The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield 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 23 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 Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 32 10 16
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 18 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 0.725% 18.75% 11.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.763% 19.15% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 11
Average salary £33,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Job Titles
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
131 94 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 94.93% 97.92% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 94
Average salary £30,000 £34,500 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.04% -8.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Administrator
West Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

Wakefield Systems Administrator Salary Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Avaya
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (25.00%) Celerra
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Lync

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (25.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Avaya
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) ProCurve