The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Slough 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 23 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 61 49 52
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 11 17 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 1.657% 2.584% 0.988%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.738% 2.819% 1.096%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 2
Average salary £39,500 £47,500 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.84% +7.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £42,500 £42,400
10% offered a salary of more than £48,750 £47,500 £45,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
633 603 456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 95.33% 91.64% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 538 468 370
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Slough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Slough Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 24 (92.31%) Linux
2 23 (88.46%) Apache
3 18 (69.23%) Red Hat
4 16 (61.54%) UNIX
4 16 (61.54%) PHP
4 16 (61.54%) MySQL
5 11 (42.31%) TCP/IP
6 9 (34.62%) Cisco
6 9 (34.62%) CentOS
7 8 (30.77%) Windows
8 7 (26.92%) E-Commerce
8 7 (26.92%) MS Exchange
8 7 (26.92%) Exchange Server 2007
8 7 (26.92%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (23.08%) OOD
9 6 (23.08%) LDAP
9 6 (23.08%) Nagios
9 6 (23.08%) SUSE
10 4 (15.38%) Scrum
10 4 (15.38%) VMware
10 4 (15.38%) Clustering
10 4 (15.38%) LAMP
10 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
10 4 (15.38%) HP
10 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
10 4 (15.38%) SQL
11 3 (11.54%) Oracle
11 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
11 3 (11.54%) OO

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 4 (15.38%) LAMP
2 2 (7.692%) CPAN
2 2 (7.692%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 23 (88.46%) Apache
2 7 (26.92%) MS Exchange
2 7 (26.92%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (26.92%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (11.54%) nginx
4 2 (7.692%) Confluence
4 2 (7.692%) Tomcat
4 2 (7.692%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) TCP/IP
2 6 (23.08%) LDAP
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) Firewall
4 2 (7.692%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.692%) SSH
4 2 (7.692%) SAN
5 1 (3.846%) SNMP
5 1 (3.846%) VPN
5 1 (3.846%) HTTP
5 1 (3.846%) LAN
5 1 (3.846%) WAN
5 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.692%) dBASE
3 2 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Hudson
1 2 (7.692%) Gradle
1 2 (7.692%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.692%) JIRA
1 2 (7.692%) Selenium
1 2 (7.692%) Subversion
1 2 (7.692%) IntelliJ
1 2 (7.692%) Ant
General
1 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 2 (7.692%) Wiki
3 1 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) UNIX
3 9 (34.62%) CentOS
4 8 (30.77%) Windows
5 6 (23.08%) SUSE
6 3 (11.54%) Solaris
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (7.692%) AIX
8 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) E-Commerce
2 6 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (23.08%) OOD
3 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 3 (11.54%) OO
4 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (7.692%) Kanban
6 1 (3.846%) ITIL
6 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.846%) Migration
6 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) PHP
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Bash shell
4 2 (7.692%) C-shell
4 2 (7.692%) Korn
4 2 (7.692%) Ruby
4 2 (7.692%) C
4 2 (7.692%) Java
4 2 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) MCSE
1 1 (3.846%) CCNA
1 1 (3.846%) CCA
1 1 (3.846%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.846%) MCTS
1 1 (3.846%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Xen
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.692%) Sendmail
3 2 (7.692%) NFS
4 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.846%) UAG
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Nagios
2 3 (11.54%) Puppet
3 2 (7.692%) YUM
4 1 (3.846%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Red Hat
2 9 (34.62%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) HP
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 2 (7.692%) Google
5 2 (7.692%) Dell
5 2 (7.692%) BEA
5 2 (7.692%) Sun
5 2 (7.692%) Vignette
6 1 (3.846%) EMC
6 1 (3.846%) Citrix
6 1 (3.846%) SonicWALL
6 1 (3.846%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.846%) ProCurve
Slough, Berkshire
Working with vendors like Dell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco for troubleshooting and support issues... Windows servers with its associated services like WWW, Active Directories and Domains, Group policies,...
eGain Communications
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
UK (Slough)
Industry analyst Gartner has placed eGain in the leaders' quadrant for the last 5 years and we are expanding our team in EMEA to capitalise on our position...
eGain
Salary: : £30,000-£40,000 + excellent benefits (inc: Bonus, stock options, bupa, pension)
Posted: 23 May 2013