IT Systems Administrator Job Trends in the East of England

IT System Administrator
England > East of England

The median IT System Administrator salary in the East of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +96
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Systems Administrator 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £37,800 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £29,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.81%
75th Percentile - - £31,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £34,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 3,683 3,144 2,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.28% 89.45% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 1,418 1,765
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -4.15%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

IT Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

IT Systems Administrator job vacancy trend in the East of England

IT Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for IT Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for IT Systems Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

IT Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Systems Administrator in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Systems Administrator in the East of England

IT Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Systems Administrator within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
Essex - 1 £28,000 - 3
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 1
IT Systems Administrator
England

IT Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, IT 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 East of England region featuring IT Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow