Systems Administrator Jobs with Work from Home Options

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
UK > Work from Home

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Work from Home is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 491 570
Rank change year-on-year +41 +79 -169
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 140 174 284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.44% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 125 136 215
10th Percentile £27,700 £32,105 £31,350
25th Percentile £33,966 £38,750 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £61,300 £165,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £40,400 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.83% +6.67% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,404 39,812 66,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,887 28,282 41,688
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Systems Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Systems Administrator.

Systems Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Systems Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 49 (35.00%) Azure
2 46 (32.86%) Windows
2 46 (32.86%) Microsoft
3 34 (24.29%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (22.86%) Finance
5 31 (22.14%) Linux
5 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
6 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (21.43%) VMware
7 23 (16.43%) DNS
8 19 (13.57%) TCP/IP
9 18 (12.86%) Active Directory
9 18 (12.86%) ITIL
9 18 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (12.14%) LAN
10 17 (12.14%) WAN
10 17 (12.14%) Firewall
10 17 (12.14%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (11.43%) Windows Server
11 16 (11.43%) DevOps
11 16 (11.43%) Entra ID
11 16 (11.43%) SaaS
12 15 (10.71%) PowerShell
12 15 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
13 14 (10.00%) DHCP
13 14 (10.00%) Data Management
14 13 (9.29%) Management Information System
14 13 (9.29%) ERP
14 13 (9.29%) Degree
15 12 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.57%) Confluence
4 3 (2.14%) Moodle
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) CMS
6 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.86%) Trello
4 1 (0.71%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) BASE24
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (2.14%) iTrent
2 3 (2.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.00%) Azure
2 34 (24.29%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (11.43%) Entra ID
3 16 (11.43%) SaaS
4 11 (7.86%) AWS
5 8 (5.71%) WhatsApp
6 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.86%) GCP
7 4 (2.86%) IaaS
7 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.86%) Slack
8 2 (1.43%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.43%) DNS
2 19 (13.57%) TCP/IP
3 17 (12.14%) Firewall
3 17 (12.14%) LAN
3 17 (12.14%) WAN
4 14 (10.00%) DHCP
5 8 (5.71%) HTTPS
5 8 (5.71%) SSL
6 5 (3.57%) NAS
6 5 (3.57%) VoIP
6 5 (3.57%) VPN
6 5 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.86%) SAN
7 4 (2.86%) VLAN
7 4 (2.86%) VSAN
8 3 (2.14%) SMTP
9 2 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.71%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.29%) NonStop SQL
1 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.86%) MySQL
2 4 (2.86%) Power BI
3 3 (2.14%) Ingres
3 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Vagrant
2 5 (3.57%) Git
2 5 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 32 (22.86%) Finance
2 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.86%) Retail
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.14%) Police
8 2 (1.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 4 (2.86%) REST
2 3 (2.14%) EDI
3 2 (1.43%) .NET
3 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (1.43%) CSS
3 2 (1.43%) HTML
3 2 (1.43%) Itk
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.43%) SPFx
4 1 (0.71%) LDAP
4 1 (0.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (9.29%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.86%) PKI
6 4 (2.86%) Replication
7 3 (2.14%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.14%) Life Science
7 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.14%) VAX
8 2 (1.43%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.71%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.71%) iPhone
9 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.71%) Smartcard
9 1 (0.71%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 46 (32.86%) Windows
2 31 (22.14%) Linux
3 16 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.57%) CentOS
5 11 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (7.14%) Unix
6 10 (7.14%) Windows 10
7 9 (6.43%) Ubuntu
7 9 (6.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (5.71%) Android
8 8 (5.71%) Apple iOS
9 5 (3.57%) Mac OS
10 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (2.14%) Debian
11 3 (2.14%) SUSE
11 3 (2.14%) Windows 7
11 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.71%) AIX
13 1 (0.71%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (12.86%) ITIL
3 16 (11.43%) DevOps
4 14 (10.00%) Data Management
5 13 (9.29%) ERP
6 11 (7.86%) Customer Experience
6 11 (7.86%) Migration
6 11 (7.86%) Time Management
7 9 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (6.43%) Data Security
7 9 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (5.71%) Business Transformation
8 8 (5.71%) Capacity Management
8 8 (5.71%) Data Migration
8 8 (5.71%) Inventory Management
8 8 (5.71%) Software Delivery
9 7 (5.00%) Customer Service
9 7 (5.00%) Information Security
9 7 (5.00%) Project Management
10 6 (4.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.57%) SQL
3 10 (7.14%) Python
3 10 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 9 (6.43%) Bash
5 3 (2.14%) AWK
5 3 (2.14%) sed
6 2 (1.43%) C#
6 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Degree
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CCNA
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.43%) QA
4 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.86%) Docker
3 11 (7.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.43%) vSphere
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.71%) Lustre
7 1 (0.71%) Postfix
7 1 (0.71%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (7.86%) Ansible
2 5 (3.57%) WSUS
3 4 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
3 4 (2.86%) SCVMM
3 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.14%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.14%) Nagios
5 2 (1.43%) Terraform
6 1 (0.71%) Icinga
6 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (21.43%) VMware
3 10 (7.14%) HP
4 9 (6.43%) Dell
4 9 (6.43%) Oracle
5 6 (4.29%) Cisco
5 6 (4.29%) Veeam
6 5 (3.57%) Apple
7 4 (2.86%) Citrix
7 4 (2.86%) McAfee
7 4 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.14%) Centreon
8 3 (2.14%) EMC
8 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.14%) Sybase
9 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.71%) Google
10 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.71%) Splunk