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The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 187 165 192
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1603 1932 1668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.472% 1.603% 1.299%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.559% 1.688% 1.380%
Number of salaries quoted 1385 1710 1384
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Systems Administrator Salary Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England -25 1531 £40,000 - 181
London -39 730 £47,500 +5.55% 89
South East +22 361 £36,000 -7.69% 37
East of England +12 142 £44,000 +10.00% 16
City of London -41 135 £45,500 +3.40% 22
Berkshire +38 97 £35,250 -17.05% 7
Cambridgeshire +11 85 £44,000 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -23 85 £32,000 -8.57% 7
Cambridge +10 76 £44,500 +11.25% 9
West Midlands +20 74 £35,000 +7.69% 7
Hampshire +46 70 £35,000 - 9
Reading +45 70 £35,000 -10.25% 4
Surrey +2 58 £37,500 +7.14% 5
West Yorkshire -29 57 £30,000 -20.00% 2
South West -22 51 £35,000 - 6
Leeds +1 50 £27,500 -29.03% 2
North West -32 48 £35,000 +6.06% 8
Oxfordshire -4 41 £42,997 +7.49% 10
East Midlands +23 40 £31,500 +12.50% 5
East Sussex -6 39 £32,500 -20.24% 2
Brighton -4 38 £32,500 -21.68% 2
Coventry - 35 £35,000 - 1
Scotland -7 28 £39,250 +12.14% 1
Cheshire +26 25 £38,750 +19.23% 3
Birmingham +1 25 £40,000 +14.28% 5
Essex +29 23 £32,000 -8.57% 2
Nottinghamshire +11 23 £32,500 +18.18% 2
Kent -8 23 £30,000 -22.58% 1
Nottingham +7 20 £32,500 +18.18% 2
Hertfordshire +3 20 £39,250 -12.77% 3

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 2243 (66.72%) Linux
2 1674 (49.79%) Windows
3 1118 (33.25%) VMware
4 1044 (31.05%) Red Hat
5 876 (26.06%) UNIX
6 854 (25.40%) Apache
7 821 (24.42%) MySQL
8 775 (23.05%) Microsoft
9 739 (21.98%) Active Directory
10 737 (21.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 701 (20.85%) Perl
12 683 (20.32%) DNS
13 675 (20.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 633 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
15 583 (17.34%) SAN
16 575 (17.10%) SQL
17 565 (16.81%) TCP/IP
18 561 (16.69%) Bash shell
19 540 (16.06%) PHP
20 515 (15.32%) MS Exchange
21 502 (14.93%) Puppet
22 497 (14.78%) Cisco
23 483 (14.37%) Windows Server 2003
24 478 (14.22%) CentOS
25 466 (13.86%) SQL Server
26 434 (12.91%) Finance
27 433 (12.88%) Python
28 423 (12.58%) Firewall
29 420 (12.49%) MS Excel
30 395 (11.75%) HP

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 255 (7.585%) LAMP
2 148 (4.402%) Web Services
3 90 (2.677%) WebSphere
4 82 (2.439%) .NET
5 58 (1.725%) HTML
6 39 (1.160%) WebSphere MQ
7 38 (1.130%) Middleware
8 34 (1.011%) Ruby on Rails
9 24 (0.714%) J2EE
9 24 (0.714%) Software Packaging
9 24 (0.714%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (0.684%) XML
11 21 (0.625%) Memcached
11 21 (0.625%) CSS
12 20 (0.595%) COM
13 14 (0.416%) FIX Protocol
14 13 (0.387%) ASP
15 12 (0.357%) ActiveMQ
16 11 (0.327%) Application Packaging
17 10 (0.297%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 854 (25.40%) Apache
2 515 (15.32%) MS Exchange
3 328 (9.756%) IIS
4 280 (8.328%) Exchange Server 2010
5 277 (8.239%) Tomcat
6 192 (5.711%) Exchange Server 2007
7 165 (4.908%) nginx
8 160 (4.759%) SharePoint
9 132 (3.926%) Amazon AWS
10 112 (3.331%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 71 (2.112%) Amazon EC2
12 70 (2.082%) Exchange Server 2003
13 46 (1.368%) SharePoint 2010
14 42 (1.249%) Amazon S3
15 29 (0.863%) WebLogic
16 28 (0.833%) Confluence
17 26 (0.773%) Lync
18 23 (0.684%) WordPress
18 23 (0.684%) SharePoint Server
19 19 (0.565%) GlassFish
Applications
1 420 (12.49%) MS Excel
2 186 (5.532%) MS Office
3 27 (0.803%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.535%) Google Apps
5 14 (0.416%) MS PowerPoint
6 11 (0.327%) Office 365
7 6 (0.178%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.089%) MS Project
8 3 (0.089%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 29 (0.863%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.476%) Agresso
