Server Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 719 611
Rank change year-on-year +161 -108 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 24 52 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.072% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.076% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 52 112
10th Percentile - - £25,125
25th Percentile £37,170 £32,500 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -8.13% -2.44%
75th Percentile £46,500 £43,670 £55,000
90th Percentile £48,000 £58,975 £67,500
UK median annual salary £48,750 £43,227 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.78% -17.66% -

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Server Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Wales - 8 £38,094 -
South East +69 5 £46,000 +31.43% 7
Midlands +52 5 £40,000 -7.47% 2
East Midlands +29 5 £40,000 -
North of England +49 4 £65,000 +73.33%
North West +1 4 £65,000 +38.30%
East of England +39 1 £42,000 +20.43% 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (79.17%) Windows
1 19 (79.17%) Windows Server
2 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (66.67%) Azure
3 15 (62.50%) DNS
4 14 (58.33%) Linux
4 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
5 13 (54.17%) Finance
6 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (45.83%) Performance Monitoring
8 10 (41.67%) SLA
9 9 (37.50%) ITIL
9 9 (37.50%) Service Management
10 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
10 8 (33.33%) MCSE
10 8 (33.33%) MCSA
10 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (33.33%) IaaS
10 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (33.33%) IoT
10 8 (33.33%) DBS Check
10 8 (33.33%) SaaS
10 8 (33.33%) PaaS
10 8 (33.33%) Welsh Language
10 8 (33.33%) Problem Management
10 8 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
10 8 (33.33%) Social Skills

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) GemFire
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) IaaS
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (33.33%) PaaS
2 8 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) DNS
2 7 (29.17%) DHCP
3 5 (20.83%) Firewall
4 3 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 3 (12.50%) NAS
4 3 (12.50%) SAN
4 3 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (16.67%) InterSystems Cache
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (16.67%) Redis
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) DB2
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Welsh Language
3 3 (12.50%) Front Office
3 3 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) IoT
2 5 (20.83%) Data Structures
3 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (16.67%) Derivative
4 3 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Equities
4 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (12.50%) Replication
5 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) PKI
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
1 19 (79.17%) Windows Server
2 14 (58.33%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
4 4 (16.67%) CentOS
4 4 (16.67%) Rocky
4 4 (16.67%) Unix
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Debian
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (45.83%) Performance Monitoring
3 9 (37.50%) ITIL
3 9 (37.50%) Service Management
4 8 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (33.33%) Data Collection
4 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 8 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
4 8 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 8 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 8 (33.33%) Server Migrations
5 5 (20.83%) Low Latency
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Multithreading
5 5 (20.83%) OO
5 5 (20.83%) OOP
6 4 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
6 4 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Scala
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 8 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 8 (33.33%) MCSA
1 8 (33.33%) MCSE
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (29.17%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) SLA
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) Docker
5 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Solace
3 4 (16.67%) TIBCO
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) Veeam
5 2 (8.33%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Imperva
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Sybase