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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 70 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 -24 +25
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 106 122 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.21% 2.48% 5.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.87% 26.35% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 100 71 174
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £34,375 £28,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £44,274 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.59% +28.33% -4.17%
75th Percentile £48,750 £54,375 £47,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £53,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%

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 444 463 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.43% 9.40% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 314 289 466
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,525
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £42,500 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% +8.28% -12.78%
75th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £57,030
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £77,521
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 51 £40,750 -18.50% 13
South Yorkshire +22 19 £32,500 -29.35% 10
East Yorkshire +1 11 £28,000 -31.29% 7
North Yorkshire -17 5 £36,250 -14.71% 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (27.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (16.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (78.30%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (44.34%) Azure
3 20 (18.87%) Entra ID
4 19 (17.92%) SaaS
5 12 (11.32%) IaaS
5 12 (11.32%) PaaS
6 8 (7.55%) AWS
7 5 (4.72%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (45.28%) DNS
2 45 (42.45%) DHCP
3 29 (27.36%) VoIP
4 28 (26.42%) TCP/IP
5 25 (23.58%) Firewall
6 21 (19.81%) VPN
7 19 (17.92%) VLAN
8 9 (8.49%) LAN
8 9 (8.49%) Wireless
9 7 (6.60%) WAN
9 7 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (4.72%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.83%) WLAN
12 2 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.89%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 53 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Telecoms
3 16 (15.09%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.83%) Law
6 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Analyst
2 21 (19.81%) IT Support
3 17 (16.04%) 1st Line Support
3 17 (16.04%) Support Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) 2nd Line Support
4 14 (13.21%) IT Analyst
5 13 (12.26%) Help Desk Analyst
5 13 (12.26%) IT Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) Support Analyst
7 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 9 (8.49%) Technical Support
9 8 (7.55%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (7.55%) Senior
9 8 (7.55%) Support Technician
10 7 (6.60%) Lead
10 7 (6.60%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (5.66%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
2 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.94%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
2 10 (9.43%) Driving Licence
3 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.66%) FMCG
5 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.83%) iPad
7 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 106 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (25.47%) Windows 10
3 25 (23.58%) Linux
4 9 (8.49%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.72%) Android
7 2 (1.89%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.94%) SUSE
8 1 (0.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (24.53%) Customer Service
3 20 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (16.98%) Incident Management
5 12 (11.32%) Mentoring
5 12 (11.32%) Process Improvement
5 12 (11.32%) Virtual Environments
6 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (9.43%) Migration
8 9 (8.49%) ITIL
8 9 (8.49%) Patch Management
9 8 (7.55%) Containerisation
9 8 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.55%) Project Delivery
10 6 (5.66%) Test Automation
11 5 (4.72%) Client Onboarding
11 5 (4.72%) Mathematics
11 5 (4.72%) Network Management
11 5 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (3.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.25%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.38%) Python
3 9 (8.49%) SQL
4 1 (0.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
1 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.89%) CCNP
6 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.89%) MCSA
6 2 (1.89%) MCSE
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.89%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (72.64%) Active Directory
2 43 (40.57%) Hyper-V
3 29 (27.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.83%) vSphere
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.94%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.49%) Ansible
3 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 7 (6.60%) SCCM
3 7 (6.60%) SCOM
3 7 (6.60%) WSUS
4 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.83%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (75.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (32.08%) VMware
3 13 (12.26%) Apple
4 8 (7.55%) Sophos
5 7 (6.60%) Oracle
5 7 (6.60%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.72%) Cisco
6 5 (4.72%) Sage
6 5 (4.72%) SonicWALL
7 4 (3.77%) Citrix
8 3 (2.83%) Datto
8 3 (2.83%) Freshdesk
8 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.89%) arcserve
9 2 (1.89%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.94%) Adobe
10 1 (0.94%) Dell
10 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.94%) Meraki
10 1 (0.94%) SAP