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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 112 76
Rank change year-on-year -10 -36 +14
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,501 1,288 3,418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.87% 3.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.05% 19.54% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 1,096 2,918
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £65,000
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 5,762 6,590 14,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 14.68% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,333 4,289 10,775
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -13 1,407 £40,000 - 303
UK excluding London +24 1,225 £37,500 - 307
North of England +32 323 £37,500 +11.94% 69
South East +32 318 £40,000 - 96
Work from Home -28 290 £42,500 +1.19% 118
London -82 248 £52,500 -8.70% 51
South West -11 211 £37,500 -6.25% 42
North West +65 176 £35,000 - 42
East of England +10 159 £36,500 -17.05% 31
Midlands -46 146 £32,500 -7.14% 45
Yorkshire -28 119 £35,000 +16.67% 19
East Midlands -41 75 £30,000 -14.29% 25
West Midlands -44 70 £42,250 +20.71% 20
Wales -21 40 £43,750 +14.85% 10
North East -40 28 £43,750 +25.00% 9
Scotland +14 20 £27,000 -32.50% 3
Northern Ireland -24 8 - - 23

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
1 398 (26.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 262 (17.46%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.06%) IIS
4 29 (1.93%) Confluence
5 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.47%) WordPress
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.27%) JBoss
8 3 (0.20%) Apache
9 2 (0.13%) Site Server
10 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.067%) CMS
10 1 (0.067%) Drupal
10 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.067%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) SAS
10 1 (0.067%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 163 (10.86%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.27%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.27%) Primavera
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.067%) Magento
5 1 (0.067%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 948 (63.16%) Microsoft 365
2 843 (56.16%) Azure
3 396 (26.38%) Entra ID
4 163 (10.86%) AWS
5 102 (6.80%) OneDrive
6 60 (4.00%) SaaS
7 52 (3.46%) IaaS
8 46 (3.06%) Google Workspace
9 37 (2.47%) PaaS
10 36 (2.40%) Nutanix
11 34 (2.27%) Power Platform
12 19 (1.27%) GCP
13 18 (1.20%) Mimecast
14 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.00%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.93%) GitHub
17 13 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (0.87%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 570 (37.97%) DNS
2 474 (31.58%) DHCP
3 459 (30.58%) Firewall
4 239 (15.92%) VPN
5 213 (14.19%) TCP/IP
6 204 (13.59%) WAN
7 189 (12.59%) LAN
8 153 (10.19%) VLAN
9 122 (8.13%) Wi-Fi
10 102 (6.80%) VoIP
11 96 (6.40%) Wireless
12 74 (4.93%) SAN
13 44 (2.93%) Network Security
14 33 (2.20%) NAS
15 31 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
16 20 (1.33%) SD-WAN
17 19 (1.27%) Internet
18 17 (1.13%) SSL
19 15 (1.00%) VSAN
20 13 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 102 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.67%) MySQL
4 20 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.27%) Power BI
6 15 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.13%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.13%) Looker
13 2 (0.13%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.13%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.067%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (3.40%) JIRA
2 49 (3.26%) Git
3 25 (1.67%) GitLab
4 12 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.067%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.067%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.067%) Gatling
9 1 (0.067%) JMeter
9 1 (0.067%) Vagrant
General
1 661 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 193 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (7.53%) Finance
4 80 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.20%) Retail
7 47 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.27%) Law
10 31 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.73%) Banking
11 26 (1.73%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.40%) Legal
13 14 (0.93%) Local Government
14 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Back Office
16 10 (0.67%) Games
17 9 (0.60%) Advertising
18 7 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 512 (34.11%) IT Support
2 378 (25.18%) IT Engineer
3 361 (24.05%) Support Engineer
4 311 (20.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 201 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 179 (11.93%) Senior
7 162 (10.79%) IT Technician
8 148 (9.86%) Analyst
9 140 (9.33%) Support Technician
10 133 (8.86%) 2nd Line Support
11 130 (8.66%) Systems Engineer
12 121 (8.06%) IT Support Technician
13 101 (6.73%) Support Analyst
14 98 (6.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 88 (5.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 64 (4.26%) Lead
17 63 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 58 (3.86%) IT Analyst
19 53 (3.53%) Architect
20 49 (3.26%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.00%) .NET
2 26 (1.73%) HTML
3 24 (1.60%) XMPP
4 23 (1.53%) LDAP
5 22 (1.47%) Regular Expression
6 20 (1.33%) CSS
7 14 (0.93%) JSON
7 14 (0.93%) Web Services
8 13 (0.87%) ARM Templates
9 12 (0.80%) XML
10 10 (0.67%) .NET Framework
10 10 (0.67%) Middleware
11 6 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.40%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.40%) Keycloak
