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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 136 113 133
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 17 43 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.540% 1.245% 0.746%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.570% 1.316% 0.789%
Number of salaries quoted 13 32 22
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,900 £27,500 £30,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2983 3268 3297
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.79% 94.59% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1797 2372 2477
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
UK

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Edinburgh -18 8 £47,500 +35.71%
Glasgow -24 4 £35,000 -
Aberdeen +4 3 £31,750 -15.33%
Dundee - 1 £33,500 -
Fife - 1 £32,500 -
Systems Administrator
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Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 20 (40.82%) Linux
3 17 (34.69%) UNIX
4 15 (30.61%) VMware
5 12 (24.49%) Firewall
5 12 (24.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
6 10 (20.41%) SAN
7 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
7 9 (18.37%) Apache
8 8 (16.33%) Solaris
8 8 (16.33%) Cisco
8 8 (16.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (14.29%) MS Exchange
9 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
10 6 (12.24%) MCSE
10 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
10 6 (12.24%) Java
10 6 (12.24%) PHP
10 6 (12.24%) MySQL
10 6 (12.24%) Finance
10 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (10.20%) Subversion
11 5 (10.20%) Oracle
11 5 (10.20%) Tomcat
11 5 (10.20%) Python
11 5 (10.20%) IIS
11 5 (10.20%) LAN
11 5 (10.20%) DNS

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (6.122%) CSS
2 2 (4.082%) Web Services
3 1 (2.041%) LAMP
3 1 (2.041%) Django
3 1 (2.041%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.041%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.041%) .NET
3 1 (2.041%) HTML
3 1 (2.041%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (18.37%) Apache
2 7 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
4 5 (10.20%) Tomcat
4 5 (10.20%) IIS
4 5 (10.20%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (8.163%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (6.122%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (6.122%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (2.041%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (8.163%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.041%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) Firewall
2 10 (20.41%) SAN
3 5 (10.20%) LAN
3 5 (10.20%) DNS
4 4 (8.163%) NAS
4 4 (8.163%) VPN
4 4 (8.163%) Internet
5 3 (6.122%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (6.122%) LDAP
5 3 (6.122%) DHCP
5 3 (6.122%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.082%) Network Security
6 2 (4.082%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.082%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.041%) Wireless
7 1 (2.041%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.041%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.041%) VoIP
7 1 (2.041%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.24%) MySQL
3 4 (8.163%) Hadoop
3 4 (8.163%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.163%) Redis
3 4 (8.163%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (8.163%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (6.122%) Big Data
5 1 (2.041%) MS Access
5 1 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.041%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Subversion
2 3 (6.122%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 4 (8.163%) Games
3 1 (2.041%) Legal
3 1 (2.041%) Back Office
3 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) Clustering
2 2 (4.082%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.041%) Replication
3 1 (2.041%) HACMP
3 1 (2.041%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 20 (40.82%) Linux
3 17 (34.69%) UNIX
4 8 (16.33%) Solaris
4 8 (16.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.122%) AIX
7 2 (4.082%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.082%) CentOS
8 1 (2.041%) Debian
8 1 (2.041%) HPUX
8 1 (2.041%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (8.163%) Load Balancing
2 3 (6.122%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (6.122%) Data Management
3 2 (4.082%) Network Architecture
3 2 (4.082%) High Availability
3 2 (4.082%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (4.082%) Change Management
3 2 (4.082%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (4.082%) Business Continuity
4 1 (2.041%) Service Management
4 1 (2.041%) Release Management
4 1 (2.041%) Web Development
4 1 (2.041%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (2.041%) Network Design
4 1 (2.041%) RDF
4 1 (2.041%) BCP
4 1 (2.041%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.041%) Web Application Development
4 1 (2.041%) Software Deployment
4 1 (2.041%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) Java
1 6 (12.24%) PHP
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 4 (8.163%) Bash shell
3 4 (8.163%) Perl
3 4 (8.163%) SQL
4 2 (4.082%) sed
4 2 (4.082%) Ruby
4 2 (4.082%) AWK
5 1 (2.041%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.041%) VBScript
5 1 (2.041%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.041%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) MCSE
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.163%) Degree
3 1 (2.041%) MCTS
3 1 (2.041%) MCITP
3 1 (2.041%) MCP
3 1 (2.041%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.122%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.122%) vSphere
4 2 (4.082%) Nmap
4 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.041%) Samba
5 1 (2.041%) Xen
5 1 (2.041%) Terminal Server
5 1 (2.041%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.041%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Nagios
2 4 (8.163%) Munin
3 3 (6.122%) Puppet
4 1 (2.041%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.041%) SCCM
4 1 (2.041%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.041%) Cacti
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) VMware
2 8 (16.33%) Cisco
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle
4 5 (10.20%) HP
4 5 (10.20%) Citrix
5 4 (8.163%) Dell
5 4 (8.163%) JBoss
6 3 (6.122%) EMC
6 3 (6.122%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.041%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.041%) Lotus
7 1 (2.041%) Sun
7 1 (2.041%) IBM
Edinburgh, Midlothian
My client, a global blue chip, is currently seeking an experienced System Administrator with strong Red hat experience to join an established team based in Edinburgh. The successful...
Aston Carter
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013