Systems Administrator Job Trends in Guildford

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Surrey > Guildford

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Guildford is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 8 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 3.42% - 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% - 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 - £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.84%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £37,500
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +33.33% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 214 122 221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 99.19% 91.70%
Number of salaries quoted 191 61 188
10th Percentile £29,000 £39,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £37,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £70,000
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Systems Administrator job vacancy trend in Guildford

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Guildford.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Guildford

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, 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 Guildford region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Observability
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (50.00%) Proxmox
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) VPN

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Go
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware