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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 51 28 42
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 33 69 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 4.342% 9.103% 5.451%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.430% 9.237% 5.714%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 26
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +12.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £35,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £41,500 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
745 747 455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 98.03% 98.55% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 679 668 436
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £49,080
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
East Sussex

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brighton Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 77 (81.05%) Linux
2 73 (76.84%) Windows
3 53 (55.79%) VMware
4 51 (53.68%) Ubuntu
4 51 (53.68%) Windows Server 2008
5 48 (50.53%) SQL Server
6 41 (43.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 38 (40.00%) MySQL
8 37 (38.95%) CentOS
9 36 (37.89%) SQL
10 34 (35.79%) VMware ESXi
11 30 (31.58%) MS Excel
12 25 (26.32%) VoIP
13 24 (25.26%) Windows 7
14 21 (22.11%) Red Hat
15 20 (21.05%) Samba
15 20 (21.05%) TCP/IP
16 19 (20.00%) Mac OS X
16 19 (20.00%) Firewall
17 18 (18.95%) Windows Server 2003
17 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
17 18 (18.95%) Asterisk PBX
18 17 (17.89%) vSphere
18 17 (17.89%) Mac OS X Server
18 17 (17.89%) Project Planning
18 17 (17.89%) Web Development
18 17 (17.89%) LDAP
19 15 (15.79%) LAN
19 15 (15.79%) WAN
19 15 (15.79%) IIS

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 8 (8.421%) COM+
1 8 (8.421%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 15 (15.79%) IIS
2 11 (11.58%) SharePoint
2 11 (11.58%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (4.211%) Apache
4 1 (1.053%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (31.58%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.32%) VoIP
2 20 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 19 (20.00%) Firewall
4 18 (18.95%) Asterisk PBX
5 17 (17.89%) LDAP
6 15 (15.79%) LAN
6 15 (15.79%) WAN
7 14 (14.74%) SAN
8 12 (12.63%) DNS
9 11 (11.58%) NetScreen
10 4 (4.211%) VPN
10 4 (4.211%) DHCP
10 4 (4.211%) Ethernet
10 4 (4.211%) SSH
10 4 (4.211%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 4 (4.211%) Network Security
11 1 (1.053%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.053%) BGP
11 1 (1.053%) HTTP
11 1 (1.053%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (50.53%) SQL Server
2 38 (40.00%) MySQL
3 11 (11.58%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (6.316%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.263%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.263%) HBase
5 5 (5.263%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.053%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (5.263%) Games
2 3 (3.158%) Marketing
2 3 (3.158%) Finance
3 2 (2.105%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Clustering
2 10 (10.53%) Open Source
3 7 (7.368%) Social Media
4 4 (4.211%) Replication
4 4 (4.211%) EqualLogic
5 3 (3.158%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.105%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.053%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 77 (81.05%) Linux
2 73 (76.84%) Windows
3 51 (53.68%) Ubuntu
3 51 (53.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 37 (38.95%) CentOS
5 24 (25.26%) Windows 7
6 19 (20.00%) Mac OS X
7 18 (18.95%) Windows Server 2003
8 17 (17.89%) Mac OS X Server
9 13 (13.68%) Mac OS
10 4 (4.211%) Solaris
11 3 (3.158%) UNIX
11 3 (3.158%) Debian
12 2 (2.105%) SUSE
12 2 (2.105%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.89%) Project Planning
1 17 (17.89%) Web Development
2 14 (14.74%) Information Security Management
2 14 (14.74%) Security Management
2 14 (14.74%) Information Security
3 11 (11.58%) Configuration Management
4 10 (10.53%) ITIL
5 6 (6.316%) Change Management
5 6 (6.316%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (6.316%) Load Balancing
6 3 (3.158%) Problem Management
6 3 (3.158%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (3.158%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (3.158%) Scrum
7 1 (1.053%) Analytics
7 1 (1.053%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.89%) SQL
2 10 (10.53%) Perl
2 10 (10.53%) PHP
3 8 (8.421%) Shell Script
3 8 (8.421%) Bash shell
4 7 (7.368%) Python
5 6 (6.316%) Java
6 2 (2.105%) C-shell
7 1 (1.053%) Ruby
7 1 (1.053%) C
7 1 (1.053%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (11.58%) CCNA
1 11 (11.58%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (11.58%) MCTS
1 11 (11.58%) MCITP
1 11 (11.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.053%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.158%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (43.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (35.79%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (21.05%) Samba
4 17 (17.89%) vSphere
5 5 (5.263%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.105%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (2.105%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.053%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Puppet
2 11 (11.58%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (5.263%) Ganglia
4 4 (4.211%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.105%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (55.79%) VMware
2 21 (22.11%) Red Hat
3 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
4 11 (11.58%) Cisco
4 11 (11.58%) EMC
5 5 (5.263%) Google
6 4 (4.211%) FalconStor
6 4 (4.211%) Veeam
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Linux Systems Administrator to join an expanding team for a reputable organisation in Brighton. The Linux Systems Administrator shall be required...
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Pure360 specialises in helping organisations get the best results from their digital marketing... We are looking for an additional Linux System Administrator to our growing team... As the...
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Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
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In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013