Windows Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin) salary in the UK excluding London is £32,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 760 756 832
Rank change year-on-year -4 +76 -168
Permanent jobs requiring a Windows Systems Administrator 11 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.010% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.011% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile - £37,800 £40,350
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.35% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33,966 £68,750 £59,375
90th Percentile - - £62,500
UK median annual salary £32,983 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.39% -22.73% +22.22%

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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
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 £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Windows Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Windows Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Windows Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Windows Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +25 10 £32,000 -27.27% 2
West Midlands +24 6 £32,000 -27.27% 2
East Midlands - 4 £33,966 -
South West -27 1 £58,000 -14.07%
Windows Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 5 (45.45%) DNS
4 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (45.45%) LAN
4 5 (45.45%) WAN
4 5 (45.45%) DHCP
4 5 (45.45%) Patch Management
4 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
4 5 (45.45%) Cyberattack
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (45.45%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (36.36%) Azure
5 4 (36.36%) High Availability
5 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 4 (36.36%) PKI
5 4 (36.36%) WSUS
5 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (36.36%) Information Security
6 1 (9.09%) Firewall
6 1 (9.09%) PowerShell

Windows 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cyberattack
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 4 (36.36%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (45.45%) Patch Management
1 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) High Availability
2 4 (36.36%) Information Security
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) WSUS
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft