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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 71 71
Rank change year-on-year -43 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 222 361 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.08% 4.88% 4.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.12% 31.58% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 202 279 375
10th Percentile £25,550 £25,120 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,375 £33,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +26.67% -14.77%
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 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 1,225 1,143 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.48% 15.46% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 894 731 1,075
10th Percentile £25,325 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,625 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,000
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 1 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 1 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 -4 112 £43,750 -14.63% 25
Cheshire -43 38 £42,500 +11.84% 14
Lancashire -31 34 £37,500 -21.05% 9
Merseyside -20 24 £45,000 +19.21% 8
Cumbria -12 14 £45,000 - 3
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 (22.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (9.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.15%) IIS
4 4 (1.80%) CMS
4 4 (1.80%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Site Server
Applications
1 29 (13.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.85%) Microsoft 365
2 93 (41.89%) Azure
3 44 (19.82%) AWS
4 30 (13.51%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.31%) OneDrive
6 13 (5.86%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.60%) GitHub
8 7 (3.15%) GCP
9 6 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 6 (2.70%) SaaS
10 5 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.25%) IaaS
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.80%) CloudFront
11 4 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 75 (33.78%) Firewall
2 56 (25.23%) DNS
3 44 (19.82%) DHCP
4 28 (12.61%) LAN
5 27 (12.16%) TCP/IP
5 27 (12.16%) Wireless
6 24 (10.81%) WAN
7 19 (8.56%) VoIP
8 17 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (6.31%) Remote Desktop
9 14 (6.31%) VPN
10 13 (5.86%) Internet
11 10 (4.50%) VLAN
12 8 (3.60%) Network Security
13 6 (2.70%) Broadband
13 6 (2.70%) SAN
14 3 (1.35%) WLAN
15 2 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
15 2 (0.90%) DMZ
15 2 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.72%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.15%) MySQL
2 7 (3.15%) Power BI
3 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.90%) Redis
5 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.80%) Git
2 4 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 81 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.01%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.21%) Retail
5 14 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.86%) Law
7 11 (4.95%) Finance
7 11 (4.95%) Legal
8 7 (3.15%) Military
8 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Electronics
11 3 (1.35%) Games
11 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (23.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (18.47%) IT Support
3 35 (15.77%) IT Technician
4 31 (13.96%) Senior
5 29 (13.06%) IT Engineer
6 28 (12.61%) Support Engineer
7 24 (10.81%) Support Technician
8 21 (9.46%) IT Support Technician
9 20 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (8.56%) Analyst
11 15 (6.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (6.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.86%) Administrator
13 13 (5.86%) Developer
13 13 (5.86%) Technical Support
14 12 (5.41%) IT Manager
14 12 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (4.95%) Delphi Developer
15 11 (4.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.15%) .NET
2 6 (2.70%) AWS CDK
3 5 (2.25%) LDAP
4 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.90%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) Classic ASP
5 1 (0.45%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.36%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.11%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.60%) Fat Client
4 8 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.60%) Thin Client
5 7 (3.15%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.80%) CCTV
8 4 (1.80%) PKI
9 3 (1.35%) EPoS
9 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) PMI
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.90%) SCADA
11 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Replication
11 1 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 222 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (22.52%) Linux
3 33 (14.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 32 (14.41%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (8.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (2.70%) Windows 8
9 5 (2.25%) Android
9 5 (2.25%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.80%) VMS
10 4 (1.80%) Windows Vista
11 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.90%) CentOS
12 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.93%) ITIL
2 53 (23.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (23.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (18.92%) Customer Service
4 42 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (8.11%) Capacity Planning
7 18 (8.11%) DevOps
8 17 (7.66%) Time Management
9 16 (7.21%) CI/CD
10 15 (6.76%) Incident Management
10 15 (6.76%) Information Security
11 14 (6.31%) Data Protection
11 14 (6.31%) Project Management
11 14 (6.31%) Server Management
12 13 (5.86%) Incident Response
12 13 (5.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (5.41%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.61%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.66%) Python
3 11 (4.95%) Delphi
4 8 (3.60%) SQL
5 6 (2.70%) Bash
6 3 (1.35%) Java
6 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
8 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (8.56%) Degree
2 15 (6.76%) CCNA
2 15 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (5.86%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.60%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.80%) MCSE
10 3 (1.35%) CISSP
10 3 (1.35%) MCSA
10 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.90%) GIAC
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) SLA
2 8 (3.60%) GDPR
3 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (47.75%) Active Directory
2 54 (24.32%) Hyper-V
3 36 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.70%) Terminal Services
6 5 (2.25%) Docker
7 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.35%) vSphere
8 2 (0.90%) 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 (12.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.25%) Terraform
3 5 (2.25%) WSUS
4 3 (1.35%) Grafana
4 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.35%) SCCM
5 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.90%) vRealize
6 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.45%) Nagios
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (65.32%) Microsoft
2 62 (27.93%) VMware
3 23 (10.36%) Cisco
4 21 (9.46%) Citrix
5 17 (7.66%) Veeam
6 10 (4.50%) Apple
7 7 (3.15%) Sophos
7 7 (3.15%) Ubiquiti
8 6 (2.70%) Avaya
8 6 (2.70%) Facebook
9 5 (2.25%) Databricks
9 5 (2.25%) Datto
9 5 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.25%) HP
9 5 (2.25%) Meraki
10 4 (1.80%) Dell
10 4 (1.80%) NetApp
10 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.80%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.35%) Juniper