IT Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT System Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 677 703
Rank change year-on-year +130 +26 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Systems Administrator 24 88 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.12% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 24 83 43
10th Percentile - £29,000 -
25th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £36,000 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +22.03% -12.92%
75th Percentile £39,250 £44,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £38,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +83 7 £27,500 -21.43% 1
South West +108 5 £32,500 -13.33% 3
North of England +22 5 £38,500 +10.00% 4
Scotland +121 3 £50,000 +38.89%
West Midlands +50 3 £32,500 -18.75%
Midlands +37 3 £32,500 -13.33% 2
North West -9 3 £38,500 -14.44% 3
Yorkshire +54 2 £33,125 -1.85% 1
Wales - 1 £24,205 - 2
IT Systems Administrator
UK

IT Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Active Directory
1 23 (95.83%) Windows
2 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (58.33%) Windows Server
4 13 (54.17%) VMware
5 12 (50.00%) Azure
5 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
6 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (37.50%) Firewall
8 8 (33.33%) Windows 10
9 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
10 6 (25.00%) Time Management
10 6 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (25.00%) SAN
10 6 (25.00%) ERP
10 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
10 6 (25.00%) LAN
11 5 (20.83%) Progress
11 5 (20.83%) WAN
11 5 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (20.83%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (20.83%) Virtual Environments
11 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
12 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V

IT Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) SAN
3 5 (20.83%) WAN
3 5 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.33%) DHCP
5 2 (8.33%) DNS
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (4.17%) PBX
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) MS Access
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.33%) Life Science
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
6 1 (4.17%) VMS
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) ERP
2 6 (25.00%) Time Management
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (8.33%) Network Management
5 1 (4.17%) B2B
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.17%) IT Strategy
5 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.17%) Migration
5 1 (4.17%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.17%) Project Management
5 1 (4.17%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (4.17%) Task Automation
5 1 (4.17%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (95.83%) Active Directory
2 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) RHEV
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Progress
4 2 (8.33%) Aruba
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Apple
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam