Server Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Server Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Server Engineer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 300 299
Rank change year-on-year +54 -1 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 5 11 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.071% 0.094% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.100% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 25
10th Percentile - £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile - £40,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,227 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% -11.78% +30.67%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £45,250 £60,000 £84,800
England median annual salary £50,000 £44,114 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.34% -7.13% -9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,427 11,047 8,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 94.29% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 8,256 4,765
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Server Engineer in the Midlands

Server Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
East Midlands +40 5 £40,000 - 1
Server Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Midlands region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Rocky
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
2 4 (80.00%) Rocky
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Imperva
2 1 (20.00%) VMware