Server Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Server Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Server Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 641 809
Rank change year-on-year +90 +168 -142
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 388 337 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 311 181 283
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £28,300
25th Percentile £38,875 £36,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £44,666 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.99% +5.10% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 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 +126 370 £50,000 +8.70% 71
UK excluding London +35 337 £46,000 +2.99% 50
Work from Home +120 160 £50,000 +5.04% 29
North of England +64 96 £43,500 +8.75% 8
Midlands +14 68 £50,000 +12.99% 21
East of England +35 66 £40,000 -36.00% 8
South East +32 55 £59,000 +23.56% 7
North West +20 50 £48,500 +7.78% 5
London +112 45 £61,250 +3.38% 23
West Midlands +22 43 £52,500 +18.64% 16
South West -31 40 £50,500 +34.67% 4
Yorkshire +80 33 £42,500 +13.33% 2
East Midlands +9 24 £40,000 -23.81% 5
North East -7 13 £42,250 +19.01% 1
Scotland -51 9 £53,000 +89.29% 2
Wales +13 3 £45,000 +0.75% 2

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 62 (15.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (10.05%) IIS
3 36 (9.28%) SharePoint
4 28 (7.22%) Apache
5 27 (6.96%) Tomcat
6 16 (4.12%) CMS
7 10 (2.58%) Umbraco
8 6 (1.55%) WordPress
9 4 (1.03%) nginx
10 3 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.77%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (0.77%) WildFly
11 2 (0.52%) Drupal
12 1 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.26%) SAS
12 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (6.19%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.52%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.26%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (46.65%) Azure
2 134 (34.54%) Microsoft 365
3 97 (25.00%) AWS
4 35 (9.02%) Entra ID
5 28 (7.22%) GCP
6 19 (4.90%) SaaS
7 18 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (4.64%) Datadog
8 16 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (3.09%) GitHub
9 12 (3.09%) IaaS
9 12 (3.09%) Nutanix
9 12 (3.09%) OCI
10 11 (2.84%) PaaS
11 8 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.06%) Mimecast
11 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 83 (21.39%) DNS
2 79 (20.36%) Firewall
3 75 (19.33%) SAN
4 72 (18.56%) DHCP
5 40 (10.31%) WAN
6 30 (7.73%) VPN
7 26 (6.70%) Network Security
8 24 (6.19%) LAN
9 21 (5.41%) VLAN
9 21 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (4.90%) iSCSI
11 17 (4.38%) SD-WAN
12 15 (3.87%) NAS
13 9 (2.32%) VoIP
14 8 (2.06%) Internet
14 8 (2.06%) TCP/IP
15 6 (1.55%) PBX
15 6 (1.55%) Wireless
16 5 (1.29%) WLAN
17 4 (1.03%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.44%) Oracle Database
3 22 (5.67%) MySQL
4 10 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.06%) Crystal Reports
5 8 (2.06%) Power BI
6 7 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.77%) OLTP
8 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.52%) phpMyAdmin
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.26%) Big Data
10 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (5.67%) Git
1 22 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (4.64%) GitLab
3 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.55%) PHPUnit
4 6 (1.55%) RStudio
5 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.52%) Grunt
6 2 (0.52%) JIRA
6 2 (0.52%) Subversion
6 2 (0.52%) webpack
7 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 123 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.04%) Finance
3 29 (7.47%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.19%) Local Government
4 24 (6.19%) Police
5 20 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.84%) Aerospace
6 11 (2.84%) Aviation
6 11 (2.84%) Law
6 11 (2.84%) Retail
7 10 (2.58%) Military
8 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.06%) Legal
8 8 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.55%) Automotive
11 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (14.18%) Lead
3 41 (10.57%) Developer
4 40 (10.31%) IT Engineer
5 36 (9.28%) Administrator
6 35 (9.02%) Senior
7 32 (8.25%) IT Support
8 31 (7.99%) IT Manager
9 29 (7.47%) IT Administrator
10 25 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (6.19%) Applications Support
12 21 (5.41%) Server Administrator
13 20 (5.15%) Infrastructure Manager
14 19 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.90%) Team Leader
15 18 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support
15 18 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
16 17 (4.38%) Support Engineer
17 16 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
17 16 (4.12%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.76%) .NET
1 34 (8.76%) HTML
2 32 (8.25%) CSS
3 24 (6.19%) Web Services
4 22 (5.67%) Vue
5 19 (4.90%) REST
6 18 (4.64%) jQuery
7 15 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 12 (3.09%) Laravel
9 11 (2.84%) .NET Core
10 10 (2.58%) HTML5
11 9 (2.32%) Symfony
12 8 (2.06%) .NET Framework
12 8 (2.06%) Doctrine
12 8 (2.06%) Entity Framework
12 8 (2.06%) RESTful
12 8 (2.06%) Sass
13 7 (1.80%) Middleware
13 7 (1.80%) Node.js
13 7 (1.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.75%) Data Centre
2 38 (9.79%) Public Cloud
3 35 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (7.22%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.87%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.87%) PMI
6 11 (2.84%) IoT
7 10 (2.58%) Clustering
8 8 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.80%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.55%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.55%) PKI
10 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.29%) EMC VNX
12 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.77%) Learning Management System
14 2 (0.52%) iPad
14 2 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 226 (58.25%) Windows
2 146 (37.63%) Windows Server
3 142 (36.60%) Linux
4 44 (11.34%) Unix
5 36 (9.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (8.76%) Windows 10
7 32 (8.25%) Solaris
8 24 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (4.38%) Ubuntu
10 15 (3.87%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (3.09%) VMS
11 12 (3.09%) Windows XP
12 7 (1.80%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.77%) Android
15 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (26.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (17.27%) ITIL
4 51 (13.14%) Project Management
5 50 (12.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (9.54%) Storage Management
9 36 (9.28%) Computer Science
10 33 (8.51%) Performance Monitoring
11 32 (8.25%) Proactive Monitoring
12 31 (7.99%) Agile
12 31 (7.99%) DevOps
12 31 (7.99%) Mentoring
12 31 (7.99%) Network Architecture
13 29 (7.47%) Data Security
14 28 (7.22%) Capacity Planning
14 28 (7.22%) CI/CD
14 28 (7.22%) Project Delivery
15 27 (6.96%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.46%) PowerShell
2 48 (12.37%) SQL
3 29 (7.47%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.44%) Shell Script
5 18 (4.64%) C#
6 17 (4.38%) PHP
7 12 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.58%) Bash
9 9 (2.32%) R
10 7 (1.80%) Python
11 2 (0.52%) Korn
11 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 77 (19.85%) Degree
2 72 (18.56%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (5.93%) AWS Certification
6 22 (5.67%) MCSE
7 19 (4.90%) CCNA
7 19 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 16 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.87%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.87%) PMI Certification
11 13 (3.35%) MCSA
12 12 (3.09%) CCNP
13 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.52%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.09%) SLA
5 7 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.80%) DO-254
6 5 (1.29%) SOC 1
6 5 (1.29%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.03%) GDPR
8 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.77%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.26%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 165 (42.53%) Active Directory
2 81 (20.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (19.33%) Hyper-V
4 37 (9.54%) Docker
5 23 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.06%) vSphere
9 7 (1.80%) pfSense
9 7 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.77%) Firmware
11 2 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.52%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 56 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.51%) SCCM
3 26 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 21 (5.41%) Terraform
5 19 (4.90%) SCOM
5 19 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 17 (4.38%) EMC NetWorker
7 16 (4.12%) Consul
7 16 (4.12%) Puppet
8 14 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (3.61%) WSUS
9 13 (3.35%) NetBackup
10 12 (3.09%) Opsgenie
10 12 (3.09%) VxRail
10 12 (3.09%) ZABBIX
11 8 (2.06%) Ansible
12 6 (1.55%) AirWatch
13 5 (1.29%) Backup Exec
13 5 (1.29%) Nagios
14 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (53.35%) Microsoft
2 113 (29.12%) VMware
3 55 (14.18%) Cisco
4 46 (11.86%) Dell
5 42 (10.82%) Citrix
6 40 (10.31%) HP
6 40 (10.31%) Oracle
7 38 (9.79%) Veeam
8 34 (8.76%) NetApp
9 24 (6.19%) NEC
10 20 (5.15%) SolarWinds
11 19 (4.90%) EMC
12 18 (4.64%) Fortinet
12 18 (4.64%) Symantec
13 15 (3.87%) Juniper
14 13 (3.35%) Red Hat
15 12 (3.09%) 3PAR
15 12 (3.09%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (3.09%) Palo Alto
16 11 (2.84%) Apple