Windows Server Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 126 185
Rank change year-on-year +34 +59 -85
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 1,087 1,005 1,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.08% 2.66% 2.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.19% 17.25% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 907 864 1,427
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £57,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,687 5,827 13,403
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.29% 15.44% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 4,329 7,497
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,063 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Server.

Windows Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Windows Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 283 (26.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 168 (15.46%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.31%) IIS
4 11 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (0.74%) CMS
5 8 (0.74%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.46%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Confluence
8 4 (0.37%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.28%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Orchard CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.092%) Site Server
Applications
1 83 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.28%) SPSS
5 2 (0.18%) CATIA
5 2 (0.18%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 608 (55.93%) Azure
2 596 (54.83%) Microsoft 365
3 267 (24.56%) Entra ID
4 117 (10.76%) AWS
5 71 (6.53%) OneDrive
6 55 (5.06%) SaaS
7 45 (4.14%) IaaS
8 37 (3.40%) GitHub
9 32 (2.94%) Power Platform
10 29 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (2.67%) Nutanix
11 24 (2.21%) Azure Storage
11 24 (2.21%) PaaS
12 17 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.47%) Mimecast
14 15 (1.38%) Google Workspace
15 14 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.20%) GCP
16 13 (1.20%) WhatsApp
17 10 (0.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 326 (29.99%) Firewall
2 277 (25.48%) DNS
3 220 (20.24%) DHCP
4 128 (11.78%) WAN
5 113 (10.40%) TCP/IP
6 108 (9.94%) SAN
7 104 (9.57%) LAN
8 89 (8.19%) VPN
9 80 (7.36%) Wireless
10 72 (6.62%) Wi-Fi
11 65 (5.98%) VLAN
12 42 (3.86%) VoIP
13 41 (3.77%) Internet
14 36 (3.31%) Remote Desktop
15 32 (2.94%) NAS
16 29 (2.67%) SD-WAN
17 26 (2.39%) Network Security
18 15 (1.38%) WLAN
19 14 (1.29%) FTP
20 13 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.27%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.13%) DB2
3 27 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (1.93%) Power BI
5 19 (1.75%) MySQL
6 13 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.46%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
12 5 (0.46%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.37%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.37%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.28%) Big Data
14 3 (0.28%) EDRMS
14 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (3.68%) Git
2 36 (3.31%) JIRA
3 21 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.92%) Trac
5 7 (0.64%) GitLab
6 6 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.46%) Snyk
8 4 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.28%) GoCD
9 3 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.092%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.092%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 330 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.19%) Finance
3 120 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (3.59%) Telecoms
5 36 (3.31%) Legal
6 35 (3.22%) Public Sector
7 33 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.30%) Marketing
10 23 (2.12%) Law
11 19 (1.75%) Retail
12 16 (1.47%) Banking
12 16 (1.47%) Games
13 15 (1.38%) Advertising
14 10 (0.92%) Automotive
14 10 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.64%) Military
16 6 (0.55%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 226 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 165 (15.18%) Senior
3 153 (14.08%) IT Engineer
4 151 (13.89%) Support Engineer
5 115 (10.58%) IT Support
6 114 (10.49%) Analyst
7 78 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 73 (6.72%) 3rd Line Support
9 71 (6.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 67 (6.16%) Lead
11 61 (5.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 61 (5.61%) Consultant
12 49 (4.51%) IT Manager
13 45 (4.14%) IT Analyst
14 44 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 44 (4.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 40 (3.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 38 (3.50%) Administrator
16 38 (3.50%) Infrastructure Support
17 37 (3.40%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.12%) .NET
2 22 (2.02%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.01%) HTML
4 9 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 9 (0.83%) ASP.NET
4 9 (0.83%) CSS
4 9 (0.83%) Web Services
5 8 (0.74%) .NET Core
5 8 (0.74%) LDAP
6 6 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 6 (0.55%) jQuery
6 6 (0.55%) Middleware
6 6 (0.55%) React
7 5 (0.46%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.46%) Blazor
7 5 (0.46%) JSON
7 5 (0.46%) REST
8 4 (0.37%) SAML
8 4 (0.37%) XML
9 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.57%) Self-Motivation
2 79 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 58 (5.34%) PKI
4 51 (4.69%) Clustering
5 45 (4.14%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.94%) Driving Licence
8 31 (2.85%) Replication
9 20 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
10 19 (1.75%) SCADA
11 17 (1.56%) Operational Technology
12 16 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.29%) iPad
14 12 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
16 9 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.74%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.74%) Product Ownership
18 7 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1,087 (100.00%) Windows
2 227 (20.88%) Linux
3 205 (18.86%) Windows 10
4 166 (15.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 149 (13.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 148 (13.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 55 (5.06%) Windows 7
8 46 (4.23%) Unix
9 42 (3.86%) Windows 8
10 33 (3.04%) Windows Server 2008
11 20 (1.84%) Mac OS
12 18 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (1.10%) Android
14 10 (0.92%) Windows NT
15 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.64%) VMS
18 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
18 5 (0.46%) Windows 2000
18 5 (0.46%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (24.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 228 (20.98%) ITIL
3 200 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
4 159 (14.63%) Customer Service
5 117 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 98 (9.02%) DevOps
7 87 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 82 (7.54%) Migration
9 74 (6.81%) Agile
10 72 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 67 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (5.89%) Service Management
13 60 (5.52%) Project Delivery
14 59 (5.43%) Roadmaps
15 57 (5.24%) Information Security
16 56 (5.15%) CI/CD
16 56 (5.15%) Server Management
17 54 (4.97%) Analytics
17 54 (4.97%) Change Management
17 54 (4.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (23.00%) PowerShell
2 122 (11.22%) SQL
3 52 (4.78%) Python
4 48 (4.42%) C#
5 40 (3.68%) VB
6 39 (3.59%) VBScript
7 30 (2.76%) Bash
8 21 (1.93%) Bicep
8 21 (1.93%) Java
9 13 (1.20%) ActionScript
10 11 (1.01%) Delphi
10 11 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.83%) C++
11 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.55%) Korn
12 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.37%) Perl
14 4 (0.37%) Ruby
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 178 (16.38%) Degree
2 96 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 71 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (2.48%) CCNA
8 24 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.84%) DBS Check
10 19 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 18 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.66%) MCSE
12 14 (1.29%) CISA
12 14 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.92%) MCSA
14 9 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.64%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.64%) CCNP
15 7 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.32%) SLA
2 34 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.47%) PMO
5 15 (1.38%) ITGC
6 12 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.74%) NIST
9 7 (0.64%) QA
10 4 (0.37%) GDPR
10 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.092%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.092%) GxP
12 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 671 (61.73%) Active Directory
2 345 (31.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 295 (27.14%) Hyper-V
4 82 (7.54%) VMware ESXi
5 75 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
6 67 (6.16%) vSphere
7 50 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 49 (4.51%) Docker
9 42 (3.86%) XenApp
10 32 (2.94%) XenDesktop
11 25 (2.30%) VirtualBox
12 17 (1.56%) NFS
13 14 (1.29%) Firmware
13 14 (1.29%) Terminal Services
14 13 (1.20%) OpenSSH
15 12 (1.10%) pfSense
16 6 (0.55%) DFS Replication
16 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 210 (19.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 127 (11.68%) SCCM
3 65 (5.98%) vCenter Server
4 54 (4.97%) Kubernetes
5 51 (4.69%) Ansible
6 50 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
6 50 (4.60%) WSUS
7 48 (4.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 44 (4.05%) SCOM
9 35 (3.22%) Terraform
10 34 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 21 (1.93%) Grafana
11 21 (1.93%) Nagios
12 18 (1.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 15 (1.38%) PowerCLI
14 13 (1.20%) IBM BigFix
15 11 (1.01%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.92%) SCDPM
17 9 (0.83%) Puppet
18 8 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 683 (62.83%) Microsoft
2 532 (48.94%) VMware
3 120 (11.04%) Citrix
4 108 (9.94%) Cisco
5 74 (6.81%) Veeam
6 55 (5.06%) Meraki
7 41 (3.77%) HP
8 37 (3.40%) ServiceNow
9 35 (3.22%) Oracle
10 34 (3.13%) IBM
11 33 (3.04%) Apple
12 32 (2.94%) NetApp
13 31 (2.85%) Commvault
14 29 (2.67%) Dell
15 25 (2.30%) Red Hat
16 24 (2.21%) Fortinet
16 24 (2.21%) Sun
17 22 (2.02%) Sophos
18 21 (1.93%) EMC
18 21 (1.93%) Google