11.66%) Senior
7 182 (11.06%) Analyst
8 158 (9.60%) Systems Engineer
9 154 (9.36%) IT Technician
10 137 (8.32%) Support Technician
11 132 (8.02%) 2nd Line Support
12 128 (7.78%) Support Analyst
13 119 (7.23%) IT Support Technician
14 87 (5.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 81 (4.92%) IT Analyst
16 76 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 66 (4.01%) IT Support Analyst
17 66 (4.01%) Lead
18 63 (3.83%) Administrator
18 63 (3.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.37%) .NET
2 33 (2.00%) HTML
3 28 (1.70%) Web Services
4 27 (1.64%) CSS
5 25 (1.52%) XMPP
6 24 (1.46%) LDAP
7 23 (1.40%) Regular Expression
8 20 (1.22%) XML
9 18 (1.09%) .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 (0.36%) 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%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 201 (12.21%) Driving Licence
2 110 (6.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 101 (6.14%) Data Centre
5 87 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 84 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.79%) PKI
9 42 (2.55%) Replication
10 39 (2.37%) Clustering
11 34 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.70%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.34%) CCTV
14 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.15%) 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 1,646 (100.00%) Windows
2 410 (24.91%) Linux
3 229 (13.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 160 (9.72%) Windows 10
5 128 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 66 (4.01%) Mac OS
8 46 (2.79%) Ubuntu
9 42 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (2.37%) Apple iOS
11 30 (1.82%) Android
12 29 (1.76%) CentOS
13 20 (1.22%) VMS
14 18 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.36%) Debian
15 6 (0.36%) Unix
15 6 (0.36%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.30%) Rocky
16 5 (0.30%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (34.87%) Problem-Solving
2 423 (25.70%) Customer Service
3 336 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 308 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (17.86%) ITIL
6 278 (16.89%) Cybersecurity
7 272 (16.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 188 (11.42%) Migration
9 183 (11.12%) Service Delivery
10 151 (9.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 150 (9.11%) Customer Experience
12 139 (8.44%) High Availability
13 138 (8.38%) Mentoring
13 138 (8.38%) Project Delivery
14 120 (7.29%) Kalman Filter
15 115 (6.99%) Business Continuity
16 111 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
17 110 (6.68%) ITSM
18 108 (6.56%) Web Filtering
19 104 (6.32%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 315 (19.14%) PowerShell
2 187 (11.36%) SQL
3 96 (5.83%) Python
4 47 (2.86%) Bash
5 37 (2.25%) 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 10 (0.61%) 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%) Perl
14 4 (0.24%) VB
15 3 (0.18%) Go
15 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 292 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 191 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.36%) Degree
4 140 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 94 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 90 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 87 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
8 78 (4.74%) DBS Check
9 71 (4.31%) CCNA
10 28 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
11 27 (1.64%) CCNP
12 22 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 21 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (1.09%) A+ Certification
16 17 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.91%) MCSA
17 15 (0.91%) MCSE
18 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (11.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 145 (8.81%) SLA
3 104 (6.32%) PCI DSS
4 74 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.25%) GDPR
6 30 (1.82%) 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 1,114 (67.68%) Active Directory
2 488 (29.65%) Hyper-V
3 450 (27.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 109 (6.62%) vSphere
5 98 (5.95%) Terminal Server
6 61 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
7 52 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (2.86%) 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 10 (0.61%) Firmware
14 9 (0.55%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.36%) VMware Server
17 5 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
18 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
19 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 311 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 98 (5.95%) Terraform
3 87 (5.29%) Ansible
4 71 (4.31%) Kubernetes
5 37 (2.25%) SCCM
6 35 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 29 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 24 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (1.46%) WSUS
10 22 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
11 20 (1.22%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.09%) Autotask
12 18 (1.09%) VxRail
13 16 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (0.97%) Nagios
13 16 (0.97%) SCOM
14 15 (0.91%) Packer
15 14 (0.85%) Grafana
16 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,257 (76.37%) Microsoft
2 686 (41.68%) VMware
3 224 (13.61%) Veeam
4 163 (9.90%) Cisco
5 142 (8.63%) Splunk
6 130 (7.90%) SolarWinds
7 109 (6.62%) Nimble Storage
8 97 (5.89%) Brocade
9 96 (5.83%) Tanium
10 60 (3.65%) Meraki
11 59 (3.58%) Red Hat
12 52 (3.16%) Citrix
13 50 (3.04%) Apple
14 46 (2.79%) HP
15 45 (2.73%) ServiceNow
16 44 (2.67%) Sophos
17 43 (2.61%) Google
18 40 (2.43%) Dell
19 39 (2.37%) Fortinet
19 39 (2.37%) SonicWALL