Server Management Job Trends in the East Midlands

Server Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Server Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 93 110
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +41
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 26 37 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.03% 1.61% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.83% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 10
10th Percentile - - £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -17.48%
75th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 - £58,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Server Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,026 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.93% 88.09% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 860 1,110
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,708 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,188 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,688
90th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,550
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Server Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Server Management
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Server Management

Server Management
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the East Midlands

Server Management
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +14 9 £32,500 -35.00% 1
Nottinghamshire -8 9 - - 1
Derbyshire - 6 - - 2
Leicestershire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 9 (34.62%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 10 (38.46%) GCP
4 9 (34.62%) AWS
4 9 (34.62%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Skype
2 6 (23.08%) DHCP
2 6 (23.08%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) Internet
2 6 (23.08%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) DTS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Manufacturing
2 9 (34.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Support
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Field Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Field Service Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) IT Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Senior
3 1 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) CMDB
1 9 (34.62%) Onboarding
1 9 (34.62%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (23.08%) iPad
2 6 (23.08%) PMI
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Windows
1 15 (57.69%) Windows Server
2 9 (34.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Customer Service
2 9 (34.62%) Change Control
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Management
2 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
2 9 (34.62%) Problem Management
2 9 (34.62%) Project Delivery
2 9 (34.62%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (23.08%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (3.85%) Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Information Management
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (3.85%) Log Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) Network Management
4 1 (3.85%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) CCA
1 9 (34.62%) CCNA
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (34.62%) Citrix Certification
1 9 (34.62%) MCP
1 9 (34.62%) MCSA
1 9 (34.62%) MCSE
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (34.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Nagios
1 9 (34.62%) ZABBIX
2 6 (23.08%) WSUS
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) VMware
2 20 (76.92%) Microsoft
3 18 (69.23%) Citrix
4 9 (34.62%) BMC
4 9 (34.62%) Cisco
4 9 (34.62%) Darktrace
4 9 (34.62%) Google
4 9 (34.62%) Proofpoint
4 9 (34.62%) Red Hat
4 9 (34.62%) SolarWinds
4 9 (34.62%) Tanium
4 9 (34.62%) Trend Micro
5 6 (23.08%) Apple