Server Engineer Jobs in London

Server Engineer
England > London

The median Server Engineer salary in London is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 480 587
Rank change year-on-year +96 +107 +223
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 17 25 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 43
10th Percentile - £56,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £56,750 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +13.04% -30.30%
75th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £81,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £43,227 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.67% -9.00% -12.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in London

Server Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +26 4 £50,000 -13.79%
South London - 1 £60,000 -
Server Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (88.24%) VMware
3 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
4 12 (70.59%) Azure
4 12 (70.59%) AWS
4 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (58.82%) Linux
6 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (47.06%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (41.18%) SLA
8 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (35.29%) Ansible
9 6 (35.29%) DevOps
9 6 (35.29%) Cisco
9 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
9 6 (35.29%) Degree
10 5 (29.41%) Asset Management
10 5 (29.41%) Finance
10 5 (29.41%) Citrix
10 5 (29.41%) MCSA
10 5 (29.41%) ITIL
10 5 (29.41%) Change Control
10 5 (29.41%) PaaS
10 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (29.41%) IaaS
10 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
10 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Remediation

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (29.41%) IaaS
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (29.41%) PaaS
4 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) Nutanix
4 4 (23.53%) SaaS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) Wireless
3 1 (5.88%) NAS
3 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
3 10 (58.82%) Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (17.65%) AIX
5 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Asset Management
4 5 (29.41%) Change Control
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
6 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Time Management
7 2 (11.76%) Antivirus Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Degree
3 5 (29.41%) MCSA
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCNP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) vSphere
5 1 (5.88%) Docker
5 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
1 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Citrix
4 4 (23.53%) EMC
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
4 4 (23.53%) TOWER Software
5 2 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp
6 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds