The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior System Administrator
Rank 798 828 825
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Systems Administrator 60 68 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.056% 0.056% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.059% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 49 51 41
Average salary £38,000 £33,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.15% +24.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,400 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £27,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +19.56%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Junior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Junior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Junior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Junior Systems Administrator within the UK.

Junior Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Junior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Junior Systems Administrator over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Junior Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Junior Systems Administrator
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +32 57 £38,000 +15.15%
London +27 44 £38,000 +11.76%
South East +10 12 £22,500 -9.09%
Surrey +18 6 £22,500 -9.09%
Guildford 0 5 £22,500 -25.00%
Hampshire - 5 £30,000 -
Hammersmith - 4 £26,000 -
City of London +5 2 £21,500 -46.25%
Basingstoke - 2 - -
Edinburgh -7 1 - -
Scotland -12 1 - -
Farnborough - 1 £30,000 -
Wales - 1 £17,500 -
South Wales - 1 £17,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £18,000 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £18,000 -
Berkshire - 1 £21,000 -
Reading - 1 £21,000 -
Leeds - 1 £18,000 -
Cardiff - 1 £17,500 -

Junior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Junior 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 Junior Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 123 (80.92%) Windows
2 113 (74.34%) Linux
3 108 (71.05%) Microsoft
4 100 (65.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 89 (58.55%) Degree
6 72 (47.37%) Windows 7
7 61 (40.13%) Active Directory
8 58 (38.16%) MS Office
9 55 (36.18%) VMware
10 51 (33.55%) Finance
11 49 (32.24%) Windows Server 2003
11 49 (32.24%) MS Exchange
12 47 (30.92%) Perl
12 47 (30.92%) Computer Science
13 42 (27.63%) Hedge funds
14 40 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
15 39 (25.66%) MS Excel
16 36 (23.68%) Financial Institution
16 36 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
17 34 (22.37%) Windows XP
18 32 (21.05%) Red Hat
19 31 (20.39%) PowerShell
20 24 (15.79%) VMware ESX
20 24 (15.79%) DNS
21 23 (15.13%) CentOS
22 22 (14.47%) VMware Workstation
22 22 (14.47%) Management Information System
22 22 (14.47%) Apache
23 21 (13.82%) Cisco
23 21 (13.82%) Software Packaging

Junior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Junior 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 Junior Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (13.82%) Software Packaging
2 9 (5.921%) Web Services
3 7 (4.605%) LAMP
4 2 (1.316%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.658%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.658%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.658%) .NET
5 1 (0.658%) J2EE
5 1 (0.658%) ASP
5 1 (0.658%) COM
Application Platforms
1 49 (32.24%) MS Exchange
2 22 (14.47%) Apache
3 13 (8.553%) Tomcat
4 8 (5.263%) IIS
5 6 (3.947%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (3.947%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (3.289%) nginx
7 3 (1.974%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.316%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (1.316%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.316%) Route 53
8 2 (1.316%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 58 (38.16%) MS Office
2 39 (25.66%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.316%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.79%) DNS
2 20 (13.16%) TCP/IP
3 12 (7.895%) DHCP
3 12 (7.895%) Firewall
4 8 (5.263%) Internet
5 6 (3.947%) FTP
5 6 (3.947%) POP3
5 6 (3.947%) SMTP
6 5 (3.289%) HTTP
6 5 (3.289%) SAN
7 4 (2.632%) VLAN
7 4 (2.632%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.316%) VPN
9 1 (0.658%) NAS
9 1 (0.658%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.658%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.868%) MySQL
2 3 (1.974%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.974%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.974%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.316%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.316%) DB2
4 1 (0.658%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.658%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.974%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.316%) Bazaar
2 2 (1.316%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.658%) Subversion
General
1 51 (33.55%) Finance
2 36 (23.68%) Financial Institution
3 3 (1.974%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.316%) Music
4 2 (1.316%) Legal
5 1 (0.658%) Banking
5 1 (0.658%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.92%) Computer Science
2 42 (27.63%) Hedge funds
3 22 (14.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.316%) Handset
4 2 (1.316%) Clustering
4 2 (1.316%) iPad
5 1 (0.658%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.658%) Replication
5 1 (0.658%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.658%) New Media
5 1 (0.658%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 123 (80.92%) Windows
2 113 (74.34%) Linux
3 100 (65.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 72 (47.37%) Windows 7
5 49 (32.24%) Windows Server 2003
6 34 (22.37%) Windows XP
7 23 (15.13%) CentOS
8 18 (11.84%) UNIX
9 12 (7.895%) Debian
10 9 (5.921%) Ubuntu
11 8 (5.263%) SUSE
12 7 (4.605%) Solaris
13 5 (3.289%) Windows Vista
13 5 (3.289%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (1.974%) FreeBSD
14 3 (1.974%) OpenBSD
15 2 (1.316%) AIX
16 1 (0.658%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.658%) Windows 2000
16 1 (0.658%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (8.553%) Investment Management
3 4 (2.632%) ITIL
4 3 (1.974%) Information Security
5 2 (1.316%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (1.316%) Asset Management
5 2 (1.316%) Load Balancing
5 2 (1.316%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (0.658%) Time Management
6 1 (0.658%) High Availability
6 1 (0.658%) Web Development
6 1 (0.658%) E-Commerce
6 1 (0.658%) ERP
6 1 (0.658%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.92%) Perl
2 31 (20.39%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.553%) Bash shell
4 10 (6.579%) Python
5 9 (5.921%) C
6 6 (3.947%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.947%) SQL
7 5 (3.289%) Ruby
8 4 (2.632%) PHP
9 2 (1.316%) Java
9 2 (1.316%) Korn
Qualifications
1 89 (58.55%) Degree
2 2 (1.316%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.316%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.316%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.658%) RHCE
3 1 (0.658%) RHCT
3 1 (0.658%) MCP
3 1 (0.658%) CCNA
3 1 (0.658%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.947%) SLA
2 1 (0.658%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 61 (40.13%) Active Directory
2 40 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (15.79%) VMware ESX
4 22 (14.47%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (5.263%) Xen
5 8 (5.263%) vSphere
6 6 (3.947%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.974%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.316%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.658%) Samba
9 1 (0.658%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.658%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.658%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.921%) Puppet
2 4 (2.632%) Nagios
3 2 (1.316%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.316%) WSUS
3 2 (1.316%) Cacti
4 1 (0.658%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.658%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 108 (71.05%) Microsoft
2 55 (36.18%) VMware
3 32 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 21 (13.82%) Cisco
5 14 (9.211%) HP
6 6 (3.947%) Dell
7 4 (2.632%) Citrix
7 4 (2.632%) Symantec
7 4 (2.632%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.316%) Google
8 2 (1.316%) IBM
9 1 (0.658%) Oracle
9 1 (0.658%) SAP
9 1 (0.658%) JBoss
9 1 (0.658%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.658%) Joyent
9 1 (0.658%) Rackspace
9 1 (0.658%) ReadSoft
9 1 (0.658%) Salesforce.com
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange management. VMware ESX virtual infrastructure. Desktop PC upgrades and deployments, including Windows XP and Windows 7. Server upgrades and deployments, including Windows Server...
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Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: Unspecified Competitive
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