Server Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Server Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 207 233
Rank change year-on-year +27 +26 +17
Permanent jobs citing Server Management 16 40 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.66% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 12 34 22
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,625 £34,200
25th Percentile £39,688 £50,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,824 £52,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +13.51% +26.71%
75th Percentile £53,688 £58,750 £56,000
90th Percentile - £107,500 £57,350
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -3.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Server Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Management in the West Midlands

Server Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Staffordshire +22 7 £45,147 -9.71% 1
Birmingham +20 4 £80,000 -23.81% 1
Herefordshire +9 3 £40,000 -33.33%
Solihull +9 1 - -
Coventry -2 1 £47,500 -
Server Management
England

Server Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS KMS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) SSL
3 3 (18.75%) SAN
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
4 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (6.25%) HTTP
5 1 (6.25%) NAS
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (6.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (18.75%) Vagrant
3 2 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) ICT Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) VMS
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (6.25%) CentOS
6 1 (6.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (25.00%) Availability Management
4 4 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 4 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (25.00%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Cost Management
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Key Management
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Management
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Groovy
4 3 (18.75%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) Perl
4 3 (18.75%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Docker
3 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Nessus
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Nagios
3 3 (18.75%) Proxmox
4 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) Dell
3 3 (18.75%) Isilon
3 3 (18.75%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Acronis
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos
4 1 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam