Senior Systems Administrator Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > East of England

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) daily rate in the East of England is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.057% - 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - £570
England median daily rate £610 £575 £375
% change year-on-year +6.00% +53.33% -18.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,584 970 1,675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 90.40% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 461 887
10th Percentile £188 £225 £225
25th Percentile £314 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 135 413
10th Percentile £13.63 £16.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.46 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £53.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -55.05% +34.01% +88.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.78%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Senior Systems Administrator job vacancy trend in the East of England

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £454 -
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Senior Systems Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow