Windows Server 2019 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Windows Server 2019 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 414 651
Rank change year-on-year -13 +237 -175
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2019 585 706 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.13% 4.62% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 500 551 584
10th Percentile £26,225 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,775 £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,210 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2019 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 14,178 15,267 31,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.32% 16.35% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10,712 10,286 16,401
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,625
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 2019
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows Server 2019 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Server 2019.

Salary trend for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server 2019 over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server 2019 in the UK

Windows Server 2019
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 2019 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -6 560 £42,500 +3.66% 86
UK excluding London -29 498 £40,000 +23.08% 73
Work from Home +26 181 £45,000 +5.88% 30
South East -39 142 £51,350 +63.02% 18
North of England -2 102 £37,500 -16.67% 18
Midlands +15 95 £32,500 - 16
South West -21 88 £42,500 +4.94% 12
London +5 78 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Yorkshire +74 61 £37,500 +16.46% 11
East of England +6 56 £42,500 +46.55% 10
West Midlands -13 54 £36,000 +9.92% 13
East Midlands +4 41 £32,000 -1.54% 3
North West -38 30 £45,000 -2.17% 4
North East -11 11 £27,500 -54.17% 3
Wales -7 7 £25,000 -9.09% 2
Scotland -80 7 £36,000 -10.00%
Northern Ireland +13 2 £40,000 +23.08%

Windows Server 2019
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
1 133 (22.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 22 (3.76%) IIS
4 14 (2.39%) Confluence
5 9 (1.54%) WordPress
6 5 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 92 (15.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 331 (56.58%) Microsoft 365
2 277 (47.35%) Azure
3 107 (18.29%) Entra ID
4 54 (9.23%) OneDrive
5 47 (8.03%) AWS
6 32 (5.47%) Mimecast
7 26 (4.44%) SaaS
8 21 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (3.59%) Azure Storage
8 21 (3.59%) IaaS
9 20 (3.42%) Nutanix
10 15 (2.56%) Google Workspace
11 14 (2.39%) PaaS
12 12 (2.05%) OCI
13 11 (1.88%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.03%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.03%) PowerApps
16 5 (0.85%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 202 (34.53%) DNS
2 195 (33.33%) Firewall
3 179 (30.60%) DHCP
4 95 (16.24%) TCP/IP
5 84 (14.36%) WAN
6 78 (13.33%) LAN
7 77 (13.16%) VPN
8 64 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (10.60%) SAN
10 60 (10.26%) VLAN
11 51 (8.72%) Wireless
12 28 (4.79%) VoIP
13 21 (3.59%) Internet
14 20 (3.42%) Remote Desktop
15 19 (3.25%) Network Security
16 16 (2.74%) SD-WAN
17 15 (2.56%) NAS
18 12 (2.05%) Fibre Channel
18 12 (2.05%) iSCSI
19 11 (1.88%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (14.19%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.98%) MongoDB
3 32 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (3.25%) MySQL
5 9 (1.54%) DB2
6 7 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.03%) Power BI
8 5 (0.85%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.85%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.68%) UniData
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.74%) JIRA
2 8 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.03%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.85%) Git
5 4 (0.68%) MSI
6 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.17%) GitLab
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 218 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.38%) Finance
3 36 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.59%) Retail
5 19 (3.25%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.74%) Automotive
7 16 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.22%) Back Office
9 13 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.03%) Aviation
10 6 (1.03%) Law
11 5 (0.85%) Banking
11 5 (0.85%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Legal
12 3 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (20.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 107 (18.29%) IT Support
3 103 (17.61%) IT Engineer
4 81 (13.85%) Support Engineer
5 75 (12.82%) Analyst
6 71 (12.14%) Administrator
7 67 (11.45%) Senior
8 56 (9.57%) IT Support Engineer
9 37 (6.32%) 2nd Line Support
10 36 (6.15%) Lead
11 35 (5.98%) DBA
12 34 (5.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 32 (5.47%) DV Cleared DBA
14 30 (5.13%) Support Analyst
14 30 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
15 29 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
16 28 (4.79%) Service Analyst
17 27 (4.62%) IT Analyst
17 27 (4.62%) Team Leader
18 26 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.59%) ARM Templates
2 14 (2.39%) .NET
3 13 (2.22%) WPF
4 9 (1.54%) LAMP
5 8 (1.37%) LDAP
6 4 (0.68%) HTML
7 3 (0.51%) SAML
7 3 (0.51%) YAML
8 2 (0.34%) ServiceStack
8 2 (0.34%) WSH
8 2 (0.34%) X-Windows
9 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.17%) Kafka
9 1 (0.17%) Middleware
9 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.09%) Self-Motivation
2 52 (8.89%) Driving Licence
3 36 (6.15%) PKI
4 35 (5.98%) Replication
5 30 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.74%) Clustering
9 12 (2.05%) CCTV
10 11 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.03%) EMC VNX
13 6 (1.03%) Handset
13 6 (1.03%) iPad
13 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.03%) Xbox
14 5 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 556 (95.04%) Windows
2 424 (72.48%) Windows Server 2016
3 409 (69.91%) Windows Server
4 248 (42.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 232 (39.66%) Windows 10
6 127 (21.71%) Linux
7 43 (7.35%) CentOS
8 38 (6.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 36 (6.15%) Windows 7
10 31 (5.30%) Apple iOS
11 17 (2.91%) Windows NT
11 17 (2.91%) Windows XP
12 16 (2.74%) Mac OS
13 15 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
14 13 (2.22%) VMS
15 12 (2.05%) Android
15 12 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (1.54%) Unix
17 5 (0.85%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (27.69%) ITIL
2 147 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (19.66%) Customer Service
5 76 (12.99%) Mentoring
6 67 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (10.26%) Service Management
8 59 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 55 (9.40%) Performance Monitoring
10 51 (8.72%) Time Management
11 49 (8.38%) Storage Management
12 48 (8.21%) Project Management
13 47 (8.03%) Change Management
14 43 (7.35%) Agile
15 38 (6.50%) User Experience
16 37 (6.32%) Capacity Management
17 36 (6.15%) Server Management
18 35 (5.98%) Database Tuning
19 34 (5.81%) Service Delivery
20 33 (5.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 197 (33.68%) PowerShell
2 79 (13.50%) SQL
3 45 (7.69%) Bash
4 33 (5.64%) C#
5 23 (3.93%) VB
6 20 (3.42%) VBScript
7 18 (3.08%) Bicep
8 15 (2.56%) Python
9 6 (1.03%) Perl
10 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 2 (0.34%) Java
11 2 (0.34%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 126 (21.54%) Degree
3 85 (14.53%) DV Cleared
4 59 (10.09%) SC Cleared
5 44 (7.52%) DBS Check
6 38 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (4.10%) CCNP
9 21 (3.59%) CCNA
10 18 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (3.08%) HNC
10 18 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (2.74%) MCSE
12 13 (2.22%) MCSA
13 11 (1.88%) A+ Certification
13 11 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.54%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.57%) SLA
2 22 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.54%) GDPR
5 6 (1.03%) QA
6 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.68%) NIST
7 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.51%) PMO
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 364 (62.22%) Active Directory
2 184 (31.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (26.32%) Hyper-V
4 51 (8.72%) vSphere
5 50 (8.55%) VMware ESXi
6 47 (8.03%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (5.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.74%) Firmware
9 6 (1.03%) Docker
9 6 (1.03%) Terminal Services
9 6 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.68%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.51%) NFS
13 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 125 (21.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 116 (19.83%) SCCM
3 74 (12.65%) WSUS
4 40 (6.84%) SCOM
4 40 (6.84%) vCenter Server
5 28 (4.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (4.10%) Kubernetes
7 21 (3.59%) Ansible
8 19 (3.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 18 (3.08%) NetBackup
10 15 (2.56%) Terraform
11 12 (2.05%) Failover Clustering
11 12 (2.05%) McAfee ePO
11 12 (2.05%) Sysprep
12 10 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (1.54%) Autotask
14 8 (1.37%) SCVMM
15 7 (1.20%) Puppet
15 7 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (1.03%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 465 (79.49%) Microsoft
2 259 (44.27%) VMware
3 82 (14.02%) Cisco
4 69 (11.79%) Veeam
5 57 (9.74%) Apple
5 57 (9.74%) Citrix
6 56 (9.57%) Oracle
7 48 (8.21%) Red Hat
8 42 (7.18%) Sophos
9 39 (6.67%) HP
10 29 (4.96%) Meraki
10 29 (4.96%) Palo Alto
11 27 (4.62%) Dell
12 24 (4.10%) Google
13 23 (3.93%) Aruba
14 21 (3.59%) Juniper
15 19 (3.25%) Adobe
15 19 (3.25%) EMC
16 18 (3.08%) 3PAR
16 18 (3.08%) ConnectWise