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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 549 644
Rank change year-on-year -24 +95 +179
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 136 388 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 108 306 175
10th Percentile £32,350 £30,875 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,750 £61,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £80,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,720 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.62% - +2.27%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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

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

Salary trend for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the UK

Server Management
Top 17 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 29 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
England -39 128 £45,000 -10.00% 274
UK excluding London -11 114 £44,720 -0.62% 275
South East +86 40 £57,500 -2.54% 70
Work from Home 0 39 £52,500 +1.94% 174
North of England -22 26 £40,000 -8.05% 54
Midlands +13 24 £40,000 -20.00% 49
London +74 19 £55,500 -7.50% 34
North West -27 16 £40,000 -18.78% 23
West Midlands +24 13 £45,147 -19.74% 25
East Midlands +20 11 £35,000 -12.50% 20
East of England -14 10 £58,500 +46.25% 47
South West +84 9 £47,500 -5.00% 38
Yorkshire +37 8 £24,000 -43.53% 23
Scotland +117 2 £37,500 -29.25% 15
Wales +43 2 £56,250 +18.42% 9
North East +35 2 £28,000 -33.73% 8
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 27 (19.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (13.97%) SharePoint
3 14 (10.29%) CMS
4 9 (6.62%) WordPress
5 3 (2.21%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.21%) IIS
6 2 (1.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Shopify
2 6 (4.41%) Sage 50
3 3 (2.21%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.74%) Magento
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.26%) Azure
2 44 (32.35%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (25.74%) AWS
4 27 (19.85%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.82%) GitHub
6 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.62%) Slack
7 9 (6.62%) Zapier
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.68%) GCP
9 4 (2.94%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.21%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.21%) Serverless
10 3 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (41.18%) Firewall
2 19 (13.97%) DNS
3 15 (11.03%) DHCP
3 15 (11.03%) VPN
4 14 (10.29%) VLAN
5 10 (7.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (7.35%) LAN
5 10 (7.35%) WAN
6 8 (5.88%) IP Telephony
6 8 (5.88%) Network Security
6 8 (5.88%) SAN
7 7 (5.15%) MPLS
7 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.68%) BGP
8 5 (3.68%) NAS
8 5 (3.68%) OSPF
8 5 (3.68%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.68%) SSL
9 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.21%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.50%) MySQL
2 11 (8.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.21%) Power BI
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) Redis
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) Git
2 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (2.21%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) Grunt
5 1 (0.74%) Maven
5 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 42 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 6 (4.41%) Finance
4 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.21%) Automotive
5 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.47%) Advertising
6 2 (1.47%) Games
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing
6 2 (1.47%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.74%) Local Government
7 1 (0.74%) Police
7 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (11.03%) IT Support
2 14 (10.29%) Analyst
2 14 (10.29%) Developer
2 14 (10.29%) IT Engineer
2 14 (10.29%) Technical Support
3 13 (9.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 12 (8.82%) 1st Line Support
5 11 (8.09%) Support Analyst
6 8 (5.88%) Lead
6 8 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 7 (5.15%) Support Technician
7 7 (5.15%) Technical Support Analyst
8 6 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (3.68%) IT Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.82%) HTML
2 11 (8.09%) CSS
3 10 (7.35%) Laravel
4 4 (2.94%) LDAP
4 4 (2.94%) Web Services
5 3 (2.21%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) .NET
6 2 (1.47%) jQuery
6 2 (1.47%) Middleware
6 2 (1.47%) Sass
7 1 (0.74%) Angular 2
7 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Cordova
7 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.74%) JSON
7 1 (0.74%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.74%) SOAP
7 1 (0.74%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.03%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.68%) Replication
4 5 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.94%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.21%) Social Media
7 2 (1.47%) Clustering
7 2 (1.47%) PKI
8 1 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.74%) CCTV
8 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 81 (59.56%) Windows
2 48 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 32 (23.53%) Linux
4 20 (14.71%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.21%) CentOS
8 3 (2.21%) Unix
8 3 (2.21%) VMS
8 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.47%) Solaris
10 1 (0.74%) Android
10 1 (0.74%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 23 (16.91%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (15.44%) DevOps
5 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure Management
6 17 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (12.50%) ITIL
7 15 (11.03%) Business Continuity
7 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.29%) Project Management
8 14 (10.29%) User Experience
9 13 (9.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (8.82%) Content Management
10 12 (8.82%) Service Delivery
11 11 (8.09%) Migration
11 11 (8.09%) Web Development
12 10 (7.35%) Agile
12 10 (7.35%) Computer Science
12 10 (7.35%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.32%) PowerShell
2 27 (19.85%) Python
3 12 (8.82%) Java
4 11 (8.09%) PHP
4 11 (8.09%) SQL
5 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) Groovy
7 3 (2.21%) Perl
7 3 (2.21%) Ruby
8 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) C#
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (11.76%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.62%) CCNA
5 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.41%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.94%) MCSA
7 4 (2.94%) MCSE
7 4 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.21%) MCP
9 2 (1.47%) CCNP
10 1 (0.74%) CCIE
10 1 (0.74%) CEH
10 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.74%) PMP
10 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) GDPR
2 6 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) QA
5 2 (1.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 32 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (19.12%) Hyper-V
4 13 (9.56%) Docker
5 11 (8.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (5.15%) Terminal Services
7 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.47%) Firmware
8 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.74%) LXC
9 1 (0.74%) NFS
9 1 (0.74%) Samba
9 1 (0.74%) Varnish
9 1 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.74%) Xen
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.82%) Terraform
3 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.88%) Ansible
5 5 (3.68%) Nessus
6 4 (2.94%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.94%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.21%) Iperf
7 3 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.21%) Nagios
7 3 (2.21%) Puppet
8 2 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.74%) Grafana
9 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.74%) QRadar
9 1 (0.74%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.74%) SCCM
9 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (55.15%) Microsoft
2 39 (28.68%) VMware
3 24 (17.65%) Cisco
4 10 (7.35%) Fortinet
5 9 (6.62%) Citrix
5 9 (6.62%) Rackspace
5 9 (6.62%) Veeam
5 9 (6.62%) WooCommerce
6 8 (5.88%) Apple
6 8 (5.88%) Dell
7 7 (5.15%) Google
8 6 (4.41%) Meraki
8 6 (4.41%) Sage
8 6 (4.41%) SonicWALL
9 3 (2.21%) Juniper
9 3 (2.21%) Kaseya
9 3 (2.21%) Oracle
9 3 (2.21%) Ruckus Wireless
9 3 (2.21%) Sophos
9 3 (2.21%) WatchGuard