Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in Scotland

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
UK > Scotland

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 212 246
Rank change year-on-year -64 +34 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 1 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.015% 0.070% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.078% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34,000
25th Percentile £57,500 - £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.87%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £51,350 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.60% +11.90% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,649 3,859 6,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.70% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,920 2,101 3,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,033 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in Scotland

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Administrator in Scotland

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Glasgow - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Systems Administrator
UK

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware