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 476 open positions for this role, 449 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, Azure, Windows Server and Python 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 476 open roles, 449 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 23 of 476 jobs; remote share from 394 with a stated format; 449 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many System Administrator postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 175
New sources connected: 11 May +5 · 18 May +3 · 25 May +4 · 1 Jun +6 · 8 Jun +3 · 15 Jun +2 · 22 Jun +12 · 29 Jun +26 · 6 Jul +13 · 13 Jul +20 · 20 Jul +9 · 27 Jul +5 · 3 Aug +8 · 10 Aug +3 · 17 Aug +6 · 24 Aug +3 · 31 Aug +6 · 7 Sept +4 · 14 Sept +2 · 21 Sept +7 · 28 Sept +5 · 5 Oct +1 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of System Administrator postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of System Administrator postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of System Administrator postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: System Administrator
| Open demand | 476 |
| 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 $13,333. Sample: 23.
The range histogram for System Administrator uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 23 salaries out of 476 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: System Administrator
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 156 |
| RU | 43 |
| DE | 26 |
| UA | 18