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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 86 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 -28 +54
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,447 2,009 2,381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.63% 3.17% 4.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.03% 22.42% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 1,219 2,108
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,696 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,875 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% +3.66% +2.50%

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 5,163 8,960 8,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 14.13% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,872 5,262 7,103
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +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 4 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Top 18 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 4 December 2025. 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 +1 1,348 £40,000 -11.11% 450
UK excluding London -14 1,126 £38,500 -9.41% 440
Work from Home -39 324 £45,497 -6.19% 158
South East +7 284 £40,000 -11.11% 156
London -47 262 £57,500 -11.54% 83
South West +24 248 £37,500 -11.76% 48
North of England -15 229 £39,250 -5.42% 102
East of England +8 174 £47,500 +5.56% 60
Midlands -11 154 £32,500 -18.75% 53
Yorkshire -8 111 £32,500 -21.69% 41
East Midlands +4 98 £27,500 -21.43% 21
North West -10 90 £40,500 -4.71% 56
West Midlands -34 56 £42,000 -1.18% 32
Wales +1 29 £58,750 +46.88% 9
North East -2 28 £35,000 -6.67% 9
Scotland -38 20 £38,000 -1.94% 21
Northern Ireland -4 6 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £65,000 -

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
1 488 (33.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 250 (17.28%) SharePoint
3 76 (5.25%) IIS
4 16 (1.11%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Solr
6 11 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
7 10 (0.69%) Confluence
8 9 (0.62%) CMS
8 9 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.48%) WinCC
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
12 3 (0.21%) Apache
12 3 (0.21%) WordPress
13 2 (0.14%) ArchestrA
14 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 91 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.41%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.21%) CATIA
6 3 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.35%) PlanetPress Connect
3 5 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.069%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.069%) Eikon
7 1 (0.069%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.069%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.069%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.069%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 940 (64.96%) Microsoft 365
2 914 (63.17%) Azure
3 350 (24.19%) Entra ID
4 137 (9.47%) AWS
5 76 (5.25%) SaaS
6 73 (5.04%) OneDrive
7 63 (4.35%) IaaS
8 48 (3.32%) PaaS
9 45 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 31 (2.14%) Google Workspace
12 30 (2.07%) GCP
13 27 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
14 25 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 23 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.31%) GitHub
17 18 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (1.24%) Nutanix
18 14 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
19 13 (0.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 575 (39.74%) DNS
2 542 (37.46%) DHCP
3 468 (32.34%) Firewall
4 239 (16.52%) TCP/IP
5 222 (15.34%) VPN
6 200 (13.82%) VLAN
7 192 (13.27%) WAN
8 175 (12.09%) LAN
9 107 (7.39%) VoIP
9 107 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (5.46%) SAN
11 70 (4.84%) Wireless
12 42 (2.90%) Internet
12 42 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
12 42 (2.90%) SD-WAN
13 33 (2.28%) Network Security
14 21 (1.45%) SSL
15 18 (1.24%) IP Telephony
15 18 (1.24%) Kerberos
16 16 (1.11%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (8.98%) SQL Server
2 109 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (2.07%) MySQL
4 14 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.62%) DTS
7 8 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.28%) Data Hub
9 4 (0.28%) MS Access
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.28%) Power BI
9 4 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (0.28%) SQL CLR
10 3 (0.21%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.069%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 41 (2.83%) Git
2 21 (1.45%) JIRA
3 10 (0.69%) GitLab
3 10 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.28%) Toad
7 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.069%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.069%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.069%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 646 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 140 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (7.88%) Finance
4 75 (5.18%) Manufacturing
5 62 (4.28%) Law
6 46 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (3.11%) Legal
7 45 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 42 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.56%) Retail
10 36 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.31%) Advertising
12 16 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.90%) Automotive
14 12 (0.83%) Marketing
15 10 (0.69%) Banking
15 10 (0.69%) Military
16 9 (0.62%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 392 (27.09%) IT Support
2 327 (22.60%) Support Engineer
3 278 (19.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 241 (16.66%) IT Engineer
5 189 (13.06%) IT Support Engineer
6 161 (11.13%) Analyst
7 151 (10.44%) 2nd Line Support
8 148 (10.23%) Senior
9 144 (9.95%) Systems Engineer
10 139 (9.61%) 3rd Line Support
11 126 (8.71%) Support Analyst
12 99 (6.84%) Technical Support
13 81 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 77 (5.32%) Support Technician
15 68 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
16 67 (4.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 66 (4.56%) Infrastructure Support
18 63 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 62 (4.28%) 1st Line Support
