Server Engineer Jobs

Server Engineer
UK

The median Server Engineer salary in the UK is £48,256 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 780 746 1074
Rank change year-on-year -34 +328 -321
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 62 141 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 59 133 171
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £31,985 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,256 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% -12.50% +41.18%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £88,125
90th Percentile £67,750 £76,400 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.07% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer.

Salary trend for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in the UK

Server Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -35 62 £48,256 -8.08% 13
UK excluding London -91 42 £43,227 +8.07% 13
London +64 20 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Work from Home +24 20 £43,227 -17.66% 8
South East -11 20 £55,000 +37.50% 5
Midlands -30 9 £43,227 -14.82%
North of England -14 6 £39,250 -1.88% 2
East Midlands -32 5 £40,000 -13.51%
South West -8 4 £42,500 +35.14% 4
West Midlands -8 4 £43,227 -22.11%
North West -18 4 £44,378 -19.31% 1
East of England -7 3 £32,500 -48.00% 1
Yorkshire +51 1 £30,000 -11.11% 1
North East -17 1 £37,500 -37.50%

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (67.74%) Windows
2 39 (62.90%) Windows Server
3 37 (59.68%) Azure
4 33 (53.23%) VMware
5 27 (43.55%) Active Directory
5 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (38.71%) Microsoft
7 22 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (30.65%) PowerShell
9 18 (29.03%) AWS
9 18 (29.03%) SCCM
10 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
10 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
10 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (24.19%) ITIL
12 14 (22.58%) vSphere
12 14 (22.58%) Data Centre
12 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
13 13 (20.97%) Change Management
14 12 (19.35%) Dell
14 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (19.35%) Customer Service
15 11 (17.74%) vCenter Server
15 11 (17.74%) Linux
16 10 (16.13%) DHCP
16 10 (16.13%) DNS
16 10 (16.13%) SCOM
16 10 (16.13%) Line Management
16 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (12.90%) OCI
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.23%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 2 (3.23%) Serverless
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.61%) Datadog
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) DHCP
1 10 (16.13%) DNS
2 8 (12.90%) Firewall
2 8 (12.90%) SAN
3 6 (9.68%) VSAN
4 3 (4.84%) NAS
4 3 (4.84%) Wireless
5 2 (3.23%) DMZ
5 2 (3.23%) Internet
5 2 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.23%) VPN
6 1 (1.61%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.61%) VLAN
6 1 (1.61%) VoIP
6 1 (1.61%) WAN
6 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) DTS
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Banking
2 5 (8.06%) Police
3 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.61%) Advertising
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Legal
4 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.29%) PKI
3 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Clustering
4 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.61%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.61%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.61%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (67.74%) Windows
2 39 (62.90%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (19.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (17.74%) Linux
6 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (8.06%) Windows 10
8 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.84%) Windows XP
9 2 (3.23%) Debian
10 1 (1.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (24.19%) ITIL
3 13 (20.97%) Change Management
4 12 (19.35%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.13%) Line Management
6 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.29%) Converged Infrastructure
7 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (11.29%) Patch Management
7 7 (11.29%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (9.68%) Antivirus Management
8 6 (9.68%) Incident Management
8 6 (9.68%) Tech Ops
8 6 (9.68%) Time Management
9 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.06%) DevOps
9 5 (8.06%) Project Management
9 5 (8.06%) Server Management
10 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 4 (6.45%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.06%) SQL
3 2 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) C
4 1 (1.61%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
1 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.06%) CCNA
5 5 (8.06%) CCNP
5 5 (8.06%) MCSA
6 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.61%) MCSE
8 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (43.55%) Active Directory
2 22 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (22.58%) vSphere
4 9 (14.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.23%) Docker
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) SCCM
2 11 (17.74%) vCenter Server
3 10 (16.13%) SCOM
4 9 (14.52%) WSUS
5 3 (4.84%) Ansible
5 3 (4.84%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.84%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.23%) Grafana
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.23%) Nagios
6 2 (3.23%) Opsview
7 1 (1.61%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) VMware
2 24 (38.71%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.35%) Dell
4 9 (14.52%) Cisco
5 8 (12.90%) Oracle
6 7 (11.29%) HP
7 6 (9.68%) Sophos
8 5 (8.06%) Juniper
8 5 (8.06%) NetApp
9 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
9 4 (6.45%) Veeam
10 3 (4.84%) 3PAR
10 3 (4.84%) EMC
10 3 (4.84%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
10 3 (4.84%) Symantec
11 2 (3.23%) Commvault
11 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.23%) SonicWALL
12 1 (1.61%) Draytek