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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 74 80
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 761 524 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.27% 3.81% 4.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.61% 19.96% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 679 411 726
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,881 £29,750 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £36,500 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -9.32% -5.29%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £67,500 £61,875
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -

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 2,860 2,625 4,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.06% 19.09% 21.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 1,834 2,763
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,606 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,250 £62,625
90th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 1 June 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 1 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
Hampshire +24 256 £37,500 -11.76% 45
Thames Valley +12 251 £42,000 +29.23% 29
Berkshire +48 128 £50,000 +57.48% 15
Surrey -12 71 £50,000 +36.99% 12
Oxfordshire +12 66 £42,500 +32.81% 9
East Sussex +42 61 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Buckinghamshire -44 57 £32,000 -1.54% 5
Kent +13 54 £40,000 -5.88% 28
West Sussex +40 39 £30,000 -28.57% 9
Sussex - 18 £35,000 -
Middlesex - 8 £35,000 -
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
1 150 (19.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (14.32%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.15%) IIS
4 4 (0.53%) TWiki
4 4 (0.53%) 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 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 103 (13.53%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 467 (61.37%) Microsoft 365
2 381 (50.07%) Azure
3 114 (14.98%) Entra ID
4 77 (10.12%) AWS
5 56 (7.36%) OneDrive
6 41 (5.39%) SaaS
7 25 (3.29%) IaaS
8 24 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (3.15%) Mimecast
9 19 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (2.37%) Azure Storage
11 13 (1.71%) OCI
11 13 (1.71%) Power Platform
12 12 (1.58%) PaaS
13 11 (1.45%) GitHub
13 11 (1.45%) Google Workspace
14 7 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (0.79%) Twilio
15 6 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 257 (33.77%) Firewall
2 200 (26.28%) DNS
3 134 (17.61%) DHCP
4 98 (12.88%) VPN
5 90 (11.83%) TCP/IP
6 69 (9.07%) VoIP
7 61 (8.02%) VLAN
8 60 (7.88%) WAN
9 54 (7.10%) SAN
10 52 (6.83%) LAN
11 45 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
12 43 (5.65%) Wireless
13 22 (2.89%) Internet
14 18 (2.37%) NAS
15 17 (2.23%) FTP
16 15 (1.97%) iSCSI
16 15 (1.97%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
18 12 (1.58%) Network Security
18 12 (1.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.18%) DB2
4 8 (1.05%) MySQL
5 6 (0.79%) Power BI
6 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.23%) Git
2 12 (1.58%) JIRA
3 11 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.31%) Trac
5 9 (1.18%) eggPlant
6 6 (0.79%) Robot Framework
6 6 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.53%) Hudson
7 4 (0.53%) MSI
8 3 (0.39%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 212 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 57 (7.49%) Finance
3 48 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
4 31 (4.07%) Telecoms
5 30 (3.94%) Aerospace
6 26 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.76%) Law
8 14 (1.84%) Retail
9 13 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.45%) Back Office
11 9 (1.18%) Advertising
11 9 (1.18%) Marketing
12 7 (0.92%) Games
13 6 (0.79%) Aviation
13 6 (0.79%) Legal
14 5 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.53%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (19.71%) IT Support
2 147 (19.32%) Support Engineer
3 138 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 110 (14.45%) IT Engineer
5 89 (11.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 66 (8.67%) Analyst
7 60 (7.88%) 2nd Line Support
8 58 (7.62%) 3rd Line Support
9 50 (6.57%) Senior
10 49 (6.44%) Systems Engineer
11 46 (6.04%) 1st Line Support
12 44 (5.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 42 (5.52%) IT Technician
13 42 (5.52%) Lead
13 42 (5.52%) Support Technician
14 41 (5.39%) IT Analyst
15 40 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
15 40 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
16 34 (4.47%) IT Support Technician
17 33 (4.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.37%) ARM Templates
2 8 (1.05%) .NET
3 6 (0.79%) .NET Core
3 6 (0.79%) CSS
3 6 (0.79%) HTML
3 6 (0.79%) React
4 5 (0.66%) Blazor
5 4 (0.53%) 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
7 2 (0.26%) EDI
7 2 (0.26%) Web Services
7 2 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.23%) PKI
2 52 (6.83%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (3.94%) Clustering
4 30 (3.94%) Driving Licence
5 25 (3.29%) Client/Server
5 25 (3.29%) CMDB
5 25 (3.29%) NHS
6 24 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.02%) Replication
8 19 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.92%) Handset
12 6 (0.79%) PMI
12 6 (0.79%) Xbox
13 5 (0.66%) Educational Technology
13 5 (0.66%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.53%) CCTV
14 4 (0.53%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 761 (100.00%) Windows
2 185 (24.31%) Windows 10
3 133 (17.48%) Linux
4 116 (15.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 105 (13.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 82 (10.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 54 (7.10%) Windows 7
8 46 (6.04%) Windows 8
9 23 (3.02%) Windows Server 2008
10 20 (2.63%) CentOS
10 20 (2.63%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.10%) Unix
12 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
12 12 (1.58%) Windows NT
12 12 (1.58%) Windows XP
13 10 (1.31%) Android
14 9 (1.18%) Mac OS X
14 9 (1.18%) VMS
15 8 (1.05%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 164 (21.55%) ITIL
3 163 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
4 157 (20.63%) Customer Service
5 95 (12.48%) Cybersecurity
6 89 (11.70%) Agile
7 68 (8.94%) Service Management
8 58 (7.62%) DevOps
9 55 (7.23%) Mentoring
10 46 (6.04%) Configuration Management
11 45 (5.91%) Release Management
12 39 (5.12%) Service Delivery
13 36 (4.73%) Change Control
13 36 (4.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (4.73%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 35 (4.60%) Project Management
15 30 (3.94%) Analytics
15 30 (3.94%) Change Management
16 28 (3.68%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (3.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 139 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 96 (12.61%) SQL
3 36 (4.73%) VB
4 28 (3.68%) C#
5 23 (3.02%) VBScript
6 22 (2.89%) Python
7 17 (2.23%) Bicep
8 13 (1.71%) ActionScript
9 6 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.66%) Bash
11 4 (0.53%) Java
11 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 158 (20.76%) Security Cleared
2 128 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 117 (15.37%) DV Cleared
4 109 (14.32%) Degree
5 48 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (3.81%) DBS Check
7 28 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.15%) CCNA
8 24 (3.15%) MCP
9 18 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.84%) CCNP
11 10 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.18%) MCSA
13 6 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.79%) MCSE
13 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.51%) SLA
2 31 (4.07%) GDPR
3 26 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.71%) QA
5 10 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.53%) NIST
6 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) GRC
7 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 485 (63.73%) Active Directory
2 192 (25.23%) Hyper-V
3 174 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (7.49%) vSphere
5 56 (7.36%) XenApp
6 46 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
6 46 (6.04%) VMware ESXi
7 44 (5.78%) VirtualBox
8 41 (5.39%) XenDesktop
9 30 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (2.89%) Firmware
11 19 (2.50%) Docker
12 13 (1.71%) OpenSSH
13 11 (1.45%) NFS
13 11 (1.45%) pfSense
14 8 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.53%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 114 (14.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (10.25%) SCCM
3 67 (8.80%) vCenter Server
4 62 (8.15%) WSUS
5 51 (6.70%) SCOM
6 39 (5.12%) Kubernetes
7 27 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
9 18 (2.37%) Ansible
10 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.10%) SCDPM
11 15 (1.97%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.71%) IBM BigFix
12 13 (1.71%) PowerCLI
12 13 (1.71%) Terraform
13 12 (1.58%) Sysprep
14 11 (1.45%) Grafana
14 11 (1.45%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.92%) Nessus
16 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 450 (59.13%) Microsoft
2 305 (40.08%) VMware
3 91 (11.96%) Cisco
3 91 (11.96%) Citrix
4 75 (9.86%) Veeam
5 41 (5.39%) Dell
6 29 (3.81%) Sophos
7 26 (3.42%) Palo Alto
8 25 (3.29%) Apple
8 25 (3.29%) Juniper
9 24 (3.15%) Fortinet
10 22 (2.89%) EMC
11 20 (2.63%) Meraki
11 20 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 18 (2.37%) HP
12 18 (2.37%) Oracle
13 17 (2.23%) 3PAR
14 15 (1.97%) Google
15 14 (1.84%) IBM
16 13 (1.71%) Aruba