20 60 (4.15%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.07%) .NET
2 19 (1.31%) LDAP
3 10 (0.69%) Node.js
4 8 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (0.55%) HTML
5 7 (0.48%) CSS
6 6 (0.41%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.35%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.35%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.35%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.35%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.35%) Kafka
7 5 (0.35%) YAML
8 4 (0.28%) Dapper ORM
8 4 (0.28%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.28%) Middleware
8 4 (0.28%) RESTful
8 4 (0.28%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 178 (12.30%) Driving Licence
2 99 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
3 75 (5.18%) Onboarding
4 62 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
7 41 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.35%) PKI
9 32 (2.21%) Clustering
10 30 (2.07%) Replication
11 27 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.52%) CCTV
13 19 (1.31%) CMDB
14 17 (1.17%) iPad
14 17 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.97%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.97%) Hedge funds
16 14 (0.97%) SCADA
17 10 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,447 (100.00%) Windows
2 309 (21.35%) Linux
3 182 (12.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 172 (11.89%) Windows 10
5 158 (10.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (5.25%) Mac OS
7 50 (3.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 36 (2.49%) Android
9 30 (2.07%) Apple iOS
10 28 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (1.24%) Unix
12 16 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.55%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.55%) Rocky
14 7 (0.48%) Debian
14 7 (0.48%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.41%) Solaris
15 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.35%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (32.83%) Problem-Solving
2 381 (26.33%) Customer Service
3 353 (24.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 281 (19.42%) ITIL
5 207 (14.31%) Migration
6 182 (12.58%) Cybersecurity
7 160 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 147 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 146 (10.09%) Mentoring
10 126 (8.71%) Service Delivery
11 110 (7.60%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 97 (6.70%) Customer Experience
12 97 (6.70%) Kalman Filter
12 97 (6.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 96 (6.63%) Web Filtering
14 90 (6.22%) Email Filtering
15 89 (6.15%) Service Management
16 83 (5.74%) DevOps
16 83 (5.74%) Incident Management
17 81 (5.60%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 341 (23.57%) PowerShell
2 130 (8.98%) SQL
3 69 (4.77%) Python
4 25 (1.73%) Bash
5 24 (1.66%) VB
6 23 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.17%) C#
8 12 (0.83%) VBA
9 11 (0.76%) PHP
10 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.48%) VBScript
12 6 (0.41%) Bicep
12 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.21%) Tcl
14 2 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
15 1 (0.069%) Delphi
15 1 (0.069%) Go
15 1 (0.069%) Java
Qualifications
1 191 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 147 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 127 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 110 (7.60%) Degree
5 61 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (3.39%) CCNA
8 47 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 39 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
10 35 (2.42%) DBS Check
11 34 (2.35%) MCSA
12 33 (2.28%) MCP
13 29 (2.00%) MCSE
14 27 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 25 (1.73%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.52%) A+ Certification
17 18 (1.24%) CCNP
18 14 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
19 13 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
20 8 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (10.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 95 (6.57%) PCI DSS
3 82 (5.67%) SLA
4 54 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (3.18%) GDPR
6 19 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (1.17%) QA
8 7 (0.48%) GxP
8 7 (0.48%) IEC 61508
8 7 (0.48%) NIST
9 5 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (0.35%) GRC
9 5 (0.35%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 2 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.069%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.069%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.069%) HL7
System Software
1 1,016 (70.21%) Active Directory
2 448 (30.96%) Hyper-V
3 337 (23.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 92 (6.36%) Terminal Server
5 60 (4.15%) vSphere
6 51 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
7 50 (3.46%) Docker
8 42 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 18 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.90%) Firmware
12 9 (0.62%) XenApp
13 8 (0.55%) vCloud
14 7 (0.48%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
15 5 (0.35%) Kamailio
15 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.35%) NFS
16 4 (0.28%) ISA Server
17 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 355 (24.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (6.08%) SCCM
3 60 (4.15%) Kubernetes
4 57 (3.94%) Terraform
5 53 (3.66%) Ansible
6 40 (2.76%) WSUS
7 39 (2.70%) vCenter Server
8 32 (2.21%) Autotask
9 24 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (1.52%) SCOM
11 16 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.97%) Puppet
13 12 (0.83%) Nagios
14 11 (0.76%) Backup Exec
14 11 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
14 11 (0.76%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.69%) Prometheus
16 9 (0.62%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.48%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,017 (70.28%) Microsoft
2 558 (38.56%) VMware
3 183 (12.65%) Veeam
4 142 (9.81%) Cisco
5 125 (8.64%) SolarWinds
6 97 (6.70%) Nimble Storage
6 97 (6.70%) Tanium
7 94 (6.50%) Splunk
8 88 (6.08%) Brocade
9 58 (4.01%) Apple
10 55 (3.80%) Google
11 50 (3.46%) Citrix
12 40 (2.76%) Datto
12 40 (2.76%) Oracle
13 37 (2.56%) Red Hat
14 36 (2.49%) Meraki
15 35 (2.42%) Dell
16 28 (1.94%) ServiceNow
17 26 (1.80%) HP
17 26 (1.80%) SonicWALL