Server Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Server Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Server Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 557 603
Rank change year-on-year +184 +46 +185
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 24 35 70
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 64
10th Percentile £37,170 £32,500 £32,739
25th Percentile £38,128 £36,250 £39,179
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,227 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -15.65% -5.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £102,500 £65,436
90th Percentile £76,250 - £79,250
UK median annual salary £49,375 £43,227 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.22% -13.55% -1.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Server Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Server Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Server Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Server Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Server Engineer.

Server Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Server Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Server Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Server Engineer 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (75.00%) Azure
3 16 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
4 14 (58.33%) Finance
5 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (54.17%) MCSA
6 12 (50.00%) SLA
7 11 (45.83%) SaaS
7 11 (45.83%) PaaS
7 11 (45.83%) IaaS
7 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (41.67%) VMware
9 9 (37.50%) Service Management
9 9 (37.50%) DNS
9 9 (37.50%) Linux
9 9 (37.50%) ITIL
9 9 (37.50%) AWS
9 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
10 8 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
10 8 (33.33%) Data Collection
10 8 (33.33%) Azure Certification
10 8 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (33.33%) Server Migrations
10 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
10 8 (33.33%) Welsh Language
10 8 (33.33%) Problem Management

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) GemFire
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) IaaS
2 11 (45.83%) PaaS
2 11 (45.83%) SaaS
3 9 (37.50%) AWS
4 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (29.17%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (16.67%) Nutanix
7 3 (12.50%) GCP
8 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) VoIP
4 1 (4.17%) DHCP
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (12.50%) Redis
1 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Welsh Language
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 3 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) IoT
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
2 3 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.50%) Derivative
2 3 (12.50%) Equities
2 3 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (12.50%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 16 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 9 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Service Management
3 8 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 8 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 8 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 8 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 8 (33.33%) Server Migrations
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
5 5 (20.83%) Change Control
6 3 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (12.50%) Business Development
6 3 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 3 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) MCSA
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 8 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 8 (33.33%) MCSE
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) SLA
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) EMC
4 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (12.50%) Solace
4 3 (12.50%) TIBCO
4 3 (12.50%) TOWER Software
5 2 (8.33%) Citrix
5 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
79 Server Engineer jobs with Hybrid/WFH options