Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2012 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 435 476
Rank change year-on-year -32 +41 -152
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 504 724 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.60% 4.49% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 413 583 961
10th Percentile £24,900 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.25% +2.56%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2012 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 14,005 16,129 29,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.12% 15.97% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,789 10,915 16,509
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 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Windows Server 2012
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2012 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2012.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2012 in the UK

Windows Server 2012
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -6 474 £40,000 - 89
UK excluding London -57 411 £36,500 -2.67% 74
Work from Home -3 170 £42,500 - 30
South East -29 108 £48,500 +53.97% 23
North of England -7 96 £40,000 - 20
London +17 87 £59,750 +13.65% 14
Midlands -2 78 £30,000 -17.81% 9
South West +16 72 £30,000 -29.41% 17
West Midlands +20 67 £28,500 -24.00% 7
North West -31 41 £32,000 -24.71% 8
Yorkshire +52 39 £46,000 +22.67% 10
East of England -2 33 £33,000 -16.46% 10
North East 0 16 £28,500 -50.43% 2
Wales +2 11 £25,000 -21.88% 1
East Midlands -24 10 £38,500 +5.48% 2
Scotland -73 10 £32,000 -20.00%
Northern Ireland +19 3 £40,000 +36.75%

Windows Server 2012
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
1 118 (23.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 67 (13.29%) SharePoint
3 33 (6.55%) Exchange Server 2013
4 26 (5.16%) Exchange Server 2010
5 18 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (1.98%) IIS
7 6 (1.19%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.60%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) Confluence
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Site Server
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (15.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.60%) SPSS
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.40%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 261 (51.79%) Microsoft 365
2 249 (49.40%) Azure
3 118 (23.41%) Entra ID
4 33 (6.55%) AWS
5 32 (6.35%) SaaS
6 23 (4.56%) OneDrive
7 18 (3.57%) IaaS
8 14 (2.78%) PaaS
9 12 (2.38%) Mimecast
9 12 (2.38%) OCI
10 11 (2.18%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.79%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.59%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.99%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.79%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.79%) GitHub
15 3 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.60%) Azure Storage
15 3 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 185 (36.71%) Firewall
2 171 (33.93%) DNS
3 132 (26.19%) DHCP
4 80 (15.87%) TCP/IP
5 69 (13.69%) VPN
6 65 (12.90%) SAN
7 54 (10.71%) LAN
8 51 (10.12%) WAN
9 48 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (8.13%) VLAN
11 29 (5.75%) Wireless
12 25 (4.96%) VoIP
13 21 (4.17%) NAS
14 20 (3.97%) Internet
15 16 (3.17%) PBX
16 15 (2.98%) Network Security
16 15 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (1.79%) iSCSI
18 6 (1.19%) IPsec
18 6 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 25 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.79%) MySQL
5 6 (1.19%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.19%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.79%) DB2
7 3 (0.60%) Big Data
7 3 (0.60%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.40%) MS Access
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.20%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.19%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (0.40%) Hudson
3 2 (0.40%) JIRA
3 2 (0.40%) MSI
3 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 190 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 97 (19.25%) Finance
3 43 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.37%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.37%) Retail
6 16 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.58%) Legal
8 13 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.38%) Billing
10 10 (1.98%) Aviation
10 10 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.59%) Law
11 8 (1.59%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.99%) Banking
13 4 (0.79%) Automotive
13 4 (0.79%) Avionics
13 4 (0.79%) Games
13 4 (0.79%) Marketing
13 4 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 131 (25.99%) Support Engineer
2 118 (23.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 95 (18.85%) IT Engineer
4 76 (15.08%) IT Support
5 67 (13.29%) Senior
6 53 (10.52%) Administrator
6 53 (10.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 52 (10.32%) Analyst
8 42 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (7.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 35 (6.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 34 (6.75%) Infrastructure Support
12 33 (6.55%) IT Technician
13 32 (6.35%) DBA
14 29 (5.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 28 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 28 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
16 27 (5.36%) DV Cleared DBA
17 22 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.19%) LDAP
2 3 (0.60%) WSH
3 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.40%) XML
3 2 (0.40%) YAML
4 1 (0.20%) .NET
4 1 (0.20%) EDI
4 1 (0.20%) Kafka
4 1 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.32%) Replication
2 49 (9.72%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (8.53%) Driving Licence
4 41 (8.13%) Data Centre
5 27 (5.36%) Clustering
6 22 (4.37%) PKI
7 17 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.19%) Handset
9 6 (1.19%) Xbox
10 5 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.99%) iPhone
10 5 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.79%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.60%) CCTV
12 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.60%) Fat Client
12 3 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 504 (100.00%) Windows
2 379 (75.20%) Windows Server
3 282 (55.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 242 (48.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 200 (39.68%) Windows 10
6 124 (24.60%) Linux
7 84 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 66 (13.10%) Windows 7
9 40 (7.94%) CentOS
10 38 (7.54%) Windows 8
11 16 (3.17%) Windows NT
11 16 (3.17%) Windows XP
12 14 (2.78%) Mac OS
12 14 (2.78%) SUSE
13 13 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (2.58%) Ubuntu
14 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
15 6 (1.19%) VMS
16 5 (0.99%) Android
17 4 (0.79%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 141 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (23.41%) ITIL
4 83 (16.47%) Customer Service
5 61 (12.10%) Mentoring
6 48 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
7 47 (9.33%) Storage Management
8 41 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (7.94%) Capacity Management
10 36 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 35 (6.94%) Asset Management
12 34 (6.75%) Time Management
13 32 (6.35%) User Experience
14 31 (6.15%) Problem Management
14 31 (6.15%) Project Delivery
15 30 (5.95%) Database Tuning
15 30 (5.95%) Service Delivery
16 28 (5.56%) Customer Experience
16 28 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (31.75%) PowerShell
2 71 (14.09%) SQL
3 39 (7.74%) Bash
4 15 (2.98%) VB
5 13 (2.58%) VBScript
6 10 (1.98%) ActionScript
7 7 (1.39%) Python
8 6 (1.19%) Perl
9 3 (0.60%) C#
9 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Java
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.07%) Degree
3 56 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 52 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 28 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 26 (5.16%) CCNA
8 25 (4.96%) MCSE
9 21 (4.17%) MCSA
10 19 (3.77%) Azure Certification
11 17 (3.37%) HNC
12 14 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (2.38%) CCNP
14 8 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (0.99%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.79%) MCTS
17 3 (0.60%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.93%) SLA
2 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.20%) PMO
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 359 (71.23%) Active Directory
2 205 (40.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (27.38%) Hyper-V
4 69 (13.69%) VMware ESXi
5 47 (9.33%) vSphere
6 18 (3.57%) Firmware
7 13 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (2.38%) vCloud
8 12 (2.38%) XenApp
9 11 (2.18%) Terminal Services
10 10 (1.98%) OpenSSH
11 6 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.60%) Docker
12 3 (0.60%) KVM
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.40%) NFS
13 2 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.20%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (19.25%) SCCM
2 86 (17.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 53 (10.52%) WSUS
4 40 (7.94%) vCenter Server
5 20 (3.97%) SCOM
6 19 (3.77%) NetBackup
7 15 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (2.58%) Failover Clustering
9 12 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.38%) Sysprep
10 10 (1.98%) IBM BigFix
10 10 (1.98%) PowerCLI
10 10 (1.98%) Terraform
11 9 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.59%) Ansible
12 8 (1.59%) Autotask
13 6 (1.19%) FortiGate
13 6 (1.19%) Puppet
14 5 (0.99%) Nessus
14 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 339 (67.26%) Microsoft
2 263 (52.18%) VMware
3 83 (16.47%) Cisco
4 80 (15.87%) Veeam
5 57 (11.31%) Citrix
6 48 (9.52%) Oracle
7 46 (9.13%) HP
8 43 (8.53%) Red Hat
9 34 (6.75%) Dell
10 27 (5.36%) Apple
11 22 (4.37%) Juniper
12 19 (3.77%) Sophos
13 18 (3.57%) IBM
14 17 (3.37%) Fortinet
15 16 (3.17%) 3PAR
16 15 (2.98%) Palo Alto
17 13 (2.58%) Avaya
17 13 (2.58%) Symantec
18 12 (2.38%) EMC
18 12 (2.38%) Fujitsu