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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank - 60 64
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 0 22 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 3.269% 0.216%
As % of the Job Titles category - 3.364% 0.223%
Number of salaries quoted 0 17 1
Average salary - £35,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -41.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
434 654 449
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 97.09% 97.18% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 583 368
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft