Windows Server 2012 Jobs

Microsoft Windows Server 2012
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows Server 2012 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 2012 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 418 528
Rank change year-on-year -58 +110 -171
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 507 679 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.73% 0.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.52% 4.49% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 403 545 937
10th Percentile £24,575 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,561 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -4.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,825 £53,250
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% +2.56%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows Server 2012 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,390 15,119 32,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 16.35% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,771 10,301 16,333
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 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 12 June 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 12 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 -36 473 £40,000 -5.88% 85
UK excluding London -55 420 £37,500 -3.85% 72
Work from Home -25 164 £42,500 - 26
South East -63 107 £48,500 +51.56% 19
North of England -48 95 £42,500 +6.25% 19
London -9 81 £59,500 +13.01% 15
South West +7 80 £30,000 -33.33% 15
Midlands -23 74 £30,000 -15.49% 11
West Midlands +9 64 £28,500 -24.00% 6
Yorkshire +35 41 £46,000 +27.78% 12
North West -63 39 £30,250 -32.78% 7
East of England -22 36 £33,000 -20.00% 9
North East -12 15 £30,000 -50.00%
Scotland -76 15 £30,000 -25.00% 1
Wales +14 11 £25,000 -21.88% 1
East Midlands -34 10 £39,500 +21.54% 5
Northern Ireland +19 2 £41,250 +26.92%

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
1 116 (22.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (12.82%) SharePoint
3 33 (6.51%) Exchange Server 2013
4 25 (4.93%) Exchange Server 2010
5 19 (3.75%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (1.97%) IIS
7 5 (0.99%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.59%) Confluence
8 3 (0.59%) SAS
9 1 (0.20%) Site Server
Applications
1 85 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) SPSS
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.39%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 254 (50.10%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (45.36%) Azure
3 112 (22.09%) Entra ID
4 31 (6.11%) AWS
5 30 (5.92%) SaaS
6 21 (4.14%) OneDrive
7 16 (3.16%) IaaS
8 13 (2.56%) PaaS
9 12 (2.37%) Google Workspace
9 12 (2.37%) OCI
10 10 (1.97%) Mimecast
11 9 (1.78%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.79%) Azure Storage
13 4 (0.79%) Dropbox
13 4 (0.79%) GitHub
13 4 (0.79%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 177 (34.91%) Firewall
2 170 (33.53%) DNS
3 131 (25.84%) DHCP
4 85 (16.77%) TCP/IP
5 60 (11.83%) VPN
6 58 (11.44%) SAN
7 53 (10.45%) LAN
8 52 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
9 50 (9.86%) WAN
10 34 (6.71%) VLAN
11 24 (4.73%) Internet
11 24 (4.73%) VoIP
11 24 (4.73%) Wireless
12 19 (3.75%) NAS
13 13 (2.56%) PBX
13 13 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (2.17%) iSCSI
14 11 (2.17%) Network Security
15 5 (0.99%) MPLS
15 5 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.71%) MongoDB
3 28 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.38%) MySQL
5 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.99%) InfluxDB
6 5 (0.99%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.79%) DB2
8 3 (0.59%) Big Data
8 3 (0.59%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.39%) MS Access
9 2 (0.39%) Power BI
9 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.20%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Jenkins
1 7 (1.38%) JIRA
2 6 (1.18%) Eclipse
3 5 (0.99%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) Hudson
4 2 (0.39%) MSI
4 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 192 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.88%) Finance
3 44 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.14%) Retail
4 21 (4.14%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.17%) Legal
9 10 (1.97%) Aviation
10 9 (1.78%) Law
10 9 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.58%) Billing
12 7 (1.38%) Marketing
12 7 (1.38%) Military
13 6 (1.18%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.99%) Banking
15 4 (0.79%) Automotive
15 4 (0.79%) Avionics
15 4 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 131 (25.84%) Support Engineer
2 117 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 93 (18.34%) IT Engineer
4 77 (15.19%) IT Support
5 58 (11.44%) Senior
6 57 (11.24%) Administrator
7 49 (9.66%) IT Support Engineer
8 48 (9.47%) Analyst
9 39 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
10 38 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (7.10%) DBA
