Server Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £32,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 721 854
Rank change year-on-year -2 +133 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Administrator 30 19 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.033% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.037% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 1 18 6
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £31,000 - £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £33,000 - £56,563
90th Percentile - £65,375 £60,000
UK median annual salary £32,000 £41,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.42% -13.16% +15.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 69,492 52,026 69,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49,104 29,723 42,553
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Server Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Server Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Administrator in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Server Administrator in the UK excluding London

Server Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
East of England - 21 - -
Midlands -4 6 £32,000 -17.42%
West Midlands +8 5 £32,000 -17.42%
Yorkshire +73 3 - -
North of England +29 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Server Administrator
UK

Server Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Server Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Server Administrator in the job title.

1 26 (86.67%) Windows
1 26 (86.67%) Active Directory
1 26 (86.67%) Windows Server
2 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (83.33%) Linux
2 25 (83.33%) VMware
2 25 (83.33%) SAN
2 25 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 21 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 21 (70.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 21 (70.00%) Data Centre
3 21 (70.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 21 (70.00%) NetApp
3 21 (70.00%) Benchmarking
3 21 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 21 (70.00%) Citrix
3 21 (70.00%) Server Management
3 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (70.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 21 (70.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 5 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (16.67%) LAN
4 5 (16.67%) WAN
4 5 (16.67%) DHCP
4 5 (16.67%) DNS
5 4 (13.33%) Dell
5 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (13.33%) PKI

Server Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 25 (83.33%) SAN
2 5 (16.67%) DHCP
2 5 (16.67%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) LAN
2 5 (16.67%) WAN
3 4 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 21 (70.00%) Data Centre
1 21 (70.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Windows
1 26 (86.67%) Windows Server
2 25 (83.33%) Linux
3 4 (13.33%) CentOS
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Benchmarking
1 21 (70.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 21 (70.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 21 (70.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 21 (70.00%) Server Management
1 21 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 4 (13.33%) Change Control
3 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Load Balancing
3 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
3 4 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (70.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 26 (86.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (13.33%) VMware Server
3 4 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 25 (83.33%) VMware
2 21 (70.00%) Citrix
2 21 (70.00%) NetApp
3 4 (13.33%) Dell