The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 1.600% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.639% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £48,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
244 200 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 97.60% 97.56% 99.40%
Number of salaries quoted 238 190 161
Average salary £41,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
Bedfordshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedford Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Bedford region.

Bedford Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region that cited Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
3 5 (55.56%) MySQL
3 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Apache
4 4 (44.44%) NFS
4 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) VMware ESX
4 4 (44.44%) Samba
4 4 (44.44%) IIS
4 4 (44.44%) UNIX
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
4 4 (44.44%) RHCE
4 4 (44.44%) SAN
4 4 (44.44%) Supplier Management
4 4 (44.44%) Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
4 4 (44.44%) NAS
4 4 (44.44%) vSphere
4 4 (44.44%) SaaS
4 4 (44.44%) C-shell
4 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
4 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) CentOS
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region that cited Systems Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 4 (44.44%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
2 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
1 4 (44.44%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Supplier Management
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
1 4 (44.44%) C-shell
1 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) NFS
1 4 (44.44%) VMware ESX
1 4 (44.44%) Samba
1 4 (44.44%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Xen
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP networking.
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £52000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013