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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 85 57
Rank change year-on-year -6 -28 +58
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,435 1,999 2,424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.64% 3.13% 4.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.03% 22.36% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 1,201 2,144
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,745 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £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 £73,600
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 5,119 8,942 8,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 13.99% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,839 5,238 7,215
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,900 £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 2 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 2 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 1,340 £40,000 -11.11% 463
UK excluding London -14 1,119 £38,500 -9.41% 451
Work from Home -45 318 £45,497 -4.22% 168
South East +8 282 £40,000 -11.11% 160
London -44 258 £57,500 -11.54% 86
South West +24 249 £37,500 -11.76% 50
North of England -14 227 £37,750 -9.04% 109
East of England +10 174 £47,500 +4.40% 58
Midlands -17 153 £32,500 -18.75% 55
Yorkshire -7 110 £32,500 -21.69% 45
East Midlands +6 98 £27,500 -21.43% 20
North West -6 89 £40,500 -4.71% 58
West Midlands -35 55 £40,000 -5.88% 34
Wales -3 28 £60,000 +50.00% 10
North East -4 28 £35,000 -6.67% 10
Scotland -47 19 £38,000 +1.33% 21
Northern Ireland -5 5 £55,000 +4.76% 3
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
1 485 (33.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 245 (17.07%) SharePoint
3 76 (5.30%) IIS
4 17 (1.18%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 11 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
7 10 (0.70%) Confluence
8 9 (0.63%) CMS
8 9 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.49%) WinCC
10 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 87 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.42%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.21%) CATIA
6 3 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.070%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.070%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.070%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.070%) Eikon
7 1 (0.070%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.070%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.070%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 937 (65.30%) Microsoft 365
2 911 (63.48%) Azure
3 347 (24.18%) Entra ID
4 136 (9.48%) AWS
5 75 (5.23%) SaaS
6 70 (4.88%) OneDrive
7 62 (4.32%) IaaS
8 47 (3.28%) PaaS
9 45 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 30 (2.09%) GCP
12 28 (1.95%) Google Workspace
13 27 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 25 (1.74%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.32%) GitHub
17 18 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (1.18%) Nutanix
19 14 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
20 13 (0.91%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 572 (39.86%) DNS
2 538 (37.49%) DHCP
3 468 (32.61%) Firewall
4 237 (16.52%) TCP/IP
5 221 (15.40%) VPN
6 200 (13.94%) VLAN
7 192 (13.38%) WAN
8 176 (12.26%) LAN
9 107 (7.46%) VoIP
10 106 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
11 79 (5.51%) SAN
12 69 (4.81%) Wireless
13 42 (2.93%) Internet
14 41 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
14 41 (2.86%) SD-WAN
15 33 (2.30%) Network Security
16 21 (1.46%) SSL
17 18 (1.25%) IP Telephony
17 18 (1.25%) Kerberos
18 17 (1.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.92%) SQL Server
2 109 (7.60%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.02%) MySQL
4 14 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.63%) DTS
7 8 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.28%) Data Hub
9 4 (0.28%) MS Access
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%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.070%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 39 (2.72%) Git
2 21 (1.46%) JIRA
3 10 (0.70%) GitLab
3 10 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.070%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.070%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.070%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 638 (44.46%) Social Skills
2 139 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (7.74%) Finance
4 74 (5.16%) Manufacturing
5 62 (4.32%) Law
6 46 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
7 45 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 43 (3.00%) Legal
9 41 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 37 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (2.44%) Retail
12 19 (1.32%) Advertising
13 16 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 13 (0.91%) Automotive
14 13 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.91%) Marketing
15 10 (0.70%) Banking
15 10 (0.70%) Military
16 9 (0.63%) Front Office
17 8 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 391 (27.25%) IT Support
2 325 (22.65%) Support Engineer
3 276 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 238 (16.59%) IT Engineer
5 187 (13.03%) IT Support Engineer
6 156 (10.87%) Analyst
7 149 (10.38%) 2nd Line Support
8 145 (10.10%) Senior
9 144 (10.03%) Systems Engineer
10 139 (9.69%) 3rd Line Support
11 121 (8.43%) Support Analyst
12 97 (6.76%) Technical Support
13 80 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 77 (5.37%) Support Technician
15 68 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
16 66 (4.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 65 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support
18 62 (4.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 61 (4.25%) 1st Line Support
20 60 (4.18%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.95%) .NET
2 19 (1.32%) LDAP
3 10 (0.70%) Node.js
4 8 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (0.56%) HTML
5 7 (0.49%) CSS
6 6 (0.42%) 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
1 179 (12.47%) Driving Licence
2 99 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 74 (5.16%) Onboarding
4 61 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.37%) PKI
9 31 (2.16%) Clustering
10 30 (2.09%) Replication
11 27 (1.88%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.53%) CCTV
13 18 (1.25%) CMDB
14 16 (1.11%) iPad
15 15 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
16 14 (0.98%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.98%) Hedge funds
17 13 (0.91%) SCADA
18 10 (0.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,435 (100.00%) Windows
2 306 (21.32%) Linux
3 181 (12.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 169 (11.78%) Windows 10
5 158 (11.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 75 (5.23%) Mac OS
7 49 (3.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 33 (2.30%) Android
9 28 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (1.88%) Apple iOS
11 18 (1.25%) Unix
12 15 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.56%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.56%) Rocky
14 7 (0.49%) Debian
14 7 (0.49%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.42%) Solaris
15 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.35%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
2 380 (26.48%) Customer Service
3 351 (24.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 274 (19.09%) ITIL
5 203 (14.15%) Migration
6 181 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
7 156 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 145 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 145 (10.10%) Mentoring
9 122 (8.50%) Service Delivery
10 108 (7.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 97 (6.76%) Kalman Filter
12 96 (6.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 96 (6.69%) Web Filtering
13 95 (6.62%) Customer Experience
14 90 (6.27%) Email Filtering
15 89 (6.20%) Service Management
16 84 (5.85%) Incident Management
17 80 (5.57%) DevOps
18 79 (5.51%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 341 (23.76%) PowerShell
2 127 (8.85%) SQL
3 69 (4.81%) Python
4 25 (1.74%) Bash
5 24 (1.67%) VB
6 23 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.18%) C#
8 12 (0.84%) VBA
9 11 (0.77%) PHP
10 8 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.49%) VBScript
12 6 (0.42%) Bicep
12 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.21%) Tcl
15 2 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.070%) Delphi
16 1 (0.070%) Go
16 1 (0.070%) Java
Qualifications
1 191 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 147 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 127 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 111 (7.74%) Degree
5 62 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (3.41%) CCNA
8 47 (3.28%) DV Cleared
9 39 (2.72%) Network+ Certification
10 35 (2.44%) DBS Check
10 35 (2.44%) MCP
11 34 (2.37%) MCSA
12 29 (2.02%) MCSE
13 28 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 25 (1.74%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.46%) A+ Certification
16 18 (1.25%) CCNP
17 13 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
18 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (10.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 93 (6.48%) PCI DSS
3 80 (5.57%) SLA
4 53 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (3.14%) GDPR
6 18 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (1.25%) QA
7 7 (0.49%) GxP
7 7 (0.49%) IEC 61508
7 7 (0.49%) NIST
8 5 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.35%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.28%) GRC
9 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.21%) NCSC
11 2 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.070%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.070%) HL7
System Software
1 1,012 (70.52%) Active Directory
2 445 (31.01%) Hyper-V
3 333 (23.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 92 (6.41%) Terminal Server
5 60 (4.18%) vSphere
6 50 (3.48%) Docker
6 50 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.91%) Firmware
11 9 (0.63%) XenApp
12 8 (0.56%) vCloud
13 7 (0.49%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.49%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.35%) Kamailio
14 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.35%) NFS
15 4 (0.28%) ISA Server
16 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 354 (24.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (6.20%) SCCM
3 60 (4.18%) Kubernetes
4 57 (3.97%) Terraform
5 52 (3.62%) Ansible
6 40 (2.79%) WSUS
7 39 (2.72%) vCenter Server
8 32 (2.23%) Autotask
9 23 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (1.60%) SCOM
10 16 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.91%) Puppet
12 12 (0.84%) Nagios
13 11 (0.77%) Backup Exec
13 11 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
13 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.70%) Prometheus
15 9 (0.63%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.49%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,012 (70.52%) Microsoft
2 555 (38.68%) VMware
3 184 (12.82%) Veeam
4 143 (9.97%) Cisco
5 126 (8.78%) SolarWinds
6 97 (6.76%) Tanium
7 96 (6.69%) Nimble Storage
8 94 (6.55%) Splunk
9 88 (6.13%) Brocade
10 56 (3.90%) Apple
11 52 (3.62%) Google
12 51 (3.55%) Citrix
13 39 (2.72%) Datto
13 39 (2.72%) Oracle
14 37 (2.58%) Red Hat
15 36 (2.51%) Meraki
16 34 (2.37%) Dell
17 29 (2.02%) ServiceNow
18 26 (1.81%) SonicWALL
19 25 (1.74%) HP