12 34 (6.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 34 (6.71%) IT Technician
13 33 (6.51%) Infrastructure Support
14 32 (6.31%) DV Cleared DBA
15 29 (5.72%) VMware Engineer
16 28 (5.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 27 (5.33%) Lead
18 26 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 26 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.18%) LDAP
2 2 (0.39%) WSH
3 1 (0.20%) .NET
3 1 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.20%) JSON
3 1 (0.20%) Kafka
3 1 (0.20%) SAML
3 1 (0.20%) XML
3 1 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (9.47%) Replication
3 43 (8.48%) Driving Licence
4 42 (8.28%) Data Centre
5 29 (5.72%) Clustering
6 28 (5.52%) PKI
7 14 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.18%) Handset
10 6 (1.18%) Xbox
11 5 (0.99%) iPhone
12 4 (0.79%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.79%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.79%) Thin Client
12 4 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (0.59%) Cybercrime
13 3 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.59%) iPad
14 2 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 507 (100.00%) Windows
2 374 (73.77%) Windows Server
3 293 (57.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 243 (47.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 204 (40.24%) Windows 10
6 124 (24.46%) Linux
7 82 (16.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 72 (14.20%) Windows 7
9 44 (8.68%) CentOS
10 39 (7.69%) Windows 8
11 16 (3.16%) Windows XP
12 15 (2.96%) Mac OS
12 15 (2.96%) Windows NT
13 12 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (2.17%) SUSE
15 10 (1.97%) Apple iOS
16 8 (1.58%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.99%) VMS
18 4 (0.79%) Windows 2000
18 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (29.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 144 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (22.88%) ITIL
4 93 (18.34%) Customer Service
5 63 (12.43%) Mentoring
6 53 (10.45%) Storage Management
7 52 (10.26%) Performance Monitoring
8 46 (9.07%) Capacity Management
9 40 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (7.69%) Time Management
11 36 (7.10%) User Experience
12 35 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (6.90%) Problem Management
13 34 (6.71%) Database Tuning
14 31 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (5.92%) Service Delivery
16 28 (5.52%) Asset Management
17 27 (5.33%) Customer Experience
17 27 (5.33%) Roadmaps
18 26 (5.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 161 (31.76%) PowerShell
2 75 (14.79%) SQL
3 42 (8.28%) Bash
4 19 (3.75%) VB
5 14 (2.76%) ActionScript
6 13 (2.56%) VBScript
7 7 (1.38%) Python
8 6 (1.18%) Perl
9 3 (0.59%) C#
9 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.39%) Java
11 1 (0.20%) Bicep
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 90 (17.75%) Degree
3 63 (12.43%) DV Cleared
4 55 (10.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 29 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (5.33%) DBS Check
8 25 (4.93%) CCNA
8 25 (4.93%) MCSE
9 19 (3.75%) MCSA
10 17 (3.35%) HNC
11 15 (2.96%) Azure Certification
12 13 (2.56%) CCNP
13 12 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (1.18%) MCP
15 6 (1.18%) MCTS
16 5 (0.99%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (0.99%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.06%) SLA
2 10 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.18%) QA
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 351 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 197 (38.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (27.42%) Hyper-V
4 76 (14.99%) VMware ESXi
5 46 (9.07%) vSphere
6 16 (3.16%) XenApp
7 14 (2.76%) OpenSSH
8 13 (2.56%) Firmware
9 12 (2.37%) Terminal Services
10 11 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (1.58%) vCloud
12 5 (0.99%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.79%) KVM
14 3 (0.59%) NFS
15 2 (0.39%) Docker
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (18.54%) SCCM
2 79 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 53 (10.45%) WSUS
4 47 (9.27%) vCenter Server
5 21 (4.14%) SCOM
6 18 (3.55%) NetBackup
7 15 (2.96%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (2.76%) IBM BigFix
8 14 (2.76%) PowerCLI
9 12 (2.37%) EMC NetWorker
10 11 (2.17%) Sysprep
11 10 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (1.78%) Terraform
13 8 (1.58%) Autotask
14 7 (1.38%) Ansible
15 6 (1.18%) Puppet
16 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Spacewalk
17 4 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
17 4 (0.79%) Nessus
Vendors
1 339 (66.86%) Microsoft
2 261 (51.48%) VMware
3 74 (14.60%) Veeam
4 70 (13.81%) Cisco
5 64 (12.62%) Citrix
6 52 (10.26%) Oracle
7 47 (9.27%) Red Hat
8 42 (8.28%) HP
9 35 (6.90%) Dell
10 24 (4.73%) Apple
10 24 (4.73%) Sophos
11 21 (4.14%) IBM
11 21 (4.14%) Juniper
12 15 (2.96%) 3PAR
12 15 (2.96%) Fortinet
13 14 (2.76%) Palo Alto
14 13 (2.56%) EMC
14 13 (2.56%) Symantec
15 12 (2.37%) Avaya
15 12 (2.37%) Extreme Networks