Server Engineer Jobs in England

Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Server Engineer salary in England is £43,227 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 768 970
Rank change year-on-year +38 +202 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 84 178 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.100% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 84 159 134
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,100 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £49,000 £53,300
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -8.07% +25.41%
75th Percentile £60,063 £62,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £102,500 £80,000 £91,125
UK median annual salary £43,227 £51,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +0.49% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 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
London +123 29 £65,000 +13.04% 3
South East -18 29 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Midlands 0 11 £43,227 -11.78%
North of England +27 6 £39,500 -1.25% 3
West Midlands +26 6 £43,227 -3.40%
South West -11 5 £37,500 +36.36% 2
East Midlands -23 5 £40,000 -23.81%
East of England +29 4 £36,250 -36.96%
Yorkshire +88 3 £31,000 +8.77%
North West 0 2 £39,500 -28.18% 1
North East -8 1 £50,000 +46.31% 2
Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 71 (84.52%) Windows
2 66 (78.57%) Windows Server
3 43 (51.19%) Microsoft
4 39 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (45.24%) Active Directory
6 36 (42.86%) AWS
7 35 (41.67%) Azure
8 32 (38.10%) VMware
9 30 (35.71%) PowerShell
10 24 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
11 22 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (25.00%) DevOps
13 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
13 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
13 20 (23.81%) SCCM
13 20 (23.81%) Linux
14 19 (22.62%) Customer Service
15 17 (20.24%) Data Centre
16 16 (19.05%) ITIL
16 16 (19.05%) Banking
17 15 (17.86%) Degree
17 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
17 15 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
18 14 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
18 14 (16.67%) Ansible
18 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (15.48%) Change Management
19 13 (15.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 13 (15.48%) Bash
19 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving

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 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 22 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.10%) GitHub
5 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.33%) OCI
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) DHCP
2 6 (7.14%) DNS
2 6 (7.14%) VSAN
3 5 (5.95%) SAN
4 4 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.57%) VLAN
5 3 (3.57%) VoIP
5 3 (3.57%) WAN
6 2 (2.38%) Internet
6 2 (2.38%) NAS
6 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.38%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (1.19%) MS Access
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
1 11 (13.10%) GitLab
General
1 16 (19.05%) Banking
2 12 (14.29%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.76%) Police
5 3 (3.57%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.33%) PKI
3 6 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 71 (84.52%) Windows
2 66 (78.57%) Windows Server
3 20 (23.81%) Linux
4 15 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (15.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (11.90%) Windows 10
7 10 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (3.57%) Windows XP
9 2 (2.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (25.00%) DevOps
3 19 (22.62%) Customer Service
4 16 (19.05%) ITIL
5 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 13 (15.48%) Change Management
6 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.10%) Asset Management
8 10 (11.90%) Line Management
9 9 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 8 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
11 7 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (7.14%) Data Protection
12 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
12 6 (7.14%) Patch Management
12 6 (7.14%) Project Management
12 6 (7.14%) Service Management
12 6 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 13 (15.48%) Bash
3 11 (13.10%) Korn
3 11 (13.10%) Perl
3 11 (13.10%) Python
3 11 (13.10%) Ruby
4 1 (1.19%) SQL
4 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) Degree
3 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) MCSA
5 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.14%) MCSE
6 5 (5.95%) CCNA
6 5 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.57%) CCNP
9 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.19%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (45.24%) Active Directory
2 24 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 12 (14.29%) vSphere
4 6 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.38%) Docker
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) SCCM
2 14 (16.67%) Ansible
3 11 (13.10%) Puppet
3 11 (13.10%) Red Hat Satellite
4 10 (11.90%) vCenter Server
5 9 (10.71%) WSUS
6 5 (5.95%) SCOM
7 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (3.57%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (51.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (38.10%) VMware
3 11 (13.10%) Red Hat
3 11 (13.10%) Sun
3 11 (13.10%) TOWER Software
4 8 (9.52%) Dell
5 7 (8.33%) HP
5 7 (8.33%) Oracle
6 6 (7.14%) Cisco
6 6 (7.14%) Sophos
7 4 (4.76%) Juniper
7 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.76%) Veeam
8 3 (3.57%) 3PAR
8 3 (3.57%) EMC
8 3 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.57%) Symantec
9 2 (2.38%) Citrix
10 1 (1.19%) Commvault