Senior Systems Administrator Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in Work from Home is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 657 794
Rank change year-on-year +96 +137 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 14 18 31
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.041% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.043% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 29
10th Percentile - £54,100 £47,647
25th Percentile £47,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,588 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,660 £77,500 £60,976
UK median annual salary £51,350 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.42% +14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,487 41,727 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.06% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,529 41,700
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Systems Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Systems Administrator.

Senior Systems Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Senior Systems Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Windows
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (28.57%) Change Control
4 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Application Security
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) IaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Break/Fix
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 3 (21.43%) Docker
5 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Active Directory

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) DHCP
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) InfiniBand
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) HPUX
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Application Security
1 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
1 4 (28.57%) Change Control
1 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
1 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 3 (21.43%) Break/Fix
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security
4 1 (7.14%) Line Management
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Lustre
3 1 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Icinga
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
4 1 (7.14%) QAD