The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset 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 21 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 49 56 52
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 15 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.340% 0.662% 0.860%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.427% 0.674% 0.870%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 4
Average salary £30,000 £25,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -36.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
618 445 460
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 96.41% 98.23% 98.92%
Number of salaries quoted 556 430 428
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bath +7 15 £30,000 +17.64%
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 13 (72.22%) Windows
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
2 11 (61.11%) Linux
3 10 (55.56%) SQL
4 9 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 7 (38.89%) DHCP
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco
5 7 (38.89%) DNS
6 6 (33.33%) Firewall
6 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 5 (27.78%) VMware
7 5 (27.78%) SAN
7 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
7 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (22.22%) Riverbed
8 4 (22.22%) SaaS
8 4 (22.22%) Oracle
8 4 (22.22%) Citrix
9 3 (16.67%) RHCE
9 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
9 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (16.67%) Perl
9 3 (16.67%) Apache
9 3 (16.67%) MySQL
9 3 (16.67%) Python
9 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (16.67%) Bash shell
9 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
9 3 (16.67%) JIRA

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.556%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DHCP
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) SAN
3 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) VoIP
4 2 (11.11%) WLAN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) SMTP
4 2 (11.11%) Wireless
4 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (5.556%) IPsec
5 1 (5.556%) VPN
5 1 (5.556%) SSL
5 1 (5.556%) LDAP
5 1 (5.556%) NAS
5 1 (5.556%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (5.556%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.11%) Law
1 2 (11.11%) Legal
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
6 1 (5.556%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.556%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Time Management
1 2 (11.11%) E-Discovery
1 2 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (11.11%) RDF
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
1 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Perl
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash shell
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.556%) C
4 1 (5.556%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) RHCE
2 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 2 (11.11%) HND
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.556%) MCSE
3 1 (5.556%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Gluster
3 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.556%) Postfix
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (5.556%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) Riverbed
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
5 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
6 2 (11.11%) Exinda
6 2 (11.11%) Talend
6 2 (11.11%) JBoss
6 2 (11.11%) NetApp
6 2 (11.11%) Symantec