The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 21 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 73 69 96
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 22 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.906% 0.708% 0.572%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.033% 0.775% 0.601%
Number of salaries quoted 20 5 5
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £33,100 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £42,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1082 645 999
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.76% 91.36% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 924 574 917
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Kent region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stansted - 5 £100,000 -
Maidstone -2 3 £30,000 -14.28%
Sevenoaks - 3 £30,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £27,500 -
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 15 (51.72%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) Finance
4 9 (31.03%) VMware
5 8 (27.59%) Linux
5 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (24.14%) MySQL
7 6 (20.69%) Agresso
8 5 (17.24%) SAN
8 5 (17.24%) Project Management
8 5 (17.24%) Oracle
8 5 (17.24%) PL/SQL
8 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
8 5 (17.24%) MS Exchange
8 5 (17.24%) DNS
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.24%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
8 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (13.79%) NAS
9 4 (13.79%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (13.79%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (13.79%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
9 4 (13.79%) Citrix
9 4 (13.79%) Apache
9 4 (13.79%) ERP
9 4 (13.79%) VBA
9 4 (13.79%) SQL Server

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (3.448%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) MS Exchange
1 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (13.79%) Apache
3 2 (6.897%) MS Project Server
4 1 (3.448%) IIS
4 1 (3.448%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
1 5 (17.24%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Agresso
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) SAN
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) NAS
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) VoIP
3 3 (10.34%) WAN
4 2 (6.897%) Network Security
4 2 (6.897%) VLAN
4 2 (6.897%) DHCP
4 2 (6.897%) Internet
5 1 (3.448%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) Redis
4 2 (6.897%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) RSpec
1 1 (3.448%) PHPUnit
1 1 (3.448%) Capistrano
1 1 (3.448%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.448%) Phing
1 1 (3.448%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.897%) Replication
2 1 (3.448%) NHS
2 1 (3.448%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) CMDB
2 1 (3.448%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Debian
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (10.34%) CentOS
4 2 (6.897%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.448%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.448%) Gentoo
5 1 (3.448%) UNIX
5 1 (3.448%) Solaris
5 1 (3.448%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Project Management
1 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (13.79%) ERP
2 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (10.34%) Information Security
3 3 (10.34%) ITIL
4 2 (6.897%) Network Management
4 2 (6.897%) Operations Management
4 2 (6.897%) Migration
4 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.448%) BCP
5 1 (3.448%) Business Continuity
5 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (3.448%) Business Performance Management
5 1 (3.448%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.448%) Active Record
5 1 (3.448%) Trend Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) VBA
4 3 (10.34%) PHP
5 1 (3.448%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.448%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) CIMA
1 4 (13.79%) ACCA
2 2 (6.897%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.897%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.897%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.448%) Xen
4 1 (3.448%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (3.448%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) VMware
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Citrix
3 4 (13.79%) Epicor
4 3 (10.34%) HP
5 2 (6.897%) Cisco
5 2 (6.897%) IBM
5 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.448%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.448%) Juniper
6 1 (3.448%) Zend
6 1 (3.448%) WatchGuard
6 1 (3.448%) 3PAR
Kent
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Microsoft Certified. Desktop experience up to and including Windows 7 (8 a bonus) Server experience up to 2008 R2 (Linux a bonus) Hands on virtualisation - VMWare / Hyper V...
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Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013