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 £36,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 691 709 799
Rank change year-on-year +18 +90 -188
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Systems Administrator 80 52 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.085% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.095% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 75 38 55
10th Percentile £29,000 - £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £25,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £28,125 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -14.77% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £44,250
90th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £48,750
UK median annual salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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
Midlands +35 27 £37,500 +20.97% 5
North of England +71 22 £35,000 +14.75% 4
West Midlands +41 18 £37,500 +35.14% 2
North West +29 13 £45,000 +73.08% 2
South West -39 12 £37,500 +17.19% 3
South East +13 11 £35,000 +32.08% 6
East Midlands -8 9 £37,500 +20.97% 3
Yorkshire +101 8 £35,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -59 6 £36,000 -
East of England +17 2 £29,500 -43.81% 2
North East -7 1 £32,500 +18.18%
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 6 May 2024, 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 47 (58.75%) Microsoft
2 41 (51.25%) Windows
3 40 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 37 (46.25%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (43.75%) Azure
5 35 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (31.25%) Entra ID
6 25 (31.25%) Firewall
7 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
8 22 (27.50%) Windows Server
9 19 (23.75%) LAN
9 19 (23.75%) WAN
9 19 (23.75%) PowerShell
10 18 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (22.50%) SharePoint
11 15 (18.75%) Patch Management
12 14 (17.50%) Service Management
12 14 (17.50%) Windows 10
13 13 (16.25%) Finance
14 12 (15.00%) DNS
15 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (13.75%) Wiki
15 11 (13.75%) Customer Service
16 10 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
16 10 (12.50%) Degree
16 10 (12.50%) TCP/IP
16 10 (12.50%) Python
16 10 (12.50%) Perl
17 9 (11.25%) Android
17 9 (11.25%) OneDrive

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 18 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (22.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) Trello
3 1 (1.25%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (43.75%) Azure
3 25 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.25%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.50%) AWS
6 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.25%) WhatsApp
7 4 (5.00%) Slack
8 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.75%) GCP
9 1 (1.25%) IaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.25%) Firewall
2 19 (23.75%) LAN
2 19 (23.75%) WAN
3 12 (15.00%) DNS
4 10 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 8 (10.00%) VLAN
6 7 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (6.25%) DHCP
8 4 (5.00%) VPN
9 3 (3.75%) SAN
10 2 (2.50%) VoIP
11 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
11 1 (1.25%) OpenVPN
11 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Power BI
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Retail
5 4 (5.00%) Law
5 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Wiki
2 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.00%) Learning Management System
4 4 (5.00%) PKI
5 3 (3.75%) VAX
6 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.50%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) iPhone
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.25%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 41 (51.25%) Windows
2 22 (27.50%) Windows Server
3 14 (17.50%) Windows 10
4 9 (11.25%) Android
4 9 (11.25%) Apple iOS
5 7 (8.75%) Mac OS
6 6 (7.50%) Linux
6 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.00%) VMS
8 3 (3.75%) Unix
8 3 (3.75%) Windows 7
8 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.75%) Patch Management
3 14 (17.50%) Service Management
4 11 (13.75%) Customer Service
4 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (10.00%) ERP
5 8 (10.00%) ITIL
6 7 (8.75%) Data Analysis
7 5 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 5 (6.25%) CRM
7 5 (6.25%) Customer Experience
7 5 (6.25%) Project Management
8 4 (5.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (5.00%) Business Strategy
8 4 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (5.00%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (5.00%) Information Security
8 4 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.50%) Perl
2 10 (12.50%) Python
3 8 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (2.50%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 40 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.75%) XenApp
4 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (8.75%) SCCM
2 5 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (5.00%) WSUS
4 3 (3.75%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (3.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (58.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Citrix
3 6 (7.50%) Apple
4 4 (5.00%) VMware
5 3 (3.75%) Centreon
5 3 (3.75%) EMC
5 3 (3.75%) Epicor
5 3 (3.75%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) Sybase
5 3 (3.75%) Veeam
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) Aruba
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) CA
7 1 (1.25%) ConnectWise
7 1 (1.25%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) Mitel