Systems Administrator Job Trends in Leicestershire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Leicestershire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 75 55
Rank change year-on-year +29 -20 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.25% 1.35% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 1.46% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £45,000 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £39,135
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +27.76% +42.31%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £41,972
90th Percentile - £55,000 £42,438
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £35,250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +13.48% -25.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 364 753 395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.62% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 218 365 277
10th Percentile £27,350 £26,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £41,645 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.46% -14.29% +5.00%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Leicestershire

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Leicestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administrator job vacancies in Leicestershire

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Leicester +7 1 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Systems Administrator
East Midlands

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 Leicestershire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware