Server Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Server Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Server Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 465 509
Rank change year-on-year +9 +44 +124
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 115 332 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.55% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 99 267 131
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,375 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,720 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £61,875 £59,000 £54,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £66,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -3.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the UK excluding London

Server Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +78 41 £57,500 -2.54% 11
North of England -24 27 £40,000 -8.05% 11
Midlands +16 25 £40,000 -20.00% 7
North West -32 17 £42,500 -13.71% 7
West Midlands +33 13 £45,147 -19.74% 4
East Midlands +27 12 £35,000 -9.68% 3
South West +85 9 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Yorkshire +41 8 £24,000 -43.53% 3
East of England -13 8 £58,500 +46.25% 11
Scotland +117 2 £37,500 -29.25% 7
Wales +46 2 £56,250 +25.00% 2
North East +37 2 £28,000 -33.73% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Server Management
UK

Server Management
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 20 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (13.91%) SharePoint
3 13 (11.30%) CMS
4 10 (8.70%) WordPress
5 3 (2.61%) IIS
6 2 (1.74%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.74%) Confluence
7 1 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Shopify
2 3 (2.61%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 59 (51.30%) Azure
2 38 (33.04%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (26.96%) AWS
4 25 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub
6 11 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.70%) Slack
7 10 (8.70%) Zapier
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.48%) GCP
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.61%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.61%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (41.74%) Firewall
2 14 (12.17%) VPN
3 13 (11.30%) DNS
4 12 (10.43%) DHCP
5 11 (9.57%) VLAN
6 10 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (7.83%) LAN
7 9 (7.83%) WAN
8 8 (6.96%) IP Telephony
8 8 (6.96%) SAN
9 7 (6.09%) MPLS
9 7 (6.09%) TCP/IP
10 6 (5.22%) Network Security
11 5 (4.35%) BGP
11 5 (4.35%) NAS
11 5 (4.35%) OSPF
11 5 (4.35%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.48%) SSL
13 3 (2.61%) DMZ
13 3 (2.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.78%) MySQL
2 10 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (2.61%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.87%) Grunt
4 1 (0.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) Maven
4 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
4 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.61%) Automotive
5 3 (2.61%) Games
5 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.87%) Finance
6 1 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (0.87%) Local Government
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing
6 1 (0.87%) Police
6 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (11.30%) Developer
2 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (11.30%) Technical Support
3 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Manager
4 11 (9.57%) 1st Line Support
5 8 (6.96%) IT Engineer
5 8 (6.96%) IT Support
6 7 (6.09%) Analyst
6 7 (6.09%) Support Technician
7 6 (5.22%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 6 (5.22%) Lead
7 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (5.22%) Technical Support Analyst
8 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.35%) Senior
9 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.43%) HTML
2 11 (9.57%) CSS
2 11 (9.57%) Laravel
3 3 (2.61%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.61%) Web Services
4 2 (1.74%) .NET
4 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.74%) jQuery
5 1 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.87%) LDAP
5 1 (0.87%) Middleware
5 1 (0.87%) REST
5 1 (0.87%) SAML
5 1 (0.87%) Sass
5 1 (0.87%) SOAP
5 1 (0.87%) Symfony
5 1 (0.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.87%) Vue
5 1 (0.87%) XML
5 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 13 (11.30%) Onboarding
3 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.48%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 3 (2.61%) Social Media
7 2 (1.74%) Clustering
7 2 (1.74%) PKI
8 1 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.87%) CCTV
8 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 68 (59.13%) Windows
2 35 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 27 (23.48%) Linux
4 19 (16.52%) Mac OS
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.61%) CentOS
8 3 (2.61%) VMS
9 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.74%) Solaris
9 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.87%) Debian
10 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.26%) Customer Service
2 21 (18.26%) DevOps
3 19 (16.52%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure Management
5 15 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (13.04%) ITIL
6 14 (12.17%) Business Continuity
7 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (11.30%) Project Management
7 13 (11.30%) User Experience
8 12 (10.43%) Content Management
8 12 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.57%) SEO
9 11 (9.57%) Web Development
10 10 (8.70%) Computer Science
10 10 (8.70%) Front End Development
10 10 (8.70%) Responsive Web Design
10 10 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.74%) PowerShell
1 25 (21.74%) Python
2 13 (11.30%) Java
3 11 (9.57%) PHP
4 7 (6.09%) SQL
5 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.61%) Groovy
7 3 (2.61%) Perl
7 3 (2.61%) Ruby
8 2 (1.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) C
9 1 (0.87%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (19.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (13.04%) Degree
3 10 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.09%) CCNA
4 7 (6.09%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.22%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.48%) MCSA
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.61%) MCP
7 3 (2.61%) MCSE
7 3 (2.61%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CEH
8 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (5.22%) GDPR
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.87%) NCSC
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (40.87%) Active Directory
2 27 (23.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (22.61%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.57%) Docker
5 9 (7.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (6.09%) Terminal Services
7 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.74%) Firmware
8 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.87%) LXC
9 1 (0.87%) NFS
9 1 (0.87%) Samba
9 1 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (11.30%) Terraform
3 12 (10.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.96%) Ansible
5 5 (4.35%) Nessus
6 4 (3.48%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.48%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.61%) Iperf
7 3 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.61%) Nagios
7 3 (2.61%) Puppet
8 2 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.74%) Grafana
8 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.87%) cPanel
9 1 (0.87%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.87%) QRadar
9 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (54.78%) Microsoft
2 33 (28.70%) VMware
3 20 (17.39%) Cisco
4 10 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 10 (8.70%) Rackspace
4 10 (8.70%) WooCommerce
5 8 (6.96%) Citrix
5 8 (6.96%) Dell
6 7 (6.09%) Apple
7 6 (5.22%) Meraki
7 6 (5.22%) SonicWALL
7 6 (5.22%) Veeam
8 3 (2.61%) Acronis
8 3 (2.61%) Isilon
8 3 (2.61%) Juniper
8 3 (2.61%) Kaseya
8 3 (2.61%) Oracle
8 3 (2.61%) Sage
8 3 (2.61%) Sophos
8 3 (2.61%) WatchGuard