The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London 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 17 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 30 41 69
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 0.535% 0.704% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.575% 0.755% 0.180%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +29.87%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
174 265 556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 93.05% 93.31% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 140 237 341
Average salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £92,500 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
London

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Publishing
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 1 (12.50%) Release Management
6 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (12.50%) Service Management
6 1 (12.50%) Change Management
6 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) Cacti
6 1 (12.50%) Zenoss
6 1 (12.50%) Open Source
6 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
6 1 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (12.50%) Change Control
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) sed
6 1 (12.50%) MCSE
6 1 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 1 (12.50%) LAMP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) ObjectStore
General
1 5 (62.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
5 1 (12.50%) AIX
5 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
1 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Management
1 1 (12.50%) Change Management
1 1 (12.50%) Logistics
1 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
1 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
1 1 (12.50%) Release Management
1 1 (12.50%) Change Control
1 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) AWK
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
2 1 (12.50%) sed
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Cacti
1 1 (12.50%) Zenoss
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper