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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 208 183
Rank change year-on-year +90 -25 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 63 83 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.78% 0.85% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 0.88% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37 64 38
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,375 £31,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% -13.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £66,875
90th Percentile - £58,900 £68,750
England median annual salary £49,000 £41,234 £47,500
% change year-on-year +18.83% -13.19% +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 3,318 9,419 5,898
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.16% 88.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,948 6,904 3,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,808 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +53 40 £50,000 - 2
Gloucestershire +66 14 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Dorset +35 5 £32,500 -13.33%
Devon +9 3 - - 5
Bristol +57 1 - - 4
Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
2 40 (63.49%) DV Cleared
3 33 (52.38%) Windows
4 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
5 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
6 22 (34.92%) Linux
7 16 (25.40%) High Availability
8 15 (23.81%) RHCSA
8 15 (23.81%) Innovative Thinking
8 15 (23.81%) Cisco
8 15 (23.81%) CCNP
8 15 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (23.81%) Red Hat
8 15 (23.81%) Finance
8 15 (23.81%) e-Learning
9 13 (20.63%) VMware
10 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
10 10 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
11 9 (14.29%) Manufacturing
12 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (11.11%) Firewall
14 6 (9.52%) Active Directory
14 6 (9.52%) Python
14 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (9.52%) Ansible
14 6 (9.52%) Bash
15 5 (7.94%) Azure
15 5 (7.94%) AWS
15 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Management

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 3 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (7.94%) AWS
2 5 (7.94%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) SAN
2 5 (7.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) VLAN
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.76%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.81%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 7 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Aviation
5 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Military
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.81%) e-Learning
2 5 (7.94%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (52.38%) Windows
2 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
3 22 (34.92%) Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) High Availability
2 15 (23.81%) Innovative Thinking
3 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
4 5 (7.94%) ERP
4 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (7.94%) ITIL
4 5 (7.94%) Time Management
4 5 (7.94%) Virtual Environments
5 4 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (6.35%) Configuration Management
5 4 (6.35%) DevOps
5 4 (6.35%) Machine Learning
6 3 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (4.76%) Incident Response
6 3 (4.76%) Service Delivery
6 3 (4.76%) Service Management
6 3 (4.76%) SIAM
6 3 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) Bash
1 6 (9.52%) Python
2 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
2 40 (63.49%) DV Cleared
3 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
4 15 (23.81%) CCNP
4 15 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (23.81%) RHCSA
5 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Ansible
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) Cisco
1 15 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 13 (20.63%) VMware
3 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) Citrix
5 2 (3.17%) NetApp