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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 75
Rank change year-on-year -10 -33 +15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,568 1,334 3,331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.86% 3.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.27% 19.86% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 1,147 2,842
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,563
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 5,969 6,717 13,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.19% 14.42% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,492 4,429 10,602
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -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 1 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 1 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 -6 1,464 £40,000 - 356
UK excluding London +18 1,287 £37,500 - 329
South East +24 336 £40,000 - 105
North of England +32 332 £37,500 +11.94% 78
Work from Home -20 304 £42,500 +1.19% 134
London -68 253 £55,000 -4.35% 78
South West -15 208 £34,250 -14.38% 40
North West +59 180 £35,000 -6.67% 41
East of England +15 173 £35,000 -22.22% 31
Midlands -41 160 £33,500 -4.29% 53
Yorkshire -31 122 £35,500 +18.33% 28
East Midlands -31 86 £31,000 -11.43% 26
West Midlands -50 73 £42,500 +21.43% 27
Wales -21 44 £42,500 -3.51% 13
North East -42 30 £42,500 +21.43% 12
Scotland +27 26 £29,000 -27.50% 8
Northern Ireland -23 8 - - 14

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
1 422 (26.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 281 (17.92%) SharePoint
3 67 (4.27%) IIS
4 30 (1.91%) Confluence
5 9 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.51%) WordPress
7 5 (0.32%) Apache
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.19%) SAS
9 3 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Site Server
11 1 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.064%) CMS
11 1 (0.064%) Drupal
11 1 (0.064%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 166 (10.59%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.26%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.26%) Primavera
4 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.064%) Magento
6 1 (0.064%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (64.03%) Microsoft 365
2 874 (55.74%) Azure
3 426 (27.17%) Entra ID
4 176 (11.22%) AWS
5 108 (6.89%) OneDrive
6 64 (4.08%) SaaS
7 53 (3.38%) IaaS
8 40 (2.55%) Google Workspace
9 38 (2.42%) PaaS
10 37 (2.36%) Nutanix
11 35 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.34%) Mimecast
13 20 (1.28%) GCP
14 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.96%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.89%) GitHub
17 13 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 598 (38.14%) DNS
2 499 (31.82%) Firewall
3 494 (31.51%) DHCP
4 252 (16.07%) VPN
5 230 (14.67%) TCP/IP
6 208 (13.27%) WAN
7 194 (12.37%) LAN
8 180 (11.48%) VLAN
9 134 (8.55%) Wi-Fi
10 111 (7.08%) Wireless
11 107 (6.82%) VoIP
12 75 (4.78%) SAN
13 51 (3.25%) Network Security
14 35 (2.23%) NAS
15 29 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
16 23 (1.47%) Internet
17 19 (1.21%) SD-WAN
18 17 (1.08%) SSL
19 16 (1.02%) VSAN
20 13 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 94 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.66%) MySQL
4 20 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.28%) Power BI
5 16 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.13%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.13%) KNIME
13 2 (0.13%) Looker
13 2 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 56 (3.57%) JIRA
2 49 (3.13%) Git
3 25 (1.59%) GitLab
4 12 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.13%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.064%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.064%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.064%) Gatling
9 1 (0.064%) JMeter
9 1 (0.064%) Vagrant
General
1 692 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 191 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (7.59%) Finance
4 83 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.06%) Retail
7 46 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 35 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.17%) Law
11 29 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 26 (1.66%) Banking
13 22 (1.40%) Legal
14 21 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.89%) Local Government
16 13 (0.83%) Games
16 13 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.64%) Back Office
18 9 (0.57%) Advertising
19 7 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 542 (34.57%) IT Support
2 400 (25.51%) IT Engineer
3 386 (24.62%) Support Engineer
4 330 (21.05%) IT Support Engineer
5 211 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 191 (12.18%) Senior
7 168 (10.71%) IT Technician
8 157 (10.01%) Analyst
9 149 (9.50%) Support Technician
10 136 (8.67%) 2nd Line Support
11 130 (8.29%) IT Support Technician
12 129 (8.23%) Systems Engineer
13 110 (7.02%) Support Analyst
14 98 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 88 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 69 (4.40%) Lead
17 63 (4.02%) IT Analyst
18 62 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 57 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
20 53 (3.38%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.04%) .NET
2 27 (1.72%) HTML
3 24 (1.53%) XMPP
4 23 (1.47%) LDAP
5 22 (1.40%) Regular Expression
6 21 (1.34%) CSS
7 16 (1.02%) Web Services
8 14 (0.89%) ARM Templates
8 14 (0.89%) JSON
9 13 (0.83%) XML
10 12 (0.77%) Middleware
11 11 (0.70%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.38%) JSON Schema
12 6 (0.38%) Keycloak
12 6 (0.38%) SAML
13 5 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.32%) FreeSWITCH
13 5 (0.32%) REST
14 4 (0.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 190 (12.12%) Driving Licence
2 114 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (5.99%) Data Centre
4 87 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
5 81 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
6 77 (4.91%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.06%) PKI
8 47 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 39 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 36 (2.30%) Replication
11 32 (2.04%) Clustering
12 29 (1.85%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.21%) CCTV
14 18 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
16 12 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
17 11 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (0.70%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.70%) IoT
17 11 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,568 (100.00%) Windows
2 356 (22.70%) Linux
3 213 (13.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 175 (11.16%) Windows 10
5 137 (8.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 73 (4.66%) Mac OS
7 64 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 47 (3.00%) Apple iOS
10 37 (2.36%) Ubuntu
11 29 (1.85%) Android
12 25 (1.59%) CentOS
13 22 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
14 21 (1.34%) VMS
15 9 (0.57%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.45%) Unix
16 7 (0.45%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.32%) Debian
18 4 (0.26%) CoreOS
19 2 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
2 396 (25.26%) Customer Service
3 303 (19.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 285 (18.18%) ITIL
5 272 (17.35%) Cybersecurity
6 270 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 252 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 177 (11.29%) Service Delivery
9 150 (9.57%) Migration
10 147 (9.38%) Mentoring
11 128 (8.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 120 (7.65%) Project Delivery
13 119 (7.59%) High Availability
14 110 (7.02%) Customer Experience
15 105 (6.70%) Business Continuity
16 104 (6.63%) Root Cause Analysis
17 101 (6.44%) ITSM
18 94 (5.99%) Kalman Filter
19 89 (5.68%) Change Management
19 89 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 317 (20.22%) PowerShell
2 178 (11.35%) SQL
3 87 (5.55%) Python
4 39 (2.49%) Bash
5 27 (1.72%) C#
6 22 (1.40%) VBA
7 17 (1.08%) Bicep
8 14 (0.89%) Java
9 12 (0.77%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.70%) PHP
11 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.45%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.45%) VBScript
13 6 (0.38%) VB
14 3 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.19%) Ruby
15 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.064%) ABAP
16 1 (0.064%) Korn
Qualifications
1 260 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 154 (9.82%) Degree
3 149 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 134 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 89 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 80 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 80 (5.10%) DBS Check
7 72 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (3.70%) CCNA
9 29 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
10 24 (1.53%) A+ Certification
11 23 (1.47%) CCNP
12 21 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 18 (1.15%) AWS Certification
15 17 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.02%) MCSA
16 16 (1.02%) MCSE
17 11 (0.70%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (10.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 145 (9.25%) SLA
3 81 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 76 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.30%) GDPR
6 31 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (1.34%) NIST
8 8 (0.51%) QA
9 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.19%) COBIT
10 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.19%) RMADS
11 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.064%) DICOM
12 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.064%) HL7
12 1 (0.064%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.064%) ITGC
12 1 (0.064%) NCSC
12 1 (0.064%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,079 (68.81%) Active Directory
2 439 (28.00%) Hyper-V
3 430 (27.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 116 (7.40%) vSphere
5 75 (4.78%) Terminal Server
6 47 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
7 46 (2.93%) Docker
8 40 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.72%) VMware NSX
10 26 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.57%) Squid
12 9 (0.57%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.38%) Firmware
14 6 (0.38%) VMware Server
15 5 (0.32%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.19%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 282 (17.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (5.87%) Terraform
3 85 (5.42%) Ansible
4 70 (4.46%) Kubernetes
5 42 (2.68%) SCCM
6 37 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 35 (2.23%) vCenter Server
8 32 (2.04%) FortiGate
9 28 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 25 (1.59%) WSUS
11 22 (1.40%) Autotask
11 22 (1.40%) VxRail
12 17 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
12 17 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.02%) Nagios
14 15 (0.96%) Packer
14 15 (0.96%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.89%) SCOM
16 13 (0.83%) Grafana
17 10 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,190 (75.89%) Microsoft
2 641 (40.88%) VMware
3 178 (11.35%) Veeam
4 143 (9.12%) Cisco
5 116 (7.40%) Splunk
6 103 (6.57%) SolarWinds
7 91 (5.80%) Nimble Storage
8 73 (4.66%) Brocade
9 72 (4.59%) Tanium
10 58 (3.70%) Meraki
11 55 (3.51%) Apple
12 54 (3.44%) Red Hat
13 53 (3.38%) Google
14 50 (3.19%) Citrix
14 50 (3.19%) HP
15 48 (3.06%) Dell
16 38 (2.42%) ServiceNow
17 37 (2.36%) Sophos
18 35 (2.23%) Oracle
19 32 (2.04%) McAfee