Systems Administrator Jobs in Northampton

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Northampton is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 0.22% 0.36% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.37% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £35,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.41% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £38,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £57,500 £43,500 -
% change year-on-year +32.18% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 438 538 242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.90% 97.29% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 179 440 164
10th Percentile £28,150 £24,984 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £53,375 £67,813
90th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £78,675
Northamptonshire median annual salary £47,683 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.21% -27.27% +10.00%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Northampton

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Northampton

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Northampton

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 Northampton region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HANA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware