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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 56 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +42
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 109 117 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.13% 3.31% 6.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.35% 26.41% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 87 62 159
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,156 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £42,750
90th Percentile £53,900 £63,625 £52,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 277 443 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.94% 12.54% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 211 196 456
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,063 £28,500 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,224 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% -10.06% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £66,625 £83,903
England median annual salary £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.00% - -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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -27 45 £42,500 +13.33% 26
South Yorkshire +16 24 £40,000 -13.04% 14
East Yorkshire +2 14 £28,000 -3.45% 3
North Yorkshire -5 8 £30,000 -24.05% 5
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 42 (38.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (33.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (18.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (87.16%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (60.55%) Azure
3 20 (18.35%) Entra ID
4 15 (13.76%) SaaS
5 8 (7.34%) IaaS
5 8 (7.34%) PaaS
6 6 (5.50%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.59%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (42.20%) Firewall
2 43 (39.45%) DNS
3 40 (36.70%) DHCP
4 35 (32.11%) VLAN
5 33 (30.28%) VPN
6 32 (29.36%) TCP/IP
7 26 (23.85%) LAN
7 26 (23.85%) WAN
8 25 (22.94%) VoIP
9 14 (12.84%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (8.26%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (8.26%) Wireless
11 6 (5.50%) SAN
12 5 (4.59%) WLAN
13 2 (1.83%) DMZ
14 1 (0.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (2.75%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
General
1 49 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.52%) Manufacturing
3 10 (9.17%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.42%) Retail
6 6 (5.50%) Law
7 5 (4.59%) Advertising
7 5 (4.59%) Legal
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Automotive
9 1 (0.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 42 (38.53%) IT Support
2 34 (31.19%) Support Engineer
3 24 (22.02%) IT Engineer
4 22 (20.18%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (16.51%) Support Technician
6 17 (15.60%) 2nd Line Support
7 15 (13.76%) 3rd Line Support
7 15 (13.76%) Technical Support
8 12 (11.01%) Senior
9 11 (10.09%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (8.26%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (8.26%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (7.34%) 2nd Line Support Technician
11 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (7.34%) IT Support Technician
11 8 (7.34%) IT Technician
12 6 (5.50%) Help Desk Support Technician
12 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Support
12 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Technician
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) .NET
2 3 (2.75%) SAP Basis
2 3 (2.75%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (2.75%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.92%) JSON
3 1 (0.92%) REST
3 1 (0.92%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Driving Licence
2 14 (12.84%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.26%) Replication
4 8 (7.34%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.34%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.42%) iPad
6 6 (5.50%) FMCG
7 4 (3.67%) NHS
8 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.83%) SCADA
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.92%) PDA
9 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 109 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (22.02%) Linux
3 17 (15.60%) Windows 10
4 12 (11.01%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.50%) Android
6 3 (2.75%) SUSE
6 3 (2.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Customer Service
2 21 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.51%) ITIL
4 17 (15.60%) Migration
5 15 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (13.76%) Patch Management
6 12 (11.01%) Incident Management
7 11 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.17%) Project Delivery
9 9 (8.26%) Asset Management
9 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.26%) Network Management
10 8 (7.34%) ITSM
10 8 (7.34%) Service Delivery
10 8 (7.34%) Virtual Environments
11 7 (6.42%) CRM
11 7 (6.42%) IT Asset Management
11 7 (6.42%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 7 (6.42%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.84%) SQL
3 6 (5.50%) VBA
4 3 (2.75%) Python
5 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.92%) C#
6 1 (0.92%) Delphi
6 1 (0.92%) Java
6 1 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) MCSE
5 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) SLA
2 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (72.48%) Active Directory
2 47 (43.12%) Hyper-V
3 28 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.75%) vSphere
5 2 (1.83%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.83%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.92%) Docker
6 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (21.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.75%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (1.83%) Plesk
3 2 (1.83%) SCCM
3 2 (1.83%) SCOM
3 2 (1.83%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) WSUS
4 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (78.90%) Microsoft
2 39 (35.78%) VMware
3 16 (14.68%) Apple
4 10 (9.17%) Citrix
5 9 (8.26%) Sage
5 9 (8.26%) SonicWALL
6 8 (7.34%) Freshdesk
7 7 (6.42%) Datto
7 7 (6.42%) Sophos
7 7 (6.42%) Veeam
8 4 (3.67%) Cisco
9 3 (2.75%) SAP
10 2 (1.83%) Adobe
10 2 (1.83%) Dell
10 2 (1.83%) Draytek
10 2 (1.83%) Oracle
10 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.92%) arcserve
11 1 (0.92%) Forcepoint