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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 72 104
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 -29
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 251 243 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.52% 4.26% 3.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.69% 22.69% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 233 184 195
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,825 £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 £55,000 £43,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £55,325 £62,000
South East median annual salary £39,000 £36,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.85% -8.75% -5.88%

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 977 1,071 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.72% 18.77% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 822 668 991
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,989
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,438 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year - -16.41% -7.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +47 128 £50,000 +57.48% 15
Oxfordshire +13 66 £42,500 +32.81% 9
Buckinghamshire -49 57 £32,000 -1.54% 5
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 49 (19.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (14.74%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.58%) IIS
4 4 (1.59%) WordPress
5 3 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (10.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 144 (57.37%) Microsoft 365
2 130 (51.79%) Azure
3 40 (15.94%) Entra ID
4 24 (9.56%) Azure Monitor
4 24 (9.56%) OneDrive
5 18 (7.17%) Azure Storage
6 13 (5.18%) OCI
7 9 (3.59%) Google Workspace
8 8 (3.19%) AWS
9 6 (2.39%) WhatsApp
10 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.20%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.20%) SaaS
11 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.40%) GitHub
12 1 (0.40%) IaaS
12 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 110 (43.82%) Firewall
2 99 (39.44%) DNS
3 58 (23.11%) DHCP
4 25 (9.96%) SAN
5 23 (9.16%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (7.97%) TCP/IP
7 19 (7.57%) WAN
7 19 (7.57%) Wireless
8 14 (5.58%) VLAN
9 13 (5.18%) VPN
10 12 (4.78%) LAN
11 10 (3.98%) SNMP
12 8 (3.19%) NAS
13 6 (2.39%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (1.99%) Wireless Security
15 4 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (1.59%) Intranet
15 4 (1.59%) iSCSI
15 4 (1.59%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (0.40%) Power BI
General
1 82 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.17%) Law
3 17 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.98%) Retail
5 7 (2.79%) Finance
5 7 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Games
7 5 (1.99%) Marketing
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (25.10%) IT Support
2 47 (18.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (16.33%) Support Engineer
4 38 (15.14%) IT Engineer
5 36 (14.34%) Analyst
6 34 (13.55%) IT Support Engineer
7 29 (11.55%) IT Analyst
8 26 (10.36%) Windows Engineer
9 25 (9.96%) IT Technician
10 24 (9.56%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (9.16%) Active Directory Specialist
11 23 (9.16%) Azure Specialist
11 23 (9.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 23 (9.16%) Support Specialist
12 20 (7.97%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
12 20 (7.97%) Support Technician
12 20 (7.97%) Windows Systems Engineer
13 19 (7.57%) IT Support Technician
14 18 (7.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 17 (6.77%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.17%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.59%) LAMP
3 2 (0.80%) EDI
4 1 (0.40%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.56%) CMDB
1 24 (9.56%) PKI
2 22 (8.76%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.17%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.59%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.39%) Replication
6 5 (1.99%) Educational Technology
6 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.59%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.80%) Grid Computing
9 2 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.40%) Clustering
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.40%) Handset
10 1 (0.40%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 251 (100.00%) Windows
2 89 (35.46%) Windows 10
3 66 (26.29%) Linux
4 63 (25.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 60 (23.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (17.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (4.78%) Windows NT
7 12 (4.78%) Windows XP
8 9 (3.59%) Android
9 7 (2.79%) Mac OS X
10 5 (1.99%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.99%) VMS
11 4 (1.59%) CentOS
11 4 (1.59%) Rocky
11 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (1.20%) Windows Mobile
13 2 (0.80%) SUSE
13 2 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.29%) ITIL
2 61 (24.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (21.12%) Service Management
4 51 (20.32%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (19.12%) Customer Service
6 37 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (13.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 29 (11.55%) Agile
9 28 (11.16%) Change Control
10 27 (10.76%) Release Management
11 24 (9.56%) Configuration Management
12 23 (9.16%) Analytics
12 23 (9.16%) Log Analytics
13 22 (8.76%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.37%) Storage Management
15 18 (7.17%) CI/CD
16 17 (6.77%) DevOps
16 17 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (6.77%) Privileged Identity Management
16 17 (6.77%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.53%) PowerShell
2 34 (13.55%) SQL
3 23 (9.16%) C#
3 23 (9.16%) VB
3 23 (9.16%) VBScript
4 17 (6.77%) Bicep
5 1 (0.40%) Bash
5 1 (0.40%) Korn
5 1 (0.40%) PHP
5 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 67 (26.69%) DV Cleared
3 62 (24.70%) SC Cleared
4 52 (20.72%) Degree
5 19 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (6.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (5.98%) CCNA
8 12 (4.78%) CCNP
9 8 (3.19%) MCP
10 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.80%) HNC
13 2 (0.80%) MCSE
13 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.57%) SLA
2 10 (3.98%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 181 (72.11%) Active Directory
2 48 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.76%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (6.77%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.77%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (5.18%) Firmware
7 8 (3.19%) vSphere
8 4 (1.59%) Docker
9 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 74 (29.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (22.71%) SCCM
3 44 (17.53%) SCOM
4 43 (17.13%) WSUS
5 23 (9.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (8.37%) Kubernetes
7 19 (7.57%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.37%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (5.98%) NetBackup
10 12 (4.78%) Sysprep
11 3 (1.20%) Nagios
12 2 (0.80%) Nessus
13 1 (0.40%) Ansible
13 1 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.40%) Grafana
13 1 (0.40%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.40%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 170 (67.73%) Microsoft
2 96 (38.25%) VMware
3 39 (15.54%) Veeam
4 34 (13.55%) Cisco
5 23 (9.16%) Citrix
6 20 (7.97%) Dell
7 19 (7.57%) EMC
7 19 (7.57%) Palo Alto
8 17 (6.77%) Oracle
9 13 (5.18%) 3PAR
9 13 (5.18%) HP
9 13 (5.18%) Juniper
10 12 (4.78%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (4.78%) Google
10 12 (4.78%) Symantec
11 10 (3.98%) Dynatrace
12 8 (3.19%) Aruba
13 7 (2.79%) Apple
14 5 (1.99%) Meraki
14 5 (1.99%) Sophos