Windows Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows Server
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 75 96
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -24
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 255 245 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.79% 4.15% 3.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.13% 22.17% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 239 182 202
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £54,500 £43,750 £49,688
90th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £63,625
South East median annual salary £39,000 £36,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -12.20% -3.53%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 976 1,105 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.52% 18.71% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 835 681 1,015
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,846
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,000 £34,245
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £78,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the Thames Valley

Windows Server
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +55 132 £50,000 +66.11% 18
Oxfordshire +12 68 £42,500 +34.92% 12
Buckinghamshire -43 55 £32,000 -1.54% 8
Windows Server
South East

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 48 (18.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (14.90%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.27%) IIS
4 4 (1.57%) WordPress
5 3 (1.18%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 141 (55.29%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (51.37%) Azure
3 37 (14.51%) Entra ID
4 25 (9.80%) OneDrive
5 22 (8.63%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (5.88%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.10%) OCI
8 9 (3.53%) Google Workspace
9 8 (3.14%) AWS
10 7 (2.75%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.18%) SaaS
12 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.78%) IaaS
12 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.39%) GitHub
13 1 (0.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 107 (41.96%) Firewall
2 98 (38.43%) DNS
3 58 (22.75%) DHCP
4 25 (9.80%) SAN
4 25 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (8.24%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.24%) WAN
6 19 (7.45%) Wireless
7 14 (5.49%) LAN
7 14 (5.49%) VLAN
7 14 (5.49%) VPN
8 12 (4.71%) SNMP
9 8 (3.14%) NAS
10 6 (2.35%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.96%) Wireless Security
12 4 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.57%) Intranet
12 4 (1.57%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.57%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.18%) MySQL
3 1 (0.39%) Power BI
General
1 78 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.06%) Law
3 17 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.92%) Retail
5 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.96%) Finance
7 5 (1.96%) Games
7 5 (1.96%) Marketing
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.18%) Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (25.10%) IT Support
2 48 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 45 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 39 (15.29%) IT Engineer
5 36 (14.12%) Analyst
6 35 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
7 29 (11.37%) IT Analyst
8 27 (10.59%) Systems Engineer
9 25 (9.80%) IT Technician
9 25 (9.80%) Windows Engineer
10 22 (8.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 22 (8.63%) Support Specialist
10 22 (8.63%) Windows Systems Engineer
11 20 (7.84%) Active Directory Specialist
11 20 (7.84%) Azure Specialist
11 20 (7.84%) Support Technician
12 19 (7.45%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
12 19 (7.45%) IT Support Technician
13 18 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 18 (7.06%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.57%) LAMP
3 2 (0.78%) EDI
4 1 (0.39%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.20%) CMDB
2 22 (8.63%) PKI
3 19 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (7.06%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.53%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.35%) Replication
7 5 (1.96%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.18%) EMC VNX
8 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) Grid Computing
9 2 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.39%) Clustering
10 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.39%) Handset
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 255 (100.00%) Windows
2 88 (34.51%) Windows 10
3 69 (27.06%) Linux
4 62 (24.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 58 (22.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (17.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (4.71%) Windows NT
7 12 (4.71%) Windows XP
8 9 (3.53%) Android
9 7 (2.75%) Mac OS X
10 6 (2.35%) VMS
11 5 (1.96%) Ubuntu
12 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.18%) CentOS
13 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (1.18%) Rocky
13 3 (1.18%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.78%) SUSE
14 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (24.71%) ITIL
3 51 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 49 (19.22%) Service Management
5 48 (18.82%) Customer Service
6 37 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 29 (11.37%) Change Control
9 28 (10.98%) Agile
10 26 (10.20%) Configuration Management
11 22 (8.63%) Release Management
12 21 (8.24%) Mentoring
12 21 (8.24%) Storage Management
13 20 (7.84%) Analytics
13 20 (7.84%) Log Analytics
14 17 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (6.27%) IT Strategy
15 16 (6.27%) ITSM
15 16 (6.27%) Server Management
16 15 (5.88%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.25%) PowerShell
2 36 (14.12%) SQL
3 20 (7.84%) C#
3 20 (7.84%) VB
3 20 (7.84%) VBScript
4 14 (5.49%) Bicep
5 1 (0.39%) Bash
5 1 (0.39%) Korn
5 1 (0.39%) PHP
5 1 (0.39%) Python
5 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.88%) DV Cleared
3 62 (24.31%) SC Cleared
4 50 (19.61%) Degree
5 19 (7.45%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (5.88%) CCNA
7 14 (5.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (4.71%) CCNP
9 8 (3.14%) MCP
10 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.78%) HNC
13 2 (0.78%) MCSE
13 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) SLA
2 10 (3.92%) GDPR
3 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 184 (72.16%) Active Directory
2 53 (20.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.59%) Hyper-V
4 20 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (5.10%) Firmware
8 8 (3.14%) vSphere
9 4 (1.57%) Docker
10 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (27.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (20.78%) SCCM
3 43 (16.86%) SCOM
4 41 (16.08%) WSUS
5 21 (8.24%) vCenter Server
6 20 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (7.06%) Kubernetes
8 15 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (5.88%) NetBackup
9 12 (4.71%) Sysprep
10 3 (1.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.78%) Grafana
11 2 (0.78%) Nagios
11 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.39%) Ansible
12 1 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.39%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.39%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 169 (66.27%) Microsoft
2 98 (38.43%) VMware
3 39 (15.29%) Veeam
4 35 (13.73%) Cisco
5 23 (9.02%) Citrix
6 21 (8.24%) Dell
7 19 (7.45%) Palo Alto
8 18 (7.06%) EMC
9 16 (6.27%) Oracle
10 14 (5.49%) Juniper
11 13 (5.10%) 3PAR
11 13 (5.10%) HP
12 12 (4.71%) Dynatrace
12 12 (4.71%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (4.71%) Google
12 12 (4.71%) Symantec
13 7 (2.75%) Apple
13 7 (2.75%) Aruba
14 5 (1.96%) Draytek
14 5 (1.96%) WatchGuard