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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 158 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 -55 -15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 398 327 663
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 1.98% 2.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.25% 17.40% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 340 264 437
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,451 £72,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £41,000 £40,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.23% -10.00% -

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 1,576 1,879 3,003
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.36% 11.38% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 1,014 1,817
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,813 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 26 September 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
1 128 (32.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 107 (26.88%) SharePoint
3 35 (8.79%) IIS
4 11 (2.76%) Apache
4 11 (2.76%) nginx
5 6 (1.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.50%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
Applications
1 32 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 260 (65.33%) Microsoft 365
2 247 (62.06%) Azure
3 186 (46.73%) Entra ID
4 54 (13.57%) AWS
5 46 (11.56%) OneDrive
6 13 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.76%) Cloudflare
9 7 (1.76%) IaaS
9 7 (1.76%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.51%) Azure AKS
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.51%) Serverless
11 5 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.26%) GCP
11 5 (1.26%) SaaS
11 5 (1.26%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 152 (38.19%) Firewall
2 150 (37.69%) DNS
3 132 (33.17%) DHCP
4 98 (24.62%) VPN
5 82 (20.60%) TCP/IP
6 48 (12.06%) VLAN
7 45 (11.31%) LAN
8 43 (10.80%) WAN
9 28 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (5.53%) VoIP
11 21 (5.28%) Network Security
12 20 (5.03%) Wireless
13 9 (2.26%) IP Telephony
13 9 (2.26%) SAN
14 6 (1.51%) NAS
15 4 (1.01%) BGP
15 4 (1.01%) MPLS
16 3 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
16 3 (0.75%) OSPF
16 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (1.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.01%) Power BI
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.75%) MySQL
6 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 8 (2.01%) Git
2 7 (1.76%) JIRA
3 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Flyway
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 205 (51.51%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.31%) Finance
3 39 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.03%) Legal
6 19 (4.77%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.52%) Retail
8 17 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.26%) Games
11 9 (2.26%) Law
11 9 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.76%) Banking
13 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.75%) Marketing
14 2 (0.50%) Advertising
14 2 (0.50%) Automotive
14 2 (0.50%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (28.14%) IT Support
2 110 (27.64%) Support Engineer
3 100 (25.13%) IT Engineer
4 86 (21.61%) IT Support Engineer
5 70 (17.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 69 (17.34%) Analyst
7 60 (15.08%) Senior
8 42 (10.55%) Support Analyst
9 29 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (7.04%) Consultant
11 24 (6.03%) 1st Line Support
11 24 (6.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 23 (5.78%) IT Analyst
13 22 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support
13 22 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 20 (5.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 19 (4.77%) 3rd Line Support
15 19 (4.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 19 (4.77%) Microsoft Engineer
16 18 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.29%) Terraform
2 22 (5.53%) CSS
2 22 (5.53%) HTML
3 18 (4.52%) Web Services
4 17 (4.27%) .NET
4 17 (4.27%) XML
5 16 (4.02%) .NET Framework
6 8 (2.01%) Middleware
7 5 (1.26%) JSON
7 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.01%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.01%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.01%) Blazor
8 4 (1.01%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.01%) jQuery
8 4 (1.01%) RESTful
8 4 (1.01%) Sass
9 3 (0.75%) ADO
9 3 (0.75%) XMPP
10 2 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.05%) Driving Licence
2 22 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.27%) Clustering
4 13 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.51%) Replication
8 9 (2.26%) CCTV
8 9 (2.26%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.76%) PKI
10 6 (1.51%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.51%) Thin Client
11 5 (1.26%) CMDB
11 5 (1.26%) iPhone
11 5 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.26%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 398 (100.00%) Windows
2 80 (20.10%) Linux
3 31 (7.79%) Windows 10
4 27 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (4.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (2.76%) Mac OS
7 10 (2.51%) Unix
8 8 (2.01%) Android
9 7 (1.76%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.01%) Debian
11 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (35.68%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (29.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 104 (26.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 90 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 85 (21.36%) Customer Service
5 85 (21.36%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (15.58%) ITIL
7 57 (14.32%) Mentoring
8 55 (13.82%) Project Delivery
9 49 (12.31%) High Availability
10 48 (12.06%) Business Continuity
11 47 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (9.55%) Service Delivery
13 35 (8.79%) Migration
14 32 (8.04%) Cloud Security
15 30 (7.54%) Change Management
16 29 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (6.78%) ITSM
18 26 (6.53%) Incident Management
18 26 (6.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (23.62%) PowerShell
2 54 (13.57%) SQL
3 20 (5.03%) Python
4 17 (4.27%) C#
5 14 (3.52%) Bicep
6 9 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.51%) VBA
7 6 (1.51%) VBScript
8 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.25%) ABAP
9 1 (0.25%) Bash
9 1 (0.25%) Go
9 1 (0.25%) Java
9 1 (0.25%) Ruby
9 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (16.08%) Degree
2 52 (13.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (10.80%) Security Cleared
4 42 (10.55%) SC Cleared
5 31 (7.79%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.28%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (6.03%) CCNA
8 17 (4.27%) DBS Check
9 13 (3.27%) CCNP
9 13 (3.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.26%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.26%) MCSA
11 9 (2.26%) MCSE
11 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (1.51%) CISSP
13 5 (1.26%) CEH
13 5 (1.26%) CISM
13 5 (1.26%) GIAC
13 5 (1.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.31%) SLA
2 43 (10.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.76%) GDPR
5 6 (1.51%) NIST
6 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ITGC
8 1 (0.25%) QA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 251 (63.07%) Active Directory
2 118 (29.65%) Hyper-V
3 106 (26.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (6.03%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (4.27%) vSphere
6 15 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.51%) Squid
8 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.26%) Terminal Services
8 5 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.01%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.75%) Docker
10 3 (0.75%) Firmware
10 3 (0.75%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 128 (32.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.27%) Ansible
4 12 (3.02%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (2.26%) SCCM
6 6 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.26%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.01%) Autotask
8 4 (1.01%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.01%) WSUS
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.75%) Grafana
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 3 (0.75%) Packer
9 3 (0.75%) SCOM
10 2 (0.50%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 337 (84.67%) Microsoft
2 139 (34.92%) VMware
3 62 (15.58%) Veeam
4 32 (8.04%) Cisco
5 24 (6.03%) WatchGuard
6 18 (4.52%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.27%) Palo Alto
8 16 (4.02%) Meraki
9 15 (3.77%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.52%) Citrix
11 12 (3.02%) SonicWALL
11 12 (3.02%) Splunk
12 11 (2.76%) Acronis
12 11 (2.76%) Apple
13 10 (2.51%) iManage
13 10 (2.51%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.26%) Draytek
14 9 (2.26%) Mitel
15 8 (2.01%) Datto
15 8 (2.01%) N-able
287 hybrid/remote Windows Server jobs