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 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 48 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 761 549 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.51% 3.83% 4.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.86% 20.07% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 689 431 749
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £36,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.20% -3.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,000 £66,700 £64,000
England median annual salary £41,206 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +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 2,833 2,736 4,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.78% 19.08% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 1,902 2,807
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,694 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £76,350
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 20 May 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 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
Thames Valley +16 255 £42,000 +29.23% 40
Hampshire +26 251 £37,500 -11.76% 44
Berkshire +55 132 £50,000 +66.11% 18
Surrey -20 73 £50,000 +36.99% 16
Oxfordshire +12 68 £42,500 +34.92% 14
East Sussex +49 59 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Buckinghamshire -43 55 £32,000 -1.54% 8
Kent +9 52 £40,000 -5.88% 22
West Sussex +44 42 £30,000 -28.57% 7
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
1 152 (19.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 110 (14.45%) SharePoint
3 26 (3.42%) 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 2 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 101 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 469 (61.63%) Microsoft 365
2 381 (50.07%) Azure
3 110 (14.45%) Entra ID
4 78 (10.25%) AWS
5 57 (7.49%) OneDrive
6 40 (5.26%) SaaS
7 27 (3.55%) IaaS
8 23 (3.02%) Mimecast
9 22 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.97%) Azure Storage
12 13 (1.71%) OCI
12 13 (1.71%) PaaS
12 13 (1.71%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.45%) GitHub
13 11 (1.45%) Google Workspace
14 7 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.92%) WhatsApp
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (0.79%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 252 (33.11%) Firewall
2 198 (26.02%) DNS
3 134 (17.61%) DHCP
4 100 (13.14%) VPN
5 91 (11.96%) TCP/IP
6 65 (8.54%) VoIP
7 61 (8.02%) WAN
8 60 (7.88%) VLAN
9 54 (7.10%) LAN
9 54 (7.10%) SAN
10 45 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (5.78%) Wireless
12 18 (2.37%) Internet
12 18 (2.37%) NAS
13 17 (2.23%) FTP
14 15 (1.97%) Unified Communications
15 14 (1.84%) iSCSI
15 14 (1.84%) SNMP
16 13 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
17 12 (1.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.05%) DB2
4 6 (0.79%) MySQL
4 6 (0.79%) Power BI
5 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.37%) Git
2 12 (1.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.58%) JIRA
3 10 (1.31%) Trac
4 8 (1.05%) eggPlant
5 6 (0.79%) Robot Framework
5 6 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.53%) Hudson
6 4 (0.53%) MSI
7 3 (0.39%) GitLab
7 3 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
General
1 206 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 50 (6.57%) Finance
3 48 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
4 31 (4.07%) Telecoms
5 26 (3.42%) Aerospace
5 26 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.76%) Law
7 14 (1.84%) Retail
8 13 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.45%) Back Office
10 9 (1.18%) Marketing
11 8 (1.05%) Advertising
12 7 (0.92%) Games
12 7 (0.92%) Legal
13 6 (0.79%) Aviation
14 5 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.66%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (20.11%) IT Support
2 148 (19.45%) Support Engineer
3 137 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 113 (14.85%) IT Engineer
5 91 (11.96%) IT Support Engineer
6 69 (9.07%) Analyst
7 62 (8.15%) 2nd Line Support
8 61 (8.02%) 3rd Line Support
9 52 (6.83%) Senior
9 52 (6.83%) Systems Engineer
10 46 (6.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 45 (5.91%) 1st Line Support
12 42 (5.52%) IT Analyst
12 42 (5.52%) IT Technician
13 41 (5.39%) Lead
13 41 (5.39%) Support Technician
14 40 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
15 39 (5.12%) Windows Engineer
16 34 (4.47%) IT Support Technician
17 33 (4.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.97%) 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
6 3 (0.39%) XML
7 2 (0.26%) EDI
7 2 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.96%) Data Centre
2 48 (6.31%) PKI
3 31 (4.07%) Driving Licence
3 31 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (3.68%) Clustering
5 27 (3.55%) CMDB
6 25 (3.29%) NHS
6 25 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.02%) Replication
8 22 (2.89%) Client/Server
9 19 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.92%) Handset
11 7 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.79%) PMI
12 6 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.79%) Xbox
13 5 (0.66%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.53%) CCTV
15 3 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 761 (100.00%) Windows
2 185 (24.31%) Windows 10
3 128 (16.82%) Linux
4 114 (14.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 103 (13.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 81 (10.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (7.36%) Windows 7
8 49 (6.44%) Windows 8
9 21 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 19 (2.50%) CentOS
10 19 (2.50%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.10%) Unix
12 13 (1.71%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.58%) Windows NT
13 12 (1.58%) Windows XP
14 10 (1.31%) Android
14 10 (1.31%) VMS
15 9 (1.18%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.92%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 164 (21.55%) ITIL
2 164 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (20.50%) Customer Service
4 97 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
5 82 (10.78%) Agile
6 64 (8.41%) Service Management
7 54 (7.10%) DevOps
7 54 (7.10%) Mentoring
8 48 (6.31%) Configuration Management
9 38 (4.99%) Service Delivery
10 37 (4.86%) Change Control
10 37 (4.86%) Release Management
11 36 (4.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 35 (4.60%) Project Management
13 33 (4.34%) Change Management
13 33 (4.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 28 (3.68%) Incident Management
15 27 (3.55%) Analytics
15 27 (3.55%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 100 (13.14%) SQL
3 31 (4.07%) VB
4 26 (3.42%) Python
5 25 (3.29%) C#
6 20 (2.63%) VBScript
7 14 (1.84%) Bicep
8 11 (1.45%) ActionScript
9 6 (0.79%) Bash
9 6 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.53%) Java
10 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 111 (14.59%) DV Cleared
4 104 (13.67%) Degree
5 50 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.68%) DBS Check
7 24 (3.15%) CCNA
7 24 (3.15%) MCP
8 19 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.97%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.84%) CCNP
12 11 (1.45%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.31%) MCSA
14 7 (0.92%) MCSE
15 6 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.25%) SLA
2 29 (3.81%) GDPR
3 24 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.31%) QA
5 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.39%) GRC
5 3 (0.39%) NIST
5 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 489 (64.26%) Active Directory
2 197 (25.89%) Hyper-V
3 179 (23.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (7.36%) XenApp
5 52 (6.83%) vSphere
6 46 (6.04%) VirtualBox
7 45 (5.91%) VMware ESXi
8 43 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (5.65%) XenDesktop
9 25 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (2.76%) Firmware
11 18 (2.37%) Docker
12 11 (1.45%) OpenSSH
13 10 (1.31%) NFS
13 10 (1.31%) pfSense
14 8 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.66%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 112 (14.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (9.72%) SCCM
3 65 (8.54%) vCenter Server
4 60 (7.88%) WSUS
5 51 (6.70%) SCOM
6 35 (4.60%) Kubernetes
7 26 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (2.50%) Ansible
9 18 (2.37%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.10%) SCDPM
11 15 (1.97%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.71%) Terraform
13 12 (1.58%) Grafana
13 12 (1.58%) Sysprep
14 11 (1.45%) IBM BigFix
14 11 (1.45%) PowerCLI
14 11 (1.45%) ZABBIX
15 8 (1.05%) Nessus
16 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 449 (59.00%) Microsoft
2 305 (40.08%) VMware
3 89 (11.70%) Cisco
3 89 (11.70%) Citrix
4 75 (9.86%) Veeam
5 42 (5.52%) Dell
6 29 (3.81%) Sophos
7 26 (3.42%) Juniper
7 26 (3.42%) Palo Alto
8 25 (3.29%) Apple
9 24 (3.15%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.76%) EMC
11 20 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 19 (2.50%) Meraki
13 18 (2.37%) HP
14 17 (2.23%) 3PAR
14 17 (2.23%) Oracle
15 15 (1.97%) Google
16 13 (1.71%) ConnectWise
16 13 (1.71%) IBM