Systems Administrator Jobs in Edinburgh

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Scotland > Edinburgh

As of 28 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Edinburgh.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 93 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +45 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 2 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.23% 0.73% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.76% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £33,000 £29,550
25th Percentile - £35,375 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £40,000 £33,447
Median % change year-on-year - +19.59% +11.49%
75th Percentile - £48,750 £38,250
90th Percentile - £50,000 £42,300
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +8.11% +23.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 768 1,444 1,853
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.17% 96.07% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 333 1,022 1,092
10th Percentile £26,929 £32,500 £35,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,962
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,625 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Edinburgh

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Edinburgh

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 28 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 Edinburgh region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Sentry

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic