Server Building Job Trends in England

Server Building
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Server Building 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 598 594 589
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +338
Permanent jobs citing Server Building 14 86 71
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.027% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 51 57
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,188 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £50,938 £60,000 £75,500
90th Percentile £58,625 £68,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £57,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.44% -18.57% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Server Building 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Server Building
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Server Building relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Server Building job vacancy trend in England

Server Building
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Building

Server Building
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Building in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Building in England

Server Building
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Building within the England 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
South West +11 6 £42,500 -25.44%
West Midlands +33 4 £28,500 -24.00%
Midlands +30 4 £28,500 -24.00%
East of England +23 2 £57,500 +9.52%
South East -22 2 - - 3
Server Building
UK

Server Building
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (42.86%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) DHCP
3 8 (57.14%) Firewall
4 7 (50.00%) VLAN
4 7 (50.00%) VPN
5 6 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (42.86%) IPsec
5 6 (42.86%) VoIP
5 6 (42.86%) Wireless
6 3 (21.43%) RFID
7 2 (14.29%) SAN
8 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) LabVIEW
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Robot Framework
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 8 (57.14%) Manufacturing
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Electronics
3 5 (35.71%) Marketing
3 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) IT Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) IT Support
2 7 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 7 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Senior IT Support
3 6 (42.86%) Senior Support Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 5 (35.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (21.43%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (42.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (64.29%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 7 (50.00%) Server Management
4 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (42.86%) Coaching
4 6 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 6 (42.86%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
6 3 (21.43%) ERP
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) ACMT
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (21.43%) HNC
2 3 (21.43%) MCP
2 3 (21.43%) MCSA
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
2 8 (57.14%) Docker
3 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (42.86%) Autotask
2 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Nessus
3 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (71.43%) Veeam
2 10 (71.43%) VMware
3 9 (64.29%) Cisco
4 6 (42.86%) Apple
4 6 (42.86%) Datto
4 6 (42.86%) Oracle
4 6 (42.86%) SAP
4 6 (42.86%) Sophos
5 2 (14.29%) HP