Server Management Jobs

Server Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 581 605
Rank change year-on-year +22 +24 +259
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Server Management 160 259 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 117 187 144
10th Percentile £30,800 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £46,375
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +4.58% -7.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,732 71,048 70,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.86% 81.63% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 28,901 43,280 46,997
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Server Management

Server Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 148 £45,000 -5.26% 43
UK excluding London +21 135 £42,500 -10.53% 28
Work from Home +7 41 £47,500 -16.67% 18
South East +30 37 £40,000 -23.81% 7
North of England -14 30 £40,000 -5.88% 10
Midlands -4 26 £37,500 -21.05% 1
London +72 22 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North West -10 21 £45,000 +1.53% 8
East of England -5 20 £57,500 +76.92% 3
West Midlands -2 19 £32,500 -38.10% 1
South West +61 13 £42,500 -28.57% 4
Yorkshire +2 9 £24,000 -43.53% 1
East Midlands +16 7 £41,250 +17.86%
Scotland +67 6 £37,500 -18.48% 1
Wales +5 2 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Server Management
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 41 (25.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (18.13%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.88%) CMS
4 9 (5.63%) Apache Solr
4 9 (5.63%) IIS
5 5 (3.13%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.63%) Apache
7 1 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Sage 50
2 2 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Magento
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (62.50%) Azure
2 81 (50.63%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (28.75%) Entra ID
4 30 (18.75%) AWS
5 15 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.63%) Cloudflare
6 9 (5.63%) GCP
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.50%) GitHub
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.88%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.88%) IaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Serverless
10 3 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (49.38%) Firewall
2 26 (16.25%) DNS
3 25 (15.63%) DHCP
4 18 (11.25%) VLAN
5 16 (10.00%) VPN
6 14 (8.75%) WAN
7 12 (7.50%) LAN
7 12 (7.50%) VoIP
8 11 (6.88%) IP Telephony
8 11 (6.88%) TCP/IP
9 9 (5.63%) Network Security
10 7 (4.38%) SAN
11 6 (3.75%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (3.75%) IPsec
11 6 (3.75%) Wireless
12 5 (3.13%) NAS
12 5 (3.13%) Skype
12 5 (3.13%) SSL
12 5 (3.13%) Wireshark
13 4 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.13%) MySQL
3 9 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.13%) DTS
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 2 (1.25%) Redis
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.38%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (1.88%) JIRA
3 3 (1.88%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 10 (6.25%) Finance
4 9 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.38%) Marketing
5 7 (4.38%) Retail
6 5 (3.13%) Electronics
7 3 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Automotive
8 2 (1.25%) Advertising
8 2 (1.25%) Back Office
8 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.63%) Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (20.00%) IT Support
2 26 (16.25%) Technical Support
3 24 (15.00%) Analyst
4 22 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (13.75%) Support Technician
5 21 (13.13%) IT Engineer
5 21 (13.13%) Support Analyst
6 20 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
7 16 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
8 15 (9.38%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 15 (9.38%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 15 (9.38%) Technical Support Analyst
9 12 (7.50%) Senior
9 12 (7.50%) Support Engineer
10 11 (6.88%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (5.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Infrastructure Support
12 9 (5.63%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) LDAP
2 5 (3.13%) Web Services
3 3 (1.88%) .NET
3 3 (1.88%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.88%) Node.js
4 2 (1.25%) CSS
4 2 (1.25%) HTML
4 2 (1.25%) Laravel
4 2 (1.25%) Middleware
5 1 (0.63%) Django
5 1 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.63%) jQuery
5 1 (0.63%) LAMP
5 1 (0.63%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (0.63%) Memcached
5 1 (0.63%) RESTful
5 1 (0.63%) SAML
5 1 (0.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.63%) Vue
5 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.00%) Clustering
3 8 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.38%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.75%) iPad
5 6 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.13%) CMDB
6 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.88%) Replication
8 3 (1.88%) Social Media
9 2 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.25%) PKI
9 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 117 (73.13%) Windows
2 78 (48.75%) Windows Server
3 42 (26.25%) Linux
4 34 (21.25%) Mac OS
5 16 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 6 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.88%) CentOS
10 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.88%) Unix
10 3 (1.88%) VMS
11 1 (0.63%) Debian
11 1 (0.63%) Solaris
11 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (23.13%) Customer Service
3 32 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (19.38%) ITIL
5 23 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (13.13%) DevOps
7 18 (11.25%) Containerisation
7 18 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (10.00%) Storage Management
9 15 (9.38%) Preventative Maintenance
10 14 (8.75%) CI/CD
11 13 (8.13%) Computer Science
11 13 (8.13%) Infrastructure Management
11 13 (8.13%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (7.50%) Service Delivery
13 11 (6.88%) Mentoring
13 11 (6.88%) Migration
13 11 (6.88%) Patch Management
14 10 (6.25%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (13.75%) Python
3 11 (6.88%) JavaScript
3 11 (6.88%) SQL
4 5 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.50%) Java
6 3 (1.88%) Groovy
6 3 (1.88%) Perl
6 3 (1.88%) PHP
6 3 (1.88%) Ruby
7 2 (1.25%) Bash
7 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.25%) VB
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (22.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (10.63%) Degree
3 12 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.00%) CCNA
5 8 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (3.75%) ACMT
7 5 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.13%) MCSE
7 5 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (2.50%) CCNP
8 4 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.50%) MCSA
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.25%) MCP
10 2 (1.25%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.63%) CEH
11 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.38%) GDPR
3 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.88%) QA
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.25%) NIST
5 2 (1.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 86 (53.75%) Active Directory
2 49 (30.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (18.13%) Hyper-V
4 25 (15.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (14.38%) Docker
6 11 (6.88%) Terminal Services
7 7 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (3.75%) Firmware
8 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.88%) vSphere
11 1 (0.63%) Varnish
11 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 43 (26.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.88%) Ansible
4 10 (6.25%) Terraform
5 8 (5.00%) Nagios
6 7 (4.38%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.75%) Autotask
8 5 (3.13%) Nessus
8 5 (3.13%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.13%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.50%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.50%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.50%) Puppet
10 3 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.25%) Iperf
12 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.63%) OpenVAS
12 1 (0.63%) QRadar
12 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 115 (71.88%) Microsoft
2 54 (33.75%) VMware
3 23 (14.38%) Apple
4 22 (13.75%) Cisco
5 17 (10.63%) Veeam
6 14 (8.75%) Citrix
7 12 (7.50%) Google
8 10 (6.25%) Rackspace
8 10 (6.25%) Sophos
9 9 (5.63%) Dell
9 9 (5.63%) Fortinet
10 8 (5.00%) Oracle
10 8 (5.00%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.75%) Datto
11 6 (3.75%) Meraki
11 6 (3.75%) Sage
11 6 (3.75%) SAP
11 6 (3.75%) SolarWinds
12 5 (3.13%) Proofpoint
12 5 (3.13%) Trend Micro