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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 106 97 99
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 40 37 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 1.523% 1.754% 0.885%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.590% 1.800% 0.913%
Number of salaries quoted 38 13 12
Average salary £27,500 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.66% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2515 2056 1753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.77% 97.44% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2041 1780 1490
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
West Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 69 (88.46%) Linux
2 44 (56.41%) Red Hat
3 35 (44.87%) UNIX
4 33 (42.31%) DNS
5 30 (38.46%) Windows
6 28 (35.90%) FTP
6 28 (35.90%) Debian
7 25 (32.05%) VMware
8 22 (28.21%) LAMP
9 20 (25.64%) Telecoms
9 20 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
11 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (16.67%) TCP/IP
13 12 (15.38%) Java
14 11 (14.10%) Firewall
14 11 (14.10%) E-Commerce
14 11 (14.10%) SAN
15 10 (12.82%) Active Directory
15 10 (12.82%) Service Delivery
15 10 (12.82%) Apache
15 10 (12.82%) MySQL
15 10 (12.82%) ITIL
15 10 (12.82%) Ubuntu
15 10 (12.82%) CentOS
15 10 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (12.82%) NAS
15 10 (12.82%) vSphere
16 8 (10.26%) HTTP
17 7 (8.974%) Python

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 22 (28.21%) LAMP
2 7 (8.974%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.564%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.82%) Apache
2 7 (8.974%) MS Exchange
2 7 (8.974%) WebLogic
3 6 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (6.410%) SharePoint
5 4 (5.128%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.128%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.564%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.282%) IIS
7 1 (1.282%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.282%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (8.974%) MS Excel
1 7 (8.974%) MS Office
2 2 (2.564%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (42.31%) DNS
2 28 (35.90%) FTP
3 13 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 11 (14.10%) Firewall
4 11 (14.10%) SAN
5 10 (12.82%) NAS
6 8 (10.26%) HTTP
7 6 (7.692%) VoIP
8 4 (5.128%) DHCP
9 3 (3.846%) Network Security
10 2 (2.564%) VPN
11 1 (1.282%) WAN
11 1 (1.282%) Internet
11 1 (1.282%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (1.282%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.282%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) MySQL
2 3 (3.846%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.282%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (8.974%) Maven
1 7 (8.974%) MSBuild
General
1 20 (25.64%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.128%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (5.128%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.282%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.282%) HACMP
3 1 (1.282%) SaaS
3 1 (1.282%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (88.46%) Linux
2 35 (44.87%) UNIX
3 30 (38.46%) Windows
4 28 (35.90%) Debian
5 20 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (12.82%) Ubuntu
7 10 (12.82%) CentOS
8 7 (8.974%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (7.692%) Windows 7
10 5 (6.410%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (2.564%) Solaris
12 1 (1.282%) AIX
12 1 (1.282%) HPUX
12 1 (1.282%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.10%) E-Commerce
2 10 (12.82%) Service Delivery
2 10 (12.82%) ITIL
3 5 (6.410%) Configuration Management
4 4 (5.128%) Load Balancing
5 3 (3.846%) Resource Management
6 2 (2.564%) Business Continuity
6 2 (2.564%) Problem Management
6 2 (2.564%) Asset Management
6 2 (2.564%) Network Architecture
6 2 (2.564%) Change Management
6 2 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.282%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (1.282%) Web Application Development
7 1 (1.282%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.282%) Cyber Security
7 1 (1.282%) E-business
7 1 (1.282%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (1.282%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) Java
2 7 (8.974%) Python
3 5 (6.410%) Perl
3 5 (6.410%) Bash shell
4 4 (5.128%) PHP
4 4 (5.128%) SQL
5 3 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.564%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.564%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.564%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.282%) MCP
3 1 (1.282%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.564%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.282%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.82%) Active Directory
1 10 (12.82%) vSphere
2 6 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.128%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.846%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.564%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.282%) NFS
6 1 (1.282%) XenApp
6 1 (1.282%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (6.410%) Nagios
1 5 (6.410%) SCCM
1 5 (6.410%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 5 (6.410%) Cacti
2 4 (5.128%) McAfee ePO
2 4 (5.128%) Puppet
3 2 (2.564%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.282%) SCOM
4 1 (1.282%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 44 (56.41%) Red Hat
2 25 (32.05%) VMware
3 6 (7.692%) HP
3 6 (7.692%) Dell
3 6 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.410%) Symantec
4 5 (6.410%) WatchGuard
5 4 (5.128%) ProCurve
5 4 (5.128%) Veeam
5 4 (5.128%) McAfee
5 4 (5.128%) EMC
5 4 (5.128%) Cisco
5 4 (5.128%) Oracle
6 3 (3.846%) JBoss
7 2 (2.564%) Google
7 2 (2.564%) Sun
7 2 (2.564%) Juniper
7 2 (2.564%) NetApp
7 2 (2.564%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.564%) Salesforce.com
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