Windows Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 46 80
Rank change year-on-year -47 +34 -22
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 116 313 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.60% 4.32% 3.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.32% 36.27% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 99 272 205
10th Percentile £27,450 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,875 £26,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,150 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year - -3.41% +3.53%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 711 863 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.92% 11.92% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 380 739 570
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham -16 40 £46,000 +26.03% 7
Staffordshire +2 35 £35,000 - 14
Warwickshire -24 13 £32,500 -4.41% 6
Shropshire +19 12 £28,500 -10.94%
Herefordshire +10 4 - - 10
Solihull -1 3 £46,500 +57.63% 3
Worcestershire -6 3 £27,500 -38.89% 2
Coventry -17 2 £46,250 +8.82%
Wolverhampton +14 1 £31,000 +49.40%
Wednesbury +1 1 £45,000 +50.00%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) IIS
4 2 (1.72%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (31.03%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (4.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (58.62%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (46.55%) Azure
3 16 (13.79%) Google Workspace
4 9 (7.76%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.17%) AWS
6 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.45%) IaaS
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.45%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.45%) PaaS
6 4 (3.45%) Route 53
6 4 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (56.90%) Firewall
2 40 (34.48%) WAN
3 37 (31.90%) DHCP
3 37 (31.90%) VLAN
4 35 (30.17%) LAN
5 32 (27.59%) DNS
6 28 (24.14%) TCP/IP
7 23 (19.83%) VPN
8 17 (14.66%) BGP
9 16 (13.79%) OSPF
9 16 (13.79%) WLAN
10 9 (7.76%) SAN
10 9 (7.76%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.45%) HTTPS
11 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.59%) Network Security
12 3 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (1.72%) NAS
13 2 (1.72%) Skype
14 1 (0.86%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.86%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.86%) SQL CLR
General
1 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.79%) Automotive
2 16 (13.79%) Retail
3 13 (11.21%) Law
4 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.62%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.90%) Legal
7 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.17%) Finance
9 2 (1.72%) Advertising
9 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.72%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Back Office
10 1 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (30.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (28.45%) IT Engineer
2 33 (28.45%) Support Engineer
3 22 (18.97%) IT Support
4 16 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Support
6 14 (12.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 13 (11.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) 3rd Line Support
7 13 (11.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (9.48%) Analyst
8 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (8.62%) Support Analyst
10 7 (6.03%) IT Analyst
10 7 (6.03%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior
11 6 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.86%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (0.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.86%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 16 (13.79%) Smartphone
3 15 (12.93%) Onboarding
4 12 (10.34%) Driving Licence
5 7 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.72%) FMCG
8 2 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.86%) Clustering
9 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) IoT
9 1 (0.86%) NB-IoT
9 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 111 (95.69%) Windows
2 40 (34.48%) Windows Server 2016
3 37 (31.90%) Windows 10
4 35 (30.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (21.55%) Linux
6 16 (13.79%) Mac OS X
6 16 (13.79%) Ubuntu
7 9 (7.76%) Apple iOS
8 5 (4.31%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.45%) Android
9 4 (3.45%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (18.97%) ITIL
4 20 (17.24%) Customer Service
5 19 (16.38%) Data Security
5 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 19 (16.38%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (15.52%) Business Case
7 17 (14.66%) Mentoring
8 16 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 16 (13.79%) Systems Engineering
9 14 (12.07%) Network Design
10 12 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.62%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (7.76%) Problem Management
13 8 (6.90%) Case Management
13 8 (6.90%) Project Delivery
14 7 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (6.03%) ERP
14 7 (6.03%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.07%) PowerShell
2 32 (27.59%) SQL
3 3 (2.59%) Bash
3 3 (2.59%) Python
4 2 (1.72%) Perl
4 2 (1.72%) VB
5 1 (0.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (21.55%) Degree
3 22 (18.97%) MCSE
4 16 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (13.79%) HNC
4 16 (13.79%) HND
5 12 (10.34%) MCSA
6 11 (9.48%) A+ Certification
6 11 (9.48%) MCP
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 5 (4.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.72%) CCNA
11 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 93 (80.17%) Active Directory
2 38 (32.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.07%) XenApp
4 11 (9.48%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.31%) vSphere
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.31%) SCOM
3 4 (3.45%) AirWatch
4 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Puppet
4 3 (2.59%) SCCM
4 3 (2.59%) Terraform
5 2 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.72%) SCOrch
5 2 (1.72%) SCSM
5 2 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.72%) VxRail
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.86%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 69 (59.48%) Microsoft
2 45 (38.79%) VMware
3 35 (30.17%) Cisco
4 27 (23.28%) Apple
5 20 (17.24%) Dell
6 17 (14.66%) Citrix
7 16 (13.79%) Fortinet
7 16 (13.79%) Google
7 16 (13.79%) Ubiquiti
8 15 (12.93%) Meraki
9 14 (12.07%) CheckPoint
9 14 (12.07%) SonicWALL
10 7 (6.03%) Acronis
10 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
11 6 (5.17%) SAP
11 6 (5.17%) WatchGuard
12 5 (4.31%) Veeam
13 4 (3.45%) HP
13 4 (3.45%) Samsung
13 4 (3.45%) Sophos