The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 80 95 88
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 152 99 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.061% 2.199% 2.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.193% 2.291% 2.160%
Number of salaries quoted 131 85 72
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4760 4322 3982
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.87% 95.98% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3980 3784 3409
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Administrator
England

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Administrator across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Administrator Salary Trend

Administrator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Administrator across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands Administrator Salary Histogram

Administrator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the West Midlands region 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
Coventry +19 43 £35,000 +7.69%
Warwickshire +33 41 £33,500 -4.28%
Birmingham -11 35 £42,500 +19.71%
Staffordshire -1 17 £40,000 +26.98%
Sutton Coldfield - 12 £27,000 -
Worcestershire -9 4 £35,000 +20.68%
Solihull -26 3 £28,995 -10.78%
West Bromwich 0 2 £40,000 -20.00%
Wolverhampton 0 2 £35,000 +4.47%
Shropshire -5 2 £28,500 +103.57%
Administrator
England

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 131 (40.94%) SQL
2 109 (34.06%) Microsoft
3 103 (32.19%) Windows
4 94 (29.38%) UNIX
5 87 (27.19%) Oracle
6 83 (25.94%) SQL Server
7 70 (21.88%) Linux
8 67 (20.94%) VMware
9 61 (19.06%) Disaster Recovery
10 58 (18.13%) Finance
11 56 (17.50%) ITIL
12 49 (15.31%) Data Guard
13 47 (14.69%) Oracle RMAN
14 42 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (12.81%) Citrix
15 41 (12.81%) SAN
15 41 (12.81%) Replication
16 39 (12.19%) Solaris
16 39 (12.19%) Data Warehouse
17 38 (11.88%) Windows Server 2008
18 37 (11.56%) MS Excel
18 37 (11.56%) Red Hat
19 35 (10.94%) Windows Server 2003
19 35 (10.94%) Cisco
19 35 (10.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 35 (10.94%) SQL Server 2008
20 33 (10.31%) Degree
21 32 (10.00%) IBM
21 32 (10.00%) MS Exchange
22 31 (9.688%) Active Directory

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (7.188%) J2EE
1 23 (7.188%) WebSphere
1 23 (7.188%) Java EE
2 11 (3.438%) HTML
3 7 (2.188%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.563%) CSS
5 4 (1.250%) LAMP
6 3 (0.938%) ASP
6 3 (0.938%) COM
7 2 (0.625%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.313%) Zend Framework
8 1 (0.313%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.313%) .NET
8 1 (0.313%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.313%) Windows SharePoint Services
8 1 (0.313%) XML
8 1 (0.313%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 32 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 23 (7.188%) WebSphere MQ
2 23 (7.188%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 18 (5.625%) Exchange Server 2010
4 16 (5.000%) SharePoint
5 11 (3.438%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (3.125%) Apache
7 9 (2.813%) Tomcat
7 9 (2.813%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 9 (2.813%) Exchange Server 2003
8 7 (2.188%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (2.188%) WebLogic
9 5 (1.563%) nginx
9 5 (1.563%) SharePoint 2010
10 4 (1.250%) Apache Solr
10 4 (1.250%) IIS
11 2 (0.625%) CMS
11 2 (0.625%) Lync
12 1 (0.313%) Moodle
12 1 (0.313%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (11.56%) MS Excel
2 19 (5.938%) MS Office
3 2 (0.625%) MS Project
4 1 (0.313%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.313%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.313%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (7.188%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (4.375%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.500%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 6 (1.875%) assyst
5 4 (1.250%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.625%) Cognos Controller
6 2 (0.625%) Cognos Planning
7 1 (0.313%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.313%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.313%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.81%) SAN
2 17 (5.313%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.313%) Firewall
3 16 (5.000%) PBX
4 14 (4.375%) Network Security
5 13 (4.063%) WAN
5 13 (4.063%) LAN
5 13 (4.063%) VPN
5 13 (4.063%) Internet
6 12 (3.750%) Wireless
7 11 (3.438%) MPLS
7 11 (3.438%) DNS
8 8 (2.500%) VoIP
8 8 (2.500%) DECT
9 7 (2.188%) GPRS
9 7 (2.188%) ISDN
9 7 (2.188%) UMTS
9 7 (2.188%) xDSL
10 6 (1.875%) DHCP
11 5 (1.563%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.94%) SQL Server
2 39 (12.19%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (10.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 35 (10.94%) SQL Server 2008
4 29 (9.063%) Oracle 11g
5 28 (8.750%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (8.125%) SQL Server 2005
7 25 (7.813%) Oracle 10g
8 24 (7.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 23 (7.188%) DB2
10 21 (6.563%) DTS
11 20 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 13 (4.063%) Essbase
12 13 (4.063%) Oracle Discoverer
13 11 (3.438%) MySQL
14 10 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
15 7 (2.188%) Oracle 9i
16 6 (1.875%) OLTP
16 6 (1.875%) SQL Server 2012
17 5 (1.563%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (7.813%) Subversion
2 10 (3.125%) MSI
3 4 (1.250%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.938%) Git (software)
5 2 (0.625%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.313%) RSpec
6 1 (0.313%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.313%) Capistrano
6 1 (0.313%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.313%) Phing
6 1 (0.313%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.313%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.313%) AdminStudio
General
1 58 (18.13%) Finance
2 26 (8.125%) Retail
3 22 (6.875%) Telecoms
4 11 (3.438%) Banking
5 5 (1.563%) Automotive
6 4 (1.250%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.250%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.938%) Back Office
7 3 (0.938%) Billing
7 3 (0.938%) Investment Banking
7 3 (0.938%) Marketing
8 2 (0.625%) Advertising
9 1 (0.313%) Publishing
9 1 (0.313%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.81%) Replication
2 23 (7.188%) Clustering
3 11 (3.438%) Symmetrix DMX
4 8 (2.500%) Blackberry
5 7 (2.188%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.188%) Symmetrix
6 4 (1.250%) Speech Recognition
6 4 (1.250%) NHS
6 4 (1.250%) Open Source
7 3 (0.938%) Mathematics
8 2 (0.625%) Computer Science
8 2 (0.625%) HACMP
8 2 (0.625%) IaaS
8 2 (0.625%) LPAR
9 1 (0.313%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.313%) LLPG
9 1 (0.313%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.313%) HP Superdome
9 1 (0.313%) SaaS
9 1 (0.313%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 103 (32.19%) Windows
2 94 (29.38%) UNIX
3 70 (21.88%) Linux
4 39 (12.19%) Solaris
5 38 (11.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 35 (10.94%) Windows Server 2003
7 30 (9.375%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (5.938%) Windows 7
9 14 (4.375%) Windows XP
10 13 (4.063%) AIX
11 8 (2.500%) SUSE
12 7 (2.188%) CentOS
13 6 (1.875%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (1.563%) HPUX
15 4 (1.250%) Windows 2000 Server
15 4 (1.250%) Debian
16 1 (0.313%) Gentoo
16 1 (0.313%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.313%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.313%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (19.06%) Disaster Recovery
2 56 (17.50%) ITIL
3 42 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (9.688%) Capacity Planning
5 26 (8.125%) ERP
6 24 (7.500%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (6.875%) Problem Management
8 20 (6.250%) ETL
9 18 (5.625%) Change Management
9 18 (5.625%) Database Tuning
10 13 (4.063%) Capacity Management
10 13 (4.063%) Migration
11 12 (3.750%) Service Delivery
11 12 (3.750%) BCP
11 12 (3.750%) Configuration Management
12 11 (3.438%) Business Continuity
13 10 (3.125%) Project Management
14 9 (2.813%) Data Management
15 7 (2.188%) Software Deployment
15 7 (2.188%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (40.94%) SQL
2 30 (9.375%) Shell Script
3 27 (8.438%) PL/SQL
4 21 (6.563%) T-SQL
5 20 (6.250%) Java
6 13 (4.063%) PHP
7 10 (3.125%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.500%) Perl
9 7 (2.188%) Python
10 5 (1.563%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.250%) C#
11 4 (1.250%) VBScript
12 3 (0.938%) Ruby
13 1 (0.313%) Korn
13 1 (0.313%) PHP5
13 1 (0.313%) VB
13 1 (0.313%) VBA
13 1 (0.313%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (10.31%) Degree
2 20 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (5.625%) CCNA
3 18 (5.625%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (5.313%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.375%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.375%) CCNP
6 13 (4.063%) MCSE
7 9 (2.813%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.188%) CCIE
8 7 (2.188%) OCP
8 7 (2.188%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (1.875%) MCP
10 3 (0.938%) MCITP
11 1 (0.313%) MCTS
11 1 (0.313%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.750%) SLA
2 3 (0.938%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.313%) QA
3 1 (0.313%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (14.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 31 (9.688%) Active Directory
3 29 (9.063%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.000%) Oracle RAC
5 13 (4.063%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.750%) vSphere
7 8 (2.500%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (2.188%) SRDF
9 5 (1.563%) XenApp
9 5 (1.563%) XenDesktop
10 4 (1.250%) Postfix
10 4 (1.250%) Sendmail
10 4 (1.250%) MetaFrame
10 4 (1.250%) Varnish
11 2 (0.625%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.625%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 2 (0.625%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.313%) Veritas File System
12 1 (0.313%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.313%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 49 (15.31%) Data Guard
2 15 (4.688%) SCCM
3 14 (4.375%) SCOM
4 9 (2.813%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (2.188%) EMC TimeFinder
6 6 (1.875%) Nagios
6 6 (1.875%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 5 (1.563%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.938%) Puppet
9 2 (0.625%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.625%) YUM
9 2 (0.625%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.625%) Foglight
9 2 (0.625%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.313%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.313%) HP SIM
10 1 (0.313%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 109 (34.06%) Microsoft
2 87 (27.19%) Oracle
3 67 (20.94%) VMware
4 41 (12.81%) Citrix
5 37 (11.56%) Red Hat
6 35 (10.94%) Cisco
7 32 (10.00%) IBM
8 31 (9.688%) HP
9 13 (4.063%) Hyperion
9 13 (4.063%) Fujitsu
10 12 (3.750%) Cognos
10 12 (3.750%) EMC
11 8 (2.500%) Hitachi
11 8 (2.500%) NetApp
12 6 (1.875%) Teradata
13 5 (1.563%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.563%) Sun
14 4 (1.250%) Dell
14 4 (1.250%) Juniper
14 4 (1.250%) Brocade
Walsgrave, Coventry
A comprehensive knowledge of system storage administration is essential, with broad systems administration experience that covers Operating Systems, Scheduling, Monitoring and Networks/Security Systems. An understanding of UNIX...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 19 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Walsgrave, Coventry. £attractive. As a Systems Administrator with Sainsbury’s, you will be part of a small team providing fault finding, preventative maintenance and development services. A comprehensive...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Knowledge of UNIX/OE/Red Hat Linux operating systems and TCP/IP networking protocol is essential, with a thorough understanding of product licensing terms for both Oracle and...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 15 May 2013
Walsgrave, Coventry
Knowledge of UNIX/OE/Red Hat Linux operating systems and TCP/IP networking protocol is essential, with a thorough understanding of product licensing terms for both Oracle and...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 19 May 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
The role will be focused around the design, implementation and support for server equipment; primarily architected using WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker in predominantly aRedhat Linux environment. Skills...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Systems Infrastructure Administrator - Birmingham My Birmingham based client is seeking an 3rd/4th Line Senior Systems Infrastructure Administrator to join their growing business and IT team of...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate will have in depth skills and knowledge of: Windows Server 2008 R2 NetApp/IBM Data ONTAP 8.1 and above VMWare vSphere 5 and above...
TEKsystems
Salary: £34000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus & Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Coventry
This role involves a certain degree of application packaging and hardware knowledge. The team works together with other areas of the business to define and build the clients'...
Scope AT
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Unix Systems Administrator - £35-45K + Bonus. Our client a leading Financial Services organisation is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Sytems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Coventry
The team will be supporting the client's infrastructure nationwide so the ideal candidate will have previously coming from a large blue chip/enterprised sized organisation.The role...
Scope AT
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Walsgrave, Coventry, West Midlands
We're seeking professionals who take ownership of their work, strive for continuous improvement and have the ability to design processes suited to a sophisticated IT operation, with...
Sainsburys
Salary: attractive
Posted: 19 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
We’re seeking professionals who take ownership of their work, strive for continuous improvement and have the ability to design processes suited to a sophisticated IT operation, with...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 14 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Our client is a leading supplier of interactive public information systems working closely with Local Authorities all over the UK... Working from our Coventry offices and reporting to...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: From £12,000 to £13,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will also need to have a strong server background with SAN Enterprise Storage - Dell Compellant, EqualLogic or PowerVault... Key words:- Dell Compellant, EqualLogic, PowerVault, SAN, SCCM, SCOM,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry
Senior Operations Systems Administrator, Major Infrastructure Deployments, MS Office 2003, MS Office 2007 & MS Office 2010, MS Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Antivirus, malware prevention, laptop encryption, PBX, DECT,...
Scope AT
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
REQUIREMENTS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES: Substantial industry experience in database design and administration requiredExperience in T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012 required.Experience with Power...
i4 Recruitment
Salary: £40k - 45k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013
Telford, West Midlands
We have an excellent opportunity for a Unix Administrator with strong experience in HP-UX to join our global client based in Telford-Ideally we are looking for...
GSA Techsource
Salary: Negotiable DOE + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Shropshire
You will be ITIL certified and have in-depth technical knowledge of Unix Administration. Ideally you will have experience of HP-UX and HP Superdome but this is...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Warwickshire
Candidates Require: CCNA working towards CCNP Windows Server 2003-2008 SAN VMWare or Hyper-V The position will require occasional travel to remote sites inclusive of European data...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
With a VMware estate of approximately of 170 virtual machines on 18 hosts, it is important to have a very good background in VMware, an awareness of XenApp,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 34,360
Posted: 17 May 2013
Coventry
MS Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Antivirus, malware prevention, laptop encryption, PBX, DECT, Mobile Carrier based and VOIP, HP Client Automation, enterprise infrastructure deployments Major blue chip client in...
Scope AT
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Coventry
Senior Operations Delivery Administrator, Technical Lead, Senior Infrastructure Support, Lead 3rd/4th line technical support, deployment Support Engineer, Windows XP & Windows 7, MS Office 2003, MS Office 2007 &...
Scope AT
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Warwickshire
Roc Search, Server Administrator, NOC Engineer, MCSE, CCNA, LAN, WAN, 24/7, Windows, Cisco, Permanent, up to £35k) Roc Search are currently looking to recruit a Server Administrator...
Roc Search
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Key elements of the role have been defined as: Support & maintain the Oracle Database estate Support & maintain the WebLogic & Oracle Application Server (OAS) estate Manage personal current and...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + pension and healthcare
Posted: 25 April 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Key focus is the daily storage operations with the following core responsibilities: System Monitoring Trouble-shooting Storage Provisioning Performance Monitoring Incident Handling Problem Management Change Management Agreed Service...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £50 - £55 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 23 April 2013