Systems Administrator Job Trends in the City of London

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Central London > City of London

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 151 148
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 12 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.41% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.45% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 21
10th Percentile £53,750 £37,250 -
25th Percentile £61,875 £38,750 £25,615
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +6.25% -17.53%
75th Percentile - £56,250 £50,000
90th Percentile - £63,750 £57,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year +64.71% +8.97% -29.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,121 2,447 2,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 92.20% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 1,593 2,432
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £74,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% - -0.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Systems Administrator' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Systems Administrator job vacancy trend in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Systems Administrator 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) AIX
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Debian
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) KVM
4 1 (8.33%) Linux

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Debian
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Solaris
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Change Management
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Security Patching
1 2 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) KVM
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Podman
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) VMware