Windows Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 91 103
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 -43
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 308 236 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.28% 3.51% 3.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.64% 18.70% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 296 188 220
10th Percentile £28,125 £25,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,188 £29,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £39,550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.14% +13.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £52,813
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,652 1,262 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.61% 18.79% 23.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 733 1,178
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,813 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +12.94%
75th Percentile £60,019 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South West over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the South West

Windows Server
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Gloucestershire +30 107 £40,000 +7.38% 11
Bristol +13 69 £37,500 -6.25% 17
Wiltshire -4 51 £49,000 +15.29% 22
Dorset -33 35 £37,000 -1.33% 6
Devon 0 28 £39,375 +15.81% 4
Somerset -2 10 £27,500 -50.00% 9
Cornwall -14 7 £30,000 -7.69% 1
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 89 (28.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (19.81%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.27%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (2.27%) SharePoint 2013
4 6 (1.95%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.97%) Apache
5 3 (0.97%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
5 3 (0.97%) JBoss
5 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 160 (51.95%) Microsoft 365
2 137 (44.48%) Azure
3 54 (17.53%) Entra ID
4 42 (13.64%) AWS
4 42 (13.64%) OneDrive
5 22 (7.14%) GCP
6 13 (4.22%) Nutanix
7 8 (2.60%) IaaS
8 5 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.62%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.62%) PaaS
9 4 (1.30%) Rubrik
10 3 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.65%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.32%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.32%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.32%) SaaS
12 1 (0.32%) Sage Pay
12 1 (0.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 72 (23.38%) Firewall
2 68 (22.08%) DNS
3 58 (18.83%) DHCP
4 57 (18.51%) LAN
5 56 (18.18%) WAN
6 48 (15.58%) TCP/IP
7 39 (12.66%) Wireless
8 35 (11.36%) VPN
9 18 (5.84%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (5.19%) SAN
11 14 (4.55%) Internet
12 12 (3.90%) NAS
12 12 (3.90%) VSAN
13 11 (3.57%) IPsec
13 11 (3.57%) VLAN
13 11 (3.57%) VoIP
14 9 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (2.92%) Skype
15 7 (2.27%) Unified Communications
15 7 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.95%) MySQL
3 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.30%) JIRA
2 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.32%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Log4Net
3 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.47%) Public Sector
3 18 (5.84%) Manufacturing
4 17 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.92%) Retail
7 8 (2.60%) Electronics
8 6 (1.95%) Finance
8 6 (1.95%) Law
9 5 (1.62%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.62%) Military
9 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.30%) Automotive
11 3 (0.97%) Legal
12 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Games
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (25.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 64 (20.78%) IT Engineer
3 61 (19.81%) Support Engineer
4 48 (15.58%) Senior
5 41 (13.31%) IT Support
6 37 (12.01%) Analyst
7 32 (10.39%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (8.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 26 (8.44%) 2nd Line Support
8 26 (8.44%) Wintel Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Field Engineer
10 21 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 21 (6.82%) Senior Wintel Engineer
11 20 (6.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 19 (6.17%) Consultant
13 14 (4.55%) Project Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Support Analyst
15 11 (3.57%) Service Analyst
16 10 (3.25%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.97%) LDAP
1 3 (0.97%) SAML
2 2 (0.65%) .NET
2 2 (0.65%) HTML
2 2 (0.65%) JSON
2 2 (0.65%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.32%) Ajax
3 1 (0.32%) Angular 2
3 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.32%) CSS
3 1 (0.32%) HTML5
3 1 (0.32%) Ninject
3 1 (0.32%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (0.32%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (0.32%) Web Services
3 1 (0.32%) WinForms
3 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.66%) Driving Licence
2 31 (10.06%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (7.47%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.92%) Replication
5 7 (2.27%) PKI
6 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.62%) EMC VNX
7 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.30%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.97%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.65%) BYOD
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.65%) Smartcard
11 1 (0.32%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.32%) Life Science
11 1 (0.32%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.32%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 308 (100.00%) Windows
2 56 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 50 (16.23%) Linux
4 49 (15.91%) Windows 10
5 43 (13.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (10.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.60%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.62%) Solaris
9 5 (1.62%) VMS
10 4 (1.30%) AIX
10 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.30%) Unix
10 4 (1.30%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.65%) Windows 2000
12 2 (0.65%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.32%) Android
13 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (17.86%) Customer Service
3 54 (17.53%) ITIL
4 36 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (10.71%) Incident Management
6 23 (7.47%) Change Management
7 20 (6.49%) Service Delivery
8 19 (6.17%) Mobile Device Management
8 19 (6.17%) Server Management
9 18 (5.84%) Mentoring
10 17 (5.52%) Migration
10 17 (5.52%) Service Management
11 14 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (4.22%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (4.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (4.22%) ITSM
12 13 (4.22%) Line Management
12 13 (4.22%) Project Management
12 13 (4.22%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (3.90%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.70%) PowerShell
2 29 (9.42%) SQL
3 19 (6.17%) Python
4 15 (4.87%) Bash
5 7 (2.27%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) C#
7 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (23.70%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.56%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.99%) DV Cleared
4 28 (9.09%) Degree
5 23 (7.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (6.82%) DBS Check
7 14 (4.55%) MCSE
8 13 (4.22%) CCNA
8 13 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.90%) MCITP
10 9 (2.92%) A+ Certification
11 8 (2.60%) GIAC
12 5 (1.62%) CCNP
13 4 (1.30%) CEH
13 4 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.97%) MCSA
15 2 (0.65%) GSEC
15 2 (0.65%) MCP
15 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.12%) SLA
2 7 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 220 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 120 (38.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (31.82%) Hyper-V
4 25 (8.12%) vSphere
5 24 (7.79%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (5.19%) XenDesktop
8 11 (3.57%) XenApp
9 5 (1.62%) Docker
9 5 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.65%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (19.48%) SCCM
2 48 (15.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.22%) vCenter Server
4 10 (3.25%) WSUS
5 8 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
5 8 (2.60%) SCVMM
6 5 (1.62%) Ansible
6 5 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.62%) Nagios
7 4 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 180 (58.44%) Microsoft
2 159 (51.62%) VMware
3 57 (18.51%) Cisco
4 44 (14.29%) HP
5 28 (9.09%) Citrix
6 24 (7.79%) Google
6 24 (7.79%) Veeam
7 20 (6.49%) Red Hat
8 15 (4.87%) Dell
8 15 (4.87%) Symantec
9 13 (4.22%) Meraki
10 12 (3.90%) Aruba
10 12 (3.90%) SolarWinds
11 10 (3.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (2.92%) Sophos
13 8 (2.60%) McAfee
14 6 (1.95%) Aderant
14 6 (1.95%) iManage
14 6 (1.95%) Oracle
15 5 (1.62%) EMC