The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 290 309 308
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 23 24 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.196% 0.181% 0.125%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.211% 0.194% 0.134%
Number of salaries quoted 22 22 18
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £35,800 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-12.94% +6.25%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10905 12358 14219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.89% 93.12% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9400 11235 12819
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Systems Administrator
London

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Senior Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Senior Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 40 (71.43%) Linux
2 28 (50.00%) Windows
2 28 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 26 (46.43%) MySQL
3 26 (46.43%) Python
4 25 (44.64%) Perl
5 24 (42.86%) VMware
5 24 (42.86%) Ruby
5 24 (42.86%) Puppet
6 22 (39.29%) DNS
7 21 (37.50%) Apache
8 18 (32.14%) PHP
8 18 (32.14%) SAN
9 17 (30.36%) Configuration Management
10 16 (28.57%) SQL
10 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
11 15 (26.79%) Cisco
12 14 (25.00%) Nagios
13 13 (23.21%) VMware Infrastructure
14 12 (21.43%) Red Hat
14 12 (21.43%) HP
14 12 (21.43%) Tomcat
15 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (17.86%) Firewall
16 10 (17.86%) UNIX
16 10 (17.86%) Zenoss
16 10 (17.86%) Degree
16 10 (17.86%) Change Control
16 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 6 (10.71%) LAMP
2 5 (8.929%) Web Services
3 2 (3.571%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (3.571%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 21 (37.50%) Apache
2 12 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 8 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 8 (14.29%) Amazon AWS
4 7 (12.50%) nginx
4 7 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (8.929%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (3.571%) IIS
6 2 (3.571%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.571%) Liferay
7 1 (1.786%) Lync
7 1 (1.786%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.786%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (1.786%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (8.929%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.786%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.786%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (39.29%) DNS
2 18 (32.14%) SAN
3 10 (17.86%) Firewall
4 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.71%) Internet
5 6 (10.71%) VPN
5 6 (10.71%) DHCP
5 6 (10.71%) LAN
5 6 (10.71%) LDAP
5 6 (10.71%) NAS
5 6 (10.71%) VLAN
6 5 (8.929%) WAN
6 5 (8.929%) HTTP
6 5 (8.929%) SSH
7 4 (7.143%) Wireless
7 4 (7.143%) OSPF
7 4 (7.143%) BGP
7 4 (7.143%) iSCSI
8 3 (5.357%) Network Security
8 3 (5.357%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (46.43%) MySQL
2 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.929%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (7.143%) ObjectStore
6 4 (7.143%) Redis
6 4 (7.143%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (3.571%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (8.929%) Git (software)
2 3 (5.357%) Subversion
3 2 (3.571%) Hudson
3 2 (3.571%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (8.929%) Law
3 4 (7.143%) Music
3 4 (7.143%) Music Industry
4 2 (3.571%) Publishing
5 1 (1.786%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.786%) Games
5 1 (1.786%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Open Source
1 9 (16.07%) Streaming Media
2 8 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.571%) Replication
3 2 (3.571%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.786%) New Media
4 1 (1.786%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.786%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.786%) Clustering
4 1 (1.786%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (71.43%) Linux
2 28 (50.00%) Windows
3 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (17.86%) UNIX
5 9 (16.07%) FreeBSD
5 9 (16.07%) Debian
5 9 (16.07%) Ubuntu
6 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (12.50%) CentOS
7 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (7.143%) Mac OS
8 4 (7.143%) Windows 7
9 2 (3.571%) SUSE
10 1 (1.786%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.786%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.786%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Configuration Management
2 10 (17.86%) Change Control
2 10 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (16.07%) Load Balancing
3 9 (16.07%) Release Management
4 5 (8.929%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.143%) Capacity Management
6 3 (5.357%) Security Management
7 2 (3.571%) Network Design
7 2 (3.571%) Migration
7 2 (3.571%) High Availability
8 1 (1.786%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.786%) CRM
8 1 (1.786%) E-Commerce
8 1 (1.786%) ITIL
8 1 (1.786%) RDF
8 1 (1.786%) B2B
8 1 (1.786%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 26 (46.43%) Python
3 25 (44.64%) Perl
4 24 (42.86%) Ruby
5 18 (32.14%) PHP
6 16 (28.57%) SQL
7 9 (16.07%) sed
7 9 (16.07%) AWK
8 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.357%) PowerShell
9 3 (5.357%) C
9 3 (5.357%) Java
10 1 (1.786%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) RHCE
3 3 (5.357%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.357%) RHCT
4 2 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.571%) CCNA
4 2 (3.571%) MCP
4 2 (3.571%) MCSE
5 1 (1.786%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (23.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.07%) NFS
4 7 (12.50%) Samba
5 5 (8.929%) Squid
6 3 (5.357%) vSphere
6 3 (5.357%) Xen
6 3 (5.357%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.571%) VMware ESX
7 2 (3.571%) Postfix
7 2 (3.571%) Sendmail
7 2 (3.571%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.786%) XenApp
8 1 (1.786%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Puppet
2 14 (25.00%) Nagios
3 10 (17.86%) Zenoss
4 9 (16.07%) Cacti
5 6 (10.71%) SCCM
6 4 (7.143%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (1.786%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (1.786%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.786%) Cobbler
8 1 (1.786%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) VMware
2 15 (26.79%) Cisco
3 12 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 12 (21.43%) HP
4 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.71%) NetApp
6 4 (7.143%) Juniper
7 3 (5.357%) SAP
7 3 (5.357%) Oracle
7 3 (5.357%) Citrix
8 2 (3.571%) AppSense
8 2 (3.571%) EMC
8 2 (3.571%) Percona
8 2 (3.571%) Vertica
9 1 (1.786%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.786%) Joyent
9 1 (1.786%) Kalahari
9 1 (1.786%) JBoss
9 1 (1.786%) Interwoven
9 1 (1.786%) Veritas
City of London
bash, Perl, Python, Ruby* Administering and configuring Internet applications (preferably PHP /Java)* Deployment management* Mobile Internet applicationsThe Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for; Supporting, monitoring, maintaining and...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013