Server Engineer Jobs in England

Server Engineer
UK > England

The median Server Engineer salary in England is £43,227 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 764 999
Rank change year-on-year 0 +235 -334
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 76 161 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 76 145 132
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £50,000 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% -7.58% +27.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £43,227 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.66% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in England

Server Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -6 28 £35,000 -12.50% 2
London +85 23 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Midlands -21 10 £43,227 -17.66%
North of England +11 8 £42,250 +5.63% 1
West Midlands +6 5 £43,227 -10.41%
East Midlands -25 5 £40,000 -25.58%
South West -29 5 £37,500 +19.24% 2
Yorkshire +73 3 £31,000 +10.71%
North West -15 3 £47,000 -14.55% 1
East of England -2 2 £34,875 -39.35% 1
North East -3 2 £43,750 +28.02%
Server Engineer
UK

Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (82.89%) Windows
2 60 (78.95%) Windows Server
3 33 (43.42%) AWS
3 33 (43.42%) Microsoft
3 33 (43.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (42.11%) Active Directory
4 32 (42.11%) Azure
5 31 (40.79%) VMware
6 24 (31.58%) PowerShell
7 23 (30.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 22 (28.95%) SCCM
9 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
9 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
10 19 (25.00%) Customer Service
10 19 (25.00%) Data Centre
11 17 (22.37%) Linux
12 16 (21.05%) Degree
12 16 (21.05%) DevOps
13 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (19.74%) ITIL
14 13 (17.11%) vSphere
14 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
14 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (15.79%) Banking
15 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (15.79%) Change Management
16 11 (14.47%) vCenter Server
17 10 (13.16%) CI/CD

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (43.42%) AWS
2 32 (42.11%) Azure
3 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.53%) OCI
5 7 (9.21%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.89%) GitHub
7 4 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.32%) GCP
9 1 (1.32%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.32%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
1 6 (7.89%) SAN
1 6 (7.89%) VSAN
2 5 (6.58%) DHCP
2 5 (6.58%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) NAS
3 3 (3.95%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.95%) VoIP
3 3 (3.95%) WAN
4 2 (2.63%) Internet
4 2 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.32%) DMZ
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.63%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (1.32%) MS Access
3 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
1 6 (7.89%) GitLab
General
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Banking
3 7 (9.21%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Police
6 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.95%) Law
8 2 (2.63%) Legal
9 1 (1.32%) Advertising
9 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) PKI
3 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.32%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 63 (82.89%) Windows
2 60 (78.95%) Windows Server
3 17 (22.37%) Linux
4 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (11.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
9 3 (3.95%) Windows XP
10 2 (2.63%) Debian
11 1 (1.32%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 16 (21.05%) DevOps
4 15 (19.74%) ITIL
5 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.79%) Change Management
7 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.16%) Line Management
8 9 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 8 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (9.21%) Converged Infrastructure
10 7 (9.21%) Proactive Monitoring
11 6 (7.89%) Asset Management
11 6 (7.89%) Data Protection
11 6 (7.89%) Incident Management
11 6 (7.89%) Patch Management
11 6 (7.89%) Service Management
11 6 (7.89%) Tech Ops
11 6 (7.89%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.53%) Bash
3 6 (7.89%) Korn
3 6 (7.89%) Perl
3 6 (7.89%) Python
3 6 (7.89%) Ruby
4 1 (1.32%) SQL
4 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) Degree
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.53%) MCSA
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.26%) CCNA
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.26%) MCSE
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.95%) CCNP
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 23 (30.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.11%) vSphere
4 9 (11.84%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (6.58%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.63%) Docker
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (28.95%) SCCM
2 11 (14.47%) vCenter Server
3 9 (11.84%) Ansible
3 9 (11.84%) WSUS
4 6 (7.89%) Puppet
4 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (7.89%) SCOM
5 3 (3.95%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (3.95%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (43.42%) Microsoft
2 31 (40.79%) VMware
3 9 (11.84%) Dell
4 8 (10.53%) Oracle
5 7 (9.21%) Cisco
5 7 (9.21%) HP
6 6 (7.89%) Red Hat
6 6 (7.89%) Sophos
6 6 (7.89%) Sun
6 6 (7.89%) TOWER Software
7 4 (5.26%) Juniper
7 4 (5.26%) Veeam
8 3 (3.95%) 3PAR
8 3 (3.95%) EMC
8 3 (3.95%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.95%) NetApp
8 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.95%) Symantec
9 2 (2.63%) Citrix