Windows Server Jobs in Lancashire

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 56 30
Rank change year-on-year -90 -26 +61
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 12 32 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.52% 2.44% 7.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.02% 26.02% 58.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 35
10th Percentile £39,375 £25,875 £27,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £36,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,797
90th Percentile £49,500 £50,750 £57,500
North West median annual salary £37,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

Windows Server 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 in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 595 123 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.57% 9.36% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 48 111 67
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £24,600
25th Percentile £32,110 £26,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -18.95% +58.33%
75th Percentile £51,226 £55,000 £49,816
90th Percentile £54,125 £67,968 £57,500
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.11% - +5.88%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Lancashire

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in Lancashire

Windows Server
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Blackburn -31 5 £42,500 +26.87%
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) IPv4
2 5 (41.67%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) VLAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) IT Support
5 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Engineer
5 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 3 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
7 1 (8.33%) Analyst
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
7 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Network Management
3 3 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Line Management
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Server Building
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Veeam
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) VMware