Windows Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 67 74
Rank change year-on-year -42 +7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 224 379 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.28% 4.84% 4.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.76% 33.10% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 205 292 364
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,575 £23,650
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,813 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £50,250 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,800 £58,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.74% +4.71% -

All Operating Systems
North West

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,194 1,145 1,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.15% 14.62% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 887 764 1,060
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,750 £23,338
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £72,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the North West

Windows Server
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Manchester +1 116 £43,750 -7.89% 25
Cheshire -47 36 £43,500 +16.00% 18
Lancashire -26 32 £38,000 -20.00% 6
Merseyside -23 24 £45,000 +24.14% 6
Cumbria -12 16 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 53 (23.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.79%) CMS
4 4 (1.79%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Site Server
Applications
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (46.88%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (43.30%) Azure
3 45 (20.09%) AWS
4 26 (11.61%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.70%) OneDrive
6 12 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.57%) GitHub
7 8 (3.57%) SaaS
8 7 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 6 (2.68%) GCP
10 5 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.23%) IaaS
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.79%) CloudFront
11 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (33.04%) Firewall
2 58 (25.89%) DNS
3 47 (20.98%) DHCP
4 28 (12.50%) LAN
5 27 (12.05%) TCP/IP
6 26 (11.61%) Wireless
7 25 (11.16%) WAN
8 24 (10.71%) VoIP
9 17 (7.59%) VPN
9 17 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
11 11 (4.91%) Internet
12 10 (4.46%) VLAN
13 9 (4.02%) Network Security
14 8 (3.57%) SAN
15 6 (2.68%) Broadband
16 3 (1.34%) NAS
16 3 (1.34%) WLAN
17 2 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
17 2 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.46%) MySQL
3 5 (2.23%) Power BI
4 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.89%) Redis
6 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.79%) Git
2 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.93%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.14%) Retail
5 14 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.36%) Finance
6 12 (5.36%) Law
7 10 (4.46%) Legal
8 7 (3.13%) Military
8 7 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.34%) Electronics
11 3 (1.34%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (24.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (18.75%) IT Support
3 32 (14.29%) IT Technician
4 30 (13.39%) Senior
5 29 (12.95%) IT Engineer
6 26 (11.61%) Support Engineer
7 23 (10.27%) Support Technician
8 22 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (9.38%) Analyst
10 20 (8.93%) IT Support Technician
11 16 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (6.70%) IT Manager
12 15 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) Administrator
14 13 (5.80%) Developer
15 12 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
16 11 (4.91%) Delphi Developer
17 10 (4.46%) Head of IT
17 10 (4.46%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.13%) .NET
2 6 (2.68%) AWS CDK
2 6 (2.68%) LDAP
3 3 (1.34%) EDI
4 2 (0.89%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.89%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.89%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.04%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.91%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.02%) Fat Client
5 9 (4.02%) Thin Client
6 7 (3.13%) Cyberattack
7 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) CCTV
9 4 (1.79%) PKI
10 3 (1.34%) EPoS
10 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.34%) PMI
11 2 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.89%) SCADA
12 1 (0.45%) IoT
12 1 (0.45%) Replication
12 1 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 224 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (22.32%) Linux
3 36 (16.07%) Windows Server 2012
4 28 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 23 (10.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (8.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (2.68%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.79%) VMS
9 4 (1.79%) Windows Vista
10 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.89%) Android
11 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.45%) CentOS
12 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.02%) ITIL
2 56 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (24.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 45 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (18.75%) Customer Service
6 33 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
9 18 (8.04%) Time Management
10 17 (7.59%) DevOps
10 17 (7.59%) Incident Management
11 16 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 16 (7.14%) Server Management
12 15 (6.70%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.70%) Data Protection
12 15 (6.70%) Project Management
13 14 (6.25%) Information Security
13 14 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (5.80%) Incident Response
15 12 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.39%) PowerShell
2 16 (7.14%) Python
3 11 (4.91%) Delphi
4 9 (4.02%) SQL
5 6 (2.68%) Bash
6 3 (1.34%) Java
6 3 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.89%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
8 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (10.27%) Degree
2 15 (6.70%) CCNA
2 15 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.57%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.68%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.23%) MCSE
8 4 (1.79%) MCSA
9 3 (1.34%) CISSP
9 3 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.89%) GIAC
10 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.93%) SLA
2 8 (3.57%) GDPR
3 6 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (50.89%) Active Directory
2 54 (24.11%) Hyper-V
3 39 (17.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.68%) Terminal Services
6 5 (2.23%) vSphere
7 4 (1.79%) Docker
8 3 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.45%) Postfix
10 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (2.68%) WSUS
4 4 (1.79%) SCCM
4 4 (1.79%) Terraform
5 3 (1.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.89%) Grafana
6 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.89%) vRealize
7 1 (0.45%) Ansible
7 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (64.73%) Microsoft
2 66 (29.46%) VMware
3 24 (10.71%) Cisco
4 22 (9.82%) Citrix
5 17 (7.59%) Veeam
6 10 (4.46%) Apple
7 7 (3.13%) Sophos
7 7 (3.13%) Ubiquiti
8 6 (2.68%) Avaya
8 6 (2.68%) Facebook
8 6 (2.68%) Meraki
9 5 (2.23%) Datto
9 5 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.23%) HP
10 4 (1.79%) Databricks
10 4 (1.79%) Dell
10 4 (1.79%) NetApp
10 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.79%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.34%) Juniper