Systems Administrator Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
UK > Work from Home

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 447 499
Rank change year-on-year +69 +52 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 69 140 172
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 55 125 135
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,700 £31,434
25th Percentile £41,875 £33,966 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,300 £165,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,400 £48,000
% change year-on-year +23.76% -15.83% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 15,896 32,441 39,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 95.98% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,943 24,914 28,116
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,127 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Systems Administrator trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Systems Administrator.

Systems Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Systems Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 35 (50.72%) Linux
2 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (28.99%) Red Hat
4 19 (27.54%) Windows
5 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (24.64%) DevOps
7 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
7 16 (23.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (21.74%) VMware
9 14 (20.29%) PowerShell
9 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
10 13 (18.84%) Azure
10 13 (18.84%) Bash
11 12 (17.39%) Python
11 12 (17.39%) Finance
12 11 (15.94%) Windows Server
13 8 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (11.59%) AWS
13 8 (11.59%) MariaDB
13 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (11.59%) Ansible
13 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (11.59%) Degree
13 8 (11.59%) Service Delivery
13 8 (11.59%) Firewall
13 8 (11.59%) Management Information System
14 7 (10.14%) Configuration Management
14 7 (10.14%) DNS
14 7 (10.14%) MySQL
14 7 (10.14%) CentOS

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 6 (8.70%) nginx
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.45%) SAP Business ByDesign
1 1 (1.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.80%) SaaS
6 3 (4.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.90%) Sentry
8 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Firewall
2 7 (10.14%) DNS
3 4 (5.80%) VPN
4 3 (4.35%) LAN
4 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.35%) WAN
5 2 (2.90%) DHCP
5 2 (2.90%) Multicast
5 2 (2.90%) Network Security
5 2 (2.90%) SMTP
5 2 (2.90%) VLAN
6 1 (1.45%) FTP
6 1 (1.45%) HTTP
6 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.45%) SSH
6 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) MariaDB
2 7 (10.14%) MySQL
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.80%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.90%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Git
1 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Legal
5 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (2.90%) Node.js
1 2 (2.90%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.45%) EDI
2 1 (1.45%) LAMP
2 1 (1.45%) Loki
2 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.25%) e-Learning
3 4 (5.80%) CMDB
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) NHS
6 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Satnav
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.72%) Linux
2 19 (27.54%) Windows
3 16 (23.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (15.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (10.14%) CentOS
6 5 (7.25%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (4.35%) Unix
9 2 (2.90%) Rocky
9 2 (2.90%) VMS
10 1 (1.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (24.64%) DevOps
3 8 (11.59%) Service Delivery
4 7 (10.14%) Configuration Management
5 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.25%) High Availability
6 5 (7.25%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (7.25%) Security Patching
7 4 (5.80%) Asset Management
7 4 (5.80%) Business Continuity
7 4 (5.80%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (5.80%) ITIL
7 4 (5.80%) ITSM
7 4 (5.80%) Service Management
7 4 (5.80%) SIAM
7 4 (5.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (5.80%) Task Automation
7 4 (5.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.84%) Bash
3 12 (17.39%) Python
4 6 (8.70%) SQL
5 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) AWK
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Korn
6 1 (1.45%) Perl
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
6 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) RHCSA
3 5 (7.25%) CCNP
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.70%) vSphere
4 4 (5.80%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (5.80%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.45%) KVM
6 1 (1.45%) Postfix
6 1 (1.45%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Ansible
2 5 (7.25%) Nagios
3 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.80%) Puppet
3 4 (5.80%) Terraform
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.45%) Nessus
6 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Red Hat
2 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
3 15 (21.74%) VMware
4 5 (7.25%) Cisco
4 5 (7.25%) Progress
5 4 (5.80%) SAP
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.80%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.35%) Oracle
6 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.90%) iManage
7 2 (2.90%) New Relic
8 1 (1.45%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.45%) IBM
8 1 (1.45%) Netskope
8 1 (1.45%) Tenable