Systems Administrator Jobs in the East Midlands

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > East Midlands

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the East Midlands is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 149 182
Rank change year-on-year -8 +33 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 38 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.84% 0.77% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.85% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 31 15 15
10th Percentile £30,000 £21,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £33,858 £30,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -24.44% +28.57%
75th Percentile £50,000 £39,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £53,750 £56,435 £53,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,276 2,225 3,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 89.90% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 1,192 2,036
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,685 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the East Midlands

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the East Midlands

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the East Midlands

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +7 12 £40,000 +29.03%
Nottinghamshire -16 12 £35,000 +27.27% 1
Leicestershire -2 11 £45,000 +15.38%
Northamptonshire -30 3 £37,000 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 11 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 11 (28.95%) Active Directory
5 8 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (18.42%) Agile
6 7 (18.42%) DNS
7 6 (15.79%) DHCP
7 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (15.79%) Firewall
7 6 (15.79%) VLAN
7 6 (15.79%) JIRA
7 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
7 6 (15.79%) Validation
7 6 (15.79%) VMware
7 6 (15.79%) Change Control
7 6 (15.79%) Confluence
7 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
8 5 (13.16%) Wireshark
8 5 (13.16%) Veeam
8 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
8 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
8 5 (13.16%) 802.1X
8 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
8 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (13.16%) 802.11

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 12 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 11 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.53%) AWS
4 4 (10.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 4 (10.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) DNS
2 6 (15.79%) DHCP
2 6 (15.79%) Firewall
2 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.79%) VLAN
3 5 (13.16%) 802.11
3 5 (13.16%) Wireshark
4 4 (10.53%) SAN
4 4 (10.53%) VPN
5 3 (7.89%) IPsec
6 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.63%) LAN
6 1 (2.63%) NAS
6 1 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Ingres
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.26%) EDI
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) PKI
2 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 4 (10.53%) Debian
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (5.26%) CentOS
4 2 (5.26%) SUSE
5 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (18.42%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Change Control
3 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (15.79%) Validation
4 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
4 5 (13.16%) Project Management
5 4 (10.53%) Analytics
5 4 (10.53%) Business Analytics
5 4 (10.53%) High Availability
5 4 (10.53%) Information Security
5 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (7.89%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (7.89%) Network Design
7 2 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) IT Strategy
7 2 (5.26%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) Apex Code
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) CCNA
1 5 (13.16%) CCNP
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) WSUS
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) VMware
3 5 (13.16%) Cisco
3 5 (13.16%) Veeam
4 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.26%) Apple
5 2 (5.26%) EMC
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) HP