Windows Server Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 40 64
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 25 35 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.36% 3.87% 3.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.10% 37.23% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 25
10th Percentile £32,350 £34,000 £33,175
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,625 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,250 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% -2.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £54,799 £58,750
90th Percentile - £57,320 £64,425
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 94 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.48% 10.39% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 33 50 76
10th Percentile £30,000 - £29,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £23,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £41,250 £41,299
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -0.12% -8.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,252 £59,063
90th Percentile £79,758 £58,250 £72,433
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,021 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% +0.04% -4.76%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Wales

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Wales over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Wales region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
South Wales -4 21 £60,000 +15.38%
Mid Wales - 2 £38,750 -
West Wales - 2 £52,297 -
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Stack
5 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) DNS
2 15 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (12.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) Internet
4 2 (8.00%) LAN
4 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
4 2 (8.00%) VoIP
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
4 2 (8.00%) WAN
4 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (56.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Server Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Support
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (8.00%) Clustering
6 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Linux
3 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (16.00%) Rocky
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (56.00%) Customer Service
2 14 (56.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 12 (48.00%) Customer Experience
3 12 (48.00%) Email Filtering
3 12 (48.00%) Kalman Filter
3 12 (48.00%) Migration
3 12 (48.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 12 (48.00%) Web Filtering
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.00%) Change Control
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Email Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
8 1 (4.00%) Security Analytics
8 1 (4.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (48.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (88.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (64.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (48.00%) Terminal Server
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.00%) Docker
6 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (64.00%) VMware
3 12 (48.00%) Brocade
3 12 (48.00%) Nimble Storage
3 12 (48.00%) SolarWinds
3 12 (48.00%) Splunk
3 12 (48.00%) Tanium
3 12 (48.00%) Veeam
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Pega