Windows Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +30 -18 -21
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 310 269 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.29% 4.00% 4.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.00% 32.10% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 269 211 303
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £25,850
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,625 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £48,150 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £66,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 861 838 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.91% 12.46% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 737 578 880
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +6 91 £37,000 -16.85% 20
Staffordshire -8 61 £35,000 +7.69% 14
Worcestershire -8 35 £45,000 +16.13% 13
Warwickshire +66 19 £34,000 -15.00% 9
Coventry +36 17 £42,500 +13.33% 5
Solihull +4 13 £29,500 +5.36% 2
Shropshire +2 12 £32,000 +23.08% 10
Wednesbury +5 9 £30,000 +9.09%
Wolverhampton -1 4 £20,750 -48.45% 3
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £32,500 -
Halesowen - 2 £27,500 -
Herefordshire +2 1 £60,000 +9.09% 3
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 64 (20.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.94%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 39 (12.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 198 (63.87%) Microsoft 365
2 147 (47.42%) Azure
3 84 (27.10%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.68%) AWS
5 18 (5.81%) OneDrive
6 12 (3.87%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (2.90%) GCP
8 7 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.94%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.94%) SaaS
10 4 (1.29%) IaaS
10 4 (1.29%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.97%) Azure Stack
11 3 (0.97%) GitHub
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.65%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.65%) OpenDNS
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 104 (33.55%) Firewall
2 92 (29.68%) DNS
3 91 (29.35%) DHCP
4 50 (16.13%) TCP/IP
5 43 (13.87%) SAN
6 35 (11.29%) WAN
7 34 (10.97%) LAN
8 29 (9.35%) VPN
9 24 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (5.81%) VLAN
11 15 (4.84%) Wireless
12 13 (4.19%) Network Security
12 13 (4.19%) PBX
12 13 (4.19%) SMTP
13 11 (3.55%) HTTP
14 10 (3.23%) iSCSI
15 8 (2.58%) FTP
15 8 (2.58%) SNMP
15 8 (2.58%) SSH
15 8 (2.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.74%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.97%) InfluxDB
3 3 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
3 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (0.97%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 71 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (9.03%) Finance
4 26 (8.39%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.77%) Retail
6 17 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.84%) Law
8 11 (3.55%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.94%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.61%) Police
12 4 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.29%) Legal
13 3 (0.97%) Banking
14 2 (0.65%) Local Government
15 1 (0.32%) Automotive
15 1 (0.32%) Back Office
15 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (25.81%) IT Engineer
2 77 (24.84%) Support Engineer
3 66 (21.29%) IT Support
4 52 (16.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 47 (15.16%) Senior
6 39 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 37 (11.94%) Analyst
8 22 (7.10%) 3rd Line Support
9 18 (5.81%) IT Technician
10 17 (5.48%) Service Analyst
11 15 (4.84%) IT Manager
12 14 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Service Desk Analyst
13 12 (3.87%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Administrator
13 12 (3.87%) Implementation Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Senior Implementation Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.97%) .NET
1 3 (0.97%) AngularJS
1 3 (0.97%) HTML
1 3 (0.97%) jQuery
1 3 (0.97%) React
1 3 (0.97%) REST
1 3 (0.97%) Web Services
2 2 (0.65%) LAMP
2 2 (0.65%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.06%) Replication
2 20 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.13%) Data Centre
4 18 (5.81%) PKI
5 16 (5.16%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.23%) Clustering
7 9 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.58%) EFT
8 8 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.94%) Cyberattack
11 3 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.65%) EPoS
12 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.32%) CCTV
13 1 (0.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 310 (100.00%) Windows
2 72 (23.23%) Windows 10
3 58 (18.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 41 (13.23%) Linux
5 39 (12.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (10.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (7.74%) Windows 7
8 15 (4.84%) Windows 8
9 12 (3.87%) Mac OS
10 11 (3.55%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (3.23%) Apple iOS
12 8 (2.58%) Ubuntu
12 8 (2.58%) Unix
12 8 (2.58%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (1.29%) CentOS
15 3 (0.97%) SUSE
16 2 (0.65%) Android
16 2 (0.65%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (17.42%) ITIL
3 53 (17.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 48 (15.48%) Customer Service
5 36 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (9.03%) Project Delivery
7 26 (8.39%) ERP
8 21 (6.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (6.45%) DevOps
10 19 (6.13%) High Availability
10 19 (6.13%) Proactive Monitoring
11 18 (5.81%) Change Management
12 17 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (5.16%) Asset Management
13 16 (5.16%) Server Management
14 15 (4.84%) Migration
15 14 (4.52%) Problem Management
15 14 (4.52%) Roadmaps
16 13 (4.19%) Cloud Security
17 12 (3.87%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.84%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.71%) SQL
3 13 (4.19%) Python
4 9 (2.90%) Java
5 8 (2.58%) C#
6 6 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.61%) Bash
7 5 (1.61%) C++
8 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.32%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (10.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (9.03%) Degree
3 22 (7.10%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.19%) A+ Certification
6 12 (3.87%) DBS Check
7 10 (3.23%) MCSA
7 10 (3.23%) MCSE
8 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.26%) CCNA
9 7 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.97%) CCIE
12 3 (0.97%) CCNP
12 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.97%) MCITP
13 2 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.42%) SLA
2 7 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.61%) GDPR
4 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 219 (70.65%) Active Directory
2 107 (34.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (32.26%) Hyper-V
4 37 (11.94%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.87%) Docker
5 12 (3.87%) vSphere
6 10 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.94%) NFS
9 5 (1.61%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.61%) VMware Server
10 4 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.97%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.65%) Firmware
12 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.65%) pfSense
12 2 (0.65%) XenApp
12 2 (0.65%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (19.03%) SCCM
2 52 (16.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.87%) vCenter Server
4 9 (2.90%) AirWatch
4 9 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.58%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (2.26%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.26%) Terraform
7 6 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.94%) SCOM
8 4 (1.29%) Autotask
9 3 (0.97%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.97%) Grafana
9 3 (0.97%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (0.97%) WSUS
10 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.65%) Nessus
11 1 (0.32%) Ansible
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 209 (67.42%) Microsoft
2 149 (48.06%) VMware
3 48 (15.48%) Cisco
3 48 (15.48%) Veeam
4 32 (10.32%) Dell
5 30 (9.68%) HP
6 29 (9.35%) Apple
7 25 (8.06%) Citrix
8 21 (6.77%) Sophos
9 12 (3.87%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.23%) Aruba
10 10 (3.23%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
11 9 (2.90%) Symantec
11 9 (2.90%) Toshiba
12 8 (2.58%) Datto
12 8 (2.58%) Globalscape
12 8 (2.58%) WatchGuard
12 8 (2.58%) Zerto
13 7 (2.26%) Mitel