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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 119 112
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -42
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 42 109 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.92% 2.02% 3.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.68% 14.61% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40 100 133
10th Percentile £25,475 £23,500 £24,350
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,750 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -14.22% +27.50%
75th Percentile £56,496 £52,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,500
North West median annual salary £37,500 £43,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% -7.45% +25.33%

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 434 746 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.81% 13.79% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 239 529 430
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £77,638
North West median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

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 29 May 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 29 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
Oldham - 5 £26,500 -
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 9 (21.43%) IIS
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (47.62%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.76%) Cloudflare
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Nutanix
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) DNS
2 12 (28.57%) DHCP
3 7 (16.67%) Firewall
4 5 (11.90%) WAN
5 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.14%) VPN
6 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.76%) DMZ
7 2 (4.76%) VLAN
7 2 (4.76%) VoIP
8 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Data Hub
2 2 (4.76%) SQL CLR
3 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.76%) Back Office
5 2 (4.76%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Local Government
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) IT Support
2 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Applications Support
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Help Desk Support
4 4 (9.52%) Help Desk Support Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Help Desk Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Support Technician
5 3 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) IT Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) IT Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) IT Technician
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Technician
5 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) .NET
1 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
1 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
1 2 (4.76%) Dapper ORM
1 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.38%) Loki
2 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.14%) Clustering
2 3 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) EPoS
3 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Linux
3 9 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 5 (11.90%) Mac OS
5 4 (9.52%) CentOS
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (7.14%) Mac OS X
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.76%) Debian
7 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (28.57%) ITIL
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 9 (21.43%) ITSM
6 8 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (19.05%) User Experience
7 7 (16.67%) ERP
7 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (14.29%) Service Management
9 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
10 4 (9.52%) Agile
10 4 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (9.52%) Proactive Maintenance
10 4 (9.52%) Process Improvement
11 3 (7.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 3 (7.14%) Software Distribution
11 3 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) C#
3 2 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) Go
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.14%) A+ Certification
4 3 (7.14%) ACSP
4 3 (7.14%) HP AIS
4 3 (7.14%) MCSA
4 3 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.76%) CISM
5 2 (4.76%) CISSP
5 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.14%) SLA
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.76%) NCSC
3 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 23 (54.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (11.90%) vSphere
5 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.38%) Docker
7 1 (2.38%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.90%) SCCM
3 3 (7.14%) Autotask
4 2 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (52.38%) VMware
3 16 (38.10%) Veeam
4 5 (11.90%) Apple
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco
5 3 (7.14%) HP
5 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Aruba
6 2 (4.76%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) New Relic
7 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat