Windows Server Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 50 85 67
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 -28
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 302 234 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.03% 3.75% 4.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.16% 30.91% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 261 184 283
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £41,206 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 859 757 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.47% 12.14% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 726 538 850
10th Percentile £24,813 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £43,501
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +8.75%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,375
90th Percentile £65,302 £70,000 £70,000
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the West Midlands

Windows Server
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +15 89 £36,000 -10.00% 20
Staffordshire -20 59 £39,000 +16.42% 14
Worcestershire -6 31 £45,000 +13.52% 7
Warwickshire +57 25 £37,000 -7.50% 10
Solihull +12 16 £29,500 +9.77%
Coventry +20 13 £34,500 -9.80% 7
Shropshire -11 11 £32,000 +23.08% 1
Wednesbury +5 7 £30,000 -4.00% 1
Wolverhampton +4 3 £20,000 -50.31% 3
Herefordshire +3 3 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Dudley - 3 £24,500 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £32,500 -
Halesowen - 2 £27,500 -
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 57 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (15.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 37 (12.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 193 (63.91%) Microsoft 365
2 144 (47.68%) Azure
3 82 (27.15%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.28%) AWS
5 18 (5.96%) OneDrive
6 11 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (2.65%) GCP
9 7 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.99%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.99%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.99%) SaaS
11 4 (1.32%) IaaS
12 3 (0.99%) GitHub
12 3 (0.99%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.66%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.66%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.66%) OpenDNS
14 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 100 (33.11%) Firewall
2 89 (29.47%) DNS
3 87 (28.81%) DHCP
4 49 (16.23%) TCP/IP
5 37 (12.25%) WAN
6 35 (11.59%) LAN
7 33 (10.93%) SAN
8 26 (8.61%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (8.28%) VPN
10 17 (5.63%) VLAN
11 16 (5.30%) PBX
12 14 (4.64%) Wireless
13 12 (3.97%) SMTP
14 10 (3.31%) HTTP
14 10 (3.31%) Network Security
15 7 (2.32%) iSCSI
15 7 (2.32%) SNMP
15 7 (2.32%) SSH
15 7 (2.32%) SSL
15 7 (2.32%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.32%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.32%) MySQL
3 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (0.99%) Power BI
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (0.99%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (0.99%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.60%) Finance
4 25 (8.28%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.95%) Retail
6 15 (4.97%) Law
7 13 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.99%) Police
11 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.32%) Legal
13 3 (0.99%) Automotive
13 3 (0.99%) Banking
13 3 (0.99%) Military
14 2 (0.66%) Local Government
15 1 (0.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 79 (26.16%) IT Engineer
2 78 (25.83%) Support Engineer
3 66 (21.85%) IT Support
4 53 (17.55%) IT Support Engineer
5 46 (15.23%) Senior
6 41 (13.58%) Analyst
7 32 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.62%) 3rd Line Support
9 19 (6.29%) Service Analyst
10 16 (5.30%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (5.30%) IT Technician
10 16 (5.30%) Service Desk Analyst
11 15 (4.97%) IT Manager
12 14 (4.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 14 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Administrator
14 12 (3.97%) Support Technician
14 12 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
14 12 (3.97%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.66%) HTML
2 3 (0.99%) .NET
2 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
2 3 (0.99%) jQuery
2 3 (0.99%) React
2 3 (0.99%) REST
2 3 (0.99%) Web Services
3 2 (0.66%) LAMP
3 2 (0.66%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.94%) Replication
2 19 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 18 (5.96%) PKI
4 16 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.97%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.65%) Clustering
7 8 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.32%) EFT
8 7 (2.32%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.32%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.99%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.66%) EPoS
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 302 (100.00%) Windows
2 73 (24.17%) Windows 10
3 57 (18.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 43 (14.24%) Linux
5 39 (12.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 36 (11.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (5.96%) Windows 7
8 13 (4.30%) Windows 8
9 10 (3.31%) Mac OS
10 9 (2.98%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (2.65%) Apple iOS
11 8 (2.65%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (2.32%) Ubuntu
12 7 (2.32%) Unix
13 4 (1.32%) CentOS
14 2 (0.66%) Android
14 2 (0.66%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.66%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (17.55%) ITIL
3 47 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (14.57%) Customer Service
5 42 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (9.27%) Project Delivery
7 24 (7.95%) ERP
8 21 (6.95%) DevOps
9 19 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (6.29%) Proactive Monitoring
10 17 (5.63%) Change Management
11 16 (5.30%) Asset Management
12 15 (4.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (4.97%) Incident Management
12 15 (4.97%) Roadmaps
12 15 (4.97%) Server Management
13 13 (4.30%) Cloud Security
13 13 (4.30%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 13 (4.30%) Performance Monitoring
14 12 (3.97%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 46 (15.23%) PowerShell
2 26 (8.61%) SQL
3 14 (4.64%) Python
4 9 (2.98%) Java
5 8 (2.65%) C#
6 6 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.66%) Bash
7 5 (1.66%) C++
8 3 (0.99%) R
8 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.66%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) PHP
10 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (9.93%) Degree
3 27 (8.94%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.64%) A+ Certification
5 11 (3.64%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.98%) MCSE
8 8 (2.65%) CCNA
8 8 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.32%) MCSA
9 7 (2.32%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.66%) CCNP
10 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.32%) CCIE
11 4 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.99%) MCITP
13 2 (0.66%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.62%) SLA
2 7 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.99%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 213 (70.53%) Active Directory
2 104 (34.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (31.79%) Hyper-V
4 40 (13.25%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.97%) Docker
5 12 (3.97%) vSphere
6 10 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.66%) NFS
8 5 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.66%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.66%) VMware Server
9 4 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.66%) pfSense
11 2 (0.66%) XenApp
11 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.33%) Firmware
12 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 58 (19.21%) SCCM
2 51 (16.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.64%) vCenter Server
4 9 (2.98%) Terraform
5 8 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.32%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.99%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.99%) SCOM
8 5 (1.66%) AirWatch
8 5 (1.66%) Backup Exec
9 4 (1.32%) Autotask
9 4 (1.32%) Grafana
9 4 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.66%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 193 (63.91%) Microsoft
2 147 (48.68%) VMware
3 50 (16.56%) Veeam
4 45 (14.90%) Cisco
5 28 (9.27%) Dell
6 23 (7.62%) Apple
6 23 (7.62%) HP
7 22 (7.28%) Citrix
8 21 (6.95%) Sophos
9 12 (3.97%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.31%) Aruba
11 9 (2.98%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.65%) Datto
12 8 (2.65%) WatchGuard
13 7 (2.32%) Globalscape
13 7 (2.32%) IBM
13 7 (2.32%) Nimble Storage
14 6 (1.99%) Zerto
15 5 (1.66%) ConnectWise
15 5 (1.66%) Draytek