Systems Administrator Jobs in Yorkshire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > Yorkshire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in Yorkshire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 179 289
Rank change year-on-year +39 +110 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 10 43 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.74% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.78% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 35 14
10th Percentile £32,375 £28,000 £26,100
25th Percentile £35,938 £30,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +7.69% -38.10%
75th Percentile £61,875 £47,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £51,256 £42,615
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,400 £48,000
% change year-on-year +23.76% -15.83% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,589 5,537 7,413
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.22% 91.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 4,284 3,513
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £49,205 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -10.34% +9.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
North Yorkshire -7 8 £42,500 +30.77% 5
South Yorkshire +29 2 £70,000 +55.56% 4
Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Yorkshire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Puppet
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (20.00%) DHCP
6 2 (20.00%) VPN
6 2 (20.00%) DNS
6 2 (20.00%) Life Science
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (20.00%) Firewall
6 2 (20.00%) Law
6 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 10

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (10.00%) Solaris
6 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (20.00%) Observability
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JCL
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp