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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 156 147 181
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 64 80 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 1.214% 1.330% 0.615%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.274% 1.386% 0.651%
Number of salaries quoted 59 65 27
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £29,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,800 £55,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5024 5773 5069
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.26% 95.96% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4066 5050 4444
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

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

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Guildford +9 17 £31,000 +3.33%
Staines +24 14 £50,000 -9.09%
Woking +4 4 £30,000 -9.09%
Reigate - 4 £30,000 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 £55,000 -
Walton-on-Thames - 2 £22,750 -
Weybridge +6 1 £27,500 -40.21%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 90 (68.18%) Linux
2 68 (51.52%) VMware
3 62 (46.97%) Windows
4 54 (40.91%) Microsoft
5 51 (38.64%) TCP/IP
6 47 (35.61%) Apache
7 42 (31.82%) Red Hat
8 41 (31.06%) MySQL
9 40 (30.30%) Cisco
10 36 (27.27%) SQL
11 34 (25.76%) DNS
11 34 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
11 34 (25.76%) Windows Server 2008
12 30 (22.73%) Clustering
13 29 (21.97%) ITIL
13 29 (21.97%) CentOS
14 26 (19.70%) Finance
15 25 (18.94%) MS Excel
15 25 (18.94%) MS Exchange
16 24 (18.18%) Oracle
17 21 (15.91%) Windows Server 2003
17 21 (15.91%) Puppet
18 20 (15.15%) Degree
18 20 (15.15%) UNIX
18 20 (15.15%) SAN
19 18 (13.64%) Tomcat
19 18 (13.64%) Internet
19 18 (13.64%) Firewall
20 17 (12.88%) JBoss
20 17 (12.88%) RHCE

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 13 (9.848%) Web Services
2 5 (3.788%) LAMP
3 4 (3.030%) JDBC
4 3 (2.273%) J2EE
5 2 (1.515%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.515%) Zend Framework
5 2 (1.515%) .NET
5 2 (1.515%) Middleware
6 1 (0.758%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 47 (35.61%) Apache
2 25 (18.94%) MS Exchange
3 18 (13.64%) Tomcat
4 16 (12.12%) IIS
5 14 (10.61%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (10.61%) SharePoint 2010
5 14 (10.61%) SharePoint
6 7 (5.303%) nginx
6 7 (5.303%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (3.030%) Liferay
7 4 (3.030%) GlassFish
8 3 (2.273%) WebLogic
8 3 (2.273%) Magento
9 1 (0.758%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.758%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 25 (18.94%) MS Excel
2 16 (12.12%) MS Office
3 2 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.758%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.758%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.758%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 51 (38.64%) TCP/IP
2 34 (25.76%) DNS
3 20 (15.15%) SAN
4 18 (13.64%) Internet
4 18 (13.64%) Firewall
5 16 (12.12%) SMTP
6 15 (11.36%) WAN
7 14 (10.61%) Network Security
8 13 (9.848%) VLAN
9 12 (9.091%) POP3
9 12 (9.091%) FTP
10 11 (8.333%) Intranet
11 10 (7.576%) FWSM
11 10 (7.576%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (7.576%) DHCP
11 10 (7.576%) VPN
12 8 (6.061%) HTTP
13 7 (5.303%) LAN
14 5 (3.788%) SSL
14 5 (3.788%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.06%) MySQL
2 4 (3.030%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.030%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.273%) Redis
4 1 (0.758%) GIS
4 1 (0.758%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.758%) Big Data
4 1 (0.758%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 6 (4.545%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.030%) Git (software)
2 4 (3.030%) Hudson
3 2 (1.515%) RSpec
3 2 (1.515%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.515%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.515%) Capistrano
3 2 (1.515%) Phing
4 1 (0.758%) Subversion
General
1 26 (19.70%) Finance
2 6 (4.545%) Banking
2 6 (4.545%) Legal
3 5 (3.788%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.515%) German Language
4 2 (1.515%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (1.515%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.515%) Advertising
5 1 (0.758%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.758%) Back Office
5 1 (0.758%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.758%) Retail
5 1 (0.758%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.758%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.73%) Clustering
2 17 (12.88%) Cryptography
3 15 (11.36%) Computer Science
4 14 (10.61%) Management Information System
5 11 (8.333%) Open Source
6 3 (2.273%) CLARiiON
6 3 (2.273%) Celerra
7 2 (1.515%) SaaS
7 2 (1.515%) Replication
8 1 (0.758%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.758%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 90 (68.18%) Linux
2 62 (46.97%) Windows
3 34 (25.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 29 (21.97%) CentOS
5 21 (15.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 20 (15.15%) UNIX
7 17 (12.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (11.36%) Windows 7
9 7 (5.303%) Solaris
9 7 (5.303%) AIX
10 3 (2.273%) Windows XP
10 3 (2.273%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.273%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.515%) HPUX
11 2 (1.515%) Windows 2000
11 2 (1.515%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.515%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.97%) ITIL
2 13 (9.848%) Asset Management
2 13 (9.848%) Computer Security
3 10 (7.576%) Load Balancing
4 5 (3.788%) Migration
4 5 (3.788%) Configuration Management
4 5 (3.788%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (3.030%) Memory Management
5 4 (3.030%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (3.030%) CRM
5 4 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (2.273%) Information Security
6 3 (2.273%) E-Commerce
6 3 (2.273%) Data Management
7 2 (1.515%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (1.515%) Static Code Analysis
7 2 (1.515%) Active Record
7 2 (1.515%) Web Development
7 2 (1.515%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (1.515%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.27%) SQL
2 15 (11.36%) Bash shell
3 12 (9.091%) Java
4 10 (7.576%) Shell Script
4 10 (7.576%) Perl
4 10 (7.576%) PHP
5 6 (4.545%) AWK
6 4 (3.030%) sed
7 2 (1.515%) Korn
7 2 (1.515%) Ruby
8 1 (0.758%) Python
8 1 (0.758%) VBScript
8 1 (0.758%) VB
8 1 (0.758%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.758%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 20 (15.15%) Degree
2 17 (12.88%) RHCE
2 17 (12.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 16 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (12.12%) CCNA
4 14 (10.61%) MCITP
5 8 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.303%) MCSE
7 2 (1.515%) MCTS
7 2 (1.515%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.848%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.303%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.12%) vSphere
3 15 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (11.36%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (10.61%) Varnish
5 13 (9.848%) VMware ESX
6 12 (9.091%) Xen
7 4 (3.030%) Postfix
7 4 (3.030%) Squid
7 4 (3.030%) Nmap
7 4 (3.030%) NFS
7 4 (3.030%) Samba
8 3 (2.273%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.758%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.758%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.758%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.758%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 21 (15.91%) Puppet
2 14 (10.61%) NetBackup
3 9 (6.818%) Nagios
3 9 (6.818%) Zenoss
4 2 (1.515%) YUM
5 1 (0.758%) Legato
5 1 (0.758%) SCCM
5 1 (0.758%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (0.758%) Splunk
5 1 (0.758%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 68 (51.52%) VMware
2 54 (40.91%) Microsoft
3 42 (31.82%) Red Hat
4 40 (30.30%) Cisco
5 24 (18.18%) Oracle
6 17 (12.88%) JBoss
7 14 (10.61%) Dell
8 13 (9.848%) HP
9 10 (7.576%) EMC
10 9 (6.818%) NetApp
11 8 (6.061%) IBM
12 7 (5.303%) Citrix
13 5 (3.788%) SAP
14 3 (2.273%) Salesforce.com
14 3 (2.273%) Novell
14 3 (2.273%) Brocade
15 2 (1.515%) Zend
15 2 (1.515%) Barracuda Networks
16 1 (0.758%) JD Edwards
16 1 (0.758%) Peregrine
Staines, Middlesex
Linux Engineer - Red Hat RHEL, VMware... Skills required: Excellent Red Hat Linux knowledge required - RHCE preferred or equivalent demonstrable knowledge. Excellent understanding of web site and enterprise infrastructure...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Sunbury-On-Thames, Middlesex
The Senior Systems Administrator will have: - upwards of 10 years' IT experience majoring in UNIX and/or Linux system administration (including installation and configuration) HP-UX, RedHat and...
RICHARD WHEELER ASSOCIATES
Salary: From £47,000 to £57,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013