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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 37 49 40
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 22 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.481% 0.868% 2.261%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.762% 0.905% 2.284%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 9
Average salary £38,750 £37,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.02% +14.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,250 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £42,250 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
462 442 394
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 94.09% 95.88% 98.99%
Number of salaries quoted 396 369 330
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
Tyne and Wear

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Newcastle upon Tyne Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 33 (76.74%) Linux
2 32 (74.42%) Cisco
3 31 (72.09%) Citrix
4 30 (69.77%) Firewall
5 27 (62.79%) Red Hat
6 24 (55.81%) MySQL
7 23 (53.49%) HP
8 22 (51.16%) Apache
8 22 (51.16%) CentOS
8 22 (51.16%) XenServer
9 20 (46.51%) VLAN
10 17 (39.53%) DNS
10 17 (39.53%) DHCP
11 16 (37.21%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (37.21%) LDAP
12 13 (30.23%) Internet
13 12 (27.91%) CCNA
13 12 (27.91%) Wireless
13 12 (27.91%) Telecoms
14 11 (25.58%) SAN
14 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
15 9 (20.93%) MS Visio
16 8 (18.60%) VPN
16 8 (18.60%) Nagios
17 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (13.95%) Network Management
17 6 (13.95%) MS Excel
18 5 (11.63%) Oracle
18 5 (11.63%) UNIX
18 5 (11.63%) OSPF

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Platforms
1 22 (51.16%) Apache
2 2 (4.651%) Windows Azure
2 2 (4.651%) IIS
3 1 (2.326%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.326%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 9 (20.93%) MS Visio
2 6 (13.95%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) Firewall
2 20 (46.51%) VLAN
3 17 (39.53%) DNS
3 17 (39.53%) DHCP
4 16 (37.21%) LDAP
5 13 (30.23%) Internet
6 12 (27.91%) Wireless
7 11 (25.58%) SAN
8 8 (18.60%) VPN
9 5 (11.63%) OSPF
9 5 (11.63%) BGP
9 5 (11.63%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (9.302%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (9.302%) WAN
11 3 (6.977%) Cisco PIX
11 3 (6.977%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (4.651%) HSRP
12 2 (4.651%) IPsec
13 1 (2.326%) LAN
13 1 (2.326%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (55.81%) MySQL
2 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (27.91%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.326%) Finance
2 1 (2.326%) Publishing
2 1 (2.326%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.326%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Linux
2 22 (51.16%) CentOS
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.63%) UNIX
5 4 (9.302%) Windows
6 3 (6.977%) Solaris
7 1 (2.326%) AIX
7 1 (2.326%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.95%) Network Management
2 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (11.63%) Validation
3 4 (9.302%) Identity Management
4 3 (6.977%) Network Design
4 3 (6.977%) Problem Management
4 3 (6.977%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (6.977%) Change Control
5 2 (4.651%) Time Management
6 1 (2.326%) ITIL
6 1 (2.326%) ERP
6 1 (2.326%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.326%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.326%) Performance Management
6 1 (2.326%) ITIL V3
6 1 (2.326%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.977%) SQL
2 1 (2.326%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (27.91%) CCNA
3 4 (9.302%) CCNP
3 4 (9.302%) RHCE
4 2 (4.651%) Degree
System Software
1 22 (51.16%) XenServer
2 4 (9.302%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.326%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.326%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.326%) XenDesktop
3 1 (2.326%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (74.42%) Cisco
2 31 (72.09%) Citrix
3 27 (62.79%) Red Hat
4 23 (53.49%) HP
5 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle
7 2 (4.651%) VMware
8 1 (2.326%) IBM
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Posted: 17 May 2013