The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 119 116 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 4 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.220% 0.348% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.231% 0.362% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-12.94% +8.97%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1728 1936 2029
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.21% 96.32% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1538 1644 1847
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Systems Administrator
Cambridgeshire

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Senior Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (55.56%) SAN
4 5 (55.56%) Perl
4 5 (55.56%) NFS
5 4 (44.44%) Firewall
5 4 (44.44%) Degree
5 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (33.33%) Network Security
6 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
6 3 (33.33%) NetApp
6 3 (33.33%) MySQL
6 3 (33.33%) Python
7 2 (22.22%) LAN
7 2 (22.22%) WAN
7 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (11.11%) Electronic Design Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Windows Storage Server
8 1 (11.11%) Biology
8 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (11.11%) RHCA
8 1 (11.11%) Isilon
8 1 (11.11%) Cygwin
8 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (11.11%) CentOS

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (11.11%) NAS
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (11.11%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Biology
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (11.11%) CentOS
6 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
6 1 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Electronic Design Automation
1 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Perl
2 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) RHCA
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Storage Server
1 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Isilon
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) Perforce
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
Cambridge, East Anglia
Experience with administration of Linux systems on modern HP server hardware and SAN disk systems... The main technical skills needed are Red Hat Linux and Net App Storage.
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Maintenance of the organisation's web-based infrastructure (including SharePoint)... You will be holding significant experience of working in a similar position and it is absolutely essential that...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35k - 45k per year
Posted: 22 May 2013