Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 474 483
Rank change year-on-year +87 +9 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 443 295 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.54% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 355 196 296
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £51,606 £51,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £56,250
UK median annual salary £40,400 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.95% +5.56% +5.88%

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 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

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 Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +104 122 £35,000 -9.09% 18
South East +29 96 £41,250 +3.13% 13
Midlands +53 84 £40,000 +6.67% 16
South West -40 69 £43,000 -4.44% 14
North West +44 62 £32,815 -30.92% 12
Scotland -32 45 £36,000 -10.00% 5
East Midlands +27 44 £40,000 +23.08% 8
Yorkshire +120 43 £35,000 +7.69% 5
West Midlands +42 40 £36,500 -8.75% 8
East of England +19 23 £30,000 -33.33% 7
North East +9 17 £47,500 +15.15% 1
Wales +17 4 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Systems Administrator
UK

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

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

1 132 (29.80%) Windows
2 126 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (26.86%) Azure
4 109 (24.60%) Microsoft
5 105 (23.70%) Active Directory
6 94 (21.22%) Microsoft 365
7 88 (19.86%) Linux
8 86 (19.41%) Social Skills
9 78 (17.61%) VMware
10 77 (17.38%) SQL
11 61 (13.77%) Firewall
12 60 (13.54%) Windows Server
13 59 (13.32%) Finance
14 56 (12.64%) Entra ID
15 55 (12.42%) PowerShell
16 51 (11.51%) DNS
17 47 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
17 47 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
18 46 (10.38%) Security Cleared
19 45 (10.16%) TCP/IP
20 42 (9.48%) LAN
20 42 (9.48%) WAN
21 41 (9.26%) Degree
22 40 (9.03%) Python
23 39 (8.80%) DHCP
24 38 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
25 36 (8.13%) Hyper-V
26 34 (7.67%) ITIL
27 32 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
27 32 (7.22%) Patch Management

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 32 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (5.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.35%) Confluence
4 3 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.90%) Trello
4 1 (0.23%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.68%) iTrent
2 3 (0.68%) Magento
2 3 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (26.86%) Azure
2 94 (21.22%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 28 (6.32%) AWS
5 14 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.48%) SaaS
7 10 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.26%) GCP
8 9 (2.03%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.81%) WhatsApp
10 7 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.58%) IaaS
11 5 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.90%) Slack
13 3 (0.68%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.68%) PaaS
14 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
15 1 (0.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
15 1 (0.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.77%) Firewall
2 51 (11.51%) DNS
3 45 (10.16%) TCP/IP
4 42 (9.48%) LAN
4 42 (9.48%) WAN
5 39 (8.80%) DHCP
6 18 (4.06%) VLAN
7 14 (3.16%) VSAN
8 13 (2.93%) VPN
9 12 (2.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 11 (2.48%) SAN
11 10 (2.26%) NAS
12 8 (1.81%) 802.11
12 8 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (1.81%) Wireshark
13 6 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.13%) Internet
14 5 (1.13%) Wireless
15 4 (0.90%) HTTPS
15 4 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.93%) MySQL
2 13 (2.93%) Power BI
3 9 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.58%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (1.58%) Ingres
5 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (2.48%) Git
2 7 (1.58%) JIRA
3 4 (0.90%) AdminStudio
3 4 (0.90%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 86 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.32%) Finance
3 38 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.06%) Manufacturing
5 16 (3.61%) Retail
6 13 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.48%) Marketing
8 8 (1.81%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.81%) Law
9 7 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.90%) Legal
10 4 (0.90%) Local Government
10 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.68%) French Language
11 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.68%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.68%) Police
11 3 (0.68%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.26%) EDI
2 8 (1.81%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.35%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.13%) REST
5 3 (0.68%) JSON
5 3 (0.68%) XML
6 2 (0.45%) CSS
6 2 (0.45%) HTML
6 2 (0.45%) Itk
6 2 (0.45%) LDAP
6 2 (0.45%) SAML
7 1 (0.23%) PHP-FPM
7 1 (0.23%) ServiceStack
7 1 (0.23%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (4.06%) Data Centre
2 18 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.39%) PKI
4 13 (2.93%) Wiki
5 9 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.58%) VAX
7 6 (1.35%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.13%) Clustering
8 5 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.90%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.90%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.68%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.68%) Life Science
10 3 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.68%) NHS
11 2 (0.45%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 132 (29.80%) Windows
2 88 (19.86%) Linux
3 60 (13.54%) Windows Server
4 29 (6.55%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.42%) CentOS
6 22 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (4.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (4.51%) Unix
9 15 (3.39%) Debian
10 14 (3.16%) Apple iOS
11 13 (2.93%) Android
12 12 (2.71%) Windows 7
13 11 (2.48%) Mac OS
13 11 (2.48%) SUSE
13 11 (2.48%) Ubuntu
14 8 (1.81%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.90%) Solaris
15 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (7.67%) ITIL
4 32 (7.22%) Patch Management
5 31 (7.00%) Customer Service
6 22 (4.97%) Agile
6 22 (4.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (4.97%) ERP
7 20 (4.51%) Computer Science
7 20 (4.51%) Project Management
8 19 (4.29%) DevOps
8 19 (4.29%) Time Management
9 18 (4.06%) CRM
9 18 (4.06%) Roadmaps
10 15 (3.39%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (3.39%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (3.39%) Load Balancing
11 14 (3.16%) Data Management
11 14 (3.16%) Service Management
12 13 (2.93%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (17.38%) SQL
2 55 (12.42%) PowerShell
3 40 (9.03%) Python
4 29 (6.55%) Bash
5 14 (3.16%) Perl
6 9 (2.03%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.68%) AWK
7 3 (0.68%) sed
8 2 (0.45%) C#
8 2 (0.45%) PHP
8 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.23%) Java
9 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.26%) Degree
3 18 (4.06%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.71%) CCNA
4 12 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.81%) CCNP
6 8 (1.81%) HNC
6 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.13%) RHCE
7 5 (1.13%) RHCSA
8 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.68%) HND
9 3 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.45%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.35%) GDPR
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.68%) QA
5 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (23.70%) Active Directory
2 47 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.13%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.29%) vSphere
5 16 (3.61%) Docker
6 13 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 7 (1.58%) XenApp
10 5 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.23%) Lustre
13 1 (0.23%) Postfix
13 1 (0.23%) Shibboleth
13 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (4.06%) SCCM
3 14 (3.16%) Ansible
3 14 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.81%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (1.81%) Puppet
5 7 (1.58%) EMC VPLEX
5 7 (1.58%) Nagios
6 6 (1.35%) McAfee ePO
6 6 (1.35%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.35%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.90%) Terraform
7 4 (0.90%) WSUS
8 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.23%) Grafana
9 1 (0.23%) Icinga
9 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 109 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 78 (17.61%) VMware
3 20 (4.51%) Veeam
4 16 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.16%) Citrix
6 12 (2.71%) Cisco
7 9 (2.03%) Epicor
8 8 (1.81%) SAP
9 7 (1.58%) Centreon
9 7 (1.58%) EMC
9 7 (1.58%) Sybase
10 6 (1.35%) Apple
10 6 (1.35%) McAfee
11 4 (0.90%) Dell
11 4 (0.90%) Oracle
12 3 (0.68%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.68%) BT
12 3 (0.68%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.68%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.45%) Aruba