Server Specialist Jobs

Server Specialist
UK

The median Server Specialist salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 896 946 1254
Rank change year-on-year +50 +308 -333
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Specialist 11 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.001% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.001% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £37,750
25th Percentile £38,500 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,000 £47,501
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +30.52% -36.67%
75th Percentile £41,500 - £50,296
90th Percentile £45,775 - £53,178
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £62,000 £47,501
% change year-on-year -35.48% +30.52% +26.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Server Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Server Specialist in the UK

Server Specialist
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +45 10 £40,000 -35.48% 4
UK excluding London -26 7 £40,000 -35.48% 4
South East - 7 £40,000 - 2
London - 3 - -
Work from Home - 1 £54,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Server Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (72.73%) Customer Service
2 7 (63.64%) Virtual Servers
2 7 (63.64%) DBS Check
3 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 3 (27.27%) ITSM
4 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) SLA
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) Nessus
4 3 (27.27%) Qualys
4 3 (27.27%) SCCM
4 3 (27.27%) Threat Management
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) Availability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation

Server Specialist 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 3 (27.27%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Customer Service
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Management
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Availability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Nessus
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam