Senior IT Administrator Jobs in England

Senior IT Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior IT Administrator salary in England is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 - 920
Rank change year-on-year - - +223
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Administrator 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.010% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £32,000 - £33,375
25th Percentile £33,125 - £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.83%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £51,563
90th Percentile £67,500 - £55,125
UK median annual salary £47,500 - £43,750
% change year-on-year - - +15.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 44,992 81,767 80,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,381 60,882 51,425
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

Senior IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Administrator in England

Senior IT Administrator
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Administrator in England.

Salary trend for Senior IT Administrator in England

Senior IT Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Administrator in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Administrator in England

Senior IT Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 2 £33,125 -
South East - 2 £47,500 - 2
North of England - 2 £33,125 -
London - 1 £80,000 -
Senior IT Administrator
UK

Senior IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Senior IT 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 England region featuring Senior IT Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (40.00%) Life Science
4 2 (40.00%) Law
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) VMS
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Nagios
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Wiki
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Graylog

Senior IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Graylog
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto