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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 118 73
Rank change year-on-year -15 -45 +25
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,380 1,187 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.49% 2.79% 3.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.95% 18.39% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,000 2,970
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,716 £73,997 £66,250
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 5,531 6,454 13,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 15.16% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,103 4,055 10,699
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,100 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -19 1,276 £40,000 -3.61% 310
UK excluding London +13 1,101 £37,500 - 272
North of England +32 294 £35,500 +8.40% 66
South East +31 286 £40,000 -5.88% 85
Work from Home -22 270 £42,500 +1.19% 109
London -64 253 £56,250 -3.02% 64
South West -12 185 £35,000 -12.50% 43
North West +57 153 £37,500 - 37
Midlands -66 134 £32,500 -7.14% 40
East of England -5 122 £36,500 -17.05% 31
Yorkshire -28 116 £34,000 +13.33% 24
East Midlands -34 76 £29,625 -15.36% 19
West Midlands -78 57 £39,500 +12.86% 21
Wales -9 37 £45,000 +18.13% 9
Scotland +7 32 £31,500 -37.00% 5
North East -31 25 £45,000 +34.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 11 - -

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
1 339 (24.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 238 (17.25%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.99%) IIS
4 25 (1.81%) Confluence
5 9 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.36%) WordPress
7 4 (0.29%) Apache
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.22%) JBoss
8 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.072%) CMS
10 1 (0.072%) Drupal
10 1 (0.072%) nginx
10 1 (0.072%) Site Server
Applications
1 163 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.29%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.29%) Primavera
3 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.072%) Magento
5 1 (0.072%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 842 (61.01%) Microsoft 365
2 757 (54.86%) Azure
3 341 (24.71%) Entra ID
4 160 (11.59%) AWS
5 95 (6.88%) OneDrive
6 60 (4.35%) SaaS
7 56 (4.06%) Google Workspace
8 50 (3.62%) IaaS
9 42 (3.04%) Nutanix
10 36 (2.61%) PaaS
11 31 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.16%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.01%) GCP
13 14 (1.01%) GitHub
13 14 (1.01%) Mimecast
14 13 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 518 (37.54%) DNS
2 443 (32.10%) DHCP
3 397 (28.77%) Firewall
4 222 (16.09%) VPN
5 199 (14.42%) WAN
6 187 (13.55%) TCP/IP
7 180 (13.04%) LAN
8 134 (9.71%) VLAN
9 116 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
10 83 (6.01%) VoIP
11 80 (5.80%) Wireless
12 66 (4.78%) SAN
13 41 (2.97%) Remote Desktop
14 37 (2.68%) Network Security
15 32 (2.32%) NAS
16 23 (1.67%) SD-WAN
17 18 (1.30%) Internet
17 18 (1.30%) WLAN
18 16 (1.16%) VSAN
19 15 (1.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.72%) SQL Server
2 77 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (1.88%) MySQL
4 20 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.30%) Power BI
6 13 (0.94%) Oracle Database
6 13 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.14%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.14%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.072%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.072%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.072%) KNIME
13 1 (0.072%) Looker
Development Applications
1 51 (3.70%) Git
2 47 (3.41%) JIRA
3 22 (1.59%) GitLab
4 11 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.29%) Subversion
9 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.072%) Gatling
11 1 (0.072%) JMeter
11 1 (0.072%) Vagrant
General
1 568 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 159 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (8.84%) Finance
4 75 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (3.70%) Retail
6 49 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.46%) Law
10 31 (2.25%) Banking
11 25 (1.81%) Public Sector
12 23 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.45%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.45%) Legal
14 11 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.80%) Local Government
15 10 (0.72%) Back Office
15 10 (0.72%) Games
16 9 (0.65%) Advertising
17 8 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 467 (33.84%) IT Support
2 345 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 330 (23.91%) Support Engineer
4 287 (20.80%) IT Support Engineer
5 186 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 174 (12.61%) Senior
7 144 (10.43%) IT Technician
8 138 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 128 (9.28%) Analyst
10 124 (8.99%) Support Technician
11 103 (7.46%) IT Support Technician
12 95 (6.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 91 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
14 89 (6.45%) Support Analyst
15 88 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 60 (4.35%) Lead
17 59 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
17 59 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 55 (3.99%) 3rd Line Support
19 51 (3.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.32%) .NET
2 21 (1.52%) HTML
3 18 (1.30%) XMPP
4 17 (1.23%) CSS
5 16 (1.16%) LDAP
5 16 (1.16%) Regular Expression
6 12 (0.87%) ARM Templates
7 10 (0.72%) JSON
7 10 (0.72%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.51%) SAML
9 6 (0.43%) XML
10 5 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (0.36%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (0.36%) Keycloak
10 5 (0.36%) OAuth
10 5 (0.36%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.36%) OpenID
10 5 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.67%) Driving Licence
2 95 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 80 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 74 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (3.84%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.26%) Public Cloud
8 41 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 41 (2.97%) Replication
9 36 (2.61%) PKI
10 22 (1.59%) Clustering
11 21 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
13 14 (1.01%) CCTV
14 13 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
15 11 (0.80%) CMDB
15 11 (0.80%) Private Cloud
16 10 (0.72%) Fat Client
16 10 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,380 (100.00%) Windows
2 302 (21.88%) Linux
3 183 (13.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 155 (11.23%) Windows 10
5 120 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 61 (4.42%) Mac OS
6 61 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 52 (3.77%) Apple iOS
9 36 (2.61%) Android
9 36 (2.61%) Ubuntu
10 24 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
11 22 (1.59%) CentOS
12 16 (1.16%) VMS
13 14 (1.01%) Unix
14 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.51%) Windows 8
16 5 (0.36%) Debian
17 4 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (32.68%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (24.42%) Customer Service
3 272 (19.71%) ITIL
4 262 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 204 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
6 194 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 184 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 147 (10.65%) Service Delivery
9 118 (8.55%) Mentoring
10 109 (7.90%) Migration
10 109 (7.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 103 (7.46%) High Availability
12 90 (6.52%) ITSM
13 89 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 87 (6.30%) Business Continuity
14 87 (6.30%) Customer Experience
15 86 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 84 (6.09%) Project Delivery
17 79 (5.72%) Change Management
18 78 (5.65%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 285 (20.65%) PowerShell
2 151 (10.94%) SQL
3 80 (5.80%) Python
4 31 (2.25%) Bash
5 20 (1.45%) C#
6 16 (1.16%) Bicep
6 16 (1.16%) VBA
7 13 (0.94%) VB.NET
8 11 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.72%) Java
9 10 (0.72%) PHP
10 8 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.51%) VBScript
12 6 (0.43%) VB
13 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.14%) Go
14 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.072%) C
15 1 (0.072%) Korn
15 1 (0.072%) Perl
Qualifications
1 235 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 133 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 129 (9.35%) Degree
4 116 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 86 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 72 (5.22%) DBS Check
7 61 (4.42%) Azure Certification
8 45 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.68%) CCNA
10 30 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
11 23 (1.67%) A+ Certification
12 20 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.45%) MCSE
13 18 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.16%) CCNP
15 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 12 (0.87%) MCSA
17 11 (0.80%) HNC
17 11 (0.80%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 115 (8.33%) SLA
3 68 (4.93%) PCI DSS
4 67 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.81%) NIST
6 24 (1.74%) GDPR
7 22 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.58%) QA
9 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.22%) COBIT
10 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.14%) GRC
11 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.072%) DICOM
12 1 (0.072%) HL7
12 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.072%) ITGC
12 1 (0.072%) NCSC
12 1 (0.072%) RMADS
System Software
1 931 (67.46%) Active Directory
2 360 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 339 (24.57%) Hyper-V
4 99 (7.17%) vSphere
5 59 (4.28%) Terminal Server
6 43 (3.12%) VMware ESXi
7 40 (2.90%) Docker
8 26 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (1.74%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.80%) Terminal Services
12 10 (0.72%) Firmware
13 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.51%) Squid
13 7 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.29%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.22%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 224 (16.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 98 (7.10%) Terraform
3 78 (5.65%) Ansible
4 62 (4.49%) Kubernetes
5 50 (3.62%) SCCM
6 43 (3.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 36 (2.61%) vCenter Server
8 28 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.67%) WSUS
10 21 (1.52%) Autotask
10 21 (1.52%) FortiGate
11 20 (1.45%) VxRail
12 18 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
13 17 (1.23%) SCOM
14 15 (1.09%) Nagios
15 14 (1.01%) Packer
16 13 (0.94%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.87%) Grafana
18 10 (0.72%) Puppet
19 9 (0.65%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 966 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 556 (40.29%) VMware
3 143 (10.36%) Veeam
4 113 (8.19%) Cisco
5 97 (7.03%) Splunk
6 90 (6.52%) SolarWinds
7 80 (5.80%) Nimble Storage
8 63 (4.57%) Google
9 56 (4.06%) Brocade
9 56 (4.06%) Tanium
10 54 (3.91%) Dell
11 52 (3.77%) Apple
11 52 (3.77%) HP
12 51 (3.70%) Citrix
13 48 (3.48%) Red Hat
14 44 (3.19%) Meraki
15 33 (2.39%) Oracle
16 31 (2.25%) McAfee
17 28 (2.03%) ServiceNow
18 24 (1.74%) Dell Compellent