Server Engineer Jobs in England

Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Server Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 765 753
Rank change year-on-year +107 -12 +238
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 33 78 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.091% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.096% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26 78 146
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,313 £35,000 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,227 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -12.67% -8.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £61,813
90th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £48,750 £43,227 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.78% -17.66% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +98 17 £58,750 -9.62% 8
South East +77 5 £46,000 +31.43% 6
Midlands +59 5 £40,000 -7.47% 2
North of England +48 5 £50,000 +18.34%
East Midlands +32 5 £40,000 -
North West +7 4 £65,000 +38.30%
Yorkshire +66 1 £35,000 +12.90%
East of England +42 1 £42,000 +20.43%
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Server Engineer 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 England region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (81.82%) Windows
2 24 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 23 (69.70%) Linux
4 21 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 21 (63.64%) Azure
5 20 (60.61%) VMware
6 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (42.42%) Degree
7 14 (42.42%) AWS
8 13 (39.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
10 11 (33.33%) Ansible
11 10 (30.30%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (27.27%) SLA
12 9 (27.27%) Cisco
12 9 (27.27%) Finance
12 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
13 8 (24.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (24.24%) Oracle
13 8 (24.24%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
14 7 (21.21%) Hyper-V
14 7 (21.21%) DHCP
14 7 (21.21%) DNS
14 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (21.21%) Replication
15 6 (18.18%) ITIL
15 6 (18.18%) Customer Service

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (15.15%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) GemFire
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
5 5 (15.15%) IaaS
5 5 (15.15%) Nutanix
5 5 (15.15%) PaaS
6 4 (12.12%) GCP
6 4 (12.12%) SaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) Google Workspace
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) DHCP
1 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) NAS
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.09%) iSCSI
4 3 (9.09%) VPN
5 2 (6.06%) Wireless
6 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (12.12%) InterSystems Cache
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.12%) Redis
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Front Office
3 3 (9.09%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
1 4 (12.12%) Middleware
1 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.12%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Replication
2 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
2 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.12%) Derivative
3 3 (9.09%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (9.09%) Equities
3 3 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 3 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.03%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Windows
2 24 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 23 (69.70%) Linux
4 8 (24.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (12.12%) CentOS
6 4 (12.12%) Rocky
6 4 (12.12%) Unix
6 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (9.09%) AIX
7 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.03%) Debian
8 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) Asset Management
5 5 (15.15%) Change Control
5 5 (15.15%) Microservices
5 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
6 4 (12.12%) OO
6 4 (12.12%) OOP
6 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.12%) Security Hardening
6 4 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (15.15%) MCSA
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) SLA
2 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (30.30%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (21.21%) Hyper-V
5 3 (9.09%) vSphere
6 1 (3.03%) Docker
6 1 (3.03%) Firmware
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (9.09%) SCCM
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (60.61%) VMware
3 9 (27.27%) Cisco
4 8 (24.24%) Oracle
5 5 (15.15%) Citrix
6 4 (12.12%) EMC
6 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
6 4 (12.12%) Solace
6 4 (12.12%) TIBCO
6 4 (12.12%) TOWER Software
7 3 (9.09%) Veeam
8 2 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (6.06%) Google
8 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.03%) F5
9 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.03%) Imperva
9 1 (3.03%) Juniper
9 1 (3.03%) Meraki