Senior Systems Administrator Jobs in the North of England

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > North of England

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) salary in the North of England is £50,000 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 395 417 461
Rank change year-on-year +22 +44 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 17 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.085% 0.038% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.043% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 8
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,875 -
25th Percentile £47,188 £31,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -38.10% +40.00%
75th Percentile £52,815 £33,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £54,380 £40,625 -
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 19,059 14,033 18,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.31% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 7,943 10,955
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in the North of England

Senior Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Administrator in the North of England

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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 East - 9 £50,000 -
Yorkshire +68 7 £48,249 +48.46% 1
North West -23 1 £56,509 +82.29%
Senior Systems Administrator
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
4 5 (29.41%) Change Control
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (23.53%) VMware
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (23.53%) Application Security
6 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (17.65%) Break/Fix
6 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (17.65%) IaaS
6 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (17.65%) DHCP
6 3 (17.65%) Windows
6 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
6 3 (17.65%) DNS
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (11.76%) MySQL
7 2 (11.76%) Oracle

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) IaaS
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Local Government
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Change Control
1 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
1 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
1 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
2 4 (23.53%) Application Security
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Break/Fix
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Information Security
5 1 (5.88%) Line Management
5 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Lustre
2 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Icinga
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) IBM
5 1 (5.88%) NVIDIA