The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex 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 20 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank - 11 11
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 0 13 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex - 12.26% 4.167%
As % of the Job Titles category - 13.00% 4.348%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 1
Average salary - £45,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +63.63%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
69 100 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 100.00% 94.34% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39 88 43
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
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 Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
2 2 (66.67%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) NFS

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (66.67%) Lync
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) VB
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat