Windows Systems Administrator Jobs in the Midlands

Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin)
England > Midlands

The median Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin) salary in the Midlands is £32,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 328 344
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Systems Administrator 10 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.087% 0.020% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.023% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile £30,900 - £48,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £44,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -16.19% +23.53%
75th Percentile £33,966 £46,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £32,983 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.39% -22.73% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,771 8,748 10,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 89.46% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,166 4,815 7,203
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,551 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Windows Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Windows Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Systems Administrator in the Midlands

Windows Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows Systems Administrator in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Windows Systems Administrator in the Midlands

Windows Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Systems Administrator within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +38 6 £32,000 -27.27% 2
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -
Windows Systems Administrator
England

Windows Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Windows Systems Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Windows Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (50.00%) LAN
3 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 5 (50.00%) Cyberattack
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 4 (40.00%) PKI
4 4 (40.00%) WSUS
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring

Windows Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) PKI
2 4 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft