The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands 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 20 June 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 124 141 144
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 40 26 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.246% 0.801% 0.887%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.311% 0.842% 0.919%
Number of salaries quoted 38 25 28
Average salary £31,500 £28,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,400 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £35,900 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3051 3089 3589
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 95.05% 95.13% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2622 2734 3100
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

East Midlands Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire +10 23 £32,500 +18.18% 2
Leicestershire -3 9 £27,000 +8.00% 2
Derbyshire - 9 £27,000 - 1
Lincolnshire -17 6 £32,500 -13.33%
Northamptonshire -5 1 £37,500 +33.92%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 33 (49.25%) UNIX
2 28 (41.79%) TCP/IP
3 25 (37.31%) Windows
4 22 (32.84%) Firewall
5 21 (31.34%) Linux
6 20 (29.85%) Internet
7 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
8 16 (23.88%) HTTPS
8 16 (23.88%) MVS
8 16 (23.88%) NetScaler
9 15 (22.39%) VMware
10 14 (20.90%) CheckPoint
10 14 (20.90%) FTP
10 14 (20.90%) Citrix
11 13 (19.40%) MS Exchange
11 13 (19.40%) LAN
11 13 (19.40%) VMware Infrastructure
12 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (17.91%) Degree
12 12 (17.91%) HP
12 12 (17.91%) MS Excel
12 12 (17.91%) SQL
12 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2003
13 11 (16.42%) WAN
14 10 (14.93%) VPN
14 10 (14.93%) Red Hat
14 10 (14.93%) SQL Server
14 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
14 10 (14.93%) Shell Script
15 9 (13.43%) MS Office

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 3 (4.478%) HTML
2 2 (2.985%) J2EE
2 2 (2.985%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 13 (19.40%) MS Exchange
2 8 (11.94%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (8.955%) Apache
4 5 (7.463%) IIS
4 5 (7.463%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (2.985%) Lync
5 2 (2.985%) Commerce Server 2007
5 2 (2.985%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.985%) NetWeaver
5 2 (2.985%) Commerce Server
6 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 12 (17.91%) MS Excel
2 9 (13.43%) MS Office
3 6 (8.955%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.985%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (41.79%) TCP/IP
2 22 (32.84%) Firewall
3 20 (29.85%) Internet
4 16 (23.88%) HTTPS
4 16 (23.88%) NetScaler
5 14 (20.90%) FTP
6 13 (19.40%) LAN
7 11 (16.42%) WAN
8 10 (14.93%) VPN
9 9 (13.43%) DNS
10 8 (11.94%) SAN
11 7 (10.45%) MPLS
11 7 (10.45%) UMTS
11 7 (10.45%) GPRS
11 7 (10.45%) ISDN
11 7 (10.45%) Network Security
11 7 (10.45%) xDSL
12 4 (5.970%) NAS
13 2 (2.985%) SSL
13 2 (2.985%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.955%) MySQL
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.493%) MS Access
4 1 (1.493%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (2.985%) Capistrano
1 2 (2.985%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
1 7 (10.45%) Finance
2 3 (4.478%) Retail
3 2 (2.985%) Marketing
4 1 (1.493%) Law
4 1 (1.493%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Digital Media
2 6 (8.955%) Computer Science
3 5 (7.463%) Clustering
4 4 (5.970%) Statistics
4 4 (5.970%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.985%) Visualisation
5 2 (2.985%) Open Source
5 2 (2.985%) Psychology
6 1 (1.493%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.493%) EPoS
6 1 (1.493%) EFT
6 1 (1.493%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 33 (49.25%) UNIX
2 25 (37.31%) Windows
3 21 (31.34%) Linux
4 16 (23.88%) MVS
5 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (10.45%) AIX
8 5 (7.463%) Windows XP
9 3 (4.478%) HPUX
9 3 (4.478%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.985%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.985%) CentOS
10 2 (2.985%) Debian
10 2 (2.985%) SUSE
11 1 (1.493%) Fedora
11 1 (1.493%) FreeBSD
11 1 (1.493%) Solaris
11 1 (1.493%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.493%) Mandriva Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (10.45%) Business Analysis
2 6 (8.955%) E-Commerce
3 5 (7.463%) ITIL
4 4 (5.970%) PDM
5 3 (4.478%) Problem Management
5 3 (4.478%) Time Management
5 3 (4.478%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (2.985%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (2.985%) Capacity Management
6 2 (2.985%) Data Protection
6 2 (2.985%) Load Balancing
6 2 (2.985%) Incident Management
6 2 (2.985%) Change Management
6 2 (2.985%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.493%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.493%) Practice Management
7 1 (1.493%) Project Management
7 1 (1.493%) Content Management
7 1 (1.493%) Logistics
7 1 (1.493%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) SQL
2 10 (14.93%) Shell Script
3 9 (13.43%) ActionScript
3 9 (13.43%) ActionScript 2.0
4 6 (8.955%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.955%) JCL
4 6 (8.955%) REXX
5 5 (7.463%) Perl
6 4 (5.970%) C-shell
6 4 (5.970%) Bash shell
7 3 (4.478%) PHP
8 2 (2.985%) C++
8 2 (2.985%) VBScript
8 2 (2.985%) Python
9 1 (1.493%) AWK
9 1 (1.493%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.493%) sed
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) CCIE
2 7 (10.45%) CCNP
2 7 (10.45%) CCNA
2 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.463%) MCSE
3 5 (7.463%) MCSA
3 5 (7.463%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.970%) RHCE
5 2 (2.985%) MCPD
5 2 (2.985%) MCTS
5 2 (2.985%) MCITP
5 2 (2.985%) MCP
6 1 (1.493%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.493%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.463%) vSphere
4 4 (5.970%) XenApp
4 4 (5.970%) NFS
4 4 (5.970%) Samba
5 3 (4.478%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.493%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.493%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.493%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (1.493%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.493%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.493%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (4.478%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (4.478%) Backup Exec
1 3 (4.478%) WSUS
1 3 (4.478%) SCOM
2 2 (2.985%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (2.985%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.493%) ARCserve
3 1 (1.493%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.39%) VMware
3 14 (20.90%) CheckPoint
3 14 (20.90%) Citrix
4 12 (17.91%) HP
5 10 (14.93%) Red Hat
6 8 (11.94%) Oracle
7 6 (8.955%) Symantec
8 4 (5.970%) Dell
9 3 (4.478%) Sophos
10 2 (2.985%) Twitter
10 2 (2.985%) SAP
10 2 (2.985%) JBoss
10 2 (2.985%) Altiris
10 2 (2.985%) Websense
11 1 (1.493%) Remedy
11 1 (1.493%) McAfee
11 1 (1.493%) EMC
11 1 (1.493%) IBM
11 1 (1.493%) Sun
Leicestershire, East Midlands
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Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £2400.44 - £3000.55 per month
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