Systems Administrator Contract Job Trends in Surrey

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
South East > Surrey

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in Surrey is £475, 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 51 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.28% - 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £304
25th Percentile £463 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £383
75th Percentile £488 - £400
90th Percentile - - £401
South East median daily rate £503 £432 £373
% change year-on-year +16.32% +15.97% +6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £56.75 £49.87
% change year-on-year - +13.80% -39.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 340 507 734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 93.37% 97.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 357 586
10th Percentile £204 £203 £194
25th Percentile £250 £281 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £625 £667 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 33 30
10th Percentile £21.41 £15.96 £22.57
25th Percentile £25.86 £30.00 £43.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.19% +25.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.59
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Surrey

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Camberley - 1 £475 -
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

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 Surrey region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) BladeLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) Solarflare
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Solarflare