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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 150 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 -54 +6
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 345 367 794
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.58% 2.23% 2.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.45% 17.70% 22.93%
Number of salaries quoted 295 319 641
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £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 1,537 2,073 3,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.02% 12.59% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 1,210 2,605
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,313 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

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 29 July 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
1 105 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (23.48%) SharePoint
3 32 (9.28%) IIS
4 12 (3.48%) Apache
4 12 (3.48%) nginx
5 8 (2.32%) Confluence
6 6 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Site Server
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (12.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.58%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 224 (64.93%) Microsoft 365
2 215 (62.32%) Azure
3 134 (38.84%) Entra ID
4 61 (17.68%) AWS
5 31 (8.99%) OneDrive
6 14 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.48%) IaaS
8 11 (3.19%) SaaS
9 9 (2.61%) GCP
9 9 (2.61%) GitHub
10 8 (2.32%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.03%) Cloudflare
11 7 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.03%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.45%) PaaS
13 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 138 (40.00%) Firewall
2 119 (34.49%) DNS
3 97 (28.12%) DHCP
4 89 (25.80%) VPN
5 76 (22.03%) TCP/IP
6 58 (16.81%) WAN
7 55 (15.94%) LAN
8 40 (11.59%) VLAN
9 32 (9.28%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (8.70%) VoIP
11 20 (5.80%) Wireless
12 14 (4.06%) Network Security
13 7 (2.03%) Unified Communications
14 6 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (1.74%) WebEx
15 5 (1.45%) BGP
15 5 (1.45%) MPLS
15 5 (1.45%) NAS
15 5 (1.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.45%) MySQL
4 5 (1.45%) Power BI
5 4 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.58%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) Redis
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (3.48%) Git
2 9 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (1.74%) JIRA
3 6 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) Gatling
6 1 (0.29%) JMeter
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 189 (54.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.33%) Finance
3 32 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.22%) Legal
6 18 (5.22%) Retail
7 14 (4.06%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.48%) Banking
8 12 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.90%) Law
10 6 (1.74%) Marketing
11 5 (1.45%) Games
12 2 (0.58%) Advertising
12 2 (0.58%) Military
12 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (32.75%) Support Engineer
2 111 (32.17%) IT Support
3 92 (26.67%) IT Engineer
4 87 (25.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 61 (17.68%) Analyst
6 54 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 48 (13.91%) Senior
8 44 (12.75%) Support Analyst
9 30 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 30 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
10 29 (8.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 23 (6.67%) IT Analyst
12 21 (6.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.22%) IT Support Analyst
14 17 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
16 14 (4.06%) Infrastructure Support
17 13 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 13 (3.77%) Applications Support
18 12 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.51%) CSS
1 19 (5.51%) HTML
1 19 (5.51%) Web Services
2 15 (4.35%) .NET
3 13 (3.77%) .NET Framework
3 13 (3.77%) XML
4 8 (2.32%) Middleware
5 6 (1.74%) XMPP
6 4 (1.16%) ADO
6 4 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.16%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (0.29%) JSP
7 1 (0.29%) Memcached
7 1 (0.29%) REST
7 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.29%) SAP BC
7 1 (0.29%) SOAP
7 1 (0.29%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.57%) Driving Licence
2 21 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.06%) Replication
6 12 (3.48%) Clustering
7 10 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.61%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.32%) CMDB
10 7 (2.03%) PKI
11 6 (1.74%) FlexPod
11 6 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.45%) iPhone
12 5 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
12 5 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 345 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (19.71%) Linux
3 36 (10.43%) Windows 10
4 35 (10.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (5.51%) Mac OS
7 14 (4.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.03%) Android
8 7 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.74%) Unix
10 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.16%) Debian
12 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.20%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.22%) Customer Service
3 76 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 74 (21.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 71 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (19.13%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (16.52%) ITIL
8 47 (13.62%) High Availability
9 40 (11.59%) Project Delivery
10 39 (11.30%) Business Continuity
11 38 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 34 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (8.41%) Service Delivery
14 26 (7.54%) Change Management
15 22 (6.38%) Migration
15 22 (6.38%) Roadmaps
16 21 (6.09%) CI/CD
16 21 (6.09%) DevOps
16 21 (6.09%) Root Cause Analysis
17 20 (5.80%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.80%) PowerShell
2 56 (16.23%) SQL
3 33 (9.57%) Python
4 14 (4.06%) C#
5 9 (2.61%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.03%) Bash
6 7 (2.03%) Bicep
7 6 (1.74%) VBA
7 6 (1.74%) VBScript
8 3 (0.87%) Go
9 2 (0.58%) Java
10 1 (0.29%) ABAP
10 1 (0.29%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (15.36%) Degree
2 39 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.43%) Azure Certification
3 36 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.64%) DBS Check
5 15 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.06%) CCNA
7 13 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (3.48%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.03%) HNC
9 7 (2.03%) HND
10 5 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.87%) CEH
12 3 (0.87%) CISM
12 3 (0.87%) CISSP
12 3 (0.87%) GIAC
12 3 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.14%) SLA
2 28 (8.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.03%) GDPR
5 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.29%) ITGC
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 207 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 91 (26.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (24.06%) Hyper-V
4 21 (6.09%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (5.51%) vSphere
6 10 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.74%) Docker
7 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.74%) Squid
7 6 (1.74%) Terminal Services
7 6 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.87%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.87%) Firmware
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (28.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (10.72%) Terraform
3 22 (6.38%) Ansible
4 21 (6.09%) Kubernetes
5 14 (4.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (3.19%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (2.32%) Grafana
8 7 (2.03%) Autotask
8 7 (2.03%) Packer
9 6 (1.74%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.74%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.45%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.16%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.87%) Kibana
12 3 (0.87%) Nagios
12 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 296 (85.80%) Microsoft
2 117 (33.91%) VMware
3 42 (12.17%) Veeam
4 41 (11.88%) Cisco
5 22 (6.38%) ServiceNow
6 18 (5.22%) Meraki
7 17 (4.93%) Splunk
8 14 (4.06%) Palo Alto
9 13 (3.77%) Fortinet
10 11 (3.19%) Citrix
10 11 (3.19%) iManage
11 9 (2.61%) Google
12 8 (2.32%) HP
13 7 (2.03%) ConnectWise
13 7 (2.03%) EMC
13 7 (2.03%) NetApp
13 7 (2.03%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.03%) WatchGuard
14 6 (1.74%) Dell
14 6 (1.74%) F5