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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 47 54 54
Rank change year-on-year
+7 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 22 20 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 3.193% 2.262% 1.576%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.374% 2.347% 1.618%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 9
Average salary £38,750 £28,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.39% -13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £23,200 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £33,550 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
652 852 680
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 94.63% 96.38% 97.42%
Number of salaries quoted 566 701 568
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

North East 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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +13 22 £38,750 +15.67%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (75.00%) Linux
2 32 (72.73%) Cisco
3 31 (70.45%) Citrix
4 30 (68.18%) Firewall
5 27 (61.36%) Red Hat
6 24 (54.55%) MySQL
7 23 (52.27%) HP
8 22 (50.00%) Apache
8 22 (50.00%) CentOS
8 22 (50.00%) XenServer
9 20 (45.45%) VLAN
10 17 (38.64%) DNS
10 17 (38.64%) DHCP
11 16 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (36.36%) LDAP
12 13 (29.55%) Internet
13 12 (27.27%) Wireless
13 12 (27.27%) Telecoms
13 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
13 12 (27.27%) CCNA
14 11 (25.00%) SAN
15 9 (20.45%) MS Visio
16 8 (18.18%) VPN
16 8 (18.18%) Nagios
17 6 (13.64%) MS Excel
17 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (13.64%) Network Management
18 5 (11.36%) Cisco ASA
18 5 (11.36%) Oracle
18 5 (11.36%) UNIX

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.545%) IIS
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Azure
3 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.273%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) MS Visio
2 6 (13.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (68.18%) Firewall
2 20 (45.45%) VLAN
3 17 (38.64%) DNS
3 17 (38.64%) DHCP
4 16 (36.36%) LDAP
5 13 (29.55%) Internet
6 12 (27.27%) Wireless
7 11 (25.00%) SAN
8 8 (18.18%) VPN
9 5 (11.36%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (11.36%) OSPF
9 5 (11.36%) BGP
10 4 (9.091%) WAN
10 4 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (6.818%) Cisco PIX
11 3 (6.818%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (4.545%) IPsec
12 2 (4.545%) HSRP
13 1 (2.273%) LAN
13 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (54.55%) MySQL
2 4 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 12 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.273%) Retail
2 1 (2.273%) Finance
2 1 (2.273%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.273%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 33 (75.00%) Linux
2 22 (50.00%) CentOS
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.36%) UNIX
5 4 (9.091%) Windows
6 3 (6.818%) Solaris
7 1 (2.273%) AIX
7 1 (2.273%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.64%) Network Management
2 5 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (11.36%) Validation
3 4 (9.091%) Identity Management
4 3 (6.818%) Problem Management
4 3 (6.818%) Change Control
4 3 (6.818%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (6.818%) Network Design
5 2 (4.545%) Time Management
6 1 (2.273%) Performance Management
6 1 (2.273%) ITIL V3
6 1 (2.273%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.273%) ITIL
6 1 (2.273%) ERP
6 1 (2.273%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.273%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
2 1 (2.273%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (27.27%) CCNA
3 4 (9.091%) CCNP
3 4 (9.091%) RHCE
4 2 (4.545%) Degree
5 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 22 (50.00%) XenServer
2 4 (9.091%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.273%) XenDesktop
3 1 (2.273%) XenApp
3 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (72.73%) Cisco
2 31 (70.45%) Citrix
3 27 (61.36%) Red Hat
4 23 (52.27%) HP
5 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.36%) Oracle
7 2 (4.545%) VMware
8 1 (2.273%) IBM
Tyneside
You will need to be passionate about technology and have had solid exposure within a Linux Systems Admin role keeping all a companies live services updated... I am...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £28,000 to £37,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Innovative, rapidly expanding global leader in the provision of communication solutions to its target markets, delivering some of the most interesting and challenging systems projects around, requires a...
Catalyst
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
North East
Common Linux Technologies (CentOS, Ubuntu etc). Strong programming skills (Bash, Shell, Python, C, java etc) Databases: MySQL, & NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, or similar) Automated monitoring systems. Automated software deployment...
AATOM Recruitment
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Northumberland, North East
The ideal Oracle EBS Systems Administrator (GL, FA, iProcurement, iExpenses, AP, AR, OBIEE) would be a proactive team player with past working experience in the Financial Services Sector.....
Real Staffing
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum + benefits, pension
Posted: 22 May 2013