Systems Administrator Jobs in Cheshire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
North West > Cheshire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Cheshire is £56,509 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 91 98
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 10 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.66% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.35% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £24,450 £37,341
25th Percentile £55,163 £24,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £28,500 £41,957
Median % change year-on-year +98.28% -32.07% +2.00%
75th Percentile £57,854 £31,625 £43,062
90th Percentile - £31,700 -
North West median annual salary £32,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -31.58% +18.75% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,481 850 986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.05% 89.29% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 483 529
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,170 £24,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,824 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Cheshire

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Cheshire

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sandbach 0 5 - -
Northwich - 4 - -
Warrington - 1 £56,509 -
Systems Administrator
North West

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 Cheshire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Marketing
2 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 4 (40.00%) SAP Business One
3 3 (30.00%) Logistics
3 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) SLA
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Marketing
2 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Logistics
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Information Security
2 1 (10.00%) Line Management
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Lustre
1 1 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Icinga
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (10.00%) VMware