IT Administrator Jobs with Work from Home Options

IT Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £37,000 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 547 604 824
Rank change year-on-year +57 +220 -261
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Administrator 55 29 77
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.081% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37 29 74
10th Percentile £21,000 £25,600 £22,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £31,500 £31,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -0.79% -12.41%
75th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £41,563
90th Percentile £40,250 £45,100 £48,375
UK median annual salary £33,966 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +4.51% - -1.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Administrator.

IT Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Administrator over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

IT Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT 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 jobs with remote work options featuring IT Administrator in the job title.

1 34 (61.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (60.00%) Windows
3 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
4 20 (36.36%) Linux
5 19 (34.55%) Active Directory
5 19 (34.55%) VMware
5 19 (34.55%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (32.73%) SAN
6 18 (32.73%) Data Centre
7 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
7 17 (30.91%) Citrix
8 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
8 15 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
9 14 (25.45%) Data Centre Operations
9 14 (25.45%) Performance Monitoring
9 14 (25.45%) Vulnerability Management
9 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
9 14 (25.45%) NetApp
9 14 (25.45%) Benchmarking
9 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Maintenance
9 14 (25.45%) Server Management
10 13 (23.64%) Azure
11 12 (21.82%) Service Management
11 12 (21.82%) Customer Service
12 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (16.36%) LAN
13 9 (16.36%) WAN
13 9 (16.36%) ERP
13 9 (16.36%) Management Information System

IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.45%) Trello
3 1 (1.82%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (23.64%) Azure
3 9 (16.36%) Entra ID
4 8 (14.55%) SaaS
5 5 (9.09%) AWS
5 5 (9.09%) WhatsApp
6 3 (5.45%) GCP
6 3 (5.45%) Slack
7 1 (1.82%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) SAN
2 9 (16.36%) LAN
2 9 (16.36%) WAN
3 7 (12.73%) Firewall
4 5 (9.09%) NAS
4 5 (9.09%) VoIP
5 4 (7.27%) DNS
5 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.45%) VLAN
7 1 (1.82%) DHCP
7 1 (1.82%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) MySQL
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) Retail
4 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.82%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (32.73%) Data Centre
3 9 (16.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.27%) PKI
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.45%) VAX
6 2 (3.64%) Life Science
7 1 (1.82%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.82%) iPhone
7 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.82%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 33 (60.00%) Windows
2 20 (36.36%) Linux
3 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.36%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.27%) Android
5 4 (7.27%) Apple iOS
5 4 (7.27%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.45%) Unix
6 3 (5.45%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.82%) Debian
8 1 (1.82%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) Benchmarking
1 14 (25.45%) Data Centre Operations
1 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 14 (25.45%) Performance Monitoring
1 14 (25.45%) Server Management
1 14 (25.45%) Vulnerability Management
2 12 (21.82%) Customer Service
2 12 (21.82%) Service Management
3 9 (16.36%) ERP
3 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (9.09%) Project Management
5 4 (7.27%) Asset Management
5 4 (7.27%) Business Strategy
5 4 (7.27%) CRM
5 4 (7.27%) High Availability
5 4 (7.27%) Information Security
5 4 (7.27%) ITIL
5 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
5 4 (7.27%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (34.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) XenApp
4 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) WSUS
2 3 (5.45%) EMC VPLEX
2 3 (5.45%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (5.45%) Nagios
2 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (61.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (34.55%) VMware
3 17 (30.91%) Citrix
4 14 (25.45%) NetApp
5 7 (12.73%) Apple
6 6 (10.91%) Dell
6 6 (10.91%) HP
7 4 (7.27%) EMC
8 3 (5.45%) Centreon
8 3 (5.45%) Sybase
8 3 (5.45%) Veeam
9 2 (3.64%) Google
9 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.82%) CA
10 1 (1.82%) ConnectWise