Windows Server Jobs in England

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 97 118
Rank change year-on-year +34 +21 -47
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 3,182 3,074 4,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.71% 3.41% 3.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.38% 21.19% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 2,486 3,547
10th Percentile £26,225 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £44,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +4.71% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
England

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,535 14,504 25,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.61% 16.07% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,912 9,974 14,948
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in England.

Salary trend for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in England

Windows Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
South East +24 770 £39,500 +11.27% 147
London +28 638 £57,500 +4.55% 128
North of England +21 619 £37,500 -6.25% 114
Midlands +43 537 £37,500 -3.23% 106
South West +11 308 £40,000 - 72
West Midlands +26 303 £35,000 -11.71% 63
East of England +17 298 £32,500 -17.72% 81
Yorkshire +68 287 £37,500 - 42
East Midlands +39 229 £40,000 +6.67% 43
North West -42 224 £43,500 -3.33% 57
North East +22 108 £35,000 -15.15% 16
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 784 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 522 (16.40%) SharePoint
3 94 (2.95%) IIS
4 34 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2013
5 22 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 18 (0.57%) Confluence
7 17 (0.53%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
8 11 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
8 11 (0.35%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.19%) Apache
12 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 4 (0.13%) TWiki
14 3 (0.094%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.094%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 373 (11.72%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.094%) Final Cut Pro
6 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.094%) Pro Tools
6 3 (0.094%) SPSS
7 2 (0.063%) CATIA
7 2 (0.063%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.063%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.031%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.031%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.031%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.094%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.094%) Shopify
5 2 (0.063%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.063%) Farmplan
5 2 (0.063%) KEYPrime
5 2 (0.063%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.031%) Magento
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.031%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,889 (59.37%) Microsoft 365
2 1,555 (48.87%) Azure
3 560 (17.60%) Entra ID
4 367 (11.53%) AWS
5 253 (7.95%) OneDrive
6 98 (3.08%) SaaS
7 82 (2.58%) IaaS
8 72 (2.26%) GCP
9 67 (2.11%) Google Workspace
10 65 (2.04%) Mimecast
11 64 (2.01%) Power Platform
12 52 (1.63%) GitHub
13 51 (1.60%) Nutanix
14 46 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
16 44 (1.38%) PaaS
17 32 (1.01%) WhatsApp
18 30 (0.94%) Power Automate
19 29 (0.91%) Azure Storage
20 27 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 950 (29.86%) Firewall
2 788 (24.76%) DNS
3 628 (19.74%) DHCP
4 384 (12.07%) WAN
5 367 (11.53%) LAN
6 362 (11.38%) TCP/IP
7 357 (11.22%) VPN
8 314 (9.87%) SAN
9 232 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
10 213 (6.69%) VLAN
11 194 (6.10%) Wireless
12 173 (5.44%) VoIP
13 119 (3.74%) NAS
14 75 (2.36%) Internet
14 75 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
15 63 (1.98%) Network Security
16 60 (1.89%) SD-WAN
17 39 (1.23%) WLAN
18 36 (1.13%) MPLS
19 33 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (1.45%) Power BI
4 39 (1.23%) MySQL
5 24 (0.75%) DB2
6 20 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.35%) MariaDB
10 10 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.22%) Big Data
13 7 (0.22%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.16%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.16%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.16%) Redis
15 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 62 (1.95%) Git
2 61 (1.92%) JIRA
3 31 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.85%) GitLab
5 10 (0.31%) Trac
6 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
8 7 (0.22%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.22%) Snyk
9 6 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 4 (0.13%) Hudson
10 4 (0.13%) MSI
10 4 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.13%) Subversion
10 4 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.094%) SonarQube
General
1 954 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 306 (9.62%) Finance
3 248 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (4.65%) Law
5 113 (3.55%) Telecoms
6 103 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
7 99 (3.11%) Retail
8 82 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 81 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 71 (2.23%) Legal
11 69 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 54 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 51 (1.60%) Banking
14 45 (1.41%) Marketing
15 39 (1.23%) Games
16 34 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (0.69%) Automotive
19 17 (0.53%) Advertising
20 15 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 593 (18.64%) IT Support
2 587 (18.45%) Support Engineer
3 579 (18.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 543 (17.06%) IT Engineer
5 362 (11.38%) Senior
6 355 (11.16%) Analyst
7 340 (10.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 216 (6.79%) 2nd Line Support
9 207 (6.51%) IT Technician
10 156 (4.90%) 3rd Line Support
10 156 (4.90%) Lead
11 154 (4.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 149 (4.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 144 (4.53%) Support Technician
14 126 (3.96%) Administrator
14 126 (3.96%) Support Analyst
15 122 (3.83%) IT Support Technician
16 121 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
17 118 (3.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 118 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.29%) .NET
2 39 (1.23%) ARM Templates
3 24 (0.75%) LDAP
4 21 (0.66%) HTML
5 16 (0.50%) JSON
5 16 (0.50%) REST
6 14 (0.44%) React
6 14 (0.44%) YAML
7 12 (0.38%) CSS
8 11 (0.35%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.35%) LAMP
9 9 (0.28%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.28%) XML
10 8 (0.25%) ASP.NET
10 8 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.22%) ADSI
11 7 (0.22%) EDI
11 7 (0.22%) Web Services
12 6 (0.19%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.19%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.88%) Data Centre
2 183 (5.75%) Driving Licence
3 152 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 135 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 131 (4.12%) Replication
6 110 (3.46%) Clustering
7 89 (2.80%) PKI
8 78 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 52 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.13%) Client/Server
11 35 (1.10%) Operational Technology
12 32 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
13 30 (0.94%) CMDB
14 28 (0.88%) NHS
15 26 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 22 (0.69%) iPad
18 19 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (0.60%) SCADA
19 18 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3,181 (99.97%) Windows
2 581 (18.26%) Windows 10
3 521 (16.37%) Linux
4 418 (13.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 374 (11.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 356 (11.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 122 (3.83%) Windows 7
8 103 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 85 (2.67%) Windows 8
10 76 (2.39%) Mac OS
11 68 (2.14%) Unix
12 67 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 65 (2.04%) Apple iOS
14 62 (1.95%) Android
15 49 (1.54%) Ubuntu
16 36 (1.13%) VMS
16 36 (1.13%) Windows Server 2003
17 33 (1.04%) CentOS
18 25 (0.79%) Mac OS X
19 21 (0.66%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (23.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 644 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
3 583 (18.32%) ITIL
4 498 (15.65%) Customer Service
5 407 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
6 232 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 190 (5.97%) Mentoring
8 189 (5.94%) DevOps
9 188 (5.91%) Migration
10 185 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 175 (5.50%) Project Delivery
12 148 (4.65%) Service Management
13 146 (4.59%) Project Management
14 145 (4.56%) Agile
15 144 (4.53%) Server Management
16 133 (4.18%) Change Management
17 121 (3.80%) Incident Management
18 117 (3.68%) Service Delivery
19 111 (3.49%) Time Management
20 110 (3.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 656 (20.62%) PowerShell
2 389 (12.23%) SQL
3 145 (4.56%) Python
4 90 (2.83%) Bash
5 74 (2.33%) C#
6 40 (1.26%) VBScript
7 39 (1.23%) VB
8 37 (1.16%) Java
9 31 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 24 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.50%) Bicep
12 13 (0.41%) Perl
13 12 (0.38%) Korn
14 11 (0.35%) C++
14 11 (0.35%) Delphi
15 10 (0.31%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.31%) Ruby
16 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.22%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 385 (12.10%) Degree
2 344 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 276 (8.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 255 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 189 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 123 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
7 110 (3.46%) MCSE
8 108 (3.39%) CCNA
9 99 (3.11%) DBS Check
10 88 (2.77%) MCSA
11 62 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 59 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 49 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 43 (1.35%) A+ Certification
15 37 (1.16%) MCP
16 36 (1.13%) AWS Certification
17 33 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
18 31 (0.97%) CCNP
19 29 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
20 26 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (7.98%) SLA
2 89 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 73 (2.29%) GDPR
4 57 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.57%) NIST
7 14 (0.44%) PMO
8 13 (0.41%) QA
9 12 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.25%) ITGC
12 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.13%) NCSC
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.094%) GRC
13 3 (0.094%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.094%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.063%) Data Quality
15 1 (0.031%) GxP
System Software
1 2,025 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 923 (29.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 801 (25.17%) Hyper-V
4 216 (6.79%) VMware ESXi
5 197 (6.19%) vSphere
6 127 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
7 80 (2.51%) XenApp
8 71 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 70 (2.20%) XenDesktop
10 57 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
11 56 (1.76%) Docker
12 48 (1.51%) VirtualBox
13 32 (1.01%) Firmware
14 29 (0.91%) Terminal Services
15 16 (0.50%) NFS
16 15 (0.47%) pfSense
17 14 (0.44%) VMware Server
18 13 (0.41%) vCloud
19 10 (0.31%) OpenSSH
20 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 492 (15.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 330 (10.37%) SCCM
3 163 (5.12%) vCenter Server
4 116 (3.65%) WSUS
5 103 (3.24%) SCOM
6 75 (2.36%) Ansible
6 75 (2.36%) Kubernetes
7 71 (2.23%) Terraform
8 66 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 55 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
11 35 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
12 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 32 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
13 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 25 (0.79%) NetBackup
15 24 (0.75%) Nagios
15 24 (0.75%) Puppet
16 23 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
17 22 (0.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,914 (60.15%) Microsoft
2 1,413 (44.41%) VMware
3 398 (12.51%) Cisco
4 333 (10.47%) Citrix
5 296 (9.30%) Veeam
6 192 (6.03%) HP
7 131 (4.12%) Apple
7 131 (4.12%) Dell
8 113 (3.55%) Google
9 112 (3.52%) Meraki
10 88 (2.77%) Sophos
11 79 (2.48%) Red Hat
12 72 (2.26%) NetApp
13 71 (2.23%) Commvault
14 67 (2.11%) ServiceNow
15 59 (1.85%) Aruba
15 59 (1.85%) Oracle
16 58 (1.82%) SolarWinds
17 57 (1.79%) Fortinet
18 55 (1.73%) Juniper