System Administrator: market
A System Administrator maintains a company's servers and IT infrastructure: operating systems, accounts, networks, backups, monitoring and security of production systems. We currently track 491 open positions for this role, 462 of them fresh. Postings usually require Linux and Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, networking, monitoring (Zabbix, Grafana), backups and Bash or PowerShell scripting. By co-occurrence in requirements, Active Directory, Python, Azure and Windows Server appear most often. 25% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the System Administrator market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The System Administrator market currently has 491 open roles, 462 of them freshly observed. Median salary $9,789/mo.
25% of System Administrator postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 24 of 491 jobs; remote share from 408 with a stated format; 462 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: System Administrator
| Open demand | 491 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: System Administrator
One in ten earns under $3,260, one in ten over $14,583. Half the market falls between $5,208 and $12,916. Sample: 24.
The range histogram for System Administrator uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 24 salaries out of 491 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: System Administrator
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 161 |
| RU | 44 |
| DE | 27 |
| UA | 21 |
| PL | 18 |
| HK | 15 |
| IN | 11 |
| BY | 10 |
| CA | 8 |
| RO | 7 |
The top country for System Administrator demand is the US (161 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In System Administrator requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Active Directory, Python, Azure and Windows Server.
Demand by grade: System Administrator
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 91 |
| junior | 55 |
| middle | 35 |
| lead | 16 |
| principal | 15 |
Senior-and-above is about 58% of 212 System Administrator postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: System Administrator
Demand is spread across 306 employers. The largest accounts for 5.9%, the top ten for 22.2%; the remaining 77.8% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.9% |
| top-3 | 13.0% |
| top-10 | 22.2% |
| long tail | 77.8% |
System Administrator openings come from 306 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 5.9% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 64 sources; the largest accounts for 15.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
System Administrator postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: System Administrator
- Window System Administrator (EMM/Knox Admin) · US
- Junior DevOps/SysAdmin (m/f/d) · US
- Specialist WMS System Administrator · DE
- IT System Administrator (m/w/d) · US
- Senior System Administrator · PL
- Linux System Administrator · US
- Linux System Administrator · SE
- Linux System Administrator (HPC / DevOps / Infrastructure) Germany · UA · $7,000
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-26
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the System Administrator role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a System Administrator do?
A System Administrator maintains a company's servers and IT infrastructure: operating systems, accounts, networks, backups, monitoring and security of production systems.
Which skills do System Administrator postings require?
Postings usually require Linux and Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, networking, monitoring (Zabbix, Grafana), backups and Bash or PowerShell scripting. In the current slice, Active Directory, Python, Azure and Windows Server appear in requirements most often.
Where can a system administrator grow?
Most often into DevOps, SRE or cloud engineering: infrastructure as code, containers and CI/CD are added, while operations experience remains the main advantage.
How remote-friendly are System Administrator jobs?
25% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 491 open positions.
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