12 5 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.33%) FreeSWITCH
12 5 (0.33%) REST
12 5 (0.33%) SAML
13 4 (0.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 177 (11.79%) Driving Licence
2 108 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 89 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
4 80 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.86%) PKI
8 39 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.27%) Replication
10 27 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.67%) Clustering
12 17 (1.13%) CCTV
13 16 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
14 11 (0.73%) EPoS
14 11 (0.73%) IoT
14 11 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.67%) Fat Client
15 10 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,501 (100.00%) Windows
2 353 (23.52%) Linux
3 215 (14.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 169 (11.26%) Windows 10
5 135 (8.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 73 (4.86%) Mac OS
7 62 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 57 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 48 (3.20%) Apple iOS
10 36 (2.40%) Ubuntu
11 28 (1.87%) Android
12 24 (1.60%) CentOS
13 22 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 21 (1.40%) VMS
15 9 (0.60%) Unix
15 9 (0.60%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.47%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.33%) Debian
18 4 (0.27%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.067%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
2 394 (26.25%) Customer Service
3 292 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 262 (17.46%) ITIL
5 256 (17.06%) Cybersecurity
6 245 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 226 (15.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 164 (10.93%) Service Delivery
9 150 (9.99%) Migration
10 132 (8.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 130 (8.66%) Mentoring
12 111 (7.40%) Customer Experience
12 111 (7.40%) High Availability
13 103 (6.86%) Project Delivery
14 102 (6.80%) Kalman Filter
15 98 (6.53%) ITSM
16 96 (6.40%) Business Continuity
17 93 (6.20%) Root Cause Analysis
18 91 (6.06%) Email Filtering
19 90 (6.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 296 (19.72%) PowerShell
2 162 (10.79%) SQL
3 86 (5.73%) Python
4 37 (2.47%) Bash
5 26 (1.73%) C#
6 20 (1.33%) VBA
7 16 (1.07%) Bicep
8 13 (0.87%) Java
9 12 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.73%) PHP
11 9 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.47%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.47%) VBScript
13 6 (0.40%) VB
14 3 (0.20%) Go
15 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.067%) ABAP
16 1 (0.067%) Korn
16 1 (0.067%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 268 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 158 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.99%) Degree
4 123 (8.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 89 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 80 (5.33%) DBS Check
7 74 (4.93%) Azure Certification
8 61 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (3.33%) CCNA
10 30 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
11 23 (1.53%) A+ Certification
12 21 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (1.33%) CCNP
13 20 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 17 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 16 (1.07%) MCSE
16 12 (0.80%) MCSA
17 11 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (10.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 135 (8.99%) SLA
3 90 (6.00%) PCI DSS
4 76 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.07%) GDPR
6 29 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 25 (1.67%) NIST
8 7 (0.47%) QA
9 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.20%) COBIT
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.13%) RMADS
12 1 (0.067%) COSHH
12 1 (0.067%) DICOM
12 1 (0.067%) HL7
12 1 (0.067%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.067%) ITGC
12 1 (0.067%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,032 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 414 (27.58%) Hyper-V
3 408 (27.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 115 (7.66%) vSphere
5 83 (5.53%) Terminal Server
6 44 (2.93%) Docker
7 43 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.73%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.60%) Terminal Services
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.40%) Firmware
15 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.33%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.20%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 261 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (6.13%) Terraform
3 80 (5.33%) Ansible
4 69 (4.60%) Kubernetes
5 45 (3.00%) SCCM
6 39 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 34 (2.27%) vCenter Server
8 29 (1.93%) FortiGate
9 27 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (1.60%) WSUS
11 22 (1.47%) Autotask
12 21 (1.40%) VxRail
13 19 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.07%) Nagios
15 15 (1.00%) Packer
15 15 (1.00%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.93%) Grafana
17 12 (0.80%) SCOM
18 10 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
18 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,128 (75.15%) Microsoft
2 627 (41.77%) VMware
3 177 (11.79%) Veeam
4 131 (8.73%) Cisco
5 124 (8.26%) Splunk
6 111 (7.40%) SolarWinds
7 99 (6.60%) Nimble Storage
8 81 (5.40%) Brocade
9 80 (5.33%) Tanium
10 58 (3.86%) Google
11 57 (3.80%) Meraki
12 53 (3.53%) Apple
12 53 (3.53%) Red Hat
13 52 (3.46%) Citrix
14 47 (3.13%) Dell
14 47 (3.13%) HP
15 36 (2.40%) ServiceNow
16 34 (2.27%) Oracle
17 32 (2.13%) McAfee
18 30 (2.00%) Sophos