Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
UK > England

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in England is £51,350 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 849 1098
Rank change year-on-year +41 +249 -257
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 34 47 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.054% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.059% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 67
10th Percentile £46,125 £31,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £47,025 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,350 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +11.90% -16.00%
75th Percentile £57,044 £66,563 £61,738
90th Percentile £60,000 £69,625 £96,250
UK median annual salary £51,350 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.42% +14.29% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in England

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Administrator in England

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Administrator in England

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 of England +41 16 £50,000 +53.85% 1
South East -7 11 £51,350 -3.43% 4
North East - 9 £50,000 -
Yorkshire +80 6 £51,498 +58.45% 1
London +92 3 £72,500 +18.37% 2
East of England -1 2 £57,500 -
Midlands -16 2 £47,500 -26.92%
West Midlands 0 1 £55,000 -27.63%
North West -2 1 £56,509 +82.29%
East Midlands -26 1 £40,000 -37.25%
Senior Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 17 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (32.35%) VMware
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (32.35%) Roadmaps
4 10 (29.41%) ITIL
4 10 (29.41%) Windows
5 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
5 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 8 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 8 (23.53%) SQL
6 8 (23.53%) DNS
7 7 (20.59%) Change Management
7 7 (20.59%) Degree
8 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
8 6 (17.65%) SCCM
8 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
8 6 (17.65%) Windows 7
8 6 (17.65%) Azure
8 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (17.65%) Windows 10
8 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
8 6 (17.65%) HNC
8 6 (17.65%) Linux
8 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.82%) IaaS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) DNS
2 5 (14.71%) DHCP
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.94%) SAN
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) MySQL
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Electronics
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Local Government
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Itk
2 1 (2.94%) CSS
2 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows 10
2 6 (17.65%) Windows 7
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.94%) CentOS
3 1 (2.94%) HPUX
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (32.35%) Roadmaps
3 10 (29.41%) ITIL
4 8 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 7 (20.59%) Change Management
6 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
6 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
7 5 (14.71%) Change Control
7 5 (14.71%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.76%) Application Security
9 3 (8.82%) Break/Fix
10 2 (5.88%) DevOps
10 2 (5.88%) Information Security
10 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 1 (2.94%) Information Management
11 1 (2.94%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) Korn
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) HNC
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (2.94%) MCSA
6 1 (2.94%) RHCE
6 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (8.82%) Docker
5 1 (2.94%) KVM
5 1 (2.94%) Lustre
5 1 (2.94%) NFS
5 1 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) SCCM
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Icinga
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (32.35%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Aruba
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.94%) QAD
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk