Administrator Jobs in the South West

Administrator
England > South West

The median Administrator salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 97 129
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 +40
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 71 255 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.00% 2.76% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 2.87% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 53 171 85
10th Percentile £26,575 £22,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £24,000 £31,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £34,000 £40,900
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -16.87% -13.89%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £57,250
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +5.56%

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 3,331 8,899 6,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 96.21% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,992 6,521 3,788
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 14 May 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 14 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
Wiltshire +38 44 £50,000 +14.94% 15
Gloucestershire +5 14 £35,000 -26.32% 15
Bristol +31 4 £44,500 +39.06% 9
Dorset +18 3 £32,500 +20.15% 13
Somerset -17 3 £38,470 +47.96% 10
Devon -5 2 - - 18
Cornwall +12 1 £23,557 -18.06% 3
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 46 (64.79%) Security Cleared
2 42 (59.15%) DV Cleared
3 39 (54.93%) Windows
4 35 (49.30%) Windows Server
5 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
6 13 (18.31%) Linux
7 12 (16.90%) ITIL
8 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
9 10 (14.08%) VMware
10 9 (12.68%) Manufacturing
10 9 (12.68%) Firewall
10 9 (12.68%) Cisco
10 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
11 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (11.27%) Service Management
11 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (9.86%) CMDB
12 7 (9.86%) Finance
13 6 (8.45%) Configuration Management
13 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (8.45%) Red Hat
13 6 (8.45%) CCNP
13 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
13 6 (8.45%) e-Learning
13 6 (8.45%) High Availability
13 6 (8.45%) Bash
13 6 (8.45%) AWS
13 6 (8.45%) Innovative Thinking

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 (5.63%) nginx
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (5.63%) Azure
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.41%) SaaS
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) SAN
2 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.82%) DHCP
3 2 (2.82%) DNS
3 2 (2.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) IPsec
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) SSH
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.63%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) JIRA
General
1 9 (12.68%) Manufacturing
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (9.86%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.82%) Aviation
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Military
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Advertising
6 1 (1.41%) Electronics
6 1 (1.41%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Marketing
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Police
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) Middleware
2 1 (1.41%) Ajax
2 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.41%) CSS
2 1 (1.41%) HTML
2 1 (1.41%) LDAP
2 1 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) CMDB
2 6 (8.45%) e-Learning
3 3 (4.23%) PKI
3 3 (4.23%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.93%) Windows
2 35 (49.30%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.31%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.82%) Unix
5 1 (1.41%) Solaris
5 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.90%) ITIL
2 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (11.27%) Service Management
3 6 (8.45%) Configuration Management
3 6 (8.45%) DevOps
3 6 (8.45%) High Availability
3 6 (8.45%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
4 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (7.04%) ITSM
4 5 (7.04%) SIAM
4 5 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (5.63%) Change Management
5 4 (5.63%) Customer Service
5 4 (5.63%) Incident Response
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning
5 4 (5.63%) Service Delivery
5 4 (5.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) Bash
2 5 (7.04%) Python
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) SQL
5 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (64.79%) Security Cleared
2 42 (59.15%) DV Cleared
3 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) CCNP
4 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.45%) RHCSA
5 4 (5.63%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.82%) Degree
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) GDPR
1 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) Docker
4 4 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.41%) LXC
5 1 (1.41%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Ansible
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) VMware
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco
4 6 (8.45%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.23%) Juniper
7 2 (2.82%) Citrix
7 2 (2.82%) NetApp
8 1 (1.41%) Databricks
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle
8 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.41%) SAP