Windows Server Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 115 105
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -29
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 55 107 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.17% 1.90% 3.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.01% 14.68% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 52 93 125
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,700 £26,200
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -24.55% +52.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £75,750
North West median annual salary £37,500 £41,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.54% -13.68% +26.67%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 458 729 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.07% 12.93% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 269 494 440
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £25,975
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,563 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,368 £70,000 £78,750
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +11.76%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in Manchester

Windows Server
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Oldham - 5 £26,500 - 1
Altrincham - 3 £70,000 - 4
Bolton -8 1 £31,000 -4.62% 5
Heywood - 1 £23,000 -
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (20.00%) IIS
3 3 (5.45%) Apache Solr
3 3 (5.45%) CMS
4 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (60.00%) Azure
2 32 (58.18%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
4 4 (7.27%) Cloudflare
4 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.45%) GitHub
5 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.45%) SaaS
6 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.82%) Datadog
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.18%) DNS
2 18 (32.73%) DHCP
3 13 (23.64%) Firewall
4 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
4 6 (10.91%) VLAN
4 6 (10.91%) VPN
5 5 (9.09%) WAN
6 3 (5.45%) DMZ
6 3 (5.45%) VoIP
6 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.82%) LAN
7 1 (1.82%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Data Hub
2 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.45%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Retail
5 3 (5.45%) Back Office
6 2 (3.64%) Games
6 2 (3.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) IT Support
2 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Applications Support
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Help Desk Support
4 4 (7.27%) Help Desk Support Technician
4 4 (7.27%) Help Desk Technician
4 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Senior
4 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Support Technician
4 4 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (5.45%) Head of Development
5 3 (5.45%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.45%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) .NET
1 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
1 3 (5.45%) .NET Framework
1 3 (5.45%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (5.45%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.82%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (1.82%) Loki
2 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.09%) EPoS
4 4 (7.27%) Clustering
5 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.45%) Private Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Linux
3 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (10.91%) Windows 10
5 5 (9.09%) CentOS
5 5 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.45%) Debian
7 3 (5.45%) Unix
8 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.45%) ITIL
3 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (20.00%) ERP
3 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.36%) ITSM
4 9 (16.36%) User Experience
5 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.73%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (10.91%) Service Management
8 5 (9.09%) Agile
8 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 5 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (7.27%) High Availability
9 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (7.27%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) SQL
2 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.27%) Python
4 3 (5.45%) C#
4 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (7.27%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.45%) A+ Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CISM
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) NCSC
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.45%) Docker
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.64%) vSphere
7 1 (1.82%) Kamailio
7 1 (1.82%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.45%) Autotask
2 3 (5.45%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (3.64%) SCCM
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 26 (47.27%) VMware
3 17 (30.91%) Veeam
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 5 (9.09%) MobileIron
5 3 (5.45%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.45%) Google
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.64%) Apple
6 2 (3.64%) Aruba
7 1 (1.82%) New Relic
7 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce