Windows Server Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 58 52
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 54 49 71
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.30% 3.13% 3.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.13% 27.53% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 35
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £26,850
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £30,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £41,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -12.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £65,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,500 £32,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +9.23% -29.35% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 192 178 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.63% 11.36% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 141 132 135
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +8.50% -23.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £65,616
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 £33,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in West Yorkshire

Windows Server
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Leeds -36 23 £40,200 -26.91% 8
Wakefield - 15 £31,000 -
Huddersfield - 8 £34,000 - 2
Heckmondwike - 4 £28,500 -
Ossett - 4 £37,500 -
Windows Server
Yorkshire

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 11 (20.37%) SharePoint
2 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (51.85%) Azure
3 19 (35.19%) Entra ID
4 8 (14.81%) Mimecast
5 5 (9.26%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.56%) IaaS
6 3 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) AWS
8 1 (1.85%) Datadog
8 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (31.48%) LAN
1 17 (31.48%) WAN
2 14 (25.93%) DHCP
2 14 (25.93%) DNS
3 12 (22.22%) Firewall
3 12 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 7 (12.96%) Wireless
5 5 (9.26%) VPN
6 4 (7.41%) HTTP
6 4 (7.41%) NAS
6 4 (7.41%) SAN
6 4 (7.41%) SSL
7 3 (5.56%) VoIP
7 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Advertising
5 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) IT Support
2 22 (40.74%) IT Engineer
3 19 (35.19%) Support Engineer
4 15 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (20.37%) Analyst
6 9 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Administrator
9 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Support Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (9.26%) IT Analyst
10 5 (9.26%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (9.26%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (9.26%) Site Engineer
11 4 (7.41%) Technical Support Analyst
11 4 (7.41%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) HTML
1 4 (7.41%) JSON
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.56%) CCTV
2 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.70%) Housing Association
3 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (14.81%) Linux
4 4 (7.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (29.63%) Service Delivery
3 15 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (24.07%) Customer Service
5 11 (20.37%) ITIL
6 9 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.67%) User Experience
7 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.96%) ERP
8 6 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (9.26%) Incident Response
9 5 (9.26%) Information Security
9 5 (9.26%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.26%) Web Filtering
10 4 (7.41%) Customer Experience
10 4 (7.41%) Email Management
10 4 (7.41%) Escalation Management
10 4 (7.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.56%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) A+ Certification
1 3 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.26%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (70.37%) Active Directory
2 18 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (37.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (9.26%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (9.26%) WSUS
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.56%) Puppet
3 3 (5.56%) SCOM
3 3 (5.56%) VxRail
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (1.85%) Avamar
Vendors
1 46 (85.19%) Microsoft
2 16 (29.63%) Cisco
3 14 (25.93%) Meraki
4 11 (20.37%) VMware
5 5 (9.26%) Google
5 5 (9.26%) iManage
6 4 (7.41%) CheckPoint
6 4 (7.41%) Dell
6 4 (7.41%) SAP
6 4 (7.41%) Veeam
6 4 (7.41%) Zerto
7 3 (5.56%) Commvault
7 3 (5.56%) HP
7 3 (5.56%) SonicWALL
7 3 (5.56%) Tenable
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle
8 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) Sophos
9 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds