Server Engineer
UK

The median Server Engineer salary in the UK is £44,114 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 830 802 1053
Rank change year-on-year -28 +251 -354
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 80 179 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 80 160 152
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,175 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,875 £34,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,114 £49,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60,063 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £71,375 £103,975
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +18 80 £44,114 -1.97% 8
UK excluding London -87 53 £37,500 -6.25% 7
Work from Home +43 33 £43,227 -13.55% 5
South East -1 28 £35,000 -12.50% 2
London +107 27 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Midlands -2 11 £43,227 -10.41%
North of England +27 7 £47,000 +17.50% 2
West Midlands +17 6 £43,227 +2.92%
East Midlands -21 5 £40,000 -23.81%
South West -39 5 £37,500 +19.24% 2
Yorkshire +85 3 £31,000 +8.77%
North West +4 3 £47,000 -14.55% 1
East of England +10 2 £34,875 -39.35%
North East -10 1 £50,000 +46.31% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 67 (83.75%) Windows
2 64 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 39 (48.75%) Microsoft
4 37 (46.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (43.75%) Active Directory
5 35 (43.75%) AWS
6 34 (42.50%) Azure
7 30 (37.50%) VMware
8 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
9 24 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 20 (25.00%) SCCM
10 20 (25.00%) SC Cleared
11 19 (23.75%) Customer Service
11 19 (23.75%) DevOps
12 18 (22.50%) Data Centre
12 18 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (22.50%) Linux
13 16 (20.00%) ITIL
13 16 (20.00%) Degree
14 15 (18.75%) Banking
14 15 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
15 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (16.25%) Windows Server 2019
16 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
16 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
16 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (16.25%) Change Management
17 12 (15.00%) vSphere
17 12 (15.00%) Ansible

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 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.75%) AWS
2 34 (42.50%) Azure
3 18 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.25%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.25%) GitHub
5 8 (10.00%) OCI
6 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.25%) GCP
9 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Firewall
2 6 (7.50%) VSAN
3 5 (6.25%) DHCP
3 5 (6.25%) DNS
3 5 (6.25%) SAN
4 3 (3.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.75%) VoIP
4 3 (3.75%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) Internet
5 2 (2.50%) NAS
5 2 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.25%) DMZ
6 1 (1.25%) VLAN
6 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) MS Access
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
1 9 (11.25%) GitLab
General
1 15 (18.75%) Banking
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Finance
4 9 (11.25%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.00%) Police
6 3 (3.75%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) PKI
3 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 67 (83.75%) Windows
2 64 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (22.50%) Linux
4 15 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (16.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (13.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (7.50%) Windows 10
9 3 (3.75%) Windows XP
10 2 (2.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (23.75%) Customer Service
2 19 (23.75%) DevOps
3 16 (20.00%) ITIL
4 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.25%) Change Management
5 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.50%) Line Management
7 9 (11.25%) Asset Management
7 9 (11.25%) Computer Science
7 9 (11.25%) Project Delivery
8 8 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (8.75%) Converged Infrastructure
9 7 (8.75%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (7.50%) Antivirus Management
10 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.50%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.50%) Patch Management
10 6 (7.50%) Tech Ops
10 6 (7.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.75%) Bash
3 9 (11.25%) Korn
3 9 (11.25%) Perl
3 9 (11.25%) Python
3 9 (11.25%) Ruby
4 1 (1.25%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) Degree
3 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.00%) MCSA
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.25%) CCNA
7 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.25%) MCSE
8 4 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.75%) CCNP
10 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 24 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.00%) vSphere
4 10 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.50%) Docker
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) SCCM
2 12 (15.00%) Ansible
3 10 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 9 (11.25%) Puppet
4 9 (11.25%) Red Hat Satellite
4 9 (11.25%) WSUS
5 5 (6.25%) SCOM
6 3 (3.75%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (3.75%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (37.50%) VMware
3 9 (11.25%) Dell
3 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.25%) Sun
3 9 (11.25%) TOWER Software
4 8 (10.00%) Oracle
5 7 (8.75%) HP
6 6 (7.50%) Cisco
6 6 (7.50%) Sophos
7 4 (5.00%) Juniper
7 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.00%) Veeam
8 3 (3.75%) 3PAR
8 3 (3.75%) EMC
8 3 (3.75%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.75%) Symantec
9 2 (2.50%) Citrix
9 2 (2.50%) NetApp