The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire 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 24 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 120 140 118
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 61 37 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.767% 0.964% 1.405%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.853% 1.003% 1.495%
Number of salaries quoted 57 37 35
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3292 3690 3411
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 95.37% 96.17% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2796 3234 2881
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Farnborough +15 16 £35,000 +16.66%
Southampton -1 12 £42,500 +21.42%
Basingstoke -3 9 £45,000 -
Andover - 5 £37,500 -
Havant - 4 £38,946 -
Aldershot - 3 £30,000 -
Fareham - 2 £31,750 -
Eastleigh -3 1 £37,500 +7.14%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 83 (62.41%) Linux
2 67 (50.38%) Windows
3 48 (36.09%) UNIX
4 44 (33.08%) Shell Script
5 42 (31.58%) VMware
5 42 (31.58%) Red Hat
6 34 (25.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (21.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (21.80%) ITIL
8 28 (21.05%) IBM
9 27 (20.30%) HP
9 27 (20.30%) MySQL
9 27 (20.30%) Bash shell
10 26 (19.55%) PHP
10 26 (19.55%) Apache
11 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
11 25 (18.80%) Security Cleared
11 25 (18.80%) CentOS
12 23 (17.29%) Active Directory
13 22 (16.54%) Clustering
14 21 (15.79%) TCP/IP
15 20 (15.04%) Solaris
15 20 (15.04%) SC Cleared
16 19 (14.29%) Degree
16 19 (14.29%) Oracle
16 19 (14.29%) MS Exchange
16 19 (14.29%) Symantec
17 18 (13.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 18 (13.53%) Back Office
17 18 (13.53%) VPN

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 (9.023%) LAMP
2 8 (6.015%) Middleware
2 8 (6.015%) SOAP
3 6 (4.511%) WebSphere
4 5 (3.759%) .NET
5 2 (1.504%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.504%) REST
Application Platforms
1 26 (19.55%) Apache
2 19 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 18 (13.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 14 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (9.023%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (4.511%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (2.256%) IIS
8 2 (1.504%) nginx
8 2 (1.504%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.752%) lighttpd
Applications
1 11 (8.271%) MS Office
2 2 (1.504%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (6.015%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 18 (13.53%) VPN
3 17 (12.78%) DNS
3 17 (12.78%) SSL
4 15 (11.28%) SAN
4 15 (11.28%) Firewall
5 13 (9.774%) SMTP
6 12 (9.023%) ATM
7 10 (7.519%) X.400
7 10 (7.519%) HTTP
7 10 (7.519%) SSH
8 5 (3.759%) DHCP
9 4 (3.008%) WAN
10 3 (2.256%) IMAP
10 3 (2.256%) POP3
10 3 (2.256%) FTP
10 3 (2.256%) VoIP
11 2 (1.504%) TELNET
11 2 (1.504%) VLAN
12 1 (0.752%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) MySQL
2 6 (4.511%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.511%) DB2
3 5 (3.759%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (3.759%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (3.759%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (2.256%) Big Data
5 2 (1.504%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.752%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.752%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.008%) MSI
General
1 18 (13.53%) Back Office
2 11 (8.271%) Finance
3 8 (6.015%) Banking
4 6 (4.511%) Retail
5 4 (3.008%) Games
6 1 (0.752%) French Language
6 1 (0.752%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.54%) Clustering
2 14 (10.53%) Blackberry
3 9 (6.767%) Derivative
3 9 (6.767%) Mathematics
4 8 (6.015%) CMDB
5 7 (5.263%) Open Source
6 6 (4.511%) Social Media
7 5 (3.759%) SaaS
8 4 (3.008%) Mainframe
9 3 (2.256%) Online Games
10 2 (1.504%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.504%) Computer Science
10 2 (1.504%) IaaS
10 2 (1.504%) PaaS
11 1 (0.752%) EqualLogic
11 1 (0.752%) LPAR
11 1 (0.752%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.752%) Replication
11 1 (0.752%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 83 (62.41%) Linux
2 67 (50.38%) Windows
3 48 (36.09%) UNIX
4 34 (25.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (18.80%) CentOS
6 20 (15.04%) Solaris
7 17 (12.78%) Ubuntu
8 14 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
8 14 (10.53%) AIX
8 14 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
8 14 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (8.271%) Debian
10 10 (7.519%) SUSE
11 7 (5.263%) Windows 7
12 3 (2.256%) HPUX
13 2 (1.504%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.752%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.752%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.80%) ITIL
2 14 (10.53%) Problem Management
3 10 (7.519%) Service Delivery
4 9 (6.767%) Software Testing
4 9 (6.767%) ITIL V3
4 9 (6.767%) Security Management
5 8 (6.015%) Change Management
5 8 (6.015%) ITSM
5 8 (6.015%) Service Management
5 8 (6.015%) OOP
5 8 (6.015%) Change Control
5 8 (6.015%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (6.015%) Performance Management
6 7 (5.263%) Information Security
7 6 (4.511%) E-Commerce
7 6 (4.511%) Web Development
8 5 (3.759%) Workflow
9 3 (2.256%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (1.504%) Asset Management
10 2 (1.504%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.08%) Shell Script
2 27 (20.30%) Bash shell
3 26 (19.55%) PHP
4 18 (13.53%) Perl
5 14 (10.53%) Java
6 11 (8.271%) SQL
7 10 (7.519%) C++
7 10 (7.519%) Korn
8 7 (5.263%) Python
9 6 (4.511%) Ruby
10 5 (3.759%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.504%) C
11 2 (1.504%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.29%) Degree
4 17 (12.78%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.519%) RHCE
6 8 (6.015%) ISEB
7 7 (5.263%) IBM AIX Certification
8 5 (3.759%) MCSE
8 5 (3.759%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.504%) MCP
9 2 (1.504%) MCSA
9 2 (1.504%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.504%) MCITP
10 1 (0.752%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.008%) SLA
2 2 (1.504%) QA
System Software
1 29 (21.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.29%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.53%) vSphere
4 9 (6.767%) Postfix
4 9 (6.767%) Sendmail
5 7 (5.263%) NFS
6 5 (3.759%) XenApp
7 4 (3.008%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (3.008%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.256%) qmail
8 3 (2.256%) Samba
9 2 (1.504%) XenServer
9 2 (1.504%) Varnish
10 1 (0.752%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.752%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 5 (3.759%) NetBackup
2 5 (3.759%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (3.008%) Nagios
3 4 (3.008%) AppManager
3 4 (3.008%) SCCM
3 4 (3.008%) Opalis
3 4 (3.008%) Puppet
4 3 (2.256%) SCOM
4 3 (2.256%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.504%) HP SIM
6 1 (0.752%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.752%) Plesk
6 1 (0.752%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) VMware
1 42 (31.58%) Red Hat
2 28 (21.05%) IBM
3 27 (20.30%) HP
4 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
5 19 (14.29%) Oracle
5 19 (14.29%) Symantec
6 8 (6.015%) Remedy
6 8 (6.015%) Citrix
6 8 (6.015%) Novell
7 5 (3.759%) Brocade
7 5 (3.759%) Intel
8 4 (3.008%) NetIQ
8 4 (3.008%) AppSense
8 4 (3.008%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.008%) Altiris
9 3 (2.256%) Cisco
10 1 (0.752%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.752%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.752%) Veeam
Southampton, Hampshire
Senior Systems Administration Windows, Unix, Active Directory, Virtualisation £40k - £55k Southampton, Hampshire Senior Systems Administrator required by a highly successful technology company located in Southampton, Hampshire... The company'...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
UNIX System Administrator - AIX - IT Services Fantastic opportunity for experienced UNIX System Administrator with solid AIX experience to join a leading IT Services company based in central PortsmouthThe...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens + bonus
Posted: 25 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Fantastic opportunity for experienced UNIX System Administrator with solid AIX experience to join a leading IT Services company based in central Portsmouth The UNIX System Administrator must have...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Linux, VMWare, Scripting, LAMP, Bash £30,000 to £45,000 dependent on experience An exciting new opportunity for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to join a fast growing...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent prospects
Posted: 24 May 2013
Fareham, Hampshire
Linux, MySQL, LAMP, Centos, Windows £30,000k - £35,000k Solent Business Park Whitely near Fareham, Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester An exciting opportunity for a Linux Systems Administrator to join...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Key Skills need are as follows: VMware Hyper V Exchange Active Directory TCP/IP Networking Symantec backup Exec & Netbackup Your main duties and responsibilities will be: Responsibility for...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Administration of servers and systems including Active Directory, Exchange, file servers and backup systems... Key Skills need are as follows: VMware Hyper V Exchange Active Directory TCP/IP...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux Systems Administrator from a Redhat, RHEL, Ubuntu or CentOS background with some Ruby, Python or Perl experience required by a leading edge Technology Solutions Provider based in...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Systems Administration, Redhat, Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, CentOS, RHEL, Python, Perl, Apache, Nagios, Solarwinds, PHP, Linux, Graduate... ~ Nagios, Solarwinds, SCCM, NetIQ AppManager, Opalis,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
As a AIX Systems Administrator you will have the following experience: - A solid background in Unix platform (P-Series). - Unix Systems Administration. - Unix technologies AIX 5.2 - 6...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + ben
Posted: 24 May 2013
Fareham, South East
There are three primary functions of this role: to maintain, develop and support internal and external company systems required by the business. This is a hands-on role...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Fareham, Hampshire
Role may suit candidates holding the following job titles: Infrastructure Specialist, Infrastructure Consultant, Infrastructure Support, Senior System Administrator Key skills: Linux Administration (Internal/External Systems), Cloud computing, Project...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Computer Futures are looking for a Systems Administrator for a key client of ours based inSouthampton. You will be responsible for the Administration of servers and systems including...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013