Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in London

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > London

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
25 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 601 871
Rank change year-on-year +96 +270 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 3 12 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.013% 0.036% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.038% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 32
10th Percentile £57,750 £52,625 £47,647
25th Percentile £61,875 £58,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -2.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £93,250 -
England median annual salary £51,350 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.42% +14.29% -16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,433 31,433 68,252
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,717 23,196 34,616
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator in London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) KVM
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) systemd
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
14 Senior Systems Administrator jobs in England