2 16 (0.476%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.446%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.238%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.208%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.149%) HFM
7 3 (0.089%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.059%) BASE24
8 2 (0.059%) Summit
8 2 (0.059%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.059%) assyst
8 2 (0.059%) Prophet
8 2 (0.059%) Documaker
8 2 (0.059%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.059%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (0.059%) Hyperion Planning
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 683 (20.32%) DNS
2 583 (17.34%) SAN
3 565 (16.81%) TCP/IP
4 423 (12.58%) Firewall
5 321 (9.548%) DHCP
6 248 (7.377%) Internet
7 185 (5.503%) VPN
8 168 (4.997%) LAN
9 167 (4.967%) WAN
10 160 (4.759%) HTTP
11 119 (3.540%) NAS
12 106 (3.153%) VoIP
13 98 (2.915%) SMTP
14 97 (2.885%) LDAP
15 94 (2.796%) iSCSI
15 94 (2.796%) SSL
16 93 (2.766%) FTP
17 89 (2.647%) VLAN
17 89 (2.647%) Network Security
18 77 (2.290%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 821 (24.42%) MySQL
2 466 (13.86%) SQL Server
3 102 (3.034%) NoSQL
4 96 (2.855%) SQL Server 2008
5 90 (2.677%) Redis
6 89 (2.647%) MongoDB
7 80 (2.380%) PostgreSQL
8 60 (1.785%) Hadoop
9 54 (1.606%) SQL Server 2005
10 48 (1.428%) Big Data
11 43 (1.279%) Oracle 8/8i
12 33 (0.982%) Apache Cassandra
13 28 (0.833%) Crystal Reports
14 23 (0.684%) Neo4j
15 20 (0.595%) RDBMS
15 20 (0.595%) DB2
16 17 (0.506%) Amazon RDS
17 10 (0.297%) Informix
18 9 (0.268%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 9 (0.268%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 177 (5.265%) Subversion
2 102 (3.034%) Git (software)
3 56 (1.666%) JIRA
4 55 (1.636%) Jenkins
5 44 (1.309%) Maven
6 30 (0.892%) Hudson
7 22 (0.654%) MSBuild
8 18 (0.535%) Mercurial
9 16 (0.476%) GitHub
10 15 (0.446%) JUnit
11 13 (0.387%) Ant
12 12 (0.357%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.238%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.208%) Selenium
14 7 (0.208%) MSI
15 6 (0.178%) GCC
15 6 (0.178%) GDB
16 5 (0.149%) Talend Open Studio
16 5 (0.149%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.149%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 434 (12.91%) Finance
2 119 (3.540%) Telecoms
3 85 (2.528%) Banking
4 72 (2.142%) Back Office
5 63 (1.874%) Games
6 58 (1.725%) Financial Institution
7 54 (1.606%) Retail
8 42 (1.249%) Law
9 36 (1.071%) Advertising
9 36 (1.071%) German Language
10 34 (1.011%) Marketing
11 28 (0.833%) Legal
12 25 (0.744%) Investment Banking
13 19 (0.565%) French Language
14 16 (0.476%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.476%) Publishing
15 8 (0.238%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.238%) Russian Language
16 7 (0.208%) Spanish Language
16 7 (0.208%) Music Industry
Miscellaneous
1 326 (9.697%) Clustering
2 231 (6.871%) Open Source
3 145 (4.313%) Computer Science
4 139 (4.134%) Blackberry
5 137 (4.075%) Replication
6 95 (2.826%) Hedge funds
7 88 (2.617%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.814%) SaaS
9 41 (1.220%) Digital Media
10 33 (0.982%) Cloud Computing
11 32 (0.952%) Enterprise Storage
12 31 (0.922%) CLARiiON
13 29 (0.863%) Mathematics
14 22 (0.654%) Client/Server
15 21 (0.625%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (0.565%) Online Games
17 18 (0.535%) HACMP
17 18 (0.535%) Cryptography
17 18 (0.535%) EqualLogic
18 17 (0.506%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2243 (66.72%) Linux
2 1674 (49.79%) Windows
3 876 (26.06%) UNIX
4 737 (21.92%) Windows Server 2008
5 675 (20.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 483 (14.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 478 (14.22%) CentOS
8 325 (9.667%) Debian
9 314 (9.340%) Ubuntu
10 298 (8.864%) Solaris
11 260 (7.733%) Windows 7
12 156 (4.640%) Windows XP
13 155 (4.610%) AIX
14 106 (3.153%) SUSE
15 70 (2.082%) HPUX
16 46 (1.368%) FreeBSD
17 42 (1.249%) Windows Server 2012
18 25 (0.744%) Windows 2000 Server
19 22 (0.654%) OpenBSD
20 21 (0.625%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (10.86%) ITIL
2 214 (6.365%) E-Commerce
3 199 (5.919%) Configuration Management
4 166 (4.938%) Disaster Recovery
5 138 (4.105%) Load Balancing
6 104 (3.093%) Problem Management
7 94 (2.796%) Change Management
8 83 (2.469%) High Availability
9 82 (2.439%) Service Delivery
10 76 (2.261%) Project Management
10 76 (2.261%) Agile Software Development
11 68 (2.023%) Migration
12 65 (1.933%) Asset Management
13 62 (1.844%) Time Management
14 60 (1.785%) Scrum
15 57 (1.695%) Change Control
16 51 (1.517%) Data Protection
17 50 (1.487%) Capacity Planning
18 49 (1.457%) Service Management
19 48 (1.428%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 701 (20.85%) Perl
2 575 (17.10%) SQL
3 561 (16.69%) Bash shell
4 540 (16.06%) PHP
5 433 (12.88%) Python
6 277 (8.239%) Shell Script
7 271 (8.061%) Java
8 210 (6.246%) Ruby
9 160 (4.759%) PowerShell
10 121 (3.599%) C
11 61 (1.814%) JavaScript
12 56 (1.666%) AWK
12 56 (1.666%) VB
13 54 (1.606%) sed
14 52 (1.547%) Korn
15 39 (1.160%) VBScript
16 37 (1.101%) C++
17 29 (0.863%) C#
18 23 (0.684%) Bourne shell
19 14 (0.416%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (11.04%) Degree
2 196 (5.830%) Microsoft Certification
3 180 (5.354%) Cisco Certification
4 166 (4.938%) CCNA
5 145 (4.313%) MCSE
6 139 (4.134%) RHCE
7 109 (3.242%) Security Cleared
8 83 (2.469%) MCITP
9 62 (1.844%) MCP
10 53 (1.576%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 53 (1.576%) SC Cleared
11 42 (1.249%) DV Cleared
12 40 (1.190%) MCSA
13 31 (0.922%) MCTS
14 26 (0.773%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (0.654%) CCNP
16 19 (0.565%) RHCT
17 18 (0.535%) Postgraduate
18 16 (0.476%) Citrix Certification
19 13 (0.387%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.004%) SLA
2 66 (1.963%) PCI DSS
3 40 (1.190%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (0.863%) QA
5 10 (0.297%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.268%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.089%) BS7799
8 2 (0.059%) GxP
9 1 (0.030%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 739 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 633 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 251 (7.466%) vSphere
4 204 (6.068%) VMware ESX
5 141 (4.194%) VMware ESXi
6 114 (3.391%) Xen
7 106 (3.153%) NFS
8 104 (3.093%) Hyper-V
9 75 (2.231%) XenServer
10 67 (1.993%) Samba
10 67 (1.993%) Sendmail
11 65 (1.933%) Postfix
12 57 (1.695%) XenApp
13 55 (1.636%) Varnish
14 34 (1.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 30 (0.892%) ISA Server
16 29 (0.863%) Squid
16 29 (0.863%) VMware Workstation
17 27 (0.803%) UAG
18 25 (0.744%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 502 (14.93%) Puppet
2 279 (8.299%) Nagios
3 113 (3.361%) SCCM
4 94 (2.796%) SCOM
5 90 (2.677%) Backup Exec
6 78 (2.320%) NetBackup
7 74 (2.201%) WSUS
8 73 (2.171%) Cacti
9 69 (2.052%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 64 (1.904%) ZABBIX
11 56 (1.666%) Norton AntiVirus
12 39 (1.160%) Munin
13 38 (1.130%) CFEngine
13 38 (1.130%) YUM
14 31 (0.922%) HP SIM
15 27 (0.803%) Zenoss
16 24 (0.714%) Splunk
17 23 (0.684%) Red Hat Spacewalk
18 22 (0.654%) Red Hat Satellite
19 21 (0.625%) Vagrant
Vendors
1 1118 (33.25%) VMware
2 1044 (31.05%) Red Hat
3 775 (23.05%) Microsoft
4 497 (14.78%) Cisco
5 395 (11.75%) HP
6 329 (9.786%) Oracle
7 280 (8.328%) Citrix
8 167 (4.967%) Symantec
9 141 (4.194%) IBM
10 134 (3.986%) NetApp
11 131 (3.896%) EMC
12 101 (3.004%) Veritas
13 99 (2.945%) Dell
14 92 (2.736%) JBoss
15 65 (1.933%) Sun
16 62 (1.844%) Juniper
17 58 (1.725%) CheckPoint
18 47 (1.398%) McAfee
19 45 (1.338%) Sophos
20 41 (1.220%) Rackspace
LINUX Systems Administrator
Tyneside
You will need to be passionate about technology and have had solid exposure within a Linux Systems Admin role keeping all a companies live services updated... I am...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £28,000 to £37,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
System Administrator
Chester, North West
You must be willing to develop your skills using SAS.As the systems administrator, you will be required to ensure the software reflects the latest, fully licensed version...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £1 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator, No 1 Music Download firm, Londo
City of London
Senior Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Innovative, rapidly expanding global leader in the provision of communication solutions to its target markets, delivering some of the most interesting and challenging systems projects around, requires a...
Catalyst
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Systems Administrator / Support - Windows and Linux
Chester, Cheshire
You will also be responsible for carrying out effective health checks and risk assessments, successfully managing capacity utilisaton and availability, maintaining availability of the BCM solution, software asset...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 June 2013
Senior System Administrator, Oxford
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Linux Recruit
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum excellent benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
System Administrator - Linux/Windows - World Leading Digital Pu
Reading, Berkshire
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator - Central Birmingham - £35k
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: Up to £35k plus excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator / Linux /Apache Leeds
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Linux System Administrator, London, £45,000 - £55,000
London
Linux Recruit
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Systems Administrator
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire
Henley College
Salary: Up to £28,203 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Trainee Systems Administrator- Windows / Linux
Harrow, Middlesex
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Senior Systems Administrator - IIS - Windows 2008 GAIN r/2
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £48000 - £55000 per annum + Generous Bens
Posted: 30 May 2013
GRADUATE - Junior Systems Administrator
London
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Great Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Systems Administrator - Linux / cPanel / LAMP / DNS
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
UNIX System Administrator - IT Services
Portsmouth, South East
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
UNIX System Administrator - IT Services
Portsmouth, South East
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 4 June 2013
Applications Systems Administrator Linux Windows Web City £55k
City, London
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
LINUX / UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR - CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Senior Computer Systems & Network Administrator
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Diamond Light Source
Salary: Competitive plus excellent benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Systems Administrator / Linux Administrator / Linux Engineer
Winchester, Hampshire
TEKsystems
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator - Brighton - £40,000 - £50,000
Brighton, East Sussex
ISL
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator/Engineer - Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Brighton, East Sussex
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Systems Administrator
Plymouth, South West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £16000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
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