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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -34 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 121 145 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.65% 4.11% 3.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.58% 28.38% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 108 139 131
10th Percentile £26,775 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £29,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £30,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -29.41% +23.19%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £54,125 £59,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -5.56%

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 409 511 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.59% 14.47% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 317 381 415
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -0.02%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £53,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £65,000 £63,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%

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 August 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 August 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 56 £35,750 -8.92% 12
South Yorkshire -39 18 £42,500 +14.86% 5
North Yorkshire +15 17 £42,500 +6.25% 2
East Yorkshire -22 7 £35,000 +22.81% 5
Humberside - 2 £42,500 - 3
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 32 (26.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (26.45%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.61%) IIS
3 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 87 (71.90%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (55.37%) Azure
3 39 (32.23%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.96%) Mimecast
6 5 (4.13%) IaaS
7 4 (3.31%) AWS
8 3 (2.48%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.48%) PaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.65%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.83%) Datadog
10 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 41 (33.88%) Firewall
2 37 (30.58%) DNS
3 36 (29.75%) DHCP
4 29 (23.97%) LAN
4 29 (23.97%) WAN
5 25 (20.66%) TCP/IP
6 23 (19.01%) Wireless
7 19 (15.70%) VPN
8 13 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (7.44%) VLAN
10 7 (5.79%) SAN
10 7 (5.79%) VoIP
11 6 (4.96%) NAS
12 5 (4.13%) SSL
13 4 (3.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.65%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.13%) Advertising
3 5 (4.13%) Legal
4 4 (3.31%) Law
4 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (43.80%) IT Support
2 39 (32.23%) Support Engineer
3 36 (29.75%) IT Engineer
4 33 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
5 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (14.88%) Analyst
7 16 (13.22%) Senior
8 14 (11.57%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (10.74%) Support Analyst
10 12 (9.92%) IT Technician
11 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (7.44%) IT Analyst
11 9 (7.44%) IT Support Analyst
11 9 (7.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (6.61%) Support Technician
13 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 6 (4.96%) Administrator
14 6 (4.96%) Systems Administrator
14 6 (4.96%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) JSON
2 4 (3.31%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Driving Licence
2 11 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.13%) CCTV
4 2 (1.65%) Housing Association
4 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 121 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (12.40%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (9.92%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.44%) Linux
5 7 (5.79%) Android
6 6 (4.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (4.13%) VMS
8 4 (3.31%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (30.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (29.75%) Customer Service
4 33 (27.27%) ITIL
5 29 (23.97%) Service Delivery
6 25 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (17.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.74%) Migration
10 12 (9.92%) ERP
11 10 (8.26%) Business Continuity
11 10 (8.26%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (7.44%) ITSM
13 8 (6.61%) Identity Management
13 8 (6.61%) Knowledge Transfer
14 7 (5.79%) Collaborative Culture
14 7 (5.79%) Incident Response
14 7 (5.79%) Information Security
14 7 (5.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.66%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.74%) SQL
3 2 (1.65%) Bicep
4 1 (0.83%) Java
4 1 (0.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 9 (7.44%) A+ Certification
2 9 (7.44%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.44%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (4.96%) CCNA
3 6 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.31%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.31%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.13%) SLA
4 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (61.98%) Active Directory
2 36 (29.75%) Hyper-V
3 18 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.48%) vSphere
5 2 (1.65%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (31.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.79%) WSUS
3 5 (4.13%) VxRail
4 4 (3.31%) Terraform
5 3 (2.48%) SCOM
6 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (1.65%) SCCM
7 1 (0.83%) Ansible
7 1 (0.83%) Avamar
7 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (79.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (21.49%) VMware
3 15 (12.40%) Cisco
3 15 (12.40%) Veeam
4 12 (9.92%) Meraki
5 6 (4.96%) Dell
5 6 (4.96%) Zerto
6 5 (4.13%) Citrix
6 5 (4.13%) Commvault
6 5 (4.13%) HP
6 5 (4.13%) iManage
6 5 (4.13%) SonicWALL
6 5 (4.13%) Tenable
7 4 (3.31%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.31%) SAP
8 2 (1.65%) Oracle
8 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.65%) Sophos
9 1 (0.83%) SGI
9 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds