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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 56 70
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 129 121 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.72% 3.65% 2.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.66% 25.69% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 116 116 85
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £30,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -29.41% +23.19%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -6.70%

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 395 471 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.26% 14.21% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 323 344 328
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,938 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £40,681
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -20.11% +1.70%
75th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
90th Percentile £69,390 £66,250 £63,750
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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -33 54 £37,500 -6.25% 12
South Yorkshire -32 20 £42,500 +30.77% 3
North Yorkshire +20 19 £42,500 +17.24% 4
East Yorkshire -14 10 £33,000 +17.86% 4
Humberside - 2 £42,500 - 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 34 (26.36%) SharePoint
2 33 (25.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (72.09%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (52.71%) Azure
3 43 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.43%) Mimecast
4 7 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.88%) IaaS
5 5 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.10%) AWS
7 3 (2.33%) PaaS
7 3 (2.33%) SaaS
8 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.78%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.78%) Datadog
9 1 (0.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (38.76%) Firewall
2 34 (26.36%) DNS
3 33 (25.58%) DHCP
4 25 (19.38%) LAN
4 25 (19.38%) WAN
5 23 (17.83%) Wireless
6 21 (16.28%) TCP/IP
6 21 (16.28%) VPN
7 17 (13.18%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (7.75%) VLAN
8 10 (7.75%) VoIP
9 6 (4.65%) SAN
10 5 (3.88%) NAS
10 5 (3.88%) SSL
11 4 (3.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Git
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.88%) Advertising
5 4 (3.10%) Law
5 4 (3.10%) Legal
5 4 (3.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (41.86%) IT Support
2 45 (34.88%) Support Engineer
3 41 (31.78%) IT Engineer
4 38 (29.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 25 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (17.05%) Analyst
7 17 (13.18%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (10.85%) Support Analyst
9 13 (10.08%) Senior
10 12 (9.30%) IT Analyst
11 11 (8.53%) IT Technician
12 9 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
12 9 (6.98%) Support Technician
13 8 (6.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 7 (5.43%) IT Support Technician
14 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Engineer
14 7 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (5.43%) Technical Support
14 7 (5.43%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) JSON
1 5 (3.88%) Terraform
2 4 (3.10%) HTML
3 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.75%) CCTV
4 9 (6.98%) Data Centre
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%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 129 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (12.40%) Windows 10
3 15 (11.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (7.75%) Android
5 9 (6.98%) Linux
6 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (3.88%) VMS
8 4 (3.10%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (28.68%) Customer Service
4 33 (25.58%) ITIL
5 28 (21.71%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (20.16%) Service Delivery
7 25 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (10.85%) ERP
10 13 (10.08%) Migration
11 11 (8.53%) Project Delivery
12 10 (7.75%) Business Continuity
12 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.98%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (6.98%) Identity Management
14 8 (6.20%) ITSM
15 7 (5.43%) Incident Response
15 7 (5.43%) Information Security
15 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Maintenance
15 7 (5.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.63%) SQL
3 2 (1.55%) Bicep
3 2 (1.55%) Python
4 1 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 9 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.20%) A+ Certification
3 8 (6.20%) Network+ Certification
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.65%) CCNA
5 6 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.10%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.10%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.88%) SLA
4 3 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 77 (59.69%) Active Directory
2 41 (31.78%) Hyper-V
3 17 (13.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.33%) vSphere
5 2 (1.55%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (32.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.65%) WSUS
3 4 (3.10%) VxRail
4 3 (2.33%) SCOM
5 2 (1.55%) Ansible
5 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.55%) Puppet
5 2 (1.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.78%) Avamar
6 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 101 (78.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.60%) VMware
3 15 (11.63%) Cisco
4 14 (10.85%) Veeam
5 11 (8.53%) Meraki
6 10 (7.75%) SonicWALL
7 5 (3.88%) Dell
7 5 (3.88%) iManage
7 5 (3.88%) Zerto
8 4 (3.10%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.10%) Commvault
8 4 (3.10%) HP
8 4 (3.10%) SAP
8 4 (3.10%) Tenable
9 3 (2.33%) Citrix
10 2 (1.55%) Oracle
10 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.55%) Sophos
11 1 (0.78%) SGI
11 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds