Server Management Job Trends in the South East

Server Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Server Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 257 301
Rank change year-on-year -37 +44 -14
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 34 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.52% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 39 34
10th Percentile £28,750 - £33,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £44,720 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -14.82% +12.30%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £58,625
90th Percentile - £68,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +3.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,152 7,753 11,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.52% 88.09% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,674 4,168 7,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,375 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Server Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Server Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Server Management

Server Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the South East

Server Management
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 Server Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Thames Valley +1 16 £67,500 +80.00% 4
Berkshire +24 12 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Kent - 8 £45,000 - 3
Sussex - 7 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 4 £40,000 - 2
West Sussex -30 3 £30,000 -50.00% 1
Server Management
England

Server Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.59%) Skype for Business
3 2 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Nutanix
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 27 (79.41%) Firewall
2 18 (52.94%) DNS
3 8 (23.53%) VLAN
4 7 (20.59%) Cisco Wireless
4 7 (20.59%) LAN
4 7 (20.59%) Network Security
4 7 (20.59%) Skype
4 7 (20.59%) WAN
4 7 (20.59%) Wireless
5 6 (17.65%) DHCP
6 3 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (5.88%) NAS
7 2 (5.88%) SAN
8 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Applications Architect
1 12 (35.29%) Architect
1 12 (35.29%) Security Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Network Support
2 7 (20.59%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Support
4 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) IT Technician
5 3 (8.82%) Support Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) LDAP
1 12 (35.29%) Regular Expression
1 12 (35.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (91.18%) Windows
2 24 (70.59%) Windows Server
3 16 (47.06%) Linux
4 12 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (20.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) Rocky
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) SIEM
2 12 (35.29%) Antivirus Management
2 12 (35.29%) Application Security
2 12 (35.29%) Architectural Design
2 12 (35.29%) Pattern Matching
2 12 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (35.29%) Resource Management
2 12 (35.29%) Validation
3 10 (29.41%) ERP
3 10 (29.41%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Coaching
5 5 (14.71%) Storage Management
6 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
7 3 (8.82%) Business Strategy
7 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (8.82%) Digital Innovation
7 3 (8.82%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (8.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Ruby
2 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) DV Cleared
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 12 (35.29%) vSphere
3 10 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 25 (73.53%) VMware
3 12 (35.29%) McAfee
3 12 (35.29%) Red Hat
4 10 (29.41%) HP
5 9 (26.47%) Cisco
6 4 (11.76%) Dell
7 3 (8.82%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (8.82%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (8.82%) Veeam
8 2 (5.88%) Commvault
8 2 (5.88%) Meraki
8 2 (5.88%) Zerto
9 1 (2.94%) Google