Systems Administrator Jobs in Wiltshire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
South West > Wiltshire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Wiltshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 70 72
Rank change year-on-year +51 +2 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 38 23 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.27% 1.79% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.95% 1.88% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 31 9 2
10th Percentile £42,500 - £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £66,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £43,750 £45,375
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.58% -9.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 347 1,225 870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 95.40% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 264 898 530
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £64,063 £60,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Wiltshire

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in Wiltshire.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Wiltshire

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in Wiltshire

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Corsham +16 27 £50,000 +11.11%
Chippenham - 10 £45,000 - 1
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Wiltshire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 34 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 33 (86.84%) DV Cleared
3 26 (68.42%) Windows
4 24 (63.16%) Windows Server
5 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
6 8 (21.05%) Linux
6 8 (21.05%) High Availability
7 7 (18.42%) RHCSA
7 7 (18.42%) Innovative Thinking
7 7 (18.42%) Cisco
7 7 (18.42%) CCNP
7 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (18.42%) Red Hat
7 7 (18.42%) Finance
7 7 (18.42%) e-Learning
8 5 (13.16%) AWS
8 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
8 5 (13.16%) DevOps
9 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
9 4 (10.53%) SIAM
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (10.53%) nginx
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.53%) MariaDB
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
9 4 (10.53%) Service Management
9 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.53%) ITIL Certification

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 4 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (10.53%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) e-Learning
2 4 (10.53%) CMDB
3 2 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Windows
2 24 (63.16%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.05%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) High Availability
2 7 (18.42%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
3 5 (13.16%) DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
4 4 (10.53%) Business Continuity
4 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (10.53%) ITIL
4 4 (10.53%) ITSM
4 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 4 (10.53%) Service Management
4 4 (10.53%) SIAM
4 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (2.63%) CI/CD
5 1 (2.63%) Containerisation
5 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (2.63%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) Bash
1 1 (2.63%) Perl
1 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 33 (86.84%) DV Cleared
3 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (18.42%) CCNP
4 7 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (18.42%) RHCSA
5 4 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Cisco
1 7 (18.42%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) VMware