Server Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Server Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 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 705 623 747
Rank change year-on-year -82 +124 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 53 127 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53 112 95
10th Percentile - £25,125 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,563 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £56,300
90th Percentile £58,950 £67,500 £70,750
UK median annual salary £43,227 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.66% - +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Server Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Server Engineer in the UK excluding London

Server Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the UK excluding London 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% 1
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Server Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (79.25%) Windows
2 40 (75.47%) Windows Server
3 24 (45.28%) AWS
4 23 (43.40%) VMware
4 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (41.51%) Microsoft
6 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
6 21 (39.62%) SC Cleared
7 20 (37.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (35.85%) Data Centre
8 19 (35.85%) Customer Service
9 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
10 17 (32.08%) SCCM
10 17 (32.08%) Azure
11 13 (24.53%) ITIL
12 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
12 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (20.75%) Degree
14 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
14 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (18.87%) Change Management
14 10 (18.87%) vCenter Server
14 10 (18.87%) DevOps
14 10 (18.87%) Line Management
15 9 (16.98%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (16.98%) Dell
15 9 (16.98%) Linux
15 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V

Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (5.66%) OCI
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.89%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Firewall
1 6 (11.32%) VSAN
2 5 (9.43%) DHCP
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
3 3 (5.66%) SAN
3 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
3 3 (5.66%) VoIP
3 3 (5.66%) WAN
4 2 (3.77%) Internet
4 2 (3.77%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.89%) DMZ
5 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.77%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) MS Access
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
General
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Police
3 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.66%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.32%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.43%) PKI
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (79.25%) Windows
2 40 (75.47%) Windows Server
3 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (16.98%) Linux
4 9 (16.98%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.66%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.77%) Debian
8 1 (1.89%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (35.85%) Customer Service
3 13 (24.53%) ITIL
4 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.87%) Change Management
5 10 (18.87%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Line Management
6 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (13.21%) Converged Infrastructure
7 7 (13.21%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (11.32%) Antivirus Management
8 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
8 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
8 6 (11.32%) Patch Management
8 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
8 6 (11.32%) Service Management
8 6 (11.32%) Tech Ops
8 6 (11.32%) Time Management
9 4 (7.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.77%) Bash
3 1 (1.89%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) SC Cleared
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) Degree
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (15.09%) DV Cleared
4 8 (15.09%) MCSA
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.55%) CCNA
6 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.55%) MCSE
7 3 (5.66%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
3 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (13.21%) vSphere
5 4 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.77%) Docker
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) SCCM
2 10 (18.87%) vCenter Server
3 9 (16.98%) WSUS
4 6 (11.32%) SCOM
5 3 (5.66%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (5.66%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.77%) Ansible
6 2 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) VMware
2 22 (41.51%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.98%) Dell
4 7 (13.21%) HP
5 6 (11.32%) Sophos
6 5 (9.43%) Cisco
7 4 (7.55%) Juniper
7 4 (7.55%) Veeam
8 3 (5.66%) 3PAR
8 3 (5.66%) EMC
8 3 (5.66%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle
8 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.66%) Symantec
9 2 (3.77%) Citrix
10 1 (1.89%) Adobe
10 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.89%) NetApp
10 1 (1.89%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.89%) WatchGuard