Administrator Jobs in the South West

Administrator
England > South West

The median Administrator salary in the South West is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 84 151
Rank change year-on-year -14 +67 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 92 281 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.34% 2.80% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.91% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 53 195 68
10th Percentile £27,250 £22,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £30,000 £24,000 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -28.21% +5.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £58,188
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £46,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% -19.79% +3.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,645 9,643 5,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 96.06% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,313 6,991 3,824
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,199 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the South West

Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the South West.

Salary trend for Administrator in the South West

Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the South West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the South West

Administrator
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Wiltshire +35 43 £50,000 - 8
Gloucestershire +6 20 £36,250 -23.68% 11
Dorset +18 8 £32,500 +20.15% 19
Somerset -18 8 £45,000 +73.08% 19
Bristol +26 6 £57,000 +132.65% 17
Devon -1 6 £52,500 +55.56% 11
Cornwall -4 1 £23,557 -18.06% 1
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, 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 South West region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 48 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (47.83%) DV Cleared
3 33 (35.87%) Cisco
4 32 (34.78%) Linux
5 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
6 25 (27.17%) Windows
7 24 (26.09%) Finance
7 24 (26.09%) Windows Server
8 23 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
8 23 (25.00%) e-Learning
8 23 (25.00%) CCNP
8 23 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (25.00%) High Availability
9 19 (20.65%) Red Hat
10 18 (19.57%) RHCSA
11 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
11 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
11 16 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (15.22%) VMware
12 14 (15.22%) Firewall
12 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
14 11 (11.96%) Change Management
14 11 (11.96%) ITIL
14 11 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (10.87%) Active Directory
15 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
15 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
16 9 (9.78%) Azure
16 9 (9.78%) Public Sector

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (9.78%) Azure
3 3 (3.26%) AWS
3 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.09%) PaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.09%) SaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) Firewall
2 5 (5.43%) SAN
2 5 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.26%) NAS
3 3 (3.26%) VLAN
3 3 (3.26%) VPN
4 2 (2.17%) Intranet
5 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Git
General
1 24 (26.09%) Finance
2 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.61%) Back Office
7 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.26%) Automotive
8 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Aviation
9 2 (2.17%) Military
10 1 (1.09%) Electronics
10 1 (1.09%) Law
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 5 (5.43%) CMDB
2 5 (5.43%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.78%) Linux
2 25 (27.17%) Windows
3 24 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.52%) Unix
5 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.09%) CentOS
6 1 (1.09%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.00%) High Availability
1 23 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (11.96%) Change Management
3 11 (11.96%) ITIL
4 8 (8.70%) Time Management
5 7 (7.61%) Customer Service
6 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (5.43%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (5.43%) ERP
7 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (5.43%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.43%) Service Management
7 5 (5.43%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (4.35%) Configuration Management
8 4 (4.35%) Key Management
8 4 (4.35%) Machine Learning
8 4 (4.35%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.52%) Bash
2 6 (6.52%) Python
3 2 (2.17%) SQL
4 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (47.83%) DV Cleared
3 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
4 23 (25.00%) CCNP
4 23 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (19.57%) RHCSA
6 5 (5.43%) CCNA
6 5 (5.43%) Degree
7 4 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.17%) NIST
2 2 (2.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 12 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.35%) Docker
3 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Ansible
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.35%) Terraform
4 3 (3.26%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (35.87%) Cisco
2 19 (20.65%) Red Hat
3 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 14 (15.22%) VMware
5 7 (7.61%) Juniper
6 3 (3.26%) Datto
7 2 (2.17%) Citrix
7 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.17%) Meraki
7 2 (2.17%) NetApp
7 2 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.17%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.09%) Databricks
8 1 (1.09%) SAP