Senior Server Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Server Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,794 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 572 536
Rank change year-on-year +62 -36 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Server Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.008% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.008% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £42,101 £38,913 £36,724
25th Percentile £44,502 £40,282 £38,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,794 £43,128 £43,121
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +0.02% -0.38%
75th Percentile £58,542 £46,538 £52,188
90th Percentile £59,417 £48,246 £55,000
UK median annual salary £52,794 £43,128 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.41% -21.59% -33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 37,176 37,275 27,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 93.78% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,452 19,197 20,612
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,119 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

Senior Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Senior Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Server Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Wales - 2 £56,397 -
South West - 1 £42,500 - 1
Senior Server Engineer
UK

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi

Senior Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft