Server Specialist Jobs

Server Specialist
UK

The median Server Specialist salary in the UK is £47,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 985 1213
Rank change year-on-year +116 +228 -317
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Specialist 16 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.001% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.001% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 9
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile £38,500 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £62,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% +37.78% -40.00%
75th Percentile £55,750 - £50,296
90th Percentile £66,950 - £51,737
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £62,000 £47,501
% change year-on-year -35.48% +30.52% +26.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,044 95,188 149,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,821 59,863 85,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Server Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Server Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Specialist.

Salary trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Specialist over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +122 12 £40,000 -35.48%
UK excluding London +13 8 £40,000 -35.48%
South East - 7 £40,000 -
Work from Home - 4 £54,500 -
London - 4 £72,750 -
Yorkshire - 1 £54,500 -
North of England - 1 £54,500 -

Server Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Server Specialist 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 featuring Server Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (75.00%) Customer Service
3 8 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (43.75%) DBS Check
4 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 7 (43.75%) Unix
4 7 (43.75%) Finance
5 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Replication
5 6 (37.50%) SAN
5 6 (37.50%) Dell
5 6 (37.50%) Veeam
5 6 (37.50%) High Availability
6 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (31.25%) NAS
6 5 (31.25%) Time Management
6 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
6 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
6 5 (31.25%) NetApp
6 5 (31.25%) Change Management
6 5 (31.25%) Migration
6 5 (31.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (31.25%) Storage Management
6 5 (31.25%) Availability Management
6 5 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft

Server Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Replication
2 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Unix
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (75.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) High Availability
5 5 (31.25%) Availability Management
5 5 (31.25%) Change Management
5 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
5 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (31.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 5 (31.25%) Storage Management
5 5 (31.25%) Time Management
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITSM
6 2 (12.50%) Threat Management
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (6.25%) Break/Fix
7 1 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) Firmware
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Nessus
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) HP SIM
2 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOrch
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Dell
2 6 (37.50%) Veeam
3 5 (31.25%) NetApp
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) Qualys
6 1 (6.25%) 3PAR
6 1 (6.25%) Brocade
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) Commvault
6 1 (6.25%) HP
6 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds