Systems Administrator Jobs in the North of England

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > North of England

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the North of England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 271 379
Rank change year-on-year -32 +108 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 46 123 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.70% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.73% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 32 102 48
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £36,594 £29,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £34,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +0.72% -13.13%
75th Percentile £47,813 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £57,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,410 £48,675
% change year-on-year +23.73% -16.98% +8.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,815 16,750 15,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 94.99% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,780 12,957 8,065
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the North of England

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the North of England.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the North of England

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the North of England

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -27 36 £40,000 +9.87% 16
Yorkshire +30 10 £52,500 +50.00% 12
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 North of England region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 20 (43.48%) SAP
2 19 (41.30%) Degree
3 18 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (39.13%) Finance
4 17 (36.96%) Windows
4 17 (36.96%) Process Improvement
5 16 (34.78%) Data Quality
5 16 (34.78%) SharePoint
5 16 (34.78%) ERP
5 16 (34.78%) CIMA
5 16 (34.78%) CCAB
5 16 (34.78%) ACCA
5 16 (34.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (34.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (34.78%) Decision-Making
6 12 (26.09%) Linux
7 11 (23.91%) Windows Server
8 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
8 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
8 9 (19.57%) Azure
9 8 (17.39%) VMware
10 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
11 6 (13.04%) LAN
11 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
11 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (10.87%) Ansible
12 5 (10.87%) DevOps
12 5 (10.87%) DNS
12 5 (10.87%) Firewall

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 16 (34.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (34.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) SaaS
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) LAN
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (8.70%) DHCP
4 2 (4.35%) VPN
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.17%) FTP
5 1 (2.17%) HTTP
5 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.17%) NAS
5 1 (2.17%) SAN
5 1 (2.17%) SSH
5 1 (2.17%) SSL
5 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) VLAN
5 1 (2.17%) VSAN
5 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) DB2
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
General
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.17%) EDI
2 1 (2.17%) ISPF
2 1 (2.17%) LAMP
2 1 (2.17%) Loki
2 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Life Science
1 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.17%) IoT
3 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 12 (26.09%) Linux
3 11 (23.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.17%) AIX
6 1 (2.17%) CentOS
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.17%) Solaris
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (36.96%) Process Improvement
3 16 (34.78%) Decision-Making
3 16 (34.78%) ERP
4 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
8 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (4.35%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.35%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (4.35%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (4.35%) Network Management
8 2 (4.35%) Observability
8 2 (4.35%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.35%) Service Management
8 2 (4.35%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.52%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) AWK
3 1 (2.17%) C
3 1 (2.17%) C++
3 1 (2.17%) JCL
3 1 (2.17%) Korn
3 1 (2.17%) Perl
3 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 16 (34.78%) ACCA
2 16 (34.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (34.78%) CCAB
2 16 (34.78%) CIMA
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (2.17%) KVM
5 1 (2.17%) Postfix
5 1 (2.17%) RHEV
5 1 (2.17%) Sendmail
5 1 (2.17%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) SCCM
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Nagios
4 1 (2.17%) Nessus
4 1 (2.17%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) SAP
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) VMware
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
7 2 (4.35%) Aruba
7 2 (4.35%) IBM
8 1 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (2.17%) Citrix
8 1 (2.17%) NetApp
8 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.17%) Tenable
8 1 (2.17%) Veeam