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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 84 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 -26 +56
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,444 2,026 2,442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.67% 3.10% 4.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.09% 22.36% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,219 2,163
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £55,813 £59,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
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 5,140 9,062 8,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 13.85% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 5,314 7,313
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 £71,868 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £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 30 November 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 30 November 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 1,349 £40,000 -11.11% 437
UK excluding London -16 1,129 £38,500 -9.41% 431
Work from Home -43 321 £45,497 -4.22% 156
South East +7 285 £40,000 -11.11% 161
London -44 257 £57,500 -11.54% 90
South West +30 251 £37,500 -11.76% 48
North of England -7 229 £37,000 -10.84% 76
East of England +7 175 £47,500 +4.40% 56
Midlands -17 155 £32,750 -18.13% 67
Yorkshire -4 110 £32,500 -21.69% 36
East Midlands +2 100 £28,500 -18.57% 27
North West -7 91 £40,500 -4.71% 38
West Midlands -34 55 £40,000 -5.88% 39
Wales -4 28 £60,000 +45.45% 8
North East -6 28 £35,000 -6.67% 2
Scotland -48 19 £38,000 +1.33% 27
Northern Ireland -3 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
1 488 (33.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 249 (17.24%) SharePoint
3 77 (5.33%) IIS
4 17 (1.18%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Solr
6 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.42%) 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 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 89 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) 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 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.069%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.69%) 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
6 2 (0.14%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.069%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.069%) Eikon
7 1 (0.069%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.069%) Pegasus Opera
7 1 (0.069%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 944 (65.37%) Microsoft 365
2 920 (63.71%) Azure
3 347 (24.03%) Entra ID
4 139 (9.63%) AWS
5 75 (5.19%) SaaS
6 72 (4.99%) OneDrive
7 63 (4.36%) IaaS
8 47 (3.25%) PaaS
9 45 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
10 36 (2.49%) Power Platform
11 30 (2.08%) GCP
12 28 (1.94%) Google Workspace
13 27 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
14 26 (1.80%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.32%) GitHub
17 18 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (1.18%) Nutanix
19 14 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
20 13 (0.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 576 (39.89%) DNS
2 541 (37.47%) DHCP
3 475 (32.89%) Firewall
4 238 (16.48%) TCP/IP
5 220 (15.24%) VPN
6 202 (13.99%) VLAN
7 195 (13.50%) WAN
8 178 (12.33%) LAN
9 109 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
10 108 (7.48%) VoIP
11 81 (5.61%) SAN
12 69 (4.78%) Wireless
13 42 (2.91%) Internet
13 42 (2.91%) SD-WAN
14 41 (2.84%) Remote Desktop
15 33 (2.29%) Network Security
16 21 (1.45%) SSL
17 19 (1.32%) IP Telephony
18 18 (1.25%) Kerberos
19 17 (1.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 110 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.01%) MySQL
4 14 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.62%) DTS
6 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.35%) Power BI
10 4 (0.28%) Data Hub
10 4 (0.28%) MS Access
10 4 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (0.28%) SQL CLR
11 3 (0.21%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.069%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 38 (2.63%) Git
2 21 (1.45%) JIRA
3 10 (0.69%) GitLab
3 10 (0.69%) 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 (0.069%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.069%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.069%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 643 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 139 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (7.48%) Finance
4 75 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 61 (4.22%) Law
6 45 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (3.12%) Telecoms
7 43 (2.98%) Legal
8 41 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.42%) Retail
11 19 (1.32%) Advertising
12 16 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.90%) Automotive
13 13 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.90%) Marketing
14 10 (0.69%) Military
15 9 (0.62%) Banking
15 9 (0.62%) Front Office
16 8 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 394 (27.29%) IT Support
2 325 (22.51%) Support Engineer
3 277 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 237 (16.41%) IT Engineer
5 185 (12.81%) IT Support Engineer
6 160 (11.08%) Analyst
7 147 (10.18%) 2nd Line Support
7 147 (10.18%) Senior
8 144 (9.97%) Systems Engineer
9 140 (9.70%) 3rd Line Support
10 124 (8.59%) Support Analyst
11 100 (6.93%) Technical Support
12 80 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 78 (5.40%) Support Technician
14 68 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
15 65 (4.50%) Infrastructure Support
16 63 (4.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 63 (4.36%) IT Analyst
17 62 (4.29%) 1st Line Support
18 59 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.01%) .NET
2 20 (1.39%) LDAP
3 10 (0.69%) Node.js
4 9 (0.62%) HTML
5 8 (0.55%) CSS
5 8 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
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%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.28%) RESTful
8 4 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 179 (12.40%) Driving Licence
2 99 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
3 74 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 61 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 51 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (2.42%) PKI
9 32 (2.22%) Clustering
10 31 (2.15%) Replication
11 27 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.52%) CCTV
13 18 (1.25%) CMDB
14 16 (1.11%) iPad
15 15 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
16 14 (0.97%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.97%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.83%) SCADA
18 11 (0.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,444 (100.00%) Windows
2 306 (21.19%) Linux
3 182 (12.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 170 (11.77%) Windows 10
5 159 (11.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (5.26%) Mac OS
7 50 (3.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 35 (2.42%) Android
9 29 (2.01%) Apple iOS
10 28 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (1.25%) Unix
12 15 (1.04%) 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 (0.42%) Solaris
15 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.35%) CentOS
16 5 (0.35%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (32.83%) Problem-Solving
2 381 (26.39%) Customer Service
3 352 (24.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 275 (19.04%) ITIL
5 205 (14.20%) Migration
6 179 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
7 157 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 146 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (10.04%) Mentoring
10 122 (8.45%) Service Delivery
11 107 (7.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 98 (6.79%) Kalman Filter
13 97 (6.72%) Web Filtering
14 95 (6.58%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 93 (6.44%) Customer Experience
16 90 (6.23%) Email Filtering
17 89 (6.16%) Service Management
18 83 (5.75%) Incident Management
19 79 (5.47%) ITSM
20 78 (5.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 340 (23.55%) PowerShell
2 127 (8.80%) SQL
3 69 (4.78%) Python
4 25 (1.73%) Bash
5 24 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 24 (1.66%) VB
6 18 (1.25%) C#
7 13 (0.90%) VBA
8 11 (0.76%) PHP
9 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.48%) VBScript
11 6 (0.42%) Bicep
12 5 (0.35%) 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 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 148 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 129 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 112 (7.76%) Degree
5 62 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 57 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (3.46%) CCNA
8 47 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 39 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
10 35 (2.42%) DBS Check
10 35 (2.42%) MCP
10 35 (2.42%) MCSA
11 29 (2.01%) MCSE
12 28 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 25 (1.73%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.52%) A+ Certification
15 18 (1.25%) CCNP
16 13 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (10.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 92 (6.37%) PCI DSS
3 80 (5.54%) SLA
4 53 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (3.25%) GDPR
6 19 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (1.25%) 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%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 2 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.069%) DICOM
13 1 (0.069%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.069%) HL7
System Software
1 1,019 (70.57%) Active Directory
2 448 (31.02%) Hyper-V
3 339 (23.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 92 (6.37%) Terminal Server
5 60 (4.16%) vSphere
6 52 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
7 50 (3.46%) Docker
8 42 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 19 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.90%) Firmware
12 9 (0.62%) XenApp
13 8 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.55%) vCloud
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
1 360 (24.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (6.30%) SCCM
3 60 (4.16%) Kubernetes
4 57 (3.95%) Terraform
5 52 (3.60%) Ansible
6 40 (2.77%) WSUS
7 39 (2.70%) vCenter Server
8 33 (2.29%) Autotask
9 23 (1.59%) SCOM
10 22 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.90%) 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 (70.43%) Microsoft
2 564 (39.06%) VMware
3 187 (12.95%) Veeam
4 144 (9.97%) Cisco
5 126 (8.73%) SolarWinds
6 97 (6.72%) Tanium
7 96 (6.65%) Nimble Storage
8 94 (6.51%) Splunk
9 88 (6.09%) Brocade
10 59 (4.09%) Apple
11 53 (3.67%) Google
12 51 (3.53%) Citrix
13 40 (2.77%) Datto
13 40 (2.77%) Oracle
14 37 (2.56%) Red Hat
15 36 (2.49%) Meraki
16 34 (2.35%) Dell
17 29 (2.01%) ServiceNow
18 27 (1.87%) HP
19 26 (1.80%) SonicWALL