Windows Server Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 60
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 129 104 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.71% 3.11% 2.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.08% 25.74% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 113 95 62
10th Percentile £26,667 £26,100 £25,300
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £29,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £32,500 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -26.59% +28.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £54,688
90th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £65,438
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 390 404 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.18% 12.08% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 304 277 221
10th Percentile £26,325 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £46,688 £47,500 £53,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £63,450 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Yorkshire

Windows Server
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Yorkshire -31 53 £37,500 -9.64% 18
North Yorkshire +23 20 £35,500 +18.33% 6
South Yorkshire -36 20 £42,500 +30.77% 7
East Yorkshire -6 10 £33,000 +17.86% 4
Humberside - 2 £42,500 -
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 38 (29.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (25.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (77.52%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (60.47%) Azure
3 54 (41.86%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.20%) Mimecast
5 7 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.65%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.88%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.10%) AWS
8 4 (3.10%) IaaS
8 4 (3.10%) SaaS
9 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.55%) PaaS
10 1 (0.78%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.78%) Datadog
10 1 (0.78%) GCP
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 52 (40.31%) Firewall
2 31 (24.03%) DNS
3 30 (23.26%) DHCP
4 22 (17.05%) VPN
5 20 (15.50%) LAN
5 20 (15.50%) WAN
5 20 (15.50%) Wireless
6 19 (14.73%) TCP/IP
7 17 (13.18%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (8.53%) VoIP
9 10 (7.75%) VLAN
10 5 (3.88%) SAN
10 5 (3.88%) SSL
11 4 (3.10%) HTTP
11 4 (3.10%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Git
General
1 52 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.98%) Law
4 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.88%) Advertising
5 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.10%) Legal
6 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (39.53%) IT Support
2 46 (35.66%) IT Engineer
3 45 (34.88%) Support Engineer
4 38 (29.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 24 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (17.83%) Analyst
7 14 (10.85%) 2nd Line Support
7 14 (10.85%) Support Analyst
8 13 (10.08%) IT Analyst
9 10 (7.75%) Administrator
9 10 (7.75%) Senior
9 10 (7.75%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (6.98%) Service Desk Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 7 (5.43%) IT Systems Administrator
11 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (5.43%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) Terraform
2 5 (3.88%) JSON
3 4 (3.10%) HTML
4 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.53%) CCTV
4 5 (3.88%) Life Science
5 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.33%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.55%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 129 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (13.18%) Windows 10
3 14 (10.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (6.98%) Linux
5 8 (6.20%) Android
6 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.10%) VMS
8 3 (2.33%) macOS
9 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.98%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (29.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (25.58%) Customer Service
4 31 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (24.03%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (20.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (20.16%) ITIL
6 16 (12.40%) Service Delivery
7 13 (10.08%) Migration
8 12 (9.30%) ERP
9 11 (8.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 11 (8.53%) User Experience
10 10 (7.75%) Business Continuity
10 10 (7.75%) Identity Management
10 10 (7.75%) Project Delivery
10 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Maintenance
12 7 (5.43%) Incident Response
12 7 (5.43%) Information Security
12 7 (5.43%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.08%) SQL
3 3 (2.33%) Python
4 2 (1.55%) Bicep
5 1 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (6.98%) Azure Certification
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.65%) CCNA
3 6 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.33%) A+ Certification
4 3 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) Degree
5 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.88%) SLA
4 2 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 81 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 42 (32.56%) Hyper-V
3 13 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.33%) vSphere
5 2 (1.55%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (38.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (3.88%) WSUS
3 3 (2.33%) Ansible
3 3 (2.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.33%) Puppet
3 3 (2.33%) SCOM
3 3 (2.33%) VxRail
4 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (1.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.78%) Avamar
5 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 103 (79.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.28%) Cisco
2 21 (16.28%) VMware
3 15 (11.63%) Meraki
4 13 (10.08%) Veeam
5 11 (8.53%) SonicWALL
6 5 (3.88%) Google
6 5 (3.88%) iManage
7 4 (3.10%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.10%) Dell
7 4 (3.10%) SAP
7 4 (3.10%) Zerto
8 3 (2.33%) Citrix
8 3 (2.33%) Commvault
8 3 (2.33%) HP
8 3 (2.33%) Tenable
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle
9 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.55%) Sophos
10 1 (0.78%) Fortinet