IT Administrator Jobs in the South West

IT Administrator
England > South West

The median IT Administrator salary in the South West is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 252 250
Rank change year-on-year +80 -2 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Administrator 6 37 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.37% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 12
10th Percentile - £22,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £24,000 £28,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £34,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.16% -0.71%
75th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £38,750
90th Percentile - £70,000 -
England median annual salary £30,000 £34,995 £32,500
% change year-on-year -14.27% +7.68% -

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 3,432 10,045 5,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 96.00% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,121 7,271 3,740
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,883
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 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in the South West

IT Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for IT Administrator in the South West

IT 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 IT Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Dorset +39 6 £32,500 -13.33% 1
IT Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 2025, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (83.33%) Time Management
2 5 (83.33%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (83.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity

IT 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) ERP
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (83.33%) Time Management
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Datto