Windows Server Jobs in the North East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 60 30 56
Rank change year-on-year -30 +26 -25
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 18 109 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.25% 5.79% 4.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.03% 43.60% 35.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17 82 49
10th Percentile £30,150 £25,500 £27,400
25th Percentile £32,000 £26,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £62,750
England median annual salary £42,250 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.81% -7.78% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 62 250 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.74% 13.28% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57 202 131
10th Percentile £28,800 £24,050 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £31,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £52,313
90th Percentile £70,953 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North East over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the North East

Windows Server
Job Locations in the North East

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 East 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
Durham -14 8 £32,000 +6.67% 6
Tyne and Wear -15 8 £35,000 -6.67% 20
Northumberland +1 2 £37,500 +38.89% 3
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) VPN
3 6 (33.33%) DHCP
3 6 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (11.11%) NAS
4 2 (11.11%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 2 (11.11%) VoIP
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
1 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Patch Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
7 1 (5.56%) Coaching
7 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.56%) Migration
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (5.56%) Project Management
7 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CCNA
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) MCSA
2 2 (11.11%) MCSE
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
4 6 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (72.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (5.56%) Avaya