Windows Server Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Windows Server
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Windows Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -21
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 80 54 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.23% 2.16% 1.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.30% 11.87% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 52 51 72
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £23,600
25th Percentile £32,688 £29,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £37,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.68% -10.84% -28.45%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,188
90th Percentile £58,250 £62,500 £65,000
North West median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -10.84% -14.43%

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 273 455 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.21% 18.23% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 195 267 405
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,625 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,200 £75,500 £70,450
North West median annual salary £39,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.24% -5.56% -10.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Windows Server job vacancy trend in Manchester

Windows Server
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Windows Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Windows Server

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 2026. 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
Bolton +21 6 £43,750 +41.13% 1
Altrincham +7 4 £40,000 -42.86% 1
Salford - 4 £50,000 - 2
Windows Server
North West

Windows Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.75%) IIS
3 10 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (60.00%) Azure
3 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.50%) IaaS
4 6 (7.50%) SaaS
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.75%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
7 2 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.50%) PaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.25%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (50.00%) Firewall
2 35 (43.75%) DNS
3 32 (40.00%) DHCP
4 23 (28.75%) TCP/IP
5 21 (26.25%) VLAN
6 15 (18.75%) VoIP
7 14 (17.50%) VPN
8 12 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (13.75%) SAN
10 9 (11.25%) Network Security
10 9 (11.25%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (7.50%) WAN
12 5 (6.25%) LAN
13 3 (3.75%) DKIM
13 3 (3.75%) DMARC
13 3 (3.75%) PBX
13 3 (3.75%) SNMP
13 3 (3.75%) Unified Communications
14 2 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (2.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.50%) Looker
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
General
1 35 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Finance
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) IT Support
2 19 (23.75%) IT Support Technician
2 19 (23.75%) IT Technician
2 19 (23.75%) Support Technician
3 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) Analyst
5 15 (18.75%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) 1st Line Support
6 7 (8.75%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 7 (8.75%) IT Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Lead
7 6 (7.50%) IT Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Problem Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Senior
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) IT Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) Middleware
2 3 (3.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Driving Licence
2 9 (11.25%) CCTV
2 9 (11.25%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.25%) Social Media
5 4 (5.00%) Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Licensing
6 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.75%) Replication
7 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (17.50%) Windows 10
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (8.75%) Linux
5 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.00%) VMS
7 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 2 (2.50%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (38.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (36.25%) Customer Service
4 25 (31.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (23.75%) ITIL
7 18 (22.50%) High Availability
8 17 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (20.00%) Business Continuity
10 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (15.00%) Information Security
10 12 (15.00%) Time Management
11 11 (13.75%) Server Management
12 9 (11.25%) Change Management
12 9 (11.25%) Service Delivery
13 8 (10.00%) BCP
13 8 (10.00%) Server Building
13 8 (10.00%) Server Monitoring
13 8 (10.00%) Storage Management
13 8 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) SQL
2 16 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.00%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (16.25%) Degree
3 11 (13.75%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.75%) DBS Check
4 7 (8.75%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (8.75%) MCSA
5 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.75%) CCNA
7 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 34 (42.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.50%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) MetaFrame
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) FortiGate
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (12.50%) Autotask
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.75%) cPanel
5 3 (3.75%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.75%) Plesk
6 2 (2.50%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.50%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.25%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) SCCM
7 1 (1.25%) Terraform
7 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (51.25%) VMware
3 12 (15.00%) SonicWALL
4 9 (11.25%) Sophos
5 6 (7.50%) Cisco
6 5 (6.25%) Apple
6 5 (6.25%) Meraki
6 5 (6.25%) Veeam
7 4 (5.00%) Google
7 4 (5.00%) iManage
7 4 (5.00%) WatchGuard
8 3 (3.75%) Acronis
8 3 (3.75%) Aderant
8 3 (3.75%) Adobe
8 3 (3.75%) Autodesk
8 3 (3.75%) Datto
8 3 (3.75%) NETGEAR
8 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.75%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto