Windows Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 71 71
Rank change year-on-year -32 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 228 383 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.35% 4.81% 4.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.10% 33.13% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 207 295 380
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,800 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £50,500 £53,750 £48,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,833 £58,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -

All Operating Systems
North 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 North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,194 1,156 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.31% 14.52% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 891 778 1,090
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,154 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +11 119 £42,500 -10.53% 30
Cheshire -48 37 £43,000 +14.67% 14
Lancashire -21 33 £38,500 -18.95% 14
Merseyside -28 24 £45,000 +24.14% 5
Cumbria -17 15 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 54 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.21%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.51%) IIS
4 4 (1.75%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 106 (46.49%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (43.42%) Azure
3 47 (20.61%) AWS
4 26 (11.40%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.58%) OneDrive
6 12 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.95%) SaaS
8 8 (3.51%) GitHub
9 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.07%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.63%) GCP
11 5 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.19%) IaaS
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.75%) CloudFront
12 4 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (32.46%) Firewall
2 55 (24.12%) DNS
3 45 (19.74%) DHCP
4 29 (12.72%) LAN
5 27 (11.84%) TCP/IP
6 26 (11.40%) WAN
7 25 (10.96%) VoIP
7 25 (10.96%) Wireless
8 16 (7.02%) VPN
8 16 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (5.70%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (4.39%) Internet
10 10 (4.39%) SAN
11 9 (3.95%) Network Security
11 9 (3.95%) VLAN
12 6 (2.63%) Broadband
13 5 (2.19%) NAS
14 3 (1.32%) WLAN
15 2 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
15 2 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.26%) MySQL
3 5 (2.19%) Power BI
4 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.88%) Redis
6 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.75%) Git
2 4 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 87 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 17 (7.46%) Retail
5 14 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.70%) Law
7 12 (5.26%) Finance
8 11 (4.82%) Legal
9 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.07%) Military
9 7 (3.07%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Electronics
11 3 (1.32%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (24.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (17.98%) IT Support
3 32 (14.04%) IT Technician
4 29 (12.72%) Senior
5 28 (12.28%) IT Engineer
6 24 (10.53%) Support Engineer
7 23 (10.09%) Support Technician
8 22 (9.65%) Analyst
9 21 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (8.77%) IT Support Technician
11 15 (6.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) IT Manager
11 15 (6.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Administrator
13 13 (5.70%) Developer
14 11 (4.82%) Delphi Developer
14 11 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Lead
14 11 (4.82%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.07%) .NET
2 6 (2.63%) AWS CDK
2 6 (2.63%) LDAP
3 3 (1.32%) EDI
4 2 (0.88%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.88%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.88%) Node.js
5 1 (0.44%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.89%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.95%) Fat Client
5 9 (3.95%) Thin Client
6 7 (3.07%) Cyberattack
7 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.75%) CCTV
10 3 (1.32%) EPoS
10 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) PKI
10 3 (1.32%) PMI
11 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.88%) Life Science
11 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.88%) SCADA
12 1 (0.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 227 (99.56%) Windows
2 51 (22.37%) Linux
3 39 (17.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 29 (12.72%) Windows 10
5 22 (9.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (9.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (2.63%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.75%) VMS
9 4 (1.75%) Windows Vista
10 3 (1.32%) Android
10 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.44%) CentOS
12 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.51%) ITIL
2 57 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (23.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 49 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (18.42%) Customer Service
6 33 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (9.21%) Capacity Planning
9 18 (7.89%) Proactive Monitoring
10 17 (7.46%) DevOps
10 17 (7.46%) Incident Management
10 17 (7.46%) Time Management
11 16 (7.02%) Server Management
12 15 (6.58%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.58%) Data Protection
12 15 (6.58%) Project Management
12 15 (6.58%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (6.14%) Information Security
14 13 (5.70%) Incident Response
15 12 (5.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.04%) PowerShell
2 16 (7.02%) Python
3 13 (5.70%) SQL
4 11 (4.82%) Delphi
5 6 (2.63%) Bash
6 3 (1.32%) Java
6 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.44%) Perl
8 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (11.40%) Degree
2 15 (6.58%) CCNA
2 15 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (5.70%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.63%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.63%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.19%) MCSE
9 4 (1.75%) MCSA
10 3 (1.32%) CISSP
10 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.88%) GIAC
11 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.65%) SLA
2 8 (3.51%) GDPR
3 6 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 117 (51.32%) Active Directory
2 52 (22.81%) Hyper-V
3 41 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.63%) Terminal Services
5 6 (2.63%) vSphere
6 4 (1.75%) Docker
7 3 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.44%) Postfix
8 1 (0.44%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (2.63%) WSUS
3 5 (2.19%) SCCM
4 4 (1.75%) Terraform
5 3 (1.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.88%) Grafana
6 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.88%) vRealize
7 1 (0.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.44%) cPanel
7 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.44%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (64.04%) Microsoft
2 68 (29.82%) VMware
3 23 (10.09%) Cisco
4 22 (9.65%) Citrix
5 17 (7.46%) Veeam
6 10 (4.39%) Apple
7 7 (3.07%) Sophos
8 6 (2.63%) Avaya
8 6 (2.63%) Facebook
8 6 (2.63%) Meraki
8 6 (2.63%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (2.19%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.75%) Databricks
10 4 (1.75%) Datto
10 4 (1.75%) HP
10 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.32%) Aruba
11 3 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.32%) NetApp
11 3 (1.32%) Snow