The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 505 540 549
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 102 98 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.232% 0.182% 0.132%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.248% 0.194% 0.141%
Number of salaries quoted 94 88 68
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,750 £41,750 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £66,750 £62,500 £60,150
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-12.94% +6.25%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41069 50577 53212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.89% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34568 43927 44773
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator across the London region.

London Senior Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

London Senior Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator within the London 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
City of London +6 23 £50,000 -4.76%
Ruislip - 4 £60,000 -
Surbiton - 3 £57,500 -
Ealing - 2 £50,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £53,750 -
Hammersmith - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 158 (69.60%) Linux
2 99 (43.61%) Windows
3 96 (42.29%) Puppet
4 93 (40.97%) MySQL
5 83 (36.56%) VMware
6 82 (36.12%) Red Hat
7 76 (33.48%) UNIX
8 69 (30.40%) Bash shell
9 66 (29.07%) Perl
10 60 (26.43%) Apache
11 59 (25.99%) DNS
12 58 (25.55%) SAN
13 57 (25.11%) Ruby
14 56 (24.67%) Python
15 54 (23.79%) TCP/IP
16 51 (22.47%) Active Directory
16 51 (22.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 49 (21.59%) Windows Server 2008
18 48 (21.15%) PHP
19 46 (20.26%) HP
20 45 (19.82%) CentOS
21 44 (19.38%) SQL
22 43 (18.94%) Microsoft
23 41 (18.06%) Amazon AWS
24 40 (17.62%) NoSQL
25 39 (17.18%) Cisco
26 38 (16.74%) Finance
26 38 (16.74%) VMware Infrastructure
27 37 (16.30%) Ubuntu
27 37 (16.30%) Nagios

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (7.930%) Web Services
2 15 (6.608%) LAMP
3 13 (5.727%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (4.846%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (2.643%) Memcached
6 5 (2.203%) JDBC
7 4 (1.762%) HTML
7 4 (1.762%) Drools
8 3 (1.322%) .NET
9 2 (0.881%) COM
9 2 (0.881%) Lucene
10 1 (0.441%) Node.js
10 1 (0.441%) Ajax
10 1 (0.441%) CSS
10 1 (0.441%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 60 (26.43%) Apache
2 41 (18.06%) Amazon AWS
3 32 (14.10%) MS Exchange
4 29 (12.78%) Tomcat
5 26 (11.45%) nginx
6 24 (10.57%) Exchange Server 2010
7 15 (6.608%) IIS
8 12 (5.286%) Exchange Server 2007
9 10 (4.405%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.965%) Rackspace Cloud
10 9 (3.965%) SharePoint
11 8 (3.524%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 7 (3.084%) Liferay
12 7 (3.084%) Exchange Server 2003
13 5 (2.203%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.762%) Route 53
14 4 (1.762%) CloudFront
14 4 (1.762%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.881%) ActiveMQ
15 2 (0.881%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 23 (10.13%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.441%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.762%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.322%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.441%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (25.99%) DNS
2 58 (25.55%) SAN
3 54 (23.79%) TCP/IP
4 36 (15.86%) Internet
5 30 (13.22%) DHCP
6 25 (11.01%) Firewall
7 21 (9.251%) NAS
7 21 (9.251%) HTTP
8 20 (8.811%) VPN
9 19 (8.370%) iSCSI
10 18 (7.930%) LAN
11 17 (7.489%) WAN
12 15 (6.608%) VLAN
13 14 (6.167%) SSH
14 13 (5.727%) LDAP
15 12 (5.286%) SNMP
16 9 (3.965%) BIG-IP
16 9 (3.965%) Wireless
16 9 (3.965%) SMTP
17 6 (2.643%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (40.97%) MySQL
2 40 (17.62%) NoSQL
3 34 (14.98%) SQL Server
4 27 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (8.811%) Redis
6 18 (7.930%) Apache Cassandra
7 17 (7.489%) MongoDB
8 14 (6.167%) SQL Server 2008
9 8 (3.524%) SQL Server 2012
10 7 (3.084%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (2.203%) ObjectStore
12 4 (1.762%) Voldemort
12 4 (1.762%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.762%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.881%) Informix
14 1 (0.441%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.441%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (9.692%) Git (software)
2 18 (7.930%) Subversion
3 10 (4.405%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.084%) Hudson
5 4 (1.762%) ProC
6 2 (0.881%) JIRA
6 2 (0.881%) Maven
6 2 (0.881%) ANTLR
6 2 (0.881%) CMake
7 1 (0.441%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.441%) JUnit
General
1 38 (16.74%) Finance
2 12 (5.286%) Back Office
3 8 (3.524%) Music
3 8 (3.524%) Music Industry
4 6 (2.643%) Law
4 6 (2.643%) Banking
5 3 (1.322%) Games
6 2 (0.881%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.881%) Publishing
