Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in London

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > London

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 591 895
Rank change year-on-year +85 +304 -288
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 3 12 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.012% 0.038% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.040% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 29
10th Percentile £69,000 £52,625 £47,367
25th Percentile £69,375 £58,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,250 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +6.60% -19.36%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £93,250 £107,000
England median annual salary £51,350 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.70% +9.52% -16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Bitcoin
2 1 (33.33%) systemd
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) KVM
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) tcsh
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Bitcoin
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) KVM
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) systemd
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
9 Senior Systems Administrator jobs in England