Windows Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 63 85 71
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2,725 2,230 3,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.80% 3.77% 4.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.80% 22.82% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 1,731 2,696
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,750 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £50,250 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,763 £64,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £41,206 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,563 9,771 15,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.75% 16.52% 20.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,147 6,137 9,380
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK excluding London

Windows Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the UK excluding London 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
South East +27 761 £39,000 +8.33% 157
North of England +19 604 £37,500 -11.76% 129
Midlands +42 534 £37,500 -2.60% 112
South West +14 310 £38,750 -3.13% 71
West Midlands +35 302 £35,000 -9.68% 67
East of England +21 293 £32,500 -16.91% 69
Yorkshire +62 279 £37,500 - 58
East Midlands +37 227 £40,000 +6.67% 45
North West -44 218 £43,500 -3.33% 60
Scotland -38 147 £42,500 -5.56% 32
North East +25 107 £35,000 -22.22% 12
Wales +30 59 £34,000 -6.21% 12
Isle of Man -5 12 £43,750 +45.83%
Northern Ireland +9 6 £37,314 +6.61% 4
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 611 (22.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 406 (14.90%) SharePoint
3 75 (2.75%) IIS
4 19 (0.70%) Confluence
5 18 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
6 16 (0.59%) CMS
7 11 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
9 8 (0.29%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
10 7 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.22%) WordPress
12 5 (0.18%) Apache
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.15%) TWiki
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 323 (11.85%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
6 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.11%) Pro Tools
7 2 (0.073%) CATIA
7 2 (0.073%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.037%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.073%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.037%) Magento
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.037%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,647 (60.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1,291 (47.38%) Azure
3 475 (17.43%) Entra ID
4 294 (10.79%) AWS
5 220 (8.07%) OneDrive
6 73 (2.68%) SaaS
7 70 (2.57%) GCP
8 68 (2.50%) IaaS
9 50 (1.83%) Mimecast
10 45 (1.65%) PaaS
11 44 (1.61%) Power Platform
12 41 (1.50%) Google Workspace
13 39 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (1.25%) Nutanix
15 31 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
17 24 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (0.88%) GitHub
18 20 (0.73%) Power Automate
19 17 (0.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 830 (30.46%) Firewall
2 663 (24.33%) DNS
3 556 (20.40%) DHCP
4 330 (12.11%) WAN
5 329 (12.07%) TCP/IP
6 315 (11.56%) VPN
7 290 (10.64%) LAN
8 254 (9.32%) SAN
9 203 (7.45%) Wi-Fi
10 175 (6.42%) VLAN
11 174 (6.39%) VoIP
12 142 (5.21%) Wireless
13 97 (3.56%) NAS
14 71 (2.61%) Internet
15 69 (2.53%) Remote Desktop
16 51 (1.87%) Network Security
17 50 (1.83%) SD-WAN
18 34 (1.25%) WLAN
19 33 (1.21%) MPLS
20 29 (1.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 60 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (1.28%) MySQL
4 30 (1.10%) DB2
5 29 (1.06%) Power BI
6 11 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.37%) MariaDB
8 9 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.22%) Big Data
9 6 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.18%) Redis
10 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.15%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.15%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.15%) UniData
12 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.11%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 42 (1.54%) JIRA
2 26 (0.95%) Git
3 20 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.37%) Trac
5 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
6 6 (0.22%) Eclipse
6 6 (0.22%) GitLab
6 6 (0.22%) Robot Framework
6 6 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.15%) Hudson
8 4 (0.15%) MSI
8 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.037%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.037%) GoCD
10 1 (0.037%) Log4Net
General
1 843 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 198 (7.27%) Finance
3 177 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (4.00%) Law
4 109 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 103 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (3.30%) Retail
7 83 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 62 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 59 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.87%) Legal
12 41 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 35 (1.28%) Marketing
14 21 (0.77%) Automotive
14 21 (0.77%) Games
15 19 (0.70%) Advertising
15 19 (0.70%) Electronics
16 17 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 572 (20.99%) IT Support
2 540 (19.82%) Support Engineer
3 496 (18.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 496 (18.20%) IT Engineer
4 316 (11.60%) IT Support Engineer
5 282 (10.35%) Analyst
6 279 (10.24%) Senior
7 211 (7.74%) 2nd Line Support
8 205 (7.52%) IT Technician
9 151 (5.54%) 3rd Line Support
10 147 (5.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 146 (5.36%) Support Technician
12 125 (4.59%) Lead
13 124 (4.55%) IT Support Technician
14 120 (4.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 113 (4.15%) IT Manager
16 110 (4.04%) IT Analyst
17 108 (3.96%) Administrator
18 105 (3.85%) Support Analyst
19 102 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.03%) .NET
2 18 (0.66%) ARM Templates
3 17 (0.62%) HTML
4 11 (0.40%) .NET Core
4 11 (0.40%) JSON
4 11 (0.40%) REST
5 9 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 9 (0.33%) React
6 8 (0.29%) CSS
6 8 (0.29%) LDAP
7 7 (0.26%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.26%) Web Services
8 6 (0.22%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.22%) jQuery
8 6 (0.22%) LAMP
8 6 (0.22%) XML
9 5 (0.18%) Blazor
9 5 (0.18%) Node.js
10 4 (0.15%) EDI
10 4 (0.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 207 (7.60%) Data Centre
2 198 (7.27%) Driving Licence
3 116 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 114 (4.18%) Replication
5 100 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 80 (2.94%) PKI
7 79 (2.90%) Clustering
8 59 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 46 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.28%) Operational Technology
11 33 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 29 (1.06%) CMDB
13 27 (0.99%) NHS
14 22 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (0.70%) SCADA
16 17 (0.62%) Cyberattack
17 15 (0.55%) Fat Client
17 15 (0.55%) iPad
17 15 (0.55%) Thin Client
18 14 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2,724 (99.96%) Windows
2 518 (19.01%) Windows 10
3 461 (16.92%) Linux
4 368 (13.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 343 (12.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 305 (11.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 111 (4.07%) Windows 7
8 83 (3.05%) Windows 8
9 74 (2.72%) Windows Server 2008
10 56 (2.06%) Apple iOS
11 54 (1.98%) Mac OS
12 53 (1.94%) Android
13 51 (1.87%) Unix
14 45 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 41 (1.50%) CentOS
16 34 (1.25%) Ubuntu
17 29 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
18 28 (1.03%) VMS
19 21 (0.77%) Windows XP
20 16 (0.59%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (23.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 562 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
3 530 (19.45%) ITIL
4 468 (17.17%) Customer Service
5 320 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
6 182 (6.68%) Mentoring
7 179 (6.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 138 (5.06%) DevOps
9 136 (4.99%) Project Management
10 135 (4.95%) Agile
11 131 (4.81%) Migration
11 131 (4.81%) Service Management
12 127 (4.66%) Project Delivery
13 119 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (4.33%) Server Management
15 107 (3.93%) Service Delivery
16 104 (3.82%) Time Management
17 103 (3.78%) Incident Management
18 98 (3.60%) Change Management
19 85 (3.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 441 (16.18%) PowerShell
2 299 (10.97%) SQL
3 89 (3.27%) Python
4 48 (1.76%) Bash
5 46 (1.69%) C#
6 39 (1.43%) VB
7 38 (1.39%) VBScript
8 29 (1.06%) Java
9 25 (0.92%) JavaScript
10 16 (0.59%) Bicep
11 11 (0.40%) ActionScript
11 11 (0.40%) Delphi
12 9 (0.33%) C++
12 9 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.18%) VBA
16 3 (0.11%) PHP
16 3 (0.11%) R
17 2 (0.073%) Go
Qualifications
1 337 (12.37%) Degree
2 319 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 232 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 231 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 181 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 137 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (4.70%) CCNA
8 84 (3.08%) DBS Check
9 81 (2.97%) MCSE
10 64 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (2.09%) MCSA
12 50 (1.83%) A+ Certification
13 42 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 38 (1.39%) MCP
15 32 (1.17%) CCNP
16 30 (1.10%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
18 26 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 24 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
20 23 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (8.11%) SLA
2 69 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 65 (2.39%) GDPR
4 40 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.62%) NIST
6 11 (0.40%) ITGC
6 11 (0.40%) PMO
6 11 (0.40%) QA
7 10 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.15%) NCSC
11 3 (0.11%) GRC
11 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.073%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.073%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.037%) GxP
13 1 (0.037%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1,727 (63.38%) Active Directory
2 757 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 754 (27.67%) Hyper-V
4 167 (6.13%) VMware ESXi
5 152 (5.58%) vSphere
6 120 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
7 70 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 70 (2.57%) XenApp
8 63 (2.31%) XenDesktop
9 51 (1.87%) Docker
10 46 (1.69%) VirtualBox
11 30 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
12 27 (0.99%) Firmware
13 26 (0.95%) Terminal Services
14 19 (0.70%) VMware NSX
15 17 (0.62%) pfSense
16 15 (0.55%) NFS
17 13 (0.48%) VMware Server
18 11 (0.40%) OpenSSH
19 8 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 402 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 270 (9.91%) SCCM
3 116 (4.26%) vCenter Server
4 102 (3.74%) WSUS
5 95 (3.49%) SCOM
6 64 (2.35%) Ansible
6 64 (2.35%) Kubernetes
7 56 (2.06%) Terraform
8 40 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 34 (1.25%) FortiGate
10 31 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
11 25 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 23 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
12 23 (0.84%) Grafana
13 22 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
13 22 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (0.73%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
16 18 (0.66%) Autotask
17 16 (0.59%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 1,625 (59.63%) Microsoft
2 1,185 (43.49%) VMware
3 329 (12.07%) Cisco
4 266 (9.76%) Citrix
5 250 (9.17%) Veeam
6 136 (4.99%) HP
7 122 (4.48%) Dell
8 101 (3.71%) Apple
9 93 (3.41%) Sophos
10 92 (3.38%) Meraki
11 77 (2.83%) Google
12 61 (2.24%) Red Hat
13 59 (2.17%) NetApp
14 52 (1.91%) Aruba
15 48 (1.76%) Fortinet
16 46 (1.69%) Oracle
17 39 (1.43%) Datto
17 39 (1.43%) EMC
17 39 (1.43%) IBM
17 39 (1.43%) SolarWinds