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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 103 76
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,628 1,448 2,857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.94% 3.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.49% 20.95% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 1,249 2,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £37,797 £38,000
% change year-on-year +1.86% -0.53% -5.00%

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 6,146 6,912 12,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 14.06% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,657 4,613 9,185
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,225
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.55% -1.72%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -17 1,514 £40,000 - 354
UK excluding London +6 1,357 £38,500 +1.86% 322
South East +18 361 £42,500 +6.25% 120
Work from Home -11 337 £42,500 - 125
North of England +26 335 £37,500 +11.94% 78
London -80 242 £55,000 -4.35% 69
South West -17 232 £33,500 -15.72% 36
North West +58 180 £35,000 -5.41% 43
East of England +12 171 £36,500 -18.89% 36
Midlands -41 170 £34,500 -1.43% 45
Yorkshire -35 124 £35,250 +17.50% 22
East Midlands -31 90 £31,000 -11.43% 20
West Midlands -31 79 £42,250 +20.71% 25
Wales -31 48 £41,250 -28.26% 6
Scotland +32 34 £32,500 -18.75% 12
North East -43 31 £42,500 +21.43% 15
Northern Ireland -60 6 - - 2

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
1 449 (27.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 280 (17.20%) SharePoint
3 72 (4.42%) IIS
4 32 (1.97%) Confluence
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 11 (0.68%) nginx
7 8 (0.49%) WordPress
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.31%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.25%) JBoss
10 4 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.12%) Site Server
12 1 (0.061%) CMS
12 1 (0.061%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 160 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.061%) Revit
5 1 (0.061%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.25%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.25%) Primavera
4 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.061%) Magento
6 1 (0.061%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (65.17%) Microsoft 365
2 905 (55.59%) Azure
3 447 (27.46%) Entra ID
4 177 (10.87%) AWS
5 105 (6.45%) OneDrive
6 61 (3.75%) SaaS
7 51 (3.13%) IaaS
8 37 (2.27%) PaaS
9 36 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 30 (1.84%) Nutanix
11 29 (1.78%) Google Workspace
12 23 (1.41%) GCP
13 21 (1.29%) Mimecast
13 21 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (0.86%) PowerApps
16 13 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (0.80%) GitHub
17 12 (0.74%) Cloudflare
17 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 627 (38.51%) DNS
2 522 (32.06%) Firewall
3 514 (31.57%) DHCP
4 257 (15.79%) VPN
5 239 (14.68%) TCP/IP
6 204 (12.53%) WAN
7 193 (11.86%) VLAN
8 192 (11.79%) LAN
9 129 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
10 126 (7.74%) Wireless
11 116 (7.13%) VoIP
12 71 (4.36%) SAN
13 52 (3.19%) Network Security
14 37 (2.27%) NAS
15 27 (1.66%) Internet
16 24 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
17 19 (1.17%) SD-WAN
18 18 (1.11%) SSL
19 13 (0.80%) Broadband
19 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 116 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.47%) MySQL
4 20 (1.23%) Power BI
5 16 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.12%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.12%) KNIME
15 2 (0.12%) Looker
15 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.38%) JIRA
2 44 (2.70%) Git
3 25 (1.54%) GitLab
4 14 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.061%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.061%) Carbide.c++
9 1 (0.061%) Gatling
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.061%) Subversion
9 1 (0.061%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.061%) Vagrant
General
1 713 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 216 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (7.49%) Finance
4 76 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 54 (3.32%) Retail
7 47 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.33%) Law
11 33 (2.03%) Legal
12 30 (1.84%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.41%) Banking
14 18 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.86%) Local Government
16 11 (0.68%) Games
16 11 (0.68%) Military
17 9 (0.55%) Advertising
18 7 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 540 (33.17%) IT Support
2 408 (25.06%) IT Engineer
3 392 (24.08%) Support Engineer
4 335 (20.58%) IT Support Engineer
5 220 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 193 (11.86%) Senior
7 178 (10.93%) Analyst
8 157 (9.64%) IT Technician
8 157 (9.64%) Systems Engineer
9 140 (8.60%) Support Technician
10 135 (8.29%) 2nd Line Support
11 125 (7.68%) Support Analyst
12 121 (7.43%) IT Support Technician
13 90 (5.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 80 (4.91%) IT Analyst
15 79 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 65 (3.99%) IT Support Analyst
16 65 (3.99%) Lead
17 63 (3.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 60 (3.69%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.21%) .NET
2 31 (1.90%) HTML
3 25 (1.54%) CSS
3 25 (1.54%) LDAP
3 25 (1.54%) Web Services
3 25 (1.54%) XMPP
4 23 (1.41%) Regular Expression
5 18 (1.11%) XML
6 16 (0.98%) .NET Framework
7 15 (0.92%) JSON
8 14 (0.86%) ARM Templates
9 12 (0.74%) Middleware
10 7 (0.43%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.37%) Keycloak
12 5 (0.31%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.31%) FreeSWITCH
12 5 (0.31%) REST
12 5 (0.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 199 (12.22%) Driving Licence
2 109 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 100 (6.14%) Data Centre
5 85 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
6 81 (4.98%) Onboarding
7 50 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.83%) PKI
9 38 (2.33%) Clustering
9 38 (2.33%) Replication
10 33 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 28 (1.72%) Security Posture
12 21 (1.29%) CCTV
13 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
15 13 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
16 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.74%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.68%) IoT
17 11 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,628 (100.00%) Windows
2 397 (24.39%) Linux
3 227 (13.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 162 (9.95%) Windows 10
5 127 (7.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (4.12%) Mac OS
7 63 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 43 (2.64%) Ubuntu
10 39 (2.40%) Apple iOS
11 29 (1.78%) Android
12 25 (1.54%) CentOS
13 19 (1.17%) VMS
14 18 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.43%) Debian
15 7 (0.43%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.37%) Unix
16 6 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.31%) Rocky
18 1 (0.061%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
2 425 (26.11%) Customer Service
3 326 (20.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 295 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 291 (17.87%) ITIL
6 277 (17.01%) Cybersecurity
7 261 (16.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 185 (11.36%) Service Delivery
9 183 (11.24%) Migration
10 149 (9.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 145 (8.91%) Customer Experience
12 136 (8.35%) Mentoring
13 130 (7.99%) High Availability
13 130 (7.99%) Project Delivery
14 120 (7.37%) Kalman Filter
15 109 (6.70%) Business Continuity
16 108 (6.63%) Web Filtering
17 107 (6.57%) ITSM
18 106 (6.51%) Email Filtering
18 106 (6.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 312 (19.16%) PowerShell
2 184 (11.30%) SQL
3 89 (5.47%) Python
4 41 (2.52%) Bash
5 34 (2.09%) C#
6 24 (1.47%) VBA
7 19 (1.17%) Bicep
8 15 (0.92%) Java
9 13 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.68%) PHP
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.43%) Ruby
12 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.43%) VBScript
13 5 (0.31%) VB
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) Perl
15 2 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 187 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.58%) Degree
4 135 (8.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 91 (5.59%) Azure Certification
6 90 (5.53%) DV Cleared
7 84 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (4.85%) DBS Check
9 68 (4.18%) CCNA
10 29 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
11 26 (1.60%) CCNP
12 21 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.17%) A+ Certification
14 18 (1.11%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.98%) MCSA
17 15 (0.92%) MCSE
18 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (11.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 141 (8.66%) SLA
3 104 (6.39%) PCI DSS
4 73 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.15%) GDPR
6 30 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.23%) NIST
8 6 (0.37%) QA
9 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.18%) COBIT
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.18%) RMADS
11 1 (0.061%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.061%) COSHH
11 1 (0.061%) DICOM
11 1 (0.061%) HL7
11 1 (0.061%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.061%) ITGC
11 1 (0.061%) NCSC
11 1 (0.061%) TickIT
System Software
1 1,108 (68.06%) Active Directory
2 478 (29.36%) Hyper-V
3 438 (26.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (6.57%) vSphere
5 98 (6.02%) Terminal Server
6 57 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
7 46 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (2.70%) Docker
9 24 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (1.47%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.80%) Squid
11 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.43%) Firmware
13 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.37%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.37%) VMware Server
14 6 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 304 (18.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 92 (5.65%) Terraform
3 86 (5.28%) Ansible
4 70 (4.30%) Kubernetes
5 37 (2.27%) SCCM
6 34 (2.09%) FortiGate
7 29 (1.78%) vCenter Server
8 27 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (1.54%) WSUS
11 22 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
12 20 (1.23%) Autotask
12 20 (1.23%) VxRail
13 19 (1.17%) ZABBIX
14 16 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (0.98%) SCOM
15 15 (0.92%) Nagios
15 15 (0.92%) Packer
16 14 (0.86%) Grafana
17 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,247 (76.60%) Microsoft
2 674 (41.40%) VMware
3 215 (13.21%) Veeam
4 158 (9.71%) Cisco
5 141 (8.66%) Splunk
6 126 (7.74%) SolarWinds
7 109 (6.70%) Nimble Storage
8 97 (5.96%) Brocade
9 96 (5.90%) Tanium
10 61 (3.75%) Meraki
11 54 (3.32%) Red Hat
12 53 (3.26%) Citrix
13 50 (3.07%) Apple
14 45 (2.76%) HP
15 44 (2.70%) Google
16 43 (2.64%) ServiceNow
17 42 (2.58%) Sophos
18 41 (2.52%) Dell
19 35 (2.15%) Fortinet
19 35 (2.15%) SonicWALL