Windows Server Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 69 74
Rank change year-on-year -44 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 224 346 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.97% 4.75% 4.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.74% 30.73% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 201 271 369
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50,250 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,263 1,126 1,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.11% 15.46% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 906 733 1,069
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -12 112 £42,000 -20.00% 33
Cheshire -41 41 £42,500 +11.84% 16
Lancashire -34 34 £37,500 -21.05% 11
Merseyside -18 23 £45,000 +28.57% 9
Cumbria -10 14 £45,000 - 1
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 51 (22.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (9.82%) 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 30 (13.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.98%) Microsoft 365
2 93 (41.52%) Azure
3 45 (20.09%) AWS
4 30 (13.39%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 14 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.57%) GitHub
8 7 (3.13%) GCP
9 6 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.68%) PowerApps
9 6 (2.68%) SaaS
10 5 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.23%) IaaS
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.79%) CloudFront
11 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 77 (34.38%) Firewall
2 55 (24.55%) DNS
3 44 (19.64%) DHCP
4 29 (12.95%) TCP/IP
5 28 (12.50%) LAN
5 28 (12.50%) Wireless
6 24 (10.71%) WAN
7 17 (7.59%) VoIP
7 17 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (6.70%) VPN
9 14 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
10 13 (5.80%) Internet
11 8 (3.57%) Network Security
11 8 (3.57%) VLAN
12 6 (2.68%) Broadband
12 6 (2.68%) SAN
13 3 (1.34%) WLAN
14 2 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
14 2 (0.89%) DMZ
14 2 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.57%) Power BI
3 6 (2.68%) MySQL
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
6 1 (0.45%) Tableau
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 79 (35.27%) 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
6 13 (5.80%) Law
7 12 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.91%) Finance
8 11 (4.91%) Legal
9 8 (3.57%) Military
10 7 (3.13%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.34%) Electronics
13 3 (1.34%) Games
13 3 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.45%) Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (18.30%) IT Support
3 36 (16.07%) IT Technician
4 31 (13.84%) Senior
5 28 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 28 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 24 (10.71%) Support Technician
7 21 (9.38%) IT Support Technician
8 20 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (8.48%) Analyst
10 15 (6.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) Technical Support
11 14 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.80%) Administrator
12 13 (5.80%) Developer
12 13 (5.80%) IT Manager
13 12 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (4.91%) Delphi Developer
14 11 (4.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.13%) .NET
2 6 (2.68%) AWS CDK
3 5 (2.23%) LDAP
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
5 1 (0.45%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.27%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.04%) Driving Licence
3 13 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.57%) Fat Client
4 8 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.57%) Thin Client
5 7 (3.13%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.79%) CCTV
8 4 (1.79%) PKI
9 3 (1.34%) EPoS
9 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.34%) PMI
10 2 (0.89%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.89%) SCADA
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 224 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (22.32%) Linux
3 34 (15.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 33 (14.73%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (8.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (2.68%) Windows 8
9 5 (2.23%) Android
9 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.79%) VMS
11 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.89%) CentOS
12 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.89%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.79%) ITIL
2 53 (23.66%) Disaster Recovery
3 50 (22.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (18.30%) Customer Service
5 39 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (8.48%) DevOps
9 18 (8.04%) Capacity Planning
9 18 (8.04%) Time Management
10 17 (7.59%) CI/CD
11 16 (7.14%) Incident Management
11 16 (7.14%) Information Security
12 14 (6.25%) Data Protection
12 14 (6.25%) Project Management
12 14 (6.25%) Server Management
13 13 (5.80%) Incident Response
13 13 (5.80%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (5.36%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.04%) Python
3 11 (4.91%) Delphi
4 6 (2.68%) Bash
4 6 (2.68%) SQL
5 3 (1.34%) Java
5 3 (1.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) Perl
7 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (7.14%) Degree
2 13 (5.80%) AWS Certification
2 13 (5.80%) CCNA
2 13 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.79%) MCSE
6 4 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.34%) CISSP
7 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.89%) GIAC
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.45%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.38%) SLA
2 8 (3.57%) GDPR
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 104 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 55 (24.55%) Hyper-V
3 36 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.68%) Terminal Services
6 5 (2.23%) Docker
7 3 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.34%) vSphere
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.45%) Postfix
9 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.45%) XenApp
9 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.23%) Terraform
3 5 (2.23%) WSUS
4 3 (1.34%) Grafana
4 3 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.34%) SCCM
5 2 (0.89%) Ansible
5 2 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.89%) vRealize
6 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.45%) Nagios
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (64.73%) Microsoft
2 63 (28.13%) VMware
3 22 (9.82%) Citrix
4 21 (9.38%) Cisco
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%) Databricks
8 6 (2.68%) Facebook
9 5 (2.23%) Datto
9 5 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.23%) HP
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
11 3 (1.34%) Meraki