Systems Administrator Jobs in Bristol

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
South West > Bristol

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Bristol is £43,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 151 172
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 10 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.32% 0.87% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.94% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 11
10th Percentile - £31,775 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £45,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% -13.33% +14.13%
75th Percentile £44,844 £66,875 £56,250
90th Percentile £46,138 £68,750 -
South West median annual salary £43,250 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.89% -10.00% +14.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,009 2,455 3,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 92.75% 97.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,250 1,538 2,220
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,905 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +9.02% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,151 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Bristol

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in Bristol.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Bristol

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in Bristol

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Systems Administrator 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 Bristol region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Internet
3 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (50.00%) Unix
4 4 (40.00%) Trello
4 4 (40.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
4 4 (40.00%) Confluence
4 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (40.00%) Slack
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (40.00%) WhatsApp
4 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 4 (40.00%) Apple
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (40.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) AWS

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (40.00%) Slack
2 4 (40.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Internet
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 4 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Unix
4 4 (40.00%) Android
4 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (40.00%) Debian
4 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
4 4 (40.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (40.00%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Apple
1 4 (40.00%) VMware