Server Management Job Trends in Scotland

Server Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Server Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 141 191
Rank change year-on-year +12 +50 -11
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 4 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 0.30% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.32% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £30,800 £43,001
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £43,334
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £45,240
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -28.16% +29.26%
75th Percentile £38,750 £34,688 £46,795
90th Percentile - £39,750 £46,918
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Server Management 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,211 2,491 2,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.90% 92.12% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 1,068 1,751
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,425 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,375 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Server Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Server Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Server Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Server Management

Server Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 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
Edinburgh - 3 - - 1
Glasgow +9 1 £37,500 +15.38% 4
Server Management
UK

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) IT Technician
2 2 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 2 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
2 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Support
2 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Technician
2 2 (50.00%) Support Technician
3 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Technician
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware