Windows Server Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 40 82 57
Rank change year-on-year +42 -25 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 534 350 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.42% 3.86% 4.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.40% 27.76% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 478 267 481
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,575 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £41,206 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,599 1,261 2,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 13.91% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 831 1,419
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £67,100
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Job Locations in the 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 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
West Midlands +35 302 £35,000 -9.68% 67
East Midlands +37 227 £40,000 +6.67% 45
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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
1 109 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (16.29%) SharePoint
3 23 (4.31%) IIS
4 5 (0.94%) Confluence
4 5 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.19%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.19%) TYPO3
Applications
1 63 (11.80%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Sage 300 ERP
2 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 357 (66.85%) Microsoft 365
2 247 (46.25%) Azure
3 115 (21.54%) Entra ID
4 40 (7.49%) AWS
5 29 (5.43%) OneDrive
6 15 (2.81%) GCP
6 15 (2.81%) Google Workspace
7 13 (2.43%) Mimecast
8 11 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (1.69%) Nutanix
10 8 (1.50%) IaaS
11 7 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.12%) SaaS
13 5 (0.94%) ChatGPT
14 4 (0.75%) PaaS
14 4 (0.75%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.56%) GitHub
16 2 (0.37%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (33.52%) Firewall
2 167 (31.27%) DNS
3 155 (29.03%) DHCP
4 82 (15.36%) TCP/IP
5 65 (12.17%) SAN
6 64 (11.99%) WAN
7 62 (11.61%) Wi-Fi
8 55 (10.30%) LAN
9 50 (9.36%) VPN
10 42 (7.87%) VLAN
11 17 (3.18%) Wireless
12 16 (3.00%) PBX
13 14 (2.62%) SMTP
14 11 (2.06%) SSL
15 10 (1.87%) HTTP
15 10 (1.87%) Network Security
15 10 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (1.69%) VoIP
17 8 (1.50%) Internet
17 8 (1.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.31%) MySQL
4 4 (0.75%) InfluxDB
4 4 (0.75%) Power BI
4 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.75%) UniData
5 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.56%) Redis
6 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (1.12%) JIRA
2 3 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 154 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (7.12%) Retail
4 35 (6.55%) Telecoms
5 34 (6.37%) Finance
6 25 (4.68%) Law
7 22 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.06%) Legal
11 9 (1.69%) Marketing
12 7 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.12%) Police
14 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.75%) Aviation
14 4 (0.75%) Avionics
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
15 3 (0.56%) Banking
15 3 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 133 (24.91%) IT Engineer
2 119 (22.28%) IT Support
3 118 (22.10%) Support Engineer
4 91 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 75 (14.04%) IT Support Engineer
6 69 (12.92%) Senior
7 59 (11.05%) Analyst
8 47 (8.80%) IT Technician
9 36 (6.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (5.81%) 3rd Line Support
11 30 (5.62%) Support Technician
12 28 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support
13 27 (5.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 26 (4.87%) IT Support Technician
15 23 (4.31%) Network Engineer
16 22 (4.12%) IT Manager
16 22 (4.12%) Operations Engineer
16 22 (4.12%) Support Analyst
17 21 (3.93%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
18 20 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.50%) .NET
2 6 (1.12%) HTML
3 3 (0.56%) .NET Core
3 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.56%) jQuery
3 3 (0.56%) React
3 3 (0.56%) REST
3 3 (0.56%) Web Services
4 2 (0.37%) JSON
4 2 (0.37%) LAMP
4 2 (0.37%) MAPI
4 2 (0.37%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.11%) Driving Licence
2 42 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.55%) Replication
4 22 (4.12%) Clustering
4 22 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.93%) PKI
6 15 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.31%) EFT
7 7 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.12%) Cyberattack
9 5 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.56%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.37%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.37%) EPoS
12 2 (0.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 534 (100.00%) Windows
2 93 (17.42%) Windows 10
3 74 (13.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 68 (12.73%) Linux
5 66 (12.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 59 (11.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (3.56%) Windows 7
8 13 (2.43%) Unix
8 13 (2.43%) Windows 8
9 11 (2.06%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (1.87%) Mac OS
11 9 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.69%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.50%) Apple iOS
12 8 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (1.12%) CentOS
14 4 (0.75%) AIX
15 3 (0.56%) Android
16 2 (0.37%) Debian
16 2 (0.37%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (20.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 91 (17.04%) Cybersecurity
4 80 (14.98%) ITIL
5 74 (13.86%) Customer Service
6 40 (7.49%) Project Delivery
7 31 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (5.62%) Proactive Monitoring
9 28 (5.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (5.06%) Migration
11 26 (4.87%) ERP
12 25 (4.68%) ITSM
13 23 (4.31%) DevOps
13 23 (4.31%) Mentoring
14 22 (4.12%) Patch Management
15 21 (3.93%) Change Management
16 20 (3.75%) Cloud Security
16 20 (3.75%) High Availability
16 20 (3.75%) Project Management
17 19 (3.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (12.55%) PowerShell
2 53 (9.93%) SQL
3 16 (3.00%) Python
4 12 (2.25%) Java
5 10 (1.87%) C#
6 8 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.12%) C++
8 5 (0.94%) Bash
9 4 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.56%) R
11 2 (0.37%) Bicep
11 2 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 49 (9.18%) Degree
1 49 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (4.12%) CCNA
5 21 (3.93%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.00%) DBS Check
7 14 (2.62%) MCSE
8 12 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.06%) A+ Certification
9 11 (2.06%) MCSA
10 10 (1.87%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.31%) CCNP
13 5 (0.94%) CCA
13 5 (0.94%) CCDA
13 5 (0.94%) Citrix Certification
14 4 (0.75%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.31%) SLA
2 14 (2.62%) GDPR
3 10 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.56%) JSP 440
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 352 (65.92%) Active Directory
2 174 (32.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (28.84%) Hyper-V
4 40 (7.49%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (4.12%) vSphere
6 19 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (2.43%) Docker
8 10 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.50%) Terminal Services
9 8 (1.50%) VMware Server
10 7 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.94%) NFS
11 5 (0.94%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.75%) pfSense
13 2 (0.37%) XenApp
13 2 (0.37%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.19%) Firmware
14 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (13.30%) SCCM
3 16 (3.00%) SCOM
4 11 (2.06%) vCenter Server
5 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
5 9 (1.69%) Terraform
6 8 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.94%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.94%) Autotask
9 5 (0.94%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.75%) Grafana
10 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.75%) WSUS
11 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.56%) vMotion
12 2 (0.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 1 (0.19%) Ansible
13 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 344 (64.42%) Microsoft
2 239 (44.76%) VMware
3 71 (13.30%) Veeam
4 67 (12.55%) Cisco
5 43 (8.05%) HP
6 42 (7.87%) Dell
7 31 (5.81%) Citrix
8 25 (4.68%) Apple
9 21 (3.93%) Sophos
10 20 (3.75%) Meraki
11 19 (3.56%) Google
12 14 (2.62%) Nimble Storage
13 13 (2.43%) Fortinet
14 12 (2.25%) Aruba
15 11 (2.06%) Globalscape
16 10 (1.87%) Acronis
17 9 (1.69%) Datto
17 9 (1.69%) ServiceNow
18 8 (1.50%) Barracuda Networks
18 8 (1.50%) WatchGuard