IT Systems Administrator Jobs in the South West

IT System Administrator
England > South West

The median IT System Administrator salary in the South West is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 254 304
Rank change year-on-year -26 +50 -25
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Systems Administrator 12 20 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.32% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 0
10th Percentile - £28,250 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% - -
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 -
90th Percentile £42,250 £39,125 -
England median annual salary £37,500 £37,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +6.43% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,870 6,171 7,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.19% 89.21% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,470 3,847 5,119
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,150 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%

IT Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Systems Administrator in the South West

IT Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for IT Systems Administrator in the South West

IT Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Bristol +7 4 £37,500 +27.12%
Dorset - 4 £37,500 -
Devon -6 3 £39,500 +5.33%
Gloucestershire - 1 £47,500 - 2
IT Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, IT 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 South West region featuring IT Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (41.67%) Apple
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (41.67%) JIRA
3 5 (41.67%) Android
3 5 (41.67%) Mac OS
3 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
3 5 (41.67%) Confluence
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 4 (33.33%) Trello
4 4 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (33.33%) LAN
4 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (33.33%) CRM
4 4 (33.33%) ERP

IT Systems 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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Trello
2 1 (8.33%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Slack
3 4 (33.33%) WhatsApp
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (33.33%) VLAN
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 1 (8.33%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) VAX
3 1 (8.33%) iPhone
3 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Android
2 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
2 5 (41.67%) Mac OS
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) CRM
2 4 (33.33%) ERP
2 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 3 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Apple
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Centreon
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) EMC
3 3 (25.00%) Sybase
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (8.33%) CA
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) Google