Senior Systems Administrator Job Trends in Surrey
Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
South East > Surrey
The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in Surrey is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 October 2026.
The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 123 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Permanent Senior Systems Administrator jobs | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey | 0.30% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.32% | - | - |
| Number of salaries quoted | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £57,500 | - | - |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,000 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £63,750 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| South East median annual salary | £92,500 | - | £45,000 |
All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts in Surrey matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent job adverts in Surrey matching a recognised job title | 2,465 | 977 | 1,489 |
| % of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title | 93.48% | 85.93% | 96.44% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 1,803 | 702 | 786 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,000 | £27,275 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £38,801 | £31,250 | £40,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £45,000 | £55,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +22.22% | -18.18% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £75,000 | £65,000 | £72,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £96,250 | £87,375 | £85,000 |
| South East median annual salary | £55,000 | £47,500 | £55,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +15.79% | -13.64% | - |
Senior Systems Administrator Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey
Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Senior Systems Administrator job postings relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.
Senior Systems Administrator Salary Trend in Surrey
Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies in Surrey.
Senior Systems Administrator Job Locations in Surrey
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in Senior Systems Administrator jobs within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 October 2026. 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford | - | 8 | £60,000 | - | 1 |
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Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey
For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, Senior Systems Administrator job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent Senior Systems Administrator job ads across the Surrey region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon CloudWatch | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Amazon EKS | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Ansible | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | AWS Certification | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Bash | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Cloud Security | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Customer Experience | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Firewall | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | GitHub | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | GitHub Actions | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Go | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Grafana | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Kubernetes | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Linux | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Prometheus | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Proxmox | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Python | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Terraform | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | VMware | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | VPN | 100.0% | 8 |
| 24 | AI | 75.0% | 6 |
| 24 | Analytics | 75.0% | 6 |
| 24 | Infrastructure Automation | 75.0% | 6 |
| 24 | Observability | 75.0% | 6 |
| 28 | Containerisation | 25.0% | 2 |
| 28 | Infrastructure as Code | 25.0% | 2 |
| 28 | Mentoring | 25.0% | 2 |
Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps Administrator | 100.0% | 8 |
| 1 | Senior DevOps | 100.0% | 8 |