Systems Administrator Jobs in the South West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 168 159 177
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 48 56 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.915% 1.012% 0.646%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.948% 1.060% 0.681%
Number of salaries quoted 48 46 33
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,750 £23,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5064 5285 5727
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.53% 95.48% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4455 4564 4906
Average salary £35,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

South West 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 South West 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
Bristol -4 19 £42,500 +11.84%
Somerset +7 15 £30,000 +17.64%
Gloucestershire +13 11 £32,500 -35.00%
Devon 0 3 £37,500 +24.12%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 60 (58.25%) Linux
2 50 (48.54%) Windows
3 42 (40.78%) DNS
4 37 (35.92%) SQL
5 33 (32.04%) Red Hat
6 30 (29.13%) Clustering
6 30 (29.13%) Security Cleared
7 29 (28.16%) Perl
8 27 (26.21%) DHCP
8 27 (26.21%) VMware
9 25 (24.27%) Active Directory
10 24 (23.30%) C
10 24 (23.30%) Apache
10 24 (23.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (23.30%) DV Cleared
11 23 (22.33%) MS Exchange
12 22 (21.36%) UNIX
13 21 (20.39%) MS Excel
13 21 (20.39%) SQL Server
14 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
15 19 (18.45%) Cisco
15 19 (18.45%) TCP/IP
15 19 (18.45%) Python
15 19 (18.45%) Windows Server 2008
16 18 (17.48%) Windows Server 2003
17 17 (16.50%) Shell Script
17 17 (16.50%) Firewall
17 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
18 14 (13.59%) Load Balancing
18 14 (13.59%) HTTP

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (5.825%) POSIX
1 6 (5.825%) WSH
1 6 (5.825%) HTML
2 4 (3.883%) LAMP
3 2 (1.942%) .NET
3 2 (1.942%) CSS
3 2 (1.942%) Node.js
3 2 (1.942%) Silverlight
4 1 (0.971%) jQuery
4 1 (0.971%) J2EE
4 1 (0.971%) DHTML
4 1 (0.971%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 24 (23.30%) Apache
2 23 (22.33%) MS Exchange
3 12 (11.65%) Tomcat
3 12 (11.65%) IIS
4 7 (6.796%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (5.825%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (5.825%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (2.913%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.942%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.942%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.971%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.971%) Moodle
8 1 (0.971%) Lync
8 1 (0.971%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.971%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 21 (20.39%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.913%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.971%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 42 (40.78%) DNS
2 27 (26.21%) DHCP
3 19 (18.45%) TCP/IP
4 17 (16.50%) Firewall
5 14 (13.59%) HTTP
6 11 (10.68%) WAN
6 11 (10.68%) Internet
6 11 (10.68%) SAN
7 10 (9.709%) SMTP
7 10 (9.709%) LAN
8 8 (7.767%) Ethernet
9 7 (6.796%) SSH
9 7 (6.796%) Network Security
9 7 (6.796%) VPN
9 7 (6.796%) SSL
9 7 (6.796%) IPsec
10 6 (5.825%) X.400
10 6 (5.825%) BGP-4
10 6 (5.825%) OSPF
10 6 (5.825%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.65%) MySQL
3 3 (2.913%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.913%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.913%) Riak
3 3 (2.913%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.971%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.913%) JIRA
1 3 (2.913%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.942%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (1.942%) Subversion
General
1 13 (12.62%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.854%) Finance
3 4 (3.883%) Retail
4 3 (2.913%) Back Office
5 2 (1.942%) Law
5 2 (1.942%) Legal
5 2 (1.942%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 30 (29.13%) Clustering
2 6 (5.825%) Blackberry
2 6 (5.825%) Digital Media
3 4 (3.883%) SaaS
4 2 (1.942%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.942%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.942%) Open Source
4 2 (1.942%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.971%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.971%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.971%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.971%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (58.25%) Linux
2 50 (48.54%) Windows
3 24 (23.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (21.36%) UNIX
5 19 (18.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 18 (17.48%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (9.709%) Windows 7
8 7 (6.796%) Windows XP
9 5 (4.854%) Ubuntu
10 4 (3.883%) SUSE
10 4 (3.883%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.913%) AIX
11 3 (2.913%) HPUX
12 2 (1.942%) CentOS
13 1 (0.971%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.971%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (13.59%) Load Balancing
2 12 (11.65%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (5.825%) Time Management
4 4 (3.883%) E-Commerce
4 4 (3.883%) CRM
4 4 (3.883%) ITIL
5 2 (1.942%) Six Sigma
5 2 (1.942%) Configuration Management
5 2 (1.942%) Project Management
5 2 (1.942%) Change Management
5 2 (1.942%) RDF
5 2 (1.942%) Capacity Management
5 2 (1.942%) WAN Optimisation
5 2 (1.942%) Data Protection
5 2 (1.942%) E-Discovery
5 2 (1.942%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (1.942%) Software Testing
6 1 (0.971%) Content Management
6 1 (0.971%) Problem Management
6 1 (0.971%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.92%) SQL
2 29 (28.16%) Perl
3 24 (23.30%) C
4 19 (18.45%) Python
5 17 (16.50%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.796%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.796%) Bash shell
6 7 (6.796%) Java
7 6 (5.825%) PHP
8 3 (2.913%) C#
9 2 (1.942%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.942%) Ruby
10 1 (0.971%) VBScript
10 1 (0.971%) VB
10 1 (0.971%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.30%) DV Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.709%) Degree
5 8 (7.767%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.854%) RHCE
7 2 (1.942%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.942%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.942%) HND
7 2 (1.942%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.971%) MCSE
8 1 (0.971%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.854%) SLA
2 3 (2.913%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (24.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.767%) Xen
4 7 (6.796%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.825%) Varnish
6 3 (2.913%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.942%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 2 (1.942%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.942%) Gluster
7 2 (1.942%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.971%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.971%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.971%) vSphere
8 1 (0.971%) Postfix
8 1 (0.971%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (4.854%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (3.883%) Puppet
3 2 (1.942%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.942%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (0.971%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (32.04%) Red Hat
2 27 (26.21%) VMware
3 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
4 19 (18.45%) Cisco
5 8 (7.767%) Citrix
5 8 (7.767%) Symantec
5 8 (7.767%) Oracle
6 6 (5.825%) NetApp
7 5 (4.854%) Huawei
7 5 (4.854%) ZTE
7 5 (4.854%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 5 (4.854%) HP
7 5 (4.854%) Siemens
7 5 (4.854%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 5 (4.854%) Nortel
7 5 (4.854%) Juniper
8 4 (3.883%) Riverbed
9 3 (2.913%) IBM
10 2 (1.942%) Veritas
10 2 (1.942%) ATG
Linux Systems Administrator/Engineer - Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Strong shell scripting experience coupled with experience/exposure to one of the following: Bash, Perl, Python or Expect * Understanding of routing and switching protocols and associated Cisco/Juniper...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
IT Systems Administrator
Bristol, Avon
Working for a busy organisation in the centre of Bristol, the Sysadmin will be responsible for the infrastructure platform supporting a large CRM system as well as the...
Connectus
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
System Administrator (LAMP Engineer)- Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
Plymouth, Devon
Junior/Mid level System Administrator (LAMP Engineer - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) required for a leading mobile billing and messaging aggregator in the Plymouth area... You will have an...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Junior systems administrator
Plymouth, Devon
The right candidate will have some experience of PHP (overview only - not expert) but who are willing develop their skills in PHP. The right candidate will have a...
Edge Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £15000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Systems Support administrator
Plymouth, Devon
Candidate Key words - Support, Servers, LAMP, PHP, Cloud, Servers, technical support, IT Support, Software, Disaster Recovery... The company is looking for a Systems Support Administrator to join their...
Acorn
Salary: negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013
Systems Admin Lead
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Location: Between Bath and Chippenham (Biddestone & Box) Mayden creates market leading software applications and web services, primarily for the health sector.We’re driven to make all that...
Mayden House Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum dependent on experience plus benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
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