Systems Administration Leader Job Trends

Systems Administration Leader
UK

The median Systems Administration Leader salary in the UK is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 688 719
Rank change year-on-year +37 +31 +287
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administration Leader 2 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.021% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.022% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.00% +11.11% -6.92%
75th Percentile £103,750 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.46%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Systems Administration Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Systems Administration Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Systems Administration Leader job vacancy trend in the UK

Systems Administration Leader
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administration Leader job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Administration Leader job vacancies in the UK

Systems Administration Leader
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administration Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +53 2 £97,500 -
England +53 2 £97,500 +95.00%

Systems Administration Leader Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Systems Administration Leader job roles required 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 job ads featuring Systems Administration Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Systems Administration Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware