Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in London

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > London

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 623 834
Rank change year-on-year +117 +211 -270
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 3 12 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.013% 0.033% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.035% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 33
10th Percentile - £60,000 £47,647
25th Percentile - £60,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,625 £77,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £93,250 -
England median annual salary £51,350 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.42% +14.29% +5.00%

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 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 April 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 April 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
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Aruba
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) MCSA
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 3 (100.00%) 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%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCSA
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) SAP