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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 61 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -20 +43
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 110 123 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.09% 2.95% 6.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.10% 32.54% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 95 57 168
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,625 £29,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +24.64% -1.43%
75th Percentile £48,125 £53,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £52,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +2.27%

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 378 378 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.62% 9.06% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 249 191 455
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,600
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,922 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -3.18% -8.37%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,027 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.05% +0.05% -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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -8 51 £41,500 +3.75% 11
South Yorkshire +20 23 £32,500 -29.35% 12
East Yorkshire -1 14 £28,000 -3.45% 5
North Yorkshire -7 7 £30,000 -27.71% 1
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 44 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (88.18%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (61.82%) Azure
3 24 (21.82%) Entra ID
4 19 (17.27%) SaaS
5 12 (10.91%) IaaS
5 12 (10.91%) PaaS
6 8 (7.27%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.45%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (50.91%) DNS
2 52 (47.27%) DHCP
3 39 (35.45%) Firewall
3 39 (35.45%) TCP/IP
4 32 (29.09%) VPN
5 30 (27.27%) VLAN
6 26 (23.64%) VoIP
7 21 (19.09%) LAN
8 20 (18.18%) WAN
9 11 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (9.09%) Wireless
11 9 (8.18%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (3.64%) SAN
13 3 (2.73%) WLAN
14 2 (1.82%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (2.73%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.82%) MySQL
2 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
General
1 60 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.27%) Manufacturing
3 15 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.55%) Law
6 4 (3.64%) Legal
7 1 (0.91%) Advertising
7 1 (0.91%) Automotive
7 1 (0.91%) Finance
7 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) IT Support
2 27 (24.55%) Support Engineer
3 18 (16.36%) IT Engineer
4 16 (14.55%) 1st Line Support
5 15 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
6 14 (12.73%) Support Technician
6 14 (12.73%) Technical Support
7 12 (10.91%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (10.91%) Senior
8 10 (9.09%) Analyst
9 9 (8.18%) Help Desk Support
9 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Technical Support Engineer
10 7 (6.36%) IT Manager
10 7 (6.36%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) Systems Support Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) 1st Line Support Technician
12 5 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.36%) .NET
2 3 (2.73%) SAP Basis
2 3 (2.73%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (2.73%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.91%) JSON
3 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 10 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (8.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.36%) iPad
5 7 (6.36%) Replication
6 6 (5.45%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.45%) FMCG
7 4 (3.64%) NHS
8 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.91%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 110 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (23.64%) Linux
3 21 (19.09%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.82%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.64%) Android
7 3 (2.73%) SUSE
7 3 (2.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.91%) Unix
9 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Customer Service
2 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.36%) Incident Management
4 16 (14.55%) ITIL
4 16 (14.55%) Migration
5 14 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (11.82%) Patch Management
7 12 (10.91%) Virtual Environments
8 11 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 9 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.18%) Network Management
11 8 (7.27%) ITSM
11 8 (7.27%) Service Management
12 7 (6.36%) Asset Management
12 7 (6.36%) CRM
12 7 (6.36%) IT Asset Management
12 7 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.36%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.00%) SQL
3 6 (5.45%) Python
4 5 (4.55%) VBA
5 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.91%) Java
6 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.45%) Degree
3 6 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.82%) MCSE
6 2 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.82%) NCSC
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (80.91%) Active Directory
2 53 (48.18%) Hyper-V
3 30 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.73%) vSphere
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.82%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (24.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.45%) Ansible
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 5 (4.55%) SCCM
3 5 (4.55%) SCOM
3 5 (4.55%) WSUS
4 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.82%) Plesk
5 2 (1.82%) Terraform
6 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (82.73%) Microsoft
2 40 (36.36%) VMware
3 16 (14.55%) Apple
4 9 (8.18%) Sage
4 9 (8.18%) SonicWALL
5 8 (7.27%) Citrix
5 8 (7.27%) Freshdesk
5 8 (7.27%) Sophos
6 7 (6.36%) Datto
7 5 (4.55%) Oracle
7 5 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.55%) Veeam
8 4 (3.64%) Cisco
9 3 (2.73%) SAP
9 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.82%) Adobe
10 2 (1.82%) arcserve
10 2 (1.82%) Dell
10 2 (1.82%) Draytek
10 2 (1.82%) Forcepoint