The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 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 Windows 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Administrator
Rank 519 549 556
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 65 87 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.149% 0.162% 0.162%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.159% 0.173% 0.173%
Number of salaries quoted 49 82 64
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £34,000 £32,600
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £60,000 £64,700
UK excluding London average salary £34,678 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-7.52% +1.35%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
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%
Windows Administrator
England

Windows Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Windows Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Administrator
Salary Trend

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

London Windows Administrator Salary Trend

Windows Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

London Windows Administrator Salary Histogram

Windows Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Administrator within the London 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
City of London +4 8 £41,250 -7.30%
New Malden - 2 £40,000 -
West Drayton - 1 £36,500 -
Croydon - 1 £52,500 -
Windows Administrator
England

Windows Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Windows 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 Windows Administrator in their job title.

1 151 (100.00%) Windows
2 120 (79.47%) Windows Server 2008
3 91 (60.26%) Active Directory
4 87 (57.62%) Microsoft
5 77 (50.99%) VMware
6 75 (49.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 61 (40.40%) PowerShell
8 59 (39.07%) IIS
9 52 (34.44%) MS Exchange
10 47 (31.13%) DNS
10 47 (31.13%) SQL Server
11 46 (30.46%) SQL
12 45 (29.80%) TCP/IP
13 44 (29.14%) VMware Infrastructure
14 42 (27.81%) Windows 7
15 36 (23.84%) Finance
16 33 (21.85%) Exchange Server 2010
17 29 (19.21%) Hedge funds
17 29 (19.21%) DHCP
17 29 (19.21%) Windows XP
18 28 (18.54%) SharePoint
18 28 (18.54%) MS Excel
18 28 (18.54%) VMware ESX
19 24 (15.89%) VB
19 24 (15.89%) Linux
20 22 (14.57%) .NET
21 21 (13.91%) Exchange Server 2007
22 20 (13.25%) Blackberry
22 20 (13.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
23 19 (12.58%) HP

Windows Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Windows 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 Windows Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (14.57%) .NET
2 13 (8.609%) COM
3 10 (6.623%) Software Packaging
4 5 (3.311%) SAML
5 4 (2.649%) Web Services
6 3 (1.987%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.325%) LAMP
8 1 (0.662%) ASP
8 1 (0.662%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 59 (39.07%) IIS
2 52 (34.44%) MS Exchange
3 33 (21.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 28 (18.54%) SharePoint
5 21 (13.91%) Exchange Server 2007
6 20 (13.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 10 (6.623%) Apache
8 7 (4.636%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (3.974%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (1.987%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.987%) Lync
11 2 (1.325%) Site Server
11 2 (1.325%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.662%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.662%) MSMQ
12 1 (0.662%) Lotus Notes
12 1 (0.662%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 28 (18.54%) MS Excel
2 17 (11.26%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.623%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 47 (31.13%) DNS
2 45 (29.80%) TCP/IP
3 29 (19.21%) DHCP
4 18 (11.92%) SAN
5 13 (8.609%) Firewall
6 11 (7.285%) PBX
7 8 (5.298%) HTTP
8 4 (2.649%) VPN
8 4 (2.649%) LAN
9 3 (1.987%) VoIP
9 3 (1.987%) VLAN
10 2 (1.325%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.662%) LDAP
11 1 (0.662%) WLAN
11 1 (0.662%) SMTP
11 1 (0.662%) FTP
11 1 (0.662%) SSL
11 1 (0.662%) Internet
11 1 (0.662%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.934%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (7.285%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (5.298%) MySQL
5 3 (1.987%) Redis
5 3 (1.987%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.987%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.987%) Subversion
1 3 (1.987%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.662%) K2 blackpoint
General
1 36 (23.84%) Finance
2 15 (9.934%) Banking
3 13 (8.609%) Retail
4 12 (7.947%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.636%) Law
6 6 (3.974%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.311%) Marketing
8 4 (2.649%) Publishing
9 2 (1.325%) Games
9 2 (1.325%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.21%) Hedge funds
2 20 (13.25%) Blackberry
3 10 (6.623%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.298%) Clustering
5 6 (3.974%) SaaS
6 5 (3.311%) Learning Management System
6 5 (3.311%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.325%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.325%) Physics
8 1 (0.662%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.662%) PACS
8 1 (0.662%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 151 (100.00%) Windows
2 120 (79.47%) Windows Server 2008
3 75 (49.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 42 (27.81%) Windows 7
5 29 (19.21%) Windows XP
6 24 (15.89%) Linux
7 8 (5.298%) Windows 2000 Server
7 8 (5.298%) UNIX
8 6 (3.974%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.649%) Windows Vista
10 2 (1.325%) CentOS
10 2 (1.325%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.325%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.662%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (7.947%) ITIL
3 11 (7.285%) E-Commerce
3 11 (7.285%) Investment Management
4 10 (6.623%) CRM
5 9 (5.960%) Asset Management
5 9 (5.960%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (5.298%) High Availability
6 8 (5.298%) Configuration Management
7 7 (4.636%) Service Management
8 6 (3.974%) ITSM
8 6 (3.974%) OO
9 5 (3.311%) Identity Management
9 5 (3.311%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (1.987%) Change Management
10 3 (1.987%) Load Balancing
10 3 (1.987%) Penetration Testing
11 2 (1.325%) Logistics
11 2 (1.325%) Information Management
11 2 (1.325%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.40%) PowerShell
2 46 (30.46%) SQL
3 24 (15.89%) VB
4 17 (11.26%) Perl
5 14 (9.272%) VBScript
6 10 (6.623%) C
7 6 (3.974%) C#
8 2 (1.325%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.325%) Python
8 2 (1.325%) PHP
9 1 (0.662%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Degree
2 15 (9.934%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (9.272%) MCSE
4 7 (4.636%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.311%) CCNA
6 3 (1.987%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.325%) CCNP
7 2 (1.325%) PhD
8 1 (0.662%) MCSD
8 1 (0.662%) MCSA
8 1 (0.662%) VCP5
8 1 (0.662%) VCP4
8 1 (0.662%) MCITP
8 1 (0.662%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.285%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (60.26%) Active Directory
2 44 (29.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (18.54%) VMware ESX
4 16 (10.60%) vSphere
5 11 (7.285%) ISA Server
5 11 (7.285%) UAG
6 10 (6.623%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (6.623%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (2.649%) XenApp
8 3 (1.987%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.325%) Xen
9 2 (1.325%) Varnish
10 1 (0.662%) MDaemon
10 1 (0.662%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 18 (11.92%) SCOM
2 14 (9.272%) NetBackup
2 14 (9.272%) Norton AntiVirus
3 13 (8.609%) SCCM
4 11 (7.285%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 11 (7.285%) HP SIM
5 7 (4.636%) Nagios
6 5 (3.311%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (2.649%) WSUS
7 4 (2.649%) Puppet
8 1 (0.662%) Splunk
8 1 (0.662%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.662%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (57.62%) Microsoft
2 77 (50.99%) VMware
3 19 (12.58%) HP
3 19 (12.58%) Citrix
4 17 (11.26%) Symantec
5 13 (8.609%) Cisco
6 11 (7.285%) Sophos
6 11 (7.285%) CA
7 9 (5.960%) NetApp
7 9 (5.960%) SolarWinds
8 7 (4.636%) Oracle
9 6 (3.974%) EMC
10 4 (2.649%) Hitachi
11 3 (1.987%) Dell
11 3 (1.987%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.325%) F5
12 2 (1.325%) SAP
13 1 (0.662%) Sun
13 1 (0.662%) Altiris
13 1 (0.662%) Lotus
London
The Windows Systems Administrator shall maintain the core Microsoft infrastructure estate that can be considered High Availability, and Low Latency, whilst providing automation assistance using configuration management and...
ISL
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
We are looking for a Windows Systems Administrator who not only understands the meaning of fanatical support but also enjoys delivering it to their highest ability... We give...
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013
East London
To provide Third Line Windows support to the business... Incident and Problem management our infrastructure. Drive operational excellence and maintain SLA to the business... Microsoft - In depth experience...
Coral Racing Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £43,000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Skills/Experience required: **Advanced knowledge of administering Windows server across multiple domains - 2003, 2008 (R2 Preferable) ** Solid understanding of technologies: IIS, WSUS, SCOM, DFS, Active Directory, Windows clustering **...
Gregory James
Salary: £30000 to £45000 per annum - + Benefits package
Posted: 22 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
London
Supplier Management. Problem Management... Change Management. Assets/Configuration Management. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery... Operating Systems including Microsoft Windows and Linux. Database systems including Oracle and MS SQL...
DictateIT
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
A solid understanding of Microsoft technologies: IIS, WSUS, SCOM, DFS, Active Directory and Windows clustering... A deep understanding of networking fundamentals - the ability to troubleshoot TCP/IP, HTTP,...
Personnel IT
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013