Senior Server Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Senior Server Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Server Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 - 357
Rank change year-on-year - - -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Server Engineer 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.037% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% - 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £51,250 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 - £59,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.60%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,461 7,768 13,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.63% 89.46% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,934 4,342 9,663
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Server Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Server Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Server Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Hampshire - 6 £55,000 - 2
Senior Server Engineer
England

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 July 2026, Senior Server Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Server Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Logistics
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Logistics
1 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft