Hybrid/Remote Windows Server Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 111 78
Rank change year-on-year -34 -33 +36
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 325 403 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 3.09% 3.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.90% 21.22% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 263 352 1,034
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £70,500 £78,975 £75,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,419 1,899 4,377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.35% 14.56% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,447 3,717
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -12.38%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Windows Server
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Windows Server salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 89 (27.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (19.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (2.15%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.62%) Apache
5 2 (0.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Drupal
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 221 (68.00%) Azure
2 198 (60.92%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (28.31%) Entra ID
4 53 (16.31%) AWS
5 30 (9.23%) OneDrive
6 24 (7.38%) Google Workspace
6 24 (7.38%) SaaS
7 15 (4.62%) IaaS
8 12 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.15%) GCP
9 7 (2.15%) PaaS
10 6 (1.85%) GitHub
11 4 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.92%) ShareGate
13 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 123 (37.85%) DNS
2 118 (36.31%) Firewall
3 106 (32.62%) DHCP
4 89 (27.38%) VPN
5 68 (20.92%) WAN
6 61 (18.77%) TCP/IP
7 52 (16.00%) LAN
8 46 (14.15%) VLAN
9 44 (13.54%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (10.46%) VoIP
11 17 (5.23%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.69%) SAN
13 11 (3.38%) Telnet
14 8 (2.46%) Unified Communications
15 7 (2.15%) DMZ
15 7 (2.15%) IP Telephony
16 6 (1.85%) Wireless
17 5 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
17 5 (1.54%) SSL
17 5 (1.54%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.54%) MySQL
3 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.92%) Power BI
5 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.38%) Git
2 9 (2.77%) JIRA
3 6 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) Gatling
7 1 (0.31%) JMeter
7 1 (0.31%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.00%) Finance
3 22 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.46%) Front Office
8 7 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.15%) Retail
9 6 (1.85%) Banking
9 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.54%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Automotive
11 4 (1.23%) German Language
11 4 (1.23%) Marketing
12 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.92%) Aviation
12 3 (0.92%) Back Office
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 111 (34.15%) IT Support
2 109 (33.54%) Support Engineer
3 91 (28.00%) IT Engineer
4 86 (26.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 66 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 57 (17.54%) 2nd Line Support
7 47 (14.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 47 (14.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 46 (14.15%) Senior
9 30 (9.23%) Analyst
10 24 (7.38%) Support Analyst
11 23 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (6.46%) 3rd Line Support
13 20 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support
13 20 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 14 (4.31%) Support Technician
16 13 (4.00%) IT Technician
17 11 (3.38%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.77%) .NET
2 8 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.54%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.54%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.23%) FIDO
4 4 (1.23%) Node.js
4 4 (1.23%) XMPP
5 2 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.31%) ADO
6 1 (0.31%) CSS
6 1 (0.31%) JSP
6 1 (0.31%) Memcached
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) REST
6 1 (0.31%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.31%) SAPUI5
6 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.85%) Driving Licence
2 17 (5.23%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.92%) Replication
4 14 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.38%) CCTV
5 11 (3.38%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.77%) CMDB
7 8 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.46%) Equities
7 8 (2.46%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.46%) iPad
7 8 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.23%) FlexPod
10 4 (1.23%) iPhone
10 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 325 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (20.92%) Linux
3 62 (19.08%) Windows 10
4 35 (10.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 31 (9.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (8.62%) Mac OS
7 26 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (4.92%) Apple iOS
9 9 (2.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (1.54%) Debian
11 4 (1.23%) Unix
12 3 (0.92%) Android
13 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.31%) CentOS
14 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.31%) SUSE
14 1 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (24.92%) ITIL
3 79 (24.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 63 (19.38%) Customer Service
5 51 (15.69%) Service Delivery
6 50 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (13.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (12.62%) Mentoring
10 37 (11.38%) Migration
11 36 (11.08%) DevOps
12 34 (10.46%) CI/CD
13 29 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
14 26 (8.00%) Service Management
15 25 (7.69%) Coaching
16 23 (7.08%) Change Management
17 22 (6.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
18 21 (6.46%) Cloud Operations
18 21 (6.46%) Process Improvement
19 19 (5.85%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 47 (14.46%) SQL
3 29 (8.92%) Python
4 10 (3.08%) Bash
5 5 (1.54%) PHP
6 4 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.92%) Bicep
8 2 (0.62%) C#
9 1 (0.31%) Go
9 1 (0.31%) Java
9 1 (0.31%) Perl
9 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (9.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (8.62%) Azure Certification
3 24 (7.38%) Degree
4 19 (5.85%) Security Cleared
5 16 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.62%) Network+ Certification
7 14 (4.31%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.38%) MCSE
9 10 (3.08%) CCNA
9 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 9 (2.77%) CCNP
10 9 (2.77%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.46%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.46%) MCSA
12 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (0.92%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.92%) CISSP
15 3 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (4.00%) SLA
3 9 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.85%) NIST
5 5 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.92%) NCSC
6 3 (0.92%) QA
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 197 (60.62%) Active Directory
2 73 (22.46%) Hyper-V
3 56 (17.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.69%) vSphere
6 10 (3.08%) Docker
7 8 (2.46%) Firmware
7 8 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.62%) XenApp
11 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.31%) iptables
11 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 91 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (10.15%) Terraform
3 23 (7.08%) Ansible
4 19 (5.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (3.69%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.38%) Autotask
6 11 (3.38%) SCCM
7 10 (3.08%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.15%) Grafana
9 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.23%) Packer
10 3 (0.92%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.92%) Nessus
10 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 217 (66.77%) Microsoft
2 102 (31.38%) VMware
3 37 (11.38%) Cisco
4 24 (7.38%) Google
5 17 (5.23%) Veeam
6 12 (3.69%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.08%) Draytek
7 10 (3.08%) NetApp
8 9 (2.77%) Apple
8 9 (2.77%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.77%) HP
8 9 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.77%) Splunk
9 8 (2.46%) Charles River
9 8 (2.46%) Dell
9 8 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.46%) WatchGuard
10 7 (2.15%) Mitel
11 6 (1.85%) 3PAR
11 6 (1.85%) SolarWinds