Windows Server Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 80 34
Rank change year-on-year -41 -46 +27
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 53 150 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 3.62% 6.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.61% 21.10% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 42 87 210
10th Percentile £29,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £63,400 £55,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% -

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 301 711 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.74% 17.17% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 227 240 498
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,975 £26,175
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +11.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 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
Birmingham +4 18 £40,000 -13.04% 4
Staffordshire -49 9 £36,250 +3.57% 6
Coventry +6 8 £37,500 -44.44% 2
Worcestershire -11 8 £35,000 -9.68% 4
Solihull +6 6 £52,500 +12.90%
Warwickshire +2 2 £32,000 -22.42%
Halesowen - 2 £44,000 - 1
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.32%) WinCC
3 4 (7.55%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (3.77%) ArchestrA
5 1 (1.89%) Confluence
5 1 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (28.30%) Entra ID
4 11 (20.75%) SaaS
5 4 (7.55%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.74%) Firewall
2 14 (26.42%) DNS
2 14 (26.42%) LAN
2 14 (26.42%) WAN
3 13 (24.53%) DHCP
4 7 (13.21%) SD-WAN
5 6 (11.32%) Modbus
5 6 (11.32%) VPN
6 5 (9.43%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (7.55%) MPLS
8 3 (5.66%) VLAN
9 2 (3.77%) FTP
9 2 (3.77%) HTTP
9 2 (3.77%) Profibus
9 2 (3.77%) SNMP
9 2 (3.77%) SSH
9 2 (3.77%) SSL
9 2 (3.77%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (47.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (39.62%) Support Engineer
3 15 (28.30%) 2nd Line Support
4 14 (26.42%) IT Engineer
5 12 (22.64%) IT Support
6 11 (20.75%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (18.87%) Senior
8 9 (16.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (16.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 9 (16.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) 2nd Line Technical Support
9 6 (11.32%) Technical Support
10 5 (9.43%) Lead
11 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) IT Security Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) Security Engineer
11 4 (7.55%) Security Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Driving Licence
3 6 (11.32%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.32%) Operational Technology
3 6 (11.32%) SCADA
4 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.55%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.89%) Clustering
7 1 (1.89%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (22.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 11 (20.75%) Linux
4 9 (16.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (11.32%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.66%) Rocky
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (49.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
2 11 (20.75%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Migration
2 11 (20.75%) Service Delivery
3 10 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
4 9 (16.98%) Cloud Operations
5 7 (13.21%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Data Security
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (11.32%) Security Operations
7 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (7.55%) Presales
7 4 (7.55%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 4 (7.55%) SIEM
7 4 (7.55%) Storage Management
8 3 (5.66%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.66%) Network Design
8 3 (5.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.77%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (1.89%) Bicep
4 1 (1.89%) VB
4 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.55%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) GDPR
1 6 (11.32%) IEC 61508
1 6 (11.32%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.55%) IEC 61131
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (49.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (35.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (33.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.89%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) VMware
2 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) Rockwell
3 6 (11.32%) Siemens
4 4 (7.55%) CheckPoint
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco
4 4 (7.55%) Citrix
4 4 (7.55%) Google
4 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 4 (7.55%) Meraki
4 4 (7.55%) SonicWALL
4 4 (7.55%) Veeam
5 3 (5.66%) Dell
6 1 (1.89%) Symantec