Systems Administrator Jobs in the North West

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > North West

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the North West is £32,815 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 269 290
Rank change year-on-year +39 +21 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 61 34 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.63% 0.42% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 48 26 40
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £28,925
25th Percentile £28,573 £29,188 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,815 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +18.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,234
90th Percentile £59,248 £50,625 £47,625
England median annual salary £40,400 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.95% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,193 7,147 9,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.24% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,071 4,129 5,469
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,996
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the North West

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the North West.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the North West

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the North West

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester +51 34 £45,000 - 11
Lancashire -5 13 £28,000 -41.05%
Cheshire -7 10 £56,509 +98.28% 1
Merseyside +8 3 £32,500 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 North West region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (29.51%) Finance
4 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
5 16 (26.23%) Windows
6 15 (24.59%) Active Directory
7 14 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (22.95%) Customer Service
8 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (18.03%) Entra ID
9 10 (16.39%) Windows Server
9 10 (16.39%) Azure
9 10 (16.39%) SCCM
10 9 (14.75%) Service Management
11 8 (13.11%) VMware
11 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
11 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (11.48%) Data Analysis
12 7 (11.48%) WAN
12 7 (11.48%) LAN
12 7 (11.48%) Firewall
13 6 (9.84%) Linux
13 6 (9.84%) Data Management
13 6 (9.84%) AWS
13 6 (9.84%) Hyper-V
13 6 (9.84%) Business Transformation
14 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
14 5 (8.20%) Software Packaging
14 5 (8.20%) Mac OS
15 4 (6.56%) SAP Business One

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (18.03%) Entra ID
3 10 (16.39%) Azure
4 6 (9.84%) AWS
5 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
2 7 (11.48%) Firewall
2 7 (11.48%) LAN
2 7 (11.48%) WAN
3 4 (6.56%) DNS
3 4 (6.56%) Wireless
4 3 (4.92%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (3.28%) SAN
6 1 (1.64%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (1.64%) DHCP
6 1 (1.64%) IMAP
6 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.64%) SMTP
6 1 (1.64%) VoIP
6 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) AdminStudio
General
1 18 (29.51%) Finance
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Marketing
4 4 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.92%) French Language
5 3 (4.92%) Italian Language
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.64%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
2 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Windows
2 10 (16.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.84%) Linux
4 5 (8.20%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.28%) Unix
7 1 (1.64%) CentOS
7 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.95%) Customer Service
3 9 (14.75%) Service Management
4 7 (11.48%) Data Analysis
5 6 (9.84%) Business Transformation
5 6 (9.84%) Data Management
6 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (6.56%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (6.56%) ITIL
7 3 (4.92%) Application Packaging
7 3 (4.92%) Asset Management
7 3 (4.92%) Configuration Management
7 3 (4.92%) Logistics
7 3 (4.92%) Network Management
7 3 (4.92%) PRINCE
7 3 (4.92%) Risk Management
7 3 (4.92%) Statistics
7 3 (4.92%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.56%) SQL
3 2 (3.28%) Python
4 1 (1.64%) Bash
4 1 (1.64%) Java
4 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
1 4 (6.56%) CCNA
1 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) MCSE
4 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.28%) Docker
5 1 (1.64%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.64%) Lustre
5 1 (1.64%) Postfix
5 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) SCCM
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Icinga
3 1 (1.64%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) VMware
3 4 (6.56%) SAP
4 3 (4.92%) Citrix
5 2 (3.28%) Veeam
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.64%) Spotify