Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkSystem Administrator
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank181141164
Rank change year-on-year
Down-40Up+23
Matching permanent IT job ads87814152351
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.115 %1.400 %1.163 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.194 %1.500 %1.235 %
Salaries quoted79211891888
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£50,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£33,125£32,500
% change year-on-year
-1.880 %+1.920 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7351394340190321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.36 %93.34 %94.18 %
Salaries quoted6085779289154271
Average salary£40,000£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.890 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Systems Administrator Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Administrator over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-45830£35,000-
LondonDown-70369£42,500+6.25 %
South EastDown-3198£33,000-5.71 %
East of EnglandUp+195£35,000-1.40 %
City of LondonDown-6093£42,500+10.38 %
South WestUp+3290£32,000-1.53 %
SurreyUp+3977£40,000+6.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+3162£35,000+20.68 %
CambridgeUp+2756£35,000+27.27 %
BerkshireDown-646£32,500-4.41 %
WiltshireUp+2444£36,000+5.88 %
HertfordshireUp+232£30,000-20.00 %
ReadingUp+2629£32,500+3.17 %
YorkshireDown-2828£27,000-22.85 %
StainesUp+3524£41,500+7.09 %
West MidlandsUp+224£32,500-4.41 %
SalisburyUp+1022£38,500+13.23 %
West YorkshireUp+3320£24,500-10.90 %
WalesUp+1119£27,500-8.33 %
KentUp+1218£33,000-22.35 %
GuildfordUp+2715£35,500+29.09 %
ScotlandUp+1114£30,000+33.33 %
OxfordDown-413£32,154-18.59 %
OxfordshireDown-813£32,154-8.13 %
MiddlesexUp+3612£41,500+10.66 %
North WestDown-612£32,500+1.07 %
BristolUp+2011£32,500+16.07 %
MaidenheadUp+1411£32,500-
East SussexUp+1011£32,500-
SloughUp+311£32,500-5.10 %

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

1999 (54.26 %)Linux
2825 (44.81 %)Windows
3606 (32.92 %)UNIX
4431 (23.41 %)Red Hat Linux
5428 (23.25 %)Red Hat
6400 (21.73 %)Active Directory
7399 (21.67 %)Apache
8380 (20.64 %)Windows Server 2003
9366 (19.88 %)Solaris
10342 (18.58 %)Perl
11337 (18.31 %)VMware
12329 (17.87 %)MySQL
13315 (17.11 %)Microsoft
14313 (17.00 %)SQL
15312 (16.95 %)Finance
16311 (16.89 %)SAN
17305 (16.57 %)TCP/IP
18274 (14.88 %)DNS
19269 (14.61 %)SQL Server
20268 (14.56 %)MS Exchange
21245 (13.31 %)Shell Script
22244 (13.25 %)Microsoft Certification
23241 (13.09 %)Firewall
24239 (12.98 %)Cisco
25211 (11.46 %)MCSE
26210 (11.41 %)Oracle
27208 (11.30 %)IIS
28194 (10.54 %)Tomcat
29192 (10.43 %)PHP
30167 (9.071 %)Citrix

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
157 (3.096 %)LAMP
256 (3.042 %)XML
337 (2.010 %).NET
432 (1.738 %)J2EE
527 (1.467 %)HTML
527 (1.467 %)Web Services
617 (0.923 %)ASP.NET
710 (0.543 %)AJAX
89 (0.489 %)ASP
98 (0.435 %)Ruby on Rails
107 (0.380 %)CSS
116 (0.326 %)SOAP
116 (0.326 %)JMS
125 (0.272 %)WebSphere
125 (0.272 %)JDBC
134 (0.217 %)XSLT
134 (0.217 %)Smarty
134 (0.217 %)Software Packaging
143 (0.163 %)Middleware
143 (0.163 %)JSP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1399 (21.67 %)Apache
2268 (14.56 %)MS Exchange
3208 (11.30 %)IIS
4194 (10.54 %)Tomcat
5129 (7.007 %)Exchange Server 2007
6127 (6.898 %)Exchange Server 2003
7104 (5.649 %)SharePoint
841 (2.227 %)SharePoint Server 2007
933 (1.793 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1021 (1.141 %)WebLogic
1021 (1.141 %)CMS
1116 (0.869 %)Lotus Notes
1214 (0.760 %)Documentum
1214 (0.760 %)ColdFusion
1310 (0.543 %)lighttpd
148 (0.435 %)Oracle Workflow
157 (0.380 %)Confluence
157 (0.380 %)Lotus Domino
166 (0.326 %)Resin
175 (0.272 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1144 (7.822 %)MS Excel
284 (4.563 %)MS Office
314 (0.760 %)InfoPath
45 (0.272 %)MATLAB
45 (0.272 %)MS PowerPoint
53 (0.163 %)Spreadsheet
62 (0.109 %)MS Visio
62 (0.109 %)MS Project
71 (0.054 %)Adobe Captivate
71 (0.054 %)RoboHelp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (0.598 %)Hyperion Planning
29 (0.489 %)Oracle Applications
37 (0.380 %)Line 500
37 (0.380 %)Oracle EBS R12
37 (0.380 %)Oracle EBS
46 (0.326 %)Cognos Controller
46 (0.326 %)Oracle Financials
46 (0.326 %)Oracle 11i
55 (0.272 %)Dynamics CRM
64 (0.217 %)Great Plains
64 (0.217 %)Navision
64 (0.217 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
73 (0.163 %)Oracle iProcurement
73 (0.163 %)BPCS
73 (0.163 %)assyst
82 (0.109 %)Dynamics AX
82 (0.109 %)Microsoft CRM
82 (0.109 %)ResourceLink
91 (0.054 %)Changepoint
91 (0.054 %)GoldMine
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1311 (16.89 %)SAN
2305 (16.57 %)TCP/IP
3274 (14.88 %)DNS
4241 (13.09 %)Firewall
5126 (6.844 %)DHCP
6117 (6.355 %)Internet
7116 (6.301 %)LAN
7116 (6.301 %)WAN
897 (5.269 %)VPN
979 (4.291 %)NAS
1075 (4.074 %)FTP
1159 (3.205 %)SMTP
1255 (2.988 %)VoIP
1345 (2.444 %)Network Security
1444 (2.390 %)LDAP
1542 (2.281 %)SSH
1639 (2.118 %)HTTP
1734 (1.847 %)SSL
1832 (1.738 %)Cisco ASA
1931 (1.684 %)Wireless
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1329 (17.87 %)MySQL
2269 (14.61 %)SQL Server
397 (5.269 %)SQL Server 2005
449 (2.662 %)RDBMS
449 (2.662 %)SQL Server 2000
530 (1.630 %)PostgreSQL
625 (1.358 %)Oracle 10g
625 (1.358 %)Oracle 8/8i
720 (1.086 %)Crystal Reports
814 (0.760 %)MS Access
814 (0.760 %)BusinessObjects
913 (0.706 %)SQL Server 2008
913 (0.706 %)DB2
1012 (0.652 %)Oracle 9i
1111 (0.598 %)Informix
1111 (0.598 %)Essbase
126 (0.326 %)Datawarehouse
135 (0.272 %)Oracle Discoverer
143 (0.163 %)Oracle Reports
152 (0.109 %)FileMaker
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
159 (3.205 %)Subversion
221 (1.141 %)Ant
312 (0.652 %)WebLOAD
411 (0.598 %)JIRA
57 (0.380 %)Oracle Forms
66 (0.326 %)Visual Studio
74 (0.217 %)Maven
83 (0.163 %)Mercurial
83 (0.163 %)JMeter
92 (0.109 %)ClearCase
101 (0.054 %)WATIR
101 (0.054 %)Git (software)
101 (0.054 %)InstallShield
101 (0.054 %)Synon
101 (0.054 %)VSS/SourceSafe
101 (0.054 %)Dreamweaver
101 (0.054 %)CruiseControl
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1312 (16.95 %)Finance
297 (5.269 %)Banking
378 (4.237 %)Pensions
461 (3.313 %)Health
538 (2.064 %)Investment Banking
538 (2.064 %)Insurance
634 (1.847 %)Financial Institution
732 (1.738 %)Telecoms
829 (1.575 %)Games
829 (1.575 %)Back Office
928 (1.521 %)Education
1023 (1.249 %)Government
1118 (0.978 %)Retail
1213 (0.706 %)Manufacturing
1311 (0.598 %)Law
149 (0.489 %)Advertising
149 (0.489 %)Publishing
149 (0.489 %)Mobile Games
158 (0.435 %)Pharmaceutical
166 (0.326 %)Online Games
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1121 (6.573 %)Clustering
261 (3.313 %)Open Source
343 (2.336 %)Blackberry
442 (2.281 %)Replication
530 (1.630 %)Management Information System
629 (1.575 %)Computer Science
726 (1.412 %)Fat Client
726 (1.412 %)Client/Server
726 (1.412 %)Thin Client
820 (1.086 %)AS400
913 (0.706 %)iSeries
913 (0.706 %)CLARiiON
1011 (0.598 %)Fixed Income
1110 (0.543 %)Amazon EC2
129 (0.489 %)Amazon S3
129 (0.489 %)Cloud Computing
138 (0.435 %)SaaS
138 (0.435 %)German Language
147 (0.380 %)French Language
147 (0.380 %)LPAR
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1999 (54.26 %)Linux
2825 (44.81 %)Windows
3606 (32.92 %)UNIX
4431 (23.41 %)Red Hat Linux
5380 (20.64 %)Windows Server 2003
6366 (19.88 %)Solaris
7154 (8.365 %)Windows Server 2008
8133 (7.224 %)Debian
9118 (6.410 %)Windows XP
10110 (5.975 %)CentOS
1199 (5.378 %)AIX
1294 (5.106 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1358 (3.150 %)SUSE
1457 (3.096 %)Windows 2000
1553 (2.879 %)Ubuntu
1553 (2.879 %)HPUX
1649 (2.662 %)Windows 2000 Server
1742 (2.281 %)Windows Vista
1832 (1.738 %)Fedora
1921 (1.141 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1133 (7.224 %)ITIL
293 (5.052 %)Disaster Recovery
365 (3.531 %)Load Balancing
443 (2.336 %)E-Commerce
443 (2.336 %)Project Management
541 (2.227 %)CRM
640 (2.173 %)Capacity Planning
735 (1.901 %)Workflow
834 (1.847 %)Configuration Management
932 (1.738 %)User Acceptance Testing
1028 (1.521 %)Migration
1127 (1.467 %)Web Development
1127 (1.467 %)Performance Management
1226 (1.412 %)Release Management
1226 (1.412 %)Service Management
1226 (1.412 %)Change Management
1324 (1.304 %)Electronic Trading
1421 (1.141 %)Service Delivery
1518 (0.978 %)Investment Management
1617 (0.923 %)Incident Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1342 (18.58 %)Perl
2313 (17.00 %)SQL
3245 (13.31 %)Shell Script
4192 (10.43 %)PHP
5144 (7.822 %)Bash shell
6116 (6.301 %)Java
7110 (5.975 %)Python
890 (4.889 %)C
940 (2.173 %)Korn
1038 (2.064 %)VB
1129 (1.575 %)C++
1226 (1.412 %)Ruby
1319 (1.032 %)PowerShell
1417 (0.923 %)C#
1516 (0.869 %)AWK
1516 (0.869 %)VBScript
1615 (0.815 %)VBA
1714 (0.760 %)JavaScript
1810 (0.543 %)Bourne shell
199 (0.489 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1244 (13.25 %)Microsoft Certification
2211 (11.46 %)MCSE
3137 (7.442 %)Degree
458 (3.150 %)Cisco Certification
554 (2.933 %)CCNA
554 (2.933 %)Security Cleared
651 (2.770 %)MCSA
651 (2.770 %)MCP
739 (2.118 %)RHCE
823 (1.249 %)SC Cleared
921 (1.141 %)MCTS
1018 (0.978 %)DV Cleared
1117 (0.923 %)RHCT
1211 (0.598 %)CCNP
1310 (0.543 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
149 (0.489 %)MCITP
158 (0.435 %)HND
167 (0.380 %)Sun Certification
175 (0.272 %)ITIL Certification
175 (0.272 %)A+ Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
122 (1.195 %)SLA
218 (0.978 %)QA
32 (0.109 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.054 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.054 %)GxP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1400 (21.73 %)Active Directory
282 (4.454 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (3.694 %)NFS
464 (3.476 %)Sendmail
464 (3.476 %)VMware ESX
554 (2.933 %)Samba
647 (2.553 %)Xen
741 (2.227 %)NetBackup
840 (2.173 %)Postfix
933 (1.793 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1032 (1.738 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1032 (1.738 %)Terminal Services
1128 (1.521 %)MetaFrame
1223 (1.249 %)Backup Exec
1315 (0.815 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1414 (0.760 %)Hyper-V
1511 (0.598 %)Oracle RAC
1511 (0.598 %)ISA Server
1610 (0.543 %)Veritas File System
179 (0.489 %)OpenLDAP
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
190 (4.889 %)Nagios
228 (1.521 %)MOM
325 (1.358 %)WSUS
419 (1.032 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
517 (0.923 %)Cacti
613 (0.706 %)SCCM
613 (0.706 %)SCOM
712 (0.652 %)OpenView
712 (0.652 %)Tivoli
712 (0.652 %)Norton AntiVirus
810 (0.543 %)Zenoss
99 (0.489 %)BMC PATROL
106 (0.326 %)Ganglia
115 (0.272 %)EMC NetWorker
115 (0.272 %)Plesk
124 (0.217 %)Data Guard
124 (0.217 %)SCVMM
133 (0.163 %)OpenNMS
133 (0.163 %)CONTROL-M
133 (0.163 %)Legato
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1428 (23.25 %)Red Hat
2337 (18.31 %)VMware
3315 (17.11 %)Microsoft
4239 (12.98 %)Cisco
5210 (11.41 %)Oracle
6167 (9.071 %)Citrix
7153 (8.311 %)HP
8131 (7.116 %)Sun
9121 (6.573 %)Veritas
10103 (5.595 %)EMC
1171 (3.857 %)JBoss
1270 (3.802 %)IBM
1369 (3.748 %)NetApp
1443 (2.336 %)Juniper
1539 (2.118 %)Agresso
1638 (2.064 %)Dell
1728 (1.521 %)Symantec
1826 (1.412 %)Sybase
1920 (1.086 %)Brocade
2019 (1.032 %)Avaya