Windows Server Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 77 97 152
Rank change year-on-year +20 +55 -73
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 3,415 3,166 4,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.25% 3.35% 2.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.22% 20.49% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 2,563 3,823
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,460 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,101 15,448 31,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 16.32% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,725 10,405 16,351
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the UK

Windows Server
Top 18 Job Locations

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 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
England +33 3,147 £40,000 -11.11% 581
UK excluding London +23 2,749 £37,500 -6.25% 500
Work from Home +34 1,080 £45,000 -10.00% 216
South East +24 761 £39,000 +6.85% 140
London +10 613 £55,000 - 117
North of England +18 604 £37,500 -11.76% 117
Midlands +38 551 £37,500 -2.60% 90
West Midlands +27 310 £35,000 -9.68% 49
East of England +18 304 £32,500 -15.58% 50
South West +8 304 £37,500 -6.25% 66
Yorkshire +63 275 £37,500 +4.17% 48
East Midlands +35 237 £40,000 +6.67% 41
North West -43 222 £43,000 -9.47% 58
Scotland -40 147 £42,500 -4.49% 35
North East +24 107 £35,000 -20.45% 12
Wales +31 62 £34,000 -2.86% 15
Isle of Man -3 12 £43,750 +45.83%
Northern Ireland -5 5 £34,628 -4.48% 2

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 795 (23.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 535 (15.67%) SharePoint
3 106 (3.10%) IIS
4 32 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 23 (0.67%) Confluence
6 20 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.47%) CMS
8 14 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
8 14 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
9 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
9 11 (0.32%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.15%) Apache
13 5 (0.15%) SAS
13 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.12%) TWiki
Applications
1 407 (11.92%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.088%) Final Cut Pro
7 3 (0.088%) Pro Tools
7 3 (0.088%) SPSS
8 2 (0.059%) CATIA
8 2 (0.059%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.029%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.088%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.088%) Shopify
5 2 (0.059%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.059%) Farmplan
5 2 (0.059%) KEYPrime
5 2 (0.059%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.029%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.029%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.029%) Magento
6 1 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.029%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.029%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (57.31%) Microsoft 365
2 1,660 (48.61%) Azure
3 601 (17.60%) Entra ID
4 396 (11.60%) AWS
5 260 (7.61%) OneDrive
6 103 (3.02%) SaaS
7 100 (2.93%) IaaS
8 86 (2.52%) GCP
9 70 (2.05%) Mimecast
10 68 (1.99%) Power Platform
11 67 (1.96%) Google Workspace
12 57 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
13 56 (1.64%) PaaS
14 55 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (1.61%) Nutanix
15 47 (1.38%) GitHub
16 32 (0.94%) Azure Storage
17 29 (0.85%) WhatsApp
18 28 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
18 28 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1,032 (30.22%) Firewall
2 851 (24.92%) DNS
3 678 (19.85%) DHCP
4 428 (12.53%) WAN
5 390 (11.42%) LAN
6 386 (11.30%) TCP/IP
7 369 (10.81%) VPN
8 335 (9.81%) SAN
9 241 (7.06%) Wi-Fi
10 223 (6.53%) VLAN
11 195 (5.71%) Wireless
12 188 (5.51%) VoIP
13 129 (3.78%) NAS
14 90 (2.64%) Internet
15 84 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
16 75 (2.20%) SD-WAN
17 73 (2.14%) Network Security
18 39 (1.14%) MPLS
19 38 (1.11%) WLAN
20 34 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 67 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (1.41%) Power BI
4 44 (1.29%) MySQL
5 37 (1.08%) DB2
6 21 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.38%) Big Data
10 12 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 11 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.23%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.20%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.18%) Redis
15 5 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.15%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 69 (2.02%) JIRA
2 56 (1.64%) Git
3 37 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.82%) GitLab
5 10 (0.29%) Trac
6 9 (0.26%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (0.20%) Snyk
8 6 (0.18%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.12%) Hudson
10 4 (0.12%) MSI
10 4 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.088%) SonarQube
General
1 1,028 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 361 (10.57%) Finance
3 267 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (4.39%) Law
5 132 (3.87%) Telecoms
6 109 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 96 (2.81%) Retail
8 92 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 83 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 80 (2.34%) Legal
11 74 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 68 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 57 (1.67%) Banking
14 46 (1.35%) Marketing
15 45 (1.32%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.11%) Games
17 32 (0.94%) Automotive
18 29 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
19 23 (0.67%) Advertising
20 21 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 641 (18.77%) IT Support
2 625 (18.30%) Support Engineer
3 615 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 571 (16.72%) IT Engineer
5 386 (11.30%) Senior
6 383 (11.22%) Analyst
7 349 (10.22%) IT Support Engineer
8 246 (7.20%) 2nd Line Support
9 233 (6.82%) IT Technician
10 170 (4.98%) Lead
11 164 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support
12 163 (4.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 159 (4.66%) Support Technician
14 156 (4.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 134 (3.92%) IT Support Technician
16 133 (3.89%) IT Analyst
16 133 (3.89%) Support Analyst
16 133 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
17 130 (3.81%) IT Manager
18 129 (3.78%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.23%) .NET
2 39 (1.14%) ARM Templates
3 24 (0.70%) LDAP
4 22 (0.64%) HTML
5 19 (0.56%) REST
6 14 (0.41%) React
7 13 (0.38%) YAML
8 12 (0.35%) .NET Core
8 12 (0.35%) CSS
9 11 (0.32%) ASP.NET
9 11 (0.32%) JSON
9 11 (0.32%) LAMP
10 10 (0.29%) Web Services
11 9 (0.26%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.20%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.20%) ADSI
12 7 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.20%) Middleware
12 7 (0.20%) XML
13 6 (0.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 243 (7.12%) Data Centre
2 202 (5.92%) Driving Licence
3 158 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 149 (4.36%) Replication
5 135 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 119 (3.48%) Clustering
7 96 (2.81%) PKI
8 80 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 66 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.14%) Client/Server
11 36 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
12 34 (1.00%) Operational Technology
13 29 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (0.82%) CMDB
14 28 (0.82%) NHS
15 23 (0.67%) Security Posture
16 22 (0.64%) iPad
16 22 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.59%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3,413 (99.94%) Windows
2 624 (18.27%) Windows 10
3 609 (17.83%) Linux
4 438 (12.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 406 (11.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 376 (11.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 124 (3.63%) Windows 7
8 111 (3.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 86 (2.52%) Mac OS
10 82 (2.40%) Unix
11 81 (2.37%) Apple iOS
12 79 (2.31%) Android
12 79 (2.31%) Windows 8
13 66 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 51 (1.49%) Ubuntu
15 45 (1.32%) CentOS
16 38 (1.11%) VMS
17 34 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
18 26 (0.76%) Windows XP
19 23 (0.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (23.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 695 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
3 606 (17.75%) ITIL
4 536 (15.70%) Customer Service
5 418 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
6 253 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 218 (6.38%) Mentoring
8 214 (6.27%) DevOps
9 191 (5.59%) Migration
10 190 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 180 (5.27%) Agile
12 179 (5.24%) Project Delivery
13 174 (5.10%) Project Management
14 153 (4.48%) Service Management
15 139 (4.07%) Server Management
16 134 (3.92%) Service Delivery
17 131 (3.84%) Change Management
18 122 (3.57%) Incident Management
19 121 (3.54%) Time Management
20 117 (3.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 635 (18.59%) PowerShell
2 418 (12.24%) SQL
3 137 (4.01%) Python
4 90 (2.64%) Bash
5 73 (2.14%) C#
6 45 (1.32%) VB
7 43 (1.26%) VBScript
8 39 (1.14%) Java
9 32 (0.94%) JavaScript
10 24 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.59%) Bicep
12 16 (0.47%) C++
13 14 (0.41%) Perl
14 13 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 13 (0.38%) Korn
15 11 (0.32%) Delphi
15 11 (0.32%) Ruby
16 8 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.20%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 444 (13.00%) Degree
2 373 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 284 (8.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 272 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 211 (6.18%) DV Cleared
6 152 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
7 141 (4.13%) CCNA
8 112 (3.28%) MCSE
9 105 (3.07%) DBS Check
10 86 (2.52%) MCSA
11 80 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 60 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 50 (1.46%) A+ Certification
13 50 (1.46%) Azure Certification
14 39 (1.14%) AWS Certification
15 38 (1.11%) MCP
16 37 (1.08%) CCNP
17 33 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
18 27 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 26 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (7.47%) SLA
2 104 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 79 (2.31%) GDPR
4 67 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (0.79%) NIST
6 25 (0.73%) PMO
6 25 (0.73%) QA
7 20 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.56%) ITGC
9 12 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.15%) NCSC
12 3 (0.088%) GRC
12 3 (0.088%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.059%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.029%) GxP
System Software
1 2,103 (61.58%) Active Directory
2 964 (28.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 812 (23.78%) Hyper-V
4 225 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
5 202 (5.92%) vSphere
6 131 (3.84%) Virtual Machines
7 96 (2.81%) XenApp
8 85 (2.49%) XenDesktop
9 84 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 72 (2.11%) Docker
11 52 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
12 44 (1.29%) VirtualBox
13 35 (1.02%) Terminal Services
14 33 (0.97%) Firmware
15 21 (0.61%) VMware NSX
16 19 (0.56%) pfSense
17 17 (0.50%) NFS
18 14 (0.41%) VMware Server
19 13 (0.38%) OpenSSH
20 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 516 (15.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 341 (9.99%) SCCM
3 167 (4.89%) vCenter Server
4 114 (3.34%) WSUS
5 105 (3.07%) Terraform
6 102 (2.99%) Ansible
7 99 (2.90%) SCOM
8 94 (2.75%) Kubernetes
9 70 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 52 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
12 39 (1.14%) FortiGate
13 32 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
13 32 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
14 27 (0.79%) Grafana
14 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 27 (0.79%) Nagios
15 25 (0.73%) NetBackup
16 24 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
16 24 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,025 (59.30%) Microsoft
2 1,503 (44.01%) VMware
3 444 (13.00%) Cisco
4 360 (10.54%) Citrix
5 307 (8.99%) Veeam
6 191 (5.59%) HP
7 139 (4.07%) Dell
8 134 (3.92%) Apple
9 115 (3.37%) Google
10 113 (3.31%) Meraki
11 99 (2.90%) Sophos
12 86 (2.52%) Red Hat
13 84 (2.46%) NetApp
14 74 (2.17%) Oracle
15 65 (1.90%) Commvault
16 63 (1.84%) Aruba
17 62 (1.82%) ServiceNow
18 57 (1.67%) Juniper
18 57 (1.67%) SolarWinds
19 52 (1.52%) Fortinet