6 2 (0.881%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.881%) Retail
6 2 (0.881%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.441%) French Language
7 1 (0.441%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.441%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.441%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.10%) Open Source
2 21 (9.251%) Clustering
3 16 (7.048%) Replication
4 13 (5.727%) CLARiiON
4 13 (5.727%) EMC Centera
4 13 (5.727%) Computer Science
5 10 (4.405%) Streaming Media
6 8 (3.524%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.084%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.084%) Blackberry
8 6 (2.643%) Cryptography
8 6 (2.643%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.762%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.762%) Streaming Music
9 4 (1.762%) New Media
9 4 (1.762%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.322%) Symmetrix
11 2 (0.881%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.881%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.881%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 158 (69.60%) Linux
2 99 (43.61%) Windows
3 76 (33.48%) UNIX
4 51 (22.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (21.59%) Windows Server 2008
6 45 (19.82%) CentOS
7 37 (16.30%) Ubuntu
8 34 (14.98%) Debian
9 26 (11.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 20 (8.811%) Solaris
11 15 (6.608%) Windows 7
12 10 (4.405%) FreeBSD
13 9 (3.965%) SUSE
14 6 (2.643%) Windows XP
15 4 (1.762%) MVS
15 4 (1.762%) HPUX
15 4 (1.762%) Scientific Linux
15 4 (1.762%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.441%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (14.98%) Configuration Management
2 31 (13.66%) ITIL
3 27 (11.89%) Asset Management
4 26 (11.45%) Budget Control
5 21 (9.251%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (8.811%) E-Commerce
7 18 (7.930%) Load Balancing
8 15 (6.608%) Software Deployment
9 11 (4.846%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (4.846%) Change Control
10 10 (4.405%) Release Management
10 10 (4.405%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (3.965%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (3.965%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (3.084%) BCP
13 6 (2.643%) Systems Analysis
13 6 (2.643%) Mobile Application Development
14 5 (2.203%) Memory Management
14 5 (2.203%) Capacity Management
14 5 (2.203%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.40%) Bash shell
2 66 (29.07%) Perl
3 57 (25.11%) Ruby
4 56 (24.67%) Python
5 48 (21.15%) PHP
6 44 (19.38%) SQL
7 28 (12.33%) Shell Script
8 27 (11.89%) Java
9 16 (7.048%) AWK
9 16 (7.048%) sed
10 13 (5.727%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.846%) VB
12 8 (3.524%) C
13 4 (1.762%) REXX
14 2 (0.881%) C#
15 1 (0.441%) Scala
15 1 (0.441%) Korn
15 1 (0.441%) C++
15 1 (0.441%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.441%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (10.57%) Degree
2 21 (9.251%) RHCE
3 12 (5.286%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (4.405%) CCNA
4 10 (4.405%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.524%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.643%) MCP
6 6 (2.643%) MCITP
7 4 (1.762%) VCP4
8 3 (1.322%) RHCT
8 3 (1.322%) MCSE
8 3 (1.322%) CCNP
9 1 (0.441%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.10%) SLA
2 6 (2.643%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.322%) BS7799
4 2 (0.881%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.441%) QA
System Software
1 51 (22.47%) Active Directory
2 38 (16.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.692%) NFS
3 22 (9.692%) Xen
4 16 (7.048%) vSphere
5 12 (5.286%) Squid
6 11 (4.846%) Samba
7 8 (3.524%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.084%) Postfix
8 7 (3.084%) VMware ESX
9 6 (2.643%) Nmap
10 5 (2.203%) XenApp
10 5 (2.203%) ISA Server
10 5 (2.203%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.762%) VMware Server
12 3 (1.322%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.881%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.881%) XenServer
13 2 (0.881%) UAG
13 2 (0.881%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 96 (42.29%) Puppet
2 37 (16.30%) Nagios
3 19 (8.370%) SCCM
4 12 (5.286%) Zenoss
5 10 (4.405%) ZABBIX
5 10 (4.405%) Cacti
6 8 (3.524%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.203%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 4 (1.762%) Control-M
8 4 (1.762%) Unicenter
8 4 (1.762%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.762%) SCOM
8 4 (1.762%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 4 (1.762%) CFEngine
8 4 (1.762%) Splunk
8 4 (1.762%) Ganglia
9 2 (0.881%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.881%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.881%) HP SIM
9 2 (0.881%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 83 (36.56%) VMware
2 82 (36.12%) Red Hat
3 46 (20.26%) HP
4 43 (18.94%) Microsoft
5 39 (17.18%) Cisco
6 29 (12.78%) EMC
7 20 (8.811%) Oracle
8 17 (7.489%) NetApp
9 12 (5.286%) JBoss
9 12 (5.286%) Symantec
10 11 (4.846%) AppSense
11 10 (4.405%) SAP
12 9 (3.965%) Citrix
13 8 (3.524%) F5
14 7 (3.084%) Rackspace
14 7 (3.084%) Percona
15 6 (2.643%) CA
15 6 (2.643%) Vertica
16 5 (2.203%) Juniper
16 5 (2.203%) Dell
London
Linux System Administrator - Redhat - Online RetailerFantastic opportunity for experienced Linux System Administrator with solid Redhat experience in a live 24/7 environment to join a leading Online Retailer...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Linux System Administrator's must have solid knowledge of Linux (Redhat) in an online LAMP environment. You will also require strong experience with LAMP technologies - Apache, MySQL & PHP.
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Salary: From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits!
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
You will be an advanced Senior Linux Systems Administrator, with a passion for cloud technology (AWS, Rackspace) and deployment with Puppet or Chef. Further technology you will be...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
A Linux/Unix Systems Engineer is required by an award winning Software and Cloud Services Company... Required Skills At least 5 years' demonstrable experience with CentOS/RHEL or...
Linux Recruit
Salary: £60,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Our client delivers on large ecommerce, retail solutions in the travel industry and are looking for a senior systems administrator who wishes to join an exciting company based...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Installing, configuring and maintaining Red Hat and Windows Servers... Advanced understanding of Red Hat Linux and Apache and web-based architecture... Strong experience in Linux, MySql, Apache, Java...
lastminute.com
Salary: Excellent + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
North London
This infrastructure includes an ESX VMware cluster hosting about 100 Linux and Windows servers, 10G and 1G fiber and copper networks, Netapp SANs, Cisco firewalls, Cisco and Extreme...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
City of London
bash, Perl, Python, Ruby* Administering and configuring Internet applications (preferably PHP /Java)* Deployment management* Mobile Internet applicationsThe Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for; Supporting, monitoring, maintaining and...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Surbiton, Surrey
Linux systems (preferably RedHat and SLES... Strong bash Shell Scripting skills and basic Perl... Good Apache Web Server knowledge (SSL, vhosts, rewrite rules, mod_jk, mod_proxy, ) Commercial experience with...
Kelway Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £60,000 per annum £55,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Excellen
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Citrix, Netscaler Appliance Layer, AD, SCCM, SCOM , Appsense, Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Access Gateway , Load Balancing, Microsoft, Web Interface, Advanced Access Control, Windows , Citrix Netscalers... -Citrix, Microsoft and...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonuses and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Central London / West End
RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Postgress - any of these exp... Keywords: Senior Systems Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator - eCommerce, Linux, Apache, MySQL JBOSS, Virtualisation / Cloud DataCentre,...
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West London
Ability to maintain and troubleshoot FTP, HTTP, SSL, and SMTP mail flow... Thorough understanding of clustering requirements; ability to build and maintain Microsoft Windows clusters... Microsoft SQL configuration...
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 13 May 2013
West London
VMware VCP... - MySQL, PostgreSQL. - Samba, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, BIND/DNS, Squid, Apache... - Experience of Cisco ASA, Switches, LAN/WAN/Wireless, VPN, VLAN, VRRP... - CCNA... - Ubuntu, Windows 2003/2008... - Atlassian...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 7 May 2013
London
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KV Recruitment
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Salary + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
London
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Opilio Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - 55000 Per Annum +Very competitive benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom
Accredited as one of Britain's best companies to work for, OpenBet is rapidly growing its online gaming powerhouse with offices in the UK and across the globe...
OpenBet
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013