Senior IT Administrator Jobs

Senior IT Administrator
UK

The median Senior IT Administrator salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 707 - 975
Rank change year-on-year - - +243
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Administrator 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% - 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £32,000 - £33,375
25th Percentile £33,125 - £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.13%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £51,563
90th Percentile £67,500 - £55,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,625 - £32,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,683 94,601 90,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.69% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 27,196 67,610 57,343
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior IT Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Administrator in the UK

Senior IT Administrator
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Administrator.

Salary trend for Senior IT Administrator in the UK

Senior IT Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Administrator over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Administrator in the UK

Senior IT Administrator
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England - 5 £47,500 - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £40,625 - 2
North of England - 2 £33,125 -
Yorkshire - 2 £33,125 -
South East - 2 £47,500 - 2
London - 1 £80,000 -

Senior IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Senior IT 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 featuring Senior IT Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (40.00%) Life Science
4 2 (40.00%) Law
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (40.00%) VMS
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Nagios
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Wiki
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Graylog

Senior IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) VMS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Graylog
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto