Server Support Jobs

Server Support
UK

The median Server Support salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 888 904
Rank change year-on-year +188 +16 +298
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Support 12 19 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.019% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.020% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 51
10th Percentile £44,250 - £24,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £30,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £35,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,125 £39,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £41,500 £45,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £34,250 £27,500
% change year-on-year +53.28% +24.55% -8.33%

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 50,981 94,642 91,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.70% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,187 67,606 57,639
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%

Server Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Support over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Support in the UK

Server Support
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Support within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +144 11 £63,750 +82.14% 1
Work from Home +130 11 £52,500 +50.00% 1
London +127 10 £85,000 +120.78%
UK excluding London +150 2 £52,500 +53.28% 2
South East +84 1 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Scotland - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Server Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (75.00%) ITIL
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (75.00%) SLA
2 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (58.33%) Citrix
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco
4 7 (58.33%) AIX
4 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
4 7 (58.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (50.00%) SCCM
5 6 (50.00%) IBM AIX Certification
5 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (50.00%) Finance
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Veritas
6 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (25.00%) Shell Script

Server Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (58.33%) AIX
3 7 (58.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
5 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (75.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Server Building
3 3 (25.00%) Server Patching
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) IBM AIX Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 3 (25.00%) Veritas
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Zscaler