Systems Administrator Jobs 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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 175 213
Rank change year-on-year +40 +38 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 9 7 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.44% 0.21% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 25
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £44,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £71,500 £63,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,906 3,218 4,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.86% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 2,554 3,761
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,075 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the City of London.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator 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 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 4 (44.44%) Nagios
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (22.22%) iManage
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Rocky
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) RHCSA
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Multicast
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (22.22%) nginx
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Multicast
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) CentOS
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Rocky
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (22.22%) Document Management
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
2 2 (22.22%) iManage
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft