Hybrid/Remote Senior Systems Administrator Job Trends

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

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary for remote/hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 433 510
Rank change year-on-year +51 +77 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 8 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.049% 0.026% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.027% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £57,588
90th Percentile - - £58,660
UK median annual salary £62,500 £46,250 £51,498
% change year-on-year +35.14% -10.19% -6.37%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 15,190 14,959 26,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.68% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,125 9,042 22,220
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,727 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Administrator' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Systems Administrator job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Systems Administrator job vacancies

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Senior Systems Administrator 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (62.50%) Go
2 5 (62.50%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
2 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 5 (62.50%) Proxmox
2 5 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) VPN

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Go
1 5 (62.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Grafana
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
1 5 (62.50%) Proxmox
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
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