Systems Administrator Jobs in the West Midlands

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > West Midlands

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the West Midlands is £36,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 255 258
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 40 24 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.55% 0.36% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.39% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 40 23 15
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,275 £32,750
25th Percentile £30,938 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £42,063 £44,375 £52,750
90th Percentile £44,500 £70,950 £56,000
England median annual salary £40,400 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.95% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the West Midlands

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the West Midlands

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the West Midlands

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -3 17 £35,500 -16.47%
Staffordshire -10 13 £40,000 +23.08%
Shropshire - 7 £32,000 -
Worcestershire -19 1 £40,000 +44.14% 6
Brierley Hill - 1 £55,000 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Systems Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (40.00%) LAN
1 16 (40.00%) WAN
1 16 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (32.50%) Wiki
3 13 (32.50%) Firewall
4 11 (27.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (27.50%) Perl
4 11 (27.50%) Windows
4 11 (27.50%) Python
4 11 (27.50%) PowerShell
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
6 6 (15.00%) Azure
6 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (12.50%) DHCP
7 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 5 (12.50%) DNS
7 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
7 5 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (12.50%) Cyberattack
8 4 (10.00%) Linux
8 4 (10.00%) Finance
9 3 (7.50%) Local Government
9 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
9 3 (7.50%) Client Onboarding

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) LAN
1 16 (40.00%) WAN
2 13 (32.50%) Firewall
3 11 (27.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (12.50%) DHCP
4 5 (12.50%) DNS
4 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Wiki
2 5 (12.50%) Cyberattack
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (7.50%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (5.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (5.00%) Logistics
6 1 (2.50%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (2.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (2.50%) Fintech
6 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (2.50%) Server Building
6 1 (2.50%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (2.50%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (2.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Perl
1 11 (27.50%) PowerShell
1 11 (27.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Aruba
3 1 (2.50%) HP
3 1 (2.50%) QAD
3 1 (2.50%) SAP