The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 17 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 69 68 69
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 3 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.455% 0.393% 0.737%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.481% 0.402% 0.754%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 6
Average salary £26,500 £24,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.41% -7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
624 746 796
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 94.55% 97.77% 97.79%
Number of salaries quoted 526 681 727
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,335 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
East Midlands

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton - 3 £26,500 -
Systems Administrator
East Midlands

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 5 (55.56%) UNIX
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) RHCE
2 4 (44.44%) NFS
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) Samba
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
2 4 (44.44%) C-shell
2 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (11.11%) SCOM
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Firewall
5 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
1 4 (44.44%) C-shell
1 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Sun Certification
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Samba
1 4 (44.44%) NFS
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy