Systems Administrator Jobs in the South East

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > South East

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the South East is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 323 378
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 96 92 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.67% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 82 66 81
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £62,813 £52,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £65,000 £48,750
England median annual salary £40,400 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.95% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 15,621 13,714 18,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.60% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,594 12,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Thames Valley +25 44 £41,250 +3.81% 6
Kent +4 19 £38,500 +45.28% 1
Oxfordshire +17 18 £40,000 +24.50% 1
Hampshire -1 18 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Berkshire +25 17 £51,350 +17.40% 4
Buckinghamshire -12 9 £51,250 -19.61% 1
Surrey -13 6 £41,250 -14.06%
Sussex - 6 £35,000 -
West Sussex +42 2 £42,500 -
East Sussex +20 1 £30,000 -33.33%
Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 East region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (28.13%) Azure
3 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
4 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (22.92%) Active Directory
6 20 (20.83%) Finance
6 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
7 19 (19.79%) Windows
8 16 (16.67%) Firewall
9 15 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (13.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
11 12 (12.50%) Hyper-V
12 11 (11.46%) VMware
12 11 (11.46%) SQL
12 11 (11.46%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (10.42%) Degree
14 9 (9.38%) NAS
14 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
14 9 (9.38%) CRM
14 9 (9.38%) Customer Service
14 9 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
15 8 (8.33%) Docker
15 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
15 8 (8.33%) Time Management
16 7 (7.29%) Retail

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) Azure
2 12 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.21%) OneDrive
4 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.21%) SaaS
5 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.08%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.04%) IaaS
8 1 (1.04%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) Firewall
2 9 (9.38%) NAS
3 5 (5.21%) DNS
4 3 (3.13%) Network Security
4 3 (3.13%) VPN
5 2 (2.08%) DHCP
5 2 (2.08%) HTTP
5 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.04%) SSH
6 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.04%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Finance
3 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Retail
5 4 (4.17%) Marketing
6 3 (3.13%) Police
6 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Law
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) CSS
1 2 (2.08%) HTML
1 2 (2.08%) Itk
1 2 (2.08%) JSON
1 2 (2.08%) XML
2 1 (1.04%) PHP-FPM
2 1 (1.04%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
2 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Replication
4 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Windows
2 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
3 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.21%) Linux
6 5 (5.21%) Windows 7
7 4 (4.17%) Android
7 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 4 (4.17%) VMS
8 3 (3.13%) Unix
9 2 (2.08%) CentOS
9 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (9.38%) CRM
3 9 (9.38%) Customer Service
4 8 (8.33%) Time Management
5 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (7.29%) Change Management
5 7 (7.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
5 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
6 6 (6.25%) ERP
6 6 (6.25%) ITIL
6 6 (6.25%) Project Management
6 6 (6.25%) Workflow
7 5 (5.21%) DevOps
7 5 (5.21%) Mentoring
7 5 (5.21%) Problem Management
7 5 (5.21%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (4.17%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) SQL
2 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.17%) Bash
3 4 (4.17%) Python
4 3 (3.13%) PHP
5 2 (2.08%) Perl
6 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) HNC
4 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.21%) GDPR
4 3 (3.13%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.08%) QA
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 22 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 8 (8.33%) Docker
4 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.21%) SCCM
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.04%) Puppet
4 1 (1.04%) SCOM
4 1 (1.04%) systemd
4 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) VMware
3 4 (4.17%) Citrix
4 3 (3.13%) BT
5 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Sun
6 1 (1.04%) Apple
6 1 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.04%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.04%) Mitel