Systems Administrator Jobs in the South West

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > South West

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 195 279
Rank change year-on-year +9 +84 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 77 63 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 1.01% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.13% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 63 33 19
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £40,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -13.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £67,900 £68,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

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 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the South West

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the South West

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the South West

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 Systems Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Wiltshire +13 36 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Gloucestershire -1 18 £50,000 +42.86%
Somerset +3 8 £40,000 -20.00%
Devon - 7 £39,500 - 1
Bristol -5 5 £42,500 -6.59% 1
Dorset -18 3 £37,500 -37.50% 1
Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 45 (58.44%) Security Cleared
2 33 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 31 (40.26%) PKI
3 31 (40.26%) Windows
4 30 (38.96%) Linux
5 22 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (28.57%) VMware
6 17 (22.08%) Firewall
7 16 (20.78%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (16.88%) vSphere
8 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
8 13 (16.88%) VSAN
9 12 (15.58%) Agile
10 11 (14.29%) Aerospace
10 11 (14.29%) Degree
10 11 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 11 (14.29%) VMware NSX
10 11 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.99%) Azure
12 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (11.69%) Ansible
12 9 (11.69%) Red Hat
12 9 (11.69%) Unix
13 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
13 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
13 8 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
13 8 (10.39%) AWS
13 8 (10.39%) CentOS

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 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Trello
2 1 (1.30%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Azure
2 8 (10.39%) AWS
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.90%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) IaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.60%) Slack
5 2 (2.60%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.08%) Firewall
2 13 (16.88%) VSAN
3 7 (9.09%) Internet
4 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.19%) DNS
5 4 (5.19%) LAN
5 4 (5.19%) WAN
6 3 (3.90%) SAN
6 3 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.60%) DHCP
7 2 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.60%) VLAN
8 1 (1.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) MySQL
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 7 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Retail
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (40.26%) PKI
2 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.19%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.90%) VAX
6 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) iPhone
7 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.30%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 31 (40.26%) Windows
2 30 (38.96%) Linux
3 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (11.69%) Unix
4 8 (10.39%) CentOS
5 5 (6.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.90%) Android
6 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.90%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.60%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.58%) Agile
2 11 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
5 7 (9.09%) ITIL
6 6 (7.79%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (6.49%) Business Continuity
7 5 (6.49%) Customer Service
7 5 (6.49%) DevOps
7 5 (6.49%) High Availability
7 5 (6.49%) Load Balancing
7 5 (6.49%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (6.49%) Time Management
8 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
8 4 (5.19%) CRM
9 3 (3.90%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (3.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.49%) Bash
2 5 (6.49%) Python
3 2 (2.60%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (58.44%) Security Cleared
2 33 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.49%) RHCE
5 5 (6.49%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (20.78%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (16.88%) vSphere
4 11 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.90%) XenApp
6 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.30%) Docker
7 1 (1.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Ansible
2 7 (9.09%) Puppet
3 5 (6.49%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.90%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (3.90%) Nagios
5 2 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (2.60%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) VMware
2 9 (11.69%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Apple
4 3 (3.90%) Centreon
4 3 (3.90%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) EMC
4 3 (3.90%) Sybase
4 3 (3.90%) Veeam
5 2 (2.60%) McAfee
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) CA
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Dell
6 1 (1.30%) Google