The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 24 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 127 94 117
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 7 32 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.344% 1.669% 0.856%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.358% 1.757% 0.910%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 18
Average salary £40,000 £33,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.51% -20.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £26,500 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £40,050 £54,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1955 1821 1978
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 96.12% 94.99% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1687 1539 1745
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,575 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
High Wycombe 0 2 £40,000 +7.38%
Milton Keynes -29 2 £36,250 +8.20%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 32 (78.05%) Linux
2 24 (58.54%) UNIX
3 20 (48.78%) Shell Script
4 18 (43.90%) Red Hat
4 18 (43.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (41.46%) VMware
6 16 (39.02%) SAN
6 16 (39.02%) Symantec
6 16 (39.02%) Solaris
7 15 (36.59%) AIX
7 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
7 15 (36.59%) IBM
7 15 (36.59%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (36.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (34.15%) Oracle
9 13 (31.71%) Veritas
10 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
10 12 (29.27%) Clustering
10 12 (29.27%) Finance
11 10 (24.39%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (21.95%) Cobbler
12 9 (21.95%) NAS
12 9 (21.95%) Perl
12 9 (21.95%) Windows
13 8 (19.51%) IIS
13 8 (19.51%) Apache
13 8 (19.51%) DNS
13 8 (19.51%) AWK
13 8 (19.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 8 (19.51%) sed

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 7 (17.07%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) IIS
1 8 (19.51%) Apache
2 5 (12.20%) MS Exchange
3 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Office
2 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (2.439%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 16 (39.02%) SAN
2 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
3 9 (21.95%) NAS
4 8 (19.51%) DNS
5 4 (9.756%) Firewall
5 4 (9.756%) Broadband
6 3 (7.317%) VPN
6 3 (7.317%) LAN
6 3 (7.317%) WAN
7 2 (4.878%) VLAN
7 2 (4.878%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.878%) Network Security
7 2 (4.878%) DHCP
8 1 (2.439%) 802.11
8 1 (2.439%) IPv4
8 1 (2.439%) Ethernet
8 1 (2.439%) LDAP
8 1 (2.439%) Wireless
8 1 (2.439%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.878%) MySQL
2 2 (4.878%) MS Access
3 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.439%) Big Data
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 3 (7.317%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Clustering
2 5 (12.20%) HACMP
3 4 (9.756%) Computer Science
3 4 (9.756%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.439%) Firmware
5 1 (2.439%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 32 (78.05%) Linux
2 24 (58.54%) UNIX
3 18 (43.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (39.02%) Solaris
5 15 (36.59%) AIX
6 9 (21.95%) Windows
7 7 (17.07%) Debian
8 5 (12.20%) HPUX
8 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (9.756%) VMS
10 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (2.439%) CentOS
11 1 (2.439%) Ubuntu
11 1 (2.439%) Windows 7
11 1 (2.439%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (17.07%) Change Management
3 3 (7.317%) Project Management
3 3 (7.317%) Incident Management
4 2 (4.878%) Supplier Management
4 2 (4.878%) Network Design
4 2 (4.878%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (4.878%) Resource Management
4 2 (4.878%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (4.878%) ITIL
4 2 (4.878%) Six Sigma
5 1 (2.439%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.439%) ERP
5 1 (2.439%) CRM
5 1 (2.439%) Service Management
5 1 (2.439%) Change Control
5 1 (2.439%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Shell Script
2 9 (21.95%) Perl
3 8 (19.51%) AWK
3 8 (19.51%) sed
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 4 (9.756%) C-shell
6 4 (9.756%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.756%) Degree
1 4 (9.756%) RHCE
2 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.439%) MCP
2 1 (2.439%) MCSE
2 1 (2.439%) MCSA
2 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) SLA
2 2 (4.878%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.878%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (24.39%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (19.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (9.756%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (9.756%) Samba
4 4 (9.756%) NFS
5 3 (7.317%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.317%) Veritas File System
6 2 (4.878%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.439%) VMware ESX
7 1 (2.439%) XenApp
7 1 (2.439%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.439%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Cobbler
2 7 (17.07%) NetBackup
2 7 (17.07%) Nagios
3 5 (12.20%) YUM
4 4 (9.756%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (7.317%) Tivoli
5 3 (7.317%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (7.317%) HP SIM
6 1 (2.439%) OpenView
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Red Hat
2 17 (41.46%) VMware
3 16 (39.02%) Symantec
4 15 (36.59%) IBM
5 14 (34.15%) Oracle
6 13 (31.71%) Veritas
7 7 (17.07%) HP
8 6 (14.63%) Sun
8 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
9 4 (9.756%) EMC
9 4 (9.756%) NetApp
10 2 (4.878%) MKS
10 2 (4.878%) Citrix
10 2 (4.878%) Dell
10 2 (4.878%) CheckPoint
11 1 (2.439%) Juniper
11 1 (2.439%) Adobe
11 1 (2.439%) Cisco
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
You should have excellent knowledge of Windows Server,Active Directory, Exchange, VMWare, SANs and SQL. Your responsibilities will beto provide 2 nd and 3 rd line support to...
Adapt IT Recruitment
Salary: Circa £35,000
Posted: 23 May 2013