Windows Server Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 79 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 604 687 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.42% 4.07% 4.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.92% 29.23% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 521 531 786
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +11.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £56,300
England median annual salary £41,206 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +5.88% -

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,244 2,350 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.69% 13.92% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 1,487 2,455
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £29,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £71,652 £68,750
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Server in the North of England

Windows Server
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire +62 279 £37,500 - 60
North West -44 218 £43,500 -3.33% 57
North East +25 107 £35,000 -22.22% 11
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 147 (24.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (11.26%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.15%) IIS
4 4 (0.66%) CMS
4 4 (0.66%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 77 (12.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 362 (59.93%) Microsoft 365
2 286 (47.35%) Azure
3 116 (19.21%) Entra ID
4 77 (12.75%) AWS
5 62 (10.26%) OneDrive
6 19 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.32%) SaaS
8 13 (2.15%) GCP
9 10 (1.66%) GitHub
10 9 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.32%) IaaS
12 6 (0.99%) PaaS
12 6 (0.99%) Serverless
13 5 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.83%) DigitalOcean
13 5 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 178 (29.47%) Firewall
2 136 (22.52%) DNS
3 120 (19.87%) DHCP
4 90 (14.90%) LAN
5 88 (14.57%) WAN
6 63 (10.43%) VPN
7 56 (9.27%) SAN
8 53 (8.77%) TCP/IP
9 50 (8.28%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (7.12%) VLAN
11 40 (6.62%) NAS
11 40 (6.62%) VoIP
12 33 (5.46%) Wireless
13 21 (3.48%) WLAN
14 19 (3.15%) Remote Desktop
15 16 (2.65%) Internet
16 14 (2.32%) Network Security
17 10 (1.66%) SSL
18 9 (1.49%) Multicast
19 6 (0.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (2.15%) Power BI
4 11 (1.82%) DB2
5 8 (1.32%) MySQL
6 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Redis
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Eclipse
1 6 (0.99%) Git
2 5 (0.83%) JIRA
3 4 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.50%) GitLab
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 50 (8.28%) Law
3 49 (8.11%) Finance
4 47 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.47%) Retail
6 26 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 23 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.65%) Legal
9 16 (2.65%) Marketing
10 15 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.49%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.32%) Games
14 7 (1.16%) Military
15 5 (0.83%) Automotive
16 4 (0.66%) Advertising
16 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.66%) Agriculture
16 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (20.70%) IT Support
2 106 (17.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 97 (16.06%) Support Engineer
4 86 (14.24%) IT Engineer
5 66 (10.93%) IT Technician
6 57 (9.44%) Analyst
7 48 (7.95%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 47 (7.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 46 (7.62%) Lead
9 46 (7.62%) Senior
10 40 (6.62%) Support Technician
11 36 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (5.63%) IT Support Technician
13 32 (5.30%) Administrator
14 31 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support
15 30 (4.97%) Team Leader
16 29 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
17 25 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support
17 25 (4.14%) Technical Support
18 21 (3.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.49%) .NET
2 6 (0.99%) AWS CDK
3 5 (0.83%) LDAP
4 4 (0.66%) JSON
5 3 (0.50%) HTML
5 3 (0.50%) Middleware
5 3 (0.50%) REST
6 2 (0.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.33%) EDI
6 2 (0.33%) Node.js
7 1 (0.17%) Classic ASP
7 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 44 (7.28%) Driving Licence
3 33 (5.46%) Data Centre
4 18 (2.98%) Replication
4 18 (2.98%) SCADA
5 17 (2.81%) Clustering
6 16 (2.65%) Operational Technology
7 10 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (1.66%) Fat Client
7 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.66%) Thin Client
8 9 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.16%) Cyberattack
11 6 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.66%) Life Science
12 4 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 604 (100.00%) Windows
2 95 (15.73%) Linux
3 91 (15.07%) Windows 10
4 86 (14.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 82 (13.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 67 (11.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (4.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 21 (3.48%) Android
9 18 (2.98%) Apple iOS
10 17 (2.81%) Mac OS
10 17 (2.81%) Windows 7
11 13 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (2.15%) Windows 8
12 7 (1.16%) VMS
13 4 (0.66%) CentOS
13 4 (0.66%) Unix
13 4 (0.66%) Windows Vista
14 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (26.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 132 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (20.70%) ITIL
4 116 (19.21%) Customer Service
5 69 (11.42%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 56 (9.27%) Migration
8 48 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (7.78%) Mentoring
10 39 (6.46%) Time Management
11 31 (5.13%) DevOps
12 30 (4.97%) Customer Experience
13 27 (4.47%) Roadmaps
13 27 (4.47%) Server Management
14 26 (4.30%) User Experience
15 25 (4.14%) Service Management
16 24 (3.97%) Energy Management
16 24 (3.97%) High Availability
16 24 (3.97%) Kalman Filter
16 24 (3.97%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.40%) PowerShell
2 60 (9.93%) SQL
3 27 (4.47%) Python
4 18 (2.98%) VBScript
5 12 (1.99%) Bash
6 11 (1.82%) Delphi
7 5 (0.83%) Java
8 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.66%) VBA
9 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.50%) VB
10 2 (0.33%) C#
10 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (12.09%) Degree
2 54 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (3.81%) MCSE
4 22 (3.64%) CCNA
5 21 (3.48%) MCSA
6 13 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.66%) Security Cleared
9 8 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.32%) MCP
10 7 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.16%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.66%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) HNC
12 3 (0.50%) HND
12 3 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.93%) SLA
2 17 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.66%) NIST
5 8 (1.32%) GDPR
6 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 359 (59.44%) Active Directory
2 187 (30.96%) Hyper-V
3 134 (22.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (3.48%) vSphere
6 20 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.82%) Terminal Services
7 11 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.66%) Docker
9 4 (0.66%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.33%) Firmware
12 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.17%) Postfix
12 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 97 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (7.12%) SCCM
3 23 (3.81%) SCOM
4 21 (3.48%) vCenter Server
4 21 (3.48%) WSUS
5 14 (2.32%) Failover Clustering
6 11 (1.82%) FortiGate
7 10 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.49%) Autotask
9 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 8 (1.32%) Terraform
10 7 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.16%) Ansible
10 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.83%) Nagios
13 4 (0.66%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.33%) Grafana
14 2 (0.33%) Kubernetes
14 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 340 (56.29%) Microsoft
2 248 (41.06%) VMware
3 61 (10.10%) Citrix
4 56 (9.27%) Cisco
5 46 (7.62%) Veeam
6 22 (3.64%) Apple
7 17 (2.81%) IBM
8 16 (2.65%) Datto
9 15 (2.48%) SolarWinds
10 13 (2.15%) Aruba
11 12 (1.99%) Dell
11 12 (1.99%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.99%) SAP
11 12 (1.99%) Sophos
12 11 (1.82%) Meraki
13 10 (1.66%) Kaseya
13 10 (1.66%) Ubiquiti
14 8 (1.32%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.32%) Google
14 8 (1.32%) NetApp