Windows Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 49 73 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 770 559 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.58% 3.84% 4.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.00% 20.00% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 703 440 738
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £35,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -15.98% -0.59%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £66,780 £65,225
England median annual salary £41,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.74% +4.71% -

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,852 2,795 4,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.97% 19.20% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 1,949 2,774
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the South East 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
Thames Valley +15 264 £41,000 +26.15% 41
Hampshire +20 253 £37,500 -11.76% 35
Berkshire +54 139 £50,000 +65.56% 18
Surrey -10 75 £50,000 +39.86% 13
Oxfordshire +9 68 £42,500 +34.92% 17
East Sussex +55 57 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Buckinghamshire -41 57 £32,000 -1.54% 6
Kent +5 50 £40,000 -5.88% 23
West Sussex +49 42 £30,000 -32.96% 14
Sussex - 18 £35,000 - 2
Middlesex -2 8 £35,000 -35.19%
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 157 (20.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 111 (14.42%) SharePoint
3 26 (3.38%) IIS
4 4 (0.52%) TWiki
4 4 (0.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.39%) Orchard CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 97 (12.60%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 482 (62.60%) Microsoft 365
2 380 (49.35%) Azure
3 112 (14.55%) Entra ID
4 76 (9.87%) AWS
5 56 (7.27%) OneDrive
6 40 (5.19%) SaaS
7 26 (3.38%) IaaS
8 25 (3.25%) Mimecast
9 22 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.95%) Azure Storage
12 14 (1.82%) PaaS
13 13 (1.69%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.69%) OCI
13 13 (1.69%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.43%) GitHub
15 8 (1.04%) WhatsApp
16 7 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (0.78%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 257 (33.38%) Firewall
2 198 (25.71%) DNS
3 137 (17.79%) DHCP
4 101 (13.12%) VPN
5 92 (11.95%) TCP/IP
6 64 (8.31%) WAN
7 63 (8.18%) VoIP
8 61 (7.92%) VLAN
9 58 (7.53%) LAN
10 53 (6.88%) SAN
11 47 (6.10%) Wireless
12 44 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (2.34%) FTP
14 17 (2.21%) NAS
15 16 (2.08%) Internet
16 15 (1.95%) SNMP
16 15 (1.95%) Unified Communications
17 14 (1.82%) iSCSI
18 13 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
19 12 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.91%) DB2
4 6 (0.78%) MySQL
4 6 (0.78%) Power BI
5 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.34%) Git
2 12 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.56%) JIRA
3 10 (1.30%) Trac
4 7 (0.91%) Robot Framework
5 6 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.52%) eggPlant
6 4 (0.52%) Hudson
6 4 (0.52%) MSI
7 3 (0.39%) GitLab
7 3 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 205 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 49 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
3 42 (5.45%) Finance
4 31 (4.03%) Telecoms
5 28 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.73%) Law
8 19 (2.47%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.95%) Retail
10 13 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.43%) Back Office
12 9 (1.17%) Marketing
13 8 (1.04%) Legal
14 7 (0.91%) Games
15 6 (0.78%) Advertising
15 6 (0.78%) Aviation
16 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.65%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 3 (0.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (19.74%) IT Support
2 149 (19.35%) Support Engineer
3 139 (18.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (14.81%) IT Engineer
5 90 (11.69%) IT Support Engineer
6 70 (9.09%) Analyst
7 64 (8.31%) 2nd Line Support
7 64 (8.31%) 3rd Line Support
8 56 (7.27%) Senior
9 54 (7.01%) Systems Engineer
10 47 (6.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 44 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
11 44 (5.71%) IT Technician
12 41 (5.32%) Infrastructure Support
12 41 (5.32%) IT Analyst
12 41 (5.32%) Support Technician
13 39 (5.06%) Lead
13 39 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
14 34 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 34 (4.42%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.95%) ARM Templates
2 8 (1.04%) .NET
3 6 (0.78%) .NET Core
3 6 (0.78%) CSS
3 6 (0.78%) HTML
3 6 (0.78%) React
4 5 (0.65%) Blazor
5 4 (0.52%) LAMP
6 3 (0.39%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.39%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (0.39%) jQuery
6 3 (0.39%) Node.js
6 3 (0.39%) REST
6 3 (0.39%) Sass
6 3 (0.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.39%) Vue
6 3 (0.39%) XML
7 2 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 48 (6.23%) PKI
3 33 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 31 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.64%) CMDB
6 27 (3.51%) Clustering
6 27 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.25%) NHS
8 22 (2.86%) Replication
9 20 (2.60%) Client/Server
10 18 (2.34%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.91%) Handset
13 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.78%) PMI
14 6 (0.78%) Xbox
15 5 (0.65%) Educational Technology
16 4 (0.52%) CCTV
17 3 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 770 (100.00%) Windows
2 186 (24.16%) Windows 10
3 126 (16.36%) Linux
4 115 (14.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 106 (13.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 80 (10.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (7.53%) Windows 7
8 52 (6.75%) Windows 8
9 19 (2.47%) CentOS
9 19 (2.47%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.34%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (1.95%) Unix
12 14 (1.82%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.56%) Windows NT
13 12 (1.56%) Windows XP
14 10 (1.30%) Android
14 10 (1.30%) Mac OS X
14 10 (1.30%) VMS
15 9 (1.17%) Mac OS
16 8 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 164 (21.30%) ITIL
3 161 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (20.13%) Customer Service
5 100 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (10.00%) Agile
7 63 (8.18%) Service Management
8 53 (6.88%) Mentoring
9 50 (6.49%) DevOps
10 48 (6.23%) Configuration Management
11 37 (4.81%) Change Control
11 37 (4.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 37 (4.81%) Service Delivery
12 35 (4.55%) Change Management
12 35 (4.55%) Project Management
13 34 (4.42%) Release Management
14 32 (4.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 30 (3.90%) Incident Management
16 28 (3.64%) Problem Management
17 27 (3.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 147 (19.09%) PowerShell
2 102 (13.25%) SQL
3 32 (4.16%) Python
4 30 (3.90%) VB
5 25 (3.25%) C#
6 22 (2.86%) VBScript
7 14 (1.82%) Bicep
8 10 (1.30%) ActionScript
9 8 (1.04%) Bash
10 6 (0.78%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.52%) Java
11 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 159 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 106 (13.77%) DV Cleared
4 98 (12.73%) Degree
5 51 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.64%) DBS Check
7 24 (3.12%) CCNA
7 24 (3.12%) MCP
8 18 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (1.82%) CCNP
11 11 (1.43%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.30%) MCSA
13 7 (0.91%) MCSE
14 6 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.78%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.00%) SLA
2 28 (3.64%) GDPR
3 23 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.65%) QA
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
7 2 (0.26%) NIST
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 502 (65.19%) Active Directory
2 207 (26.88%) Hyper-V
3 193 (25.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (7.40%) XenApp
5 50 (6.49%) vSphere
6 48 (6.23%) VirtualBox
6 48 (6.23%) VMware ESXi
7 45 (5.84%) XenDesktop
8 43 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (2.73%) Firmware
11 18 (2.34%) Docker
12 10 (1.30%) NFS
12 10 (1.30%) OpenSSH
12 10 (1.30%) pfSense
13 8 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.65%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 115 (14.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (9.48%) SCCM
3 67 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 60 (7.79%) WSUS
5 52 (6.75%) SCOM
6 35 (4.55%) Kubernetes
7 26 (3.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (2.60%) Ansible
9 18 (2.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (2.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.08%) SCDPM
11 14 (1.82%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.69%) Terraform
13 12 (1.56%) Grafana
13 12 (1.56%) Sysprep
14 11 (1.43%) ZABBIX
15 10 (1.30%) IBM BigFix
15 10 (1.30%) PowerCLI
16 8 (1.04%) Nessus
17 6 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 457 (59.35%) Microsoft
2 317 (41.17%) VMware
3 89 (11.56%) Citrix
4 88 (11.43%) Cisco
5 74 (9.61%) Veeam
6 42 (5.45%) Dell
7 29 (3.77%) Sophos
8 27 (3.51%) Apple
9 26 (3.38%) Juniper
9 26 (3.38%) Palo Alto
10 24 (3.12%) Fortinet
11 21 (2.73%) Meraki
12 20 (2.60%) EMC
12 20 (2.60%) Red Hat
13 17 (2.21%) HP
13 17 (2.21%) Oracle
14 16 (2.08%) 3PAR
14 16 (2.08%) Google
15 13 (1.69%) ConnectWise
15 13 (1.69%) Dynatrace