The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 56 104 113
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 86 28 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 3.965% 1.237% 0.424%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.171% 1.302% 0.452%
Number of salaries quoted 76 26 8
Average salary £35,750 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.14% +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £31,000 £28,950
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £46,800
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2062 2151 1768
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 95.07% 95.01% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1675 1848 1424
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
Berkshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 91 (65.47%) Linux
2 82 (58.99%) Windows
3 60 (43.17%) SAN
3 60 (43.17%) Clustering
4 56 (40.29%) UNIX
5 41 (29.50%) VMware
6 40 (28.78%) Cisco
7 34 (24.46%) German Language
8 31 (22.30%) Active Directory
9 30 (21.58%) WAN
9 30 (21.58%) LAN
9 30 (21.58%) SQL
9 30 (21.58%) Oracle
10 27 (19.42%) Microsoft
11 25 (17.99%) Firewall
12 23 (16.55%) SUSE
12 23 (16.55%) HP
13 22 (15.83%) Red Hat
13 22 (15.83%) Ubuntu
14 21 (15.11%) HPUX
15 20 (14.39%) Data Protection
15 20 (14.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (13.67%) SLA
17 18 (12.95%) Lotus Domino
18 17 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
19 16 (11.51%) French Language
19 16 (11.51%) Apache
19 16 (11.51%) SharePoint
20 15 (10.79%) PHP
20 15 (10.79%) Windows Server 2008

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 Development
1 6 (4.317%) COM
2 5 (3.597%) LAMP
3 4 (2.878%) Web Services
4 3 (2.158%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 18 (12.95%) Lotus Domino
2 16 (11.51%) Apache
2 16 (11.51%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.633%) IIS
4 9 (6.475%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 9 (6.475%) MS Exchange
4 9 (6.475%) Tomcat
5 7 (5.036%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (2.878%) Amazon AWS
7 3 (2.158%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.158%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.158%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.719%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (7.914%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.719%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (43.17%) SAN
2 30 (21.58%) WAN
2 30 (21.58%) LAN
3 25 (17.99%) Firewall
4 12 (8.633%) DNS
5 10 (7.194%) VPN
6 7 (5.036%) Network Security
7 5 (3.597%) LDAP
8 4 (2.878%) VoIP
8 4 (2.878%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.878%) Asterisk PBX
9 3 (2.158%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (2.158%) ADSL
10 2 (1.439%) Internet
10 2 (1.439%) DHCP
10 2 (1.439%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.719%) IMAP
11 1 (0.719%) HSRP
11 1 (0.719%) FTP
11 1 (0.719%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.353%) MySQL
2 11 (7.914%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.755%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.878%) DB2
4 4 (2.878%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.158%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.158%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (4.317%) Subversion
2 5 (3.597%) Mercurial
General
1 34 (24.46%) German Language
2 16 (11.51%) French Language
3 8 (5.755%) Russian Language
4 5 (3.597%) Spanish Language
4 5 (3.597%) Marketing
5 4 (2.878%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 60 (43.17%) Clustering
2 7 (5.036%) iPhone
2 7 (5.036%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.317%) SaaS
4 5 (3.597%) Replication
5 4 (2.878%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.158%) Social Media
6 3 (2.158%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.439%) Firmware
7 2 (1.439%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.719%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 91 (65.47%) Linux
2 82 (58.99%) Windows
3 56 (40.29%) UNIX
4 23 (16.55%) SUSE
5 22 (15.83%) Ubuntu
6 21 (15.11%) HPUX
7 20 (14.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (10.79%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (10.07%) CentOS
10 13 (9.353%) Debian
11 11 (7.914%) Windows 7
12 9 (6.475%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (5.036%) Android
13 7 (5.036%) Windows 8
14 6 (4.317%) Windows 2000 Server
15 5 (3.597%) AIX
15 5 (3.597%) VMS
15 5 (3.597%) Fedora
16 4 (2.878%) Mac OS X
16 4 (2.878%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (14.39%) Data Protection
2 13 (9.353%) ITIL
3 9 (6.475%) Service Delivery
4 7 (5.036%) Data Migration
4 7 (5.036%) Migration
5 5 (3.597%) Load Testing
5 5 (3.597%) Scrum
5 5 (3.597%) Configuration Management
6 4 (2.878%) Change Management
6 4 (2.878%) Project Planning
6 4 (2.878%) Performance Management
7 3 (2.158%) Load Balancing
7 3 (2.158%) Software Engineering
8 2 (1.439%) PRINCE
8 2 (1.439%) PRINCE2
8 2 (1.439%) Release Management
9 1 (0.719%) Change Control
9 1 (0.719%) Technical Architecture
9 1 (0.719%) CRM
9 1 (0.719%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.58%) SQL
2 15 (10.79%) PHP
3 13 (9.353%) Python
4 12 (8.633%) Perl
4 12 (8.633%) Ruby
5 11 (7.914%) Java
6 10 (7.194%) Bash shell
7 8 (5.755%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.878%) C
9 3 (2.158%) Scala
9 3 (2.158%) C++
10 2 (1.439%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (5.755%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (4.317%) HND
3 2 (1.439%) Degree
3 2 (1.439%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.439%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.719%) MCSE
4 1 (0.719%) MCSA
4 1 (0.719%) CCNP
4 1 (0.719%) CCNA
4 1 (0.719%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.719%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.67%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.755%) VMware ESX
3 8 (5.755%) vSphere
3 8 (5.755%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.878%) Samba
4 4 (2.878%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (2.878%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.439%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (1.439%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (8.633%) Puppet
2 6 (4.317%) Nagios
3 5 (3.597%) ZABBIX
4 4 (2.878%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 2 (1.439%) Netcool
5 2 (1.439%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.719%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.719%) Plesk
6 1 (0.719%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.719%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 41 (29.50%) VMware
2 40 (28.78%) Cisco
3 30 (21.58%) Oracle
4 27 (19.42%) Microsoft
5 23 (16.55%) HP
6 22 (15.83%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.755%) JBoss
8 7 (5.036%) Symantec
9 6 (4.317%) Sun
10 5 (3.597%) F5
10 5 (3.597%) Rackspace
11 4 (2.878%) EMC
11 4 (2.878%) Hitachi
11 4 (2.878%) Veritas
11 4 (2.878%) Sybase
12 3 (2.158%) Twitter
12 3 (2.158%) Dell
12 3 (2.158%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.439%) Citrix
13 2 (1.439%) Lotus
Reading, Berkshire
System Administrator 2nd/3rd Line Support, Support Engineer, Support Analyst, Linux, Windows, AWS, VMWare, vSphere, KVM... Your responsibilities will include rolling out services and designing new systems getting...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Searchability are proud to be in partnership with this extreme Hosting Company in their search for a Senior Systems Administrator with skilled experience in Linux , OpenBSD, ISP Networking...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, Network Administrator, Support, Windows server, MCSA/MSCE, CCNA/CCNP, VWware, Hyper-V... You will be an ambitious self-starter with either an MCSA or...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Technical Support Engineer is required for a worldwide household name. This company specialises within the technology sector and provide excellent training and career progression. The Technical Services team...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £35,000 per annum Plus Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013