Systems Administrator Jobs in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 56 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 71 75 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.846% 3.673% 3.341%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.039% 3.819% 3.527%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 59
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,750 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1758 1964 2013
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.23% 96.18% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1561 1666 1834
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 £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
Cambridgeshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridge Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 108 (71.52%) Linux
2 61 (40.40%) UNIX
3 60 (39.74%) Red Hat
4 54 (35.76%) Windows
4 54 (35.76%) Apache
5 53 (35.10%) Perl
6 52 (34.44%) Python
7 46 (30.46%) DNS
8 42 (27.81%) MySQL
9 41 (27.15%) Microsoft
9 41 (27.15%) Bash shell
10 36 (23.84%) DHCP
11 33 (21.85%) Active Directory
11 33 (21.85%) Firewall
12 31 (20.53%) SAN
12 31 (20.53%) ITIL
13 30 (19.87%) Shell Script
13 30 (19.87%) Debian
13 30 (19.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (19.21%) Ubuntu
14 29 (19.21%) CentOS
15 28 (18.54%) SQL Server
16 27 (17.88%) MS Exchange
17 24 (15.89%) Degree
18 23 (15.23%) Exchange Server 2010
18 23 (15.23%) Oracle
18 23 (15.23%) Citrix
18 23 (15.23%) TCP/IP
19 22 (14.57%) Symantec
20 20 (13.25%) SCOM

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 12 (7.947%) Middleware
2 8 (5.298%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.974%) LAMP
4 3 (1.987%) Web Services
5 2 (1.325%) JRules
5 2 (1.325%) Lucene
5 2 (1.325%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.325%) WebCenter
5 2 (1.325%) FastCGI
6 1 (0.662%) Ext JS
6 1 (0.662%) COM
Application Platforms
1 54 (35.76%) Apache
2 27 (17.88%) MS Exchange
3 23 (15.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (9.934%) IIS
5 10 (6.623%) SharePoint
6 8 (5.298%) WebLogic
7 4 (2.649%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (1.987%) Amazon AWS
9 2 (1.325%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.325%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (1.325%) Tomcat
9 2 (1.325%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 2 (1.325%) nginx
10 1 (0.662%) Lync
10 1 (0.662%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 16 (10.60%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.325%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.649%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.325%) Documaker
3 1 (0.662%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (30.46%) DNS
2 36 (23.84%) DHCP
3 33 (21.85%) Firewall
4 31 (20.53%) SAN
5 23 (15.23%) TCP/IP
6 17 (11.26%) LAN
7 14 (9.272%) Internet
7 14 (9.272%) VLAN
8 11 (7.285%) Network Security
8 11 (7.285%) Ethernet
9 8 (5.298%) WAN
9 8 (5.298%) VPN
9 8 (5.298%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (5.298%) NAS
10 7 (4.636%) SSH
11 6 (3.974%) SSL
11 6 (3.974%) iSCSI
12 3 (1.987%) HTTP
13 2 (1.325%) MPLS
13 2 (1.325%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.81%) MySQL
2 28 (18.54%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.934%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.947%) Redis
5 10 (6.623%) Neo4j
6 7 (4.636%) Big Data
7 4 (2.649%) Text Mining
8 3 (1.987%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.325%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (1.325%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.662%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (1.325%) Subversion
General
1 13 (8.609%) Back Office
2 6 (3.974%) Finance
3 2 (1.325%) Advertising
3 2 (1.325%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (1.325%) Games
4 1 (0.662%) Retail
4 1 (0.662%) Law
4 1 (0.662%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Blackberry
2 12 (7.947%) Open Source
3 9 (5.960%) Replication
4 7 (4.636%) Wiki
4 7 (4.636%) Computer Science
5 6 (3.974%) PKI
5 6 (3.974%) SaaS
6 2 (1.325%) Clustering
6 2 (1.325%) Biology
6 2 (1.325%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.325%) Online Games
6 2 (1.325%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.662%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.662%) EqualLogic
7 1 (0.662%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 108 (71.52%) Linux
2 61 (40.40%) UNIX
3 54 (35.76%) Windows
4 30 (19.87%) Debian
4 30 (19.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (19.21%) Ubuntu
5 29 (19.21%) CentOS
6 9 (5.960%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (5.298%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (3.311%) Windows 7
8 5 (3.311%) HPUX
9 4 (2.649%) Windows XP
10 3 (1.987%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.662%) Scientific Linux
11 1 (0.662%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.662%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.53%) ITIL
2 10 (6.623%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (6.623%) Incident Management
3 9 (5.960%) E-Commerce
4 8 (5.298%) Load Balancing
4 8 (5.298%) Problem Management
4 8 (5.298%) Network Design
5 7 (4.636%) Data Protection
6 5 (3.311%) ERP
7 4 (2.649%) E-business
7 4 (2.649%) Data Analysis
7 4 (2.649%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (1.987%) Time Management
9 2 (1.325%) Service Delivery
9 2 (1.325%) Configuration Management
9 2 (1.325%) Project Management
9 2 (1.325%) Information Security
9 2 (1.325%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.325%) BPMN
10 1 (0.662%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.10%) Perl
2 52 (34.44%) Python
3 41 (27.15%) Bash shell
4 30 (19.87%) Shell Script
5 16 (10.60%) SQL
6 13 (8.609%) Bourne shell
6 13 (8.609%) PHP
7 3 (1.987%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.325%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.325%) Java
9 1 (0.662%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.662%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.662%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Degree
2 8 (5.298%) Postgraduate
2 8 (5.298%) RHCE
3 3 (1.987%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.325%) CCNP
4 2 (1.325%) CCNA
5 1 (0.662%) RHCA
5 1 (0.662%) OCP
5 1 (0.662%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.662%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.636%) SLA
2 3 (1.987%) GxP
3 1 (0.662%) GAMP
System Software
1 33 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.934%) NFS
3 14 (9.272%) vSphere
4 13 (8.609%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (7.285%) VMware ESX
6 9 (5.960%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (4.636%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (4.636%) Samba
8 6 (3.974%) Postfix
8 6 (3.974%) Sendmail
9 5 (3.311%) XenApp
10 3 (1.987%) Hyper-V
11 2 (1.325%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.662%) Cygwin
12 1 (0.662%) Nmap
12 1 (0.662%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 20 (13.25%) SCOM
2 16 (10.60%) Backup Exec
2 16 (10.60%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 15 (9.934%) Nagios
4 13 (8.609%) WSUS
5 9 (5.960%) SCCM
6 6 (3.974%) OSSEC
6 6 (3.974%) Puppet
7 5 (3.311%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (3.311%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (1.987%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.987%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.325%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (1.325%) Control-M
9 2 (1.325%) Windows Storage Server
9 2 (1.325%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.662%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 60 (39.74%) Red Hat
2 41 (27.15%) Microsoft
3 23 (15.23%) Oracle
3 23 (15.23%) Citrix
4 22 (14.57%) Symantec
5 19 (12.58%) Cisco
6 17 (11.26%) VMware
7 12 (7.947%) NetApp
8 11 (7.285%) HP
9 8 (5.298%) EMC
10 7 (4.636%) IBM
11 6 (3.974%) TippingPoint
11 6 (3.974%) SolarWinds
12 5 (3.311%) Juniper
12 5 (3.311%) SAP
13 3 (1.987%) Informatica
13 3 (1.987%) BT
14 2 (1.325%) Apple
14 2 (1.325%) Veritas
14 2 (1.325%) BMC
System Administrator - Cambridge - £50k
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The client is looking for someone who will be able to take responsibility for all aspects of the System Admin role: to ensure that production and operational systems...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Unix System Administrator / Cambridge, UK / Attractive Salary
Cambridge, East Anglia
In this position as a Unix System Administrator you will be responsible for managing and providing support for all aspects of the client's website and infrastructure... Required...
montreal
Salary: Attractive Salary Package
Posted: 2 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Are you an experienced Linux Systems Administrator looking for a hands-on role maintaining a high performance global network?... You will also need a good knowledge of Internet...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Senior UNIX/LINUX Systems Administrator - Cambridge
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
Linux / Unix Systems Administrator NOC Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
System Administrator - Linux - Global Brand
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Unix, Linux, Python, Perl, Apache Troubleshooting , System Administrator, Bourne shell scripting, AWS, Bash, MongoDB clusters, Redis clusters, Neo4j, MySQL... The successful candidate will have strong experience of Linux...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Linux System Administrator (HPC)- Cambridge
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Leading Engineering Company is actively recruiting for an experience Linux Systems Administrator to provide Linux/Unix administration across Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu in a HPC (high performance computing/clustering...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Experience in both Linux and Windows systems, the focus is on Linux but you will need to understand the Microsoft platforms too... - Scripting experience or decent programming in...
ComputerWorld Personnel Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + 25 days holiday
Posted: 16 May 2013
System Administrator/IT Support Engineer - Linux, Windows, HW, SW
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have experience with both Linux and Windows platforms as well as scripting experience in Python, Bash or similar... Key words: Linux, Windows, HW, SW, Cloud, Server,...
Simple Recruitment Services Ltd
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum Excellent benefits package
Posted: 16 May 2013
Linux /Windows Desktop System Administrator - Cambridge
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Essential skills required for the position of Linux /Windows Desktop System Administrator /Sys Admin / Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer - Relevant degree or computing experience 5 years + in a service...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Desired: Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification... Ability to produce simple web tools using Perl, Python,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Principal Systems Administrator
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel filesystems (lustre,...
Sanger Institute
Salary: From £36,825 to £46,850 per annum dependent on experience plus excelle
Posted: 21 May 2013
System Administrator - Linux, Unix - Mobile Web Specialist
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Unix, Linux, Python, Perl, Apache Troubleshooting , System Administrator, Bourne shell scripting, AWS, Bash, MongoDB clusters, Redis clusters, Neo4j, MySQL... You will work with technologies such as Nagios, Puppet,...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Systems Admin / IT Support Engineer - Linux and Windows, Networking, Security, Scientific S/W, Cambridge, to £40k + benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
Summary: Linux & Windows, networking protocols & security, Python / Scripting experience, Cambridge, to £40k + benefits... Python, bash, or other language; - Understanding of installation/management/backup of fileservers and databases, e...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £40k + benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
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