Systems Administrator Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.29% - 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £228 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.50%
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £348 - £570
% change year-on-year - - +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 291 327 417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.38% 76.05% 79.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 129 219
10th Percentile £213 £224 £211
25th Percentile £379 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £618 £596
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 78 99
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.84 £14.84 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £27.50 £20.56
90th Percentile £53.43 £53.75 £33.65
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £36.98
% change year-on-year -15.79% +28.47% +86.65%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Cambridgeshire

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Administrator in Cambridgeshire

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 8 £250 - 2
Systems Administrator
East of England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Systems Administrator contract 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 contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) ITSM
1 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
1 6 (75.00%) PCI DSS
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (62.50%) TeamCity
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) Salt
4 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) SAN
4 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (37.50%) CentOS

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) iSCSI
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) CentOS
2 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (75.00%) ITSM
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Network Management
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Salt
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 2 (25.00%) Intel
4 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto