The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 92 94 78
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 17 8 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.009% 0.545% 1.105%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.064% 0.567% 1.156%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 15
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1597 1412 1298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.19% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1338 1263 1129
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
West Midlands

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Linux
3 10 (41.67%) Finance
4 9 (37.50%) VMware
4 9 (37.50%) Solaris
4 9 (37.50%) UNIX
4 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
5 8 (33.33%) SAN
5 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (29.17%) AIX
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle
6 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (20.83%) Citrix
7 5 (20.83%) IBM
7 5 (20.83%) SCOM
8 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (16.67%) vSphere
8 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
8 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (16.67%) ITIL
9 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
9 3 (12.50%) HTTP
9 3 (12.50%) HP
9 3 (12.50%) NetApp
9 3 (12.50%) Veritas
9 3 (12.50%) Internet
9 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
9 3 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (8.333%) Veritas File System

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 1 (4.167%) ASP
1 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.167%) COM
1 1 (4.167%) XML
1 1 (4.167%) .NET
1 1 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (4.167%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (8.333%) Lync
3 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.167%) Apache
3 1 (4.167%) SAS
3 1 (4.167%) IIS
3 1 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.167%) ArcGIS
3 1 (4.167%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (4.167%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) SAN
2 3 (12.50%) HTTP
2 3 (12.50%) Internet
3 2 (8.333%) Firewall
3 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.167%) SSL
4 1 (4.167%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.167%) NAS
4 1 (4.167%) Network Security
4 1 (4.167%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) TOAD
2 1 (4.167%) Redis
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MSI
2 1 (4.167%) InstallShield
2 1 (4.167%) AdminStudio
2 1 (4.167%) Phing
2 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.167%) Capistrano
2 1 (4.167%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.167%) RSpec
2 1 (4.167%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.333%) Back Office
4 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.167%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) LPAR
1 2 (8.333%) HACMP
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.167%) Clustering
2 1 (4.167%) LLPG
2 1 (4.167%) EqualLogic
2 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.167%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) Solaris
3 9 (37.50%) UNIX
4 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (29.17%) AIX
5 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (8.333%) SUSE
7 2 (8.333%) HPUX
8 1 (4.167%) Mac OS X
8 1 (4.167%) Gentoo
8 1 (4.167%) Ubuntu
8 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (8.333%) Capacity Management
2 2 (8.333%) Change Management
2 2 (8.333%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.167%) Project Management
3 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (4.167%) Risk Management
3 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.167%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (4.167%) Analytics
3 1 (4.167%) Network Management
3 1 (4.167%) Active Record
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.333%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.167%) Python
3 1 (4.167%) C#
3 1 (4.167%) Java
3 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.167%) Perl
3 1 (4.167%) PHP
3 1 (4.167%) SQL
3 1 (4.167%) VBScript
3 1 (4.167%) Ruby
3 1 (4.167%) Korn
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) vSphere
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (8.333%) Veritas File System
3 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (8.333%) Terminal Server
4 1 (4.167%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCOM
2 2 (8.333%) YUM
2 2 (8.333%) Foglight
2 2 (8.333%) SCCM
3 1 (4.167%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (4.167%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) VMware
1 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (29.17%) Oracle
4 5 (20.83%) Citrix
4 5 (20.83%) IBM
5 3 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) NetApp
5 3 (12.50%) Veritas
6 2 (8.333%) Sun
7 1 (4.167%) Cisco
7 1 (4.167%) Mapinfo
7 1 (4.167%) Symantec
7 1 (4.167%) Dell
7 1 (4.167%) EMC
7 1 (4.167%) ESRI
7 1 (4.167%) Zend
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