The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 22 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 153 136 141
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 28 41 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.682% 1.112% 0.721%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.713% 1.153% 0.750%
Number of salaries quoted 25 39 28
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £29,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £36,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3925 3555 3731
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.59% 96.45% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3408 3171 3415
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
North West

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Altrincham - 5 £40,000 -
Cheadle -7 1 £18,000 -
Bolton - 1 £24,000 -
Systems Administrator
North West

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 62 (63.27%) Linux
2 54 (55.10%) PHP
3 43 (43.88%) Perl
4 36 (36.73%) Finance
5 31 (31.63%) Windows
5 31 (31.63%) Apache
6 29 (29.59%) IIS
7 28 (28.57%) Bash shell
8 27 (27.55%) Windows Server 2008
9 26 (26.53%) HP
10 25 (25.51%) UNIX
11 24 (24.49%) AIX
12 22 (22.45%) CCNA
12 22 (22.45%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (20.41%) Red Hat
14 19 (19.39%) Change Management
14 19 (19.39%) IBM
14 19 (19.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 18 (18.37%) DNS
15 18 (18.37%) ITIL
15 18 (18.37%) C
16 17 (17.35%) DHCP
16 17 (17.35%) SAN
17 16 (16.33%) Windows Server 2003
17 16 (16.33%) Web Services
18 15 (15.31%) WebSphere MQ
18 15 (15.31%) WebSphere
18 15 (15.31%) Configuration Management
18 15 (15.31%) Replication
18 15 (15.31%) VMware

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 16 (16.33%) Web Services
2 15 (15.31%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.020%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 31 (31.63%) Apache
2 29 (29.59%) IIS
3 15 (15.31%) WebSphere MQ
4 12 (12.24%) MS Exchange
5 11 (11.22%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.041%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (2.041%) Lync
7 1 (1.020%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.020%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) MS Excel
2 11 (11.22%) Office 365
3 2 (2.041%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.020%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.020%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.020%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.020%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.020%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.37%) DNS
2 17 (17.35%) DHCP
2 17 (17.35%) SAN
3 13 (13.27%) VPN
4 11 (11.22%) VoIP
5 7 (7.143%) Internet
6 2 (2.041%) Wireless
6 2 (2.041%) HTTP
7 1 (1.020%) IMAP
7 1 (1.020%) LDAP
7 1 (1.020%) SMS
7 1 (1.020%) SMTP
7 1 (1.020%) FTP
7 1 (1.020%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.184%) QlikView
1 9 (9.184%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.041%) MySQL
2 2 (2.041%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.041%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 36 (36.73%) Finance
2 2 (2.041%) French Language
3 1 (1.020%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Replication
1 15 (15.31%) Clustering
2 11 (11.22%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (9.184%) Statistics
3 9 (9.184%) Mathematics
4 5 (5.102%) iSeries
5 3 (3.061%) HACMP
6 2 (2.041%) EqualLogic
6 2 (2.041%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 62 (63.27%) Linux
2 31 (31.63%) Windows
3 27 (27.55%) Windows Server 2008
4 25 (25.51%) UNIX
5 24 (24.49%) AIX
6 19 (19.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (16.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (5.102%) Debian
9 4 (4.082%) HPUX
10 3 (3.061%) Solaris
11 2 (2.041%) Windows XP
11 2 (2.041%) CentOS
11 2 (2.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.39%) Change Management
2 18 (18.37%) ITIL
3 15 (15.31%) Configuration Management
3 15 (15.31%) High Availability
4 14 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 13 (13.27%) E-Commerce
6 11 (11.22%) Incident Management
6 11 (11.22%) Network Design
6 11 (11.22%) ERP
7 9 (9.184%) Data Analysis
8 7 (7.143%) DNA
9 6 (6.122%) B2C
10 5 (5.102%) Problem Management
11 4 (4.082%) Time Management
12 2 (2.041%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (2.041%) Penetration Testing
13 1 (1.020%) Product Management
13 1 (1.020%) Network Load Balancing
13 1 (1.020%) E-Procurement
13 1 (1.020%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.10%) PHP
2 43 (43.88%) Perl
3 28 (28.57%) Bash shell
4 18 (18.37%) C
5 14 (14.29%) Python
6 8 (8.163%) C++
7 2 (2.041%) SQL
7 2 (2.041%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.020%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) CCNA
1 22 (22.45%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (11.22%) RHCT
3 11 (11.22%) MCSE
3 11 (11.22%) RHCE
4 1 (1.020%) Degree
4 1 (1.020%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.020%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.061%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.020%) Squid
3 1 (1.020%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (2.041%) SCCM
1 2 (2.041%) SCOM
2 1 (1.020%) Plesk
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) HP
2 20 (20.41%) Red Hat
3 19 (19.39%) IBM
4 15 (15.31%) VMware
5 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 13 (13.27%) Cisco
7 3 (3.061%) Oracle
8 2 (2.041%) Veritas
8 2 (2.041%) EMC
8 2 (2.041%) Spiceworks
9 1 (1.020%) Nimsoft
9 1 (1.020%) SAP
9 1 (1.020%) Dell
9 1 (1.020%) Pegasus
9 1 (1.020%) Epicor
9 1 (1.020%) CODA
9 1 (1.020%) Sage
9 1 (1.020%) TIBCO
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