Systems Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 462 479
Rank change year-on-year +102 +17 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 499 294 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.58% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 401 203 274
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,938
90th Percentile £59,500 £65,000 £56,250
UK median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% +7.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +100 128 £35,000 +7.69% 9
South East +22 111 £40,000 - 21
Midlands +47 93 £40,000 +15.94% 19
South West -27 83 £45,000 -1.10% 16
North West +20 65 £40,617 -14.49% 4
Scotland -31 52 £40,000 +8.11% 11
East Midlands +22 50 £40,000 +20.30% 10
Yorkshire +90 44 £35,000 +7.69% 4
West Midlands +6 43 £38,750 +10.71% 9
East of England +13 28 £35,000 -36.36% 5
North East +6 19 £41,500 +3.75% 1
Wales +10 4 £50,000 +53.85% 4
Systems Administrator
UK

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 135 (27.05%) Windows
2 122 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (23.25%) Azure
4 111 (22.24%) Microsoft
5 100 (20.04%) Active Directory
6 92 (18.44%) Microsoft 365
6 92 (18.44%) Linux
7 89 (17.84%) Social Skills
8 82 (16.43%) VMware
9 75 (15.03%) SQL
10 64 (12.83%) Security Cleared
11 63 (12.63%) Firewall
12 60 (12.02%) Finance
13 55 (11.02%) PowerShell
13 55 (11.02%) Entra ID
14 54 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (10.62%) Windows Server
15 53 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
16 51 (10.22%) DNS
17 42 (8.42%) TCP/IP
17 42 (8.42%) LAN
17 42 (8.42%) WAN
18 41 (8.22%) DHCP
19 40 (8.02%) Degree
20 38 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
21 37 (7.41%) Python
22 35 (7.01%) ITIL
23 34 (6.81%) Customer Service
24 33 (6.61%) AWS
25 32 (6.41%) Hyper-V

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) Confluence
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) Trello
4 1 (0.20%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.60%) iTrent
2 3 (0.60%) Magento
2 3 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Cognos Controller
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.25%) Azure
2 92 (18.44%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (11.02%) Entra ID
4 33 (6.61%) AWS
5 16 (3.21%) GCP
6 12 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.80%) OneDrive
8 9 (1.80%) SaaS
9 7 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.40%) WhatsApp
10 6 (1.20%) IaaS
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.60%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.60%) Slack
12 2 (0.40%) DigitalOcean
12 2 (0.40%) PaaS
12 2 (0.40%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
13 1 (0.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.63%) Firewall
2 51 (10.22%) DNS
3 42 (8.42%) LAN
3 42 (8.42%) TCP/IP
3 42 (8.42%) WAN
4 41 (8.22%) DHCP
5 17 (3.41%) VSAN
6 16 (3.21%) VLAN
7 12 (2.40%) SAN
8 11 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (2.20%) VPN
9 10 (2.00%) NAS
10 9 (1.80%) Wireless
11 8 (1.60%) 802.11
11 8 (1.60%) Internet
11 8 (1.60%) Wireshark
12 6 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.80%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.40%) MySQL
3 11 (2.20%) Power BI
4 9 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (1.40%) Ingres
6 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Git
2 5 (1.00%) AdminStudio
3 4 (0.80%) JIRA
3 4 (0.80%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 89 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.02%) Finance
3 38 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.41%) Manufacturing
5 17 (3.41%) Retail
6 12 (2.40%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.20%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.80%) Marketing
9 7 (1.40%) Law
9 7 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.00%) Legal
12 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.80%) Local Government
12 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.60%) French Language
13 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.60%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.60%) Police
13 3 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.00%) EDI
2 8 (1.60%) 802.1X
3 7 (1.40%) Software Packaging
4 5 (1.00%) REST
5 4 (0.80%) XML
6 3 (0.60%) JSON
7 2 (0.40%) CSS
7 2 (0.40%) HTML
7 2 (0.40%) Itk
8 1 (0.20%) Ajax
8 1 (0.20%) LDAP
8 1 (0.20%) PHP-FPM
8 1 (0.20%) SAML
8 1 (0.20%) ServiceStack
8 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.81%) PKI
2 20 (4.01%) Data Centre
2 20 (4.01%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (2.20%) Wiki
4 9 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.40%) VAX
6 6 (1.20%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
7 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (0.80%) Learning Management System
9 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.60%) Clustering
9 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.60%) NHS
10 2 (0.40%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 135 (27.05%) Windows
2 92 (18.44%) Linux
3 53 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 29 (5.81%) Windows 10
5 23 (4.61%) CentOS
6 22 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (3.61%) Unix
9 14 (2.81%) Debian
10 13 (2.61%) Windows 7
11 12 (2.40%) Android
11 12 (2.40%) Apple iOS
12 11 (2.20%) Mac OS
12 11 (2.20%) SUSE
13 10 (2.00%) Ubuntu
14 8 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.80%) VMS
16 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (7.01%) ITIL
4 34 (6.81%) Customer Service
5 30 (6.01%) Patch Management
6 26 (5.21%) Agile
7 22 (4.41%) Computer Science
7 22 (4.41%) ERP
8 21 (4.21%) Project Management
9 20 (4.01%) Roadmaps
10 18 (3.61%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (3.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (3.61%) Time Management
11 17 (3.41%) DevOps
12 15 (3.01%) Service Management
13 14 (2.81%) Change Management
13 14 (2.81%) CRM
13 14 (2.81%) Data Management
14 13 (2.61%) Business Continuity
14 13 (2.61%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 75 (15.03%) SQL
2 55 (11.02%) PowerShell
3 37 (7.41%) Python
4 26 (5.21%) Bash
5 11 (2.20%) Perl
6 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.60%) AWK
7 3 (0.60%) sed
8 2 (0.40%) C#
8 2 (0.40%) Java
8 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.20%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.02%) Degree
3 29 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.61%) CCNA
4 13 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.80%) HNC
6 8 (1.60%) CCNP
6 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.00%) RHCE
7 5 (1.00%) RHCSA
8 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.80%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.60%) HND
9 3 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.00%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.60%) QA
5 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 100 (20.04%) Active Directory
2 53 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.81%) vSphere
5 16 (3.21%) Docker
5 16 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.40%) XenApp
8 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.20%) Lustre
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.20%) Postfix
10 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.61%) SCCM
2 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (3.01%) Ansible
4 13 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (1.40%) EMC VPLEX
6 7 (1.40%) Nagios
6 7 (1.40%) Puppet
7 6 (1.20%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (1.20%) SCVMM
8 5 (1.00%) WSUS
9 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.20%) Grafana
11 1 (0.20%) Icinga
11 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.20%) systemd
11 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 111 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 82 (16.43%) VMware
3 21 (4.21%) Veeam
4 16 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 15 (3.01%) Cisco
5 15 (3.01%) Citrix
6 11 (2.20%) Epicor
7 8 (1.60%) Oracle
7 8 (1.60%) SAP
8 7 (1.40%) Centreon
8 7 (1.40%) EMC
8 7 (1.40%) Sybase
9 6 (1.20%) McAfee
10 5 (1.00%) Apple
11 4 (0.80%) Dell
12 3 (0.60%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.60%) BT
12 3 (0.60%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.60%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.40%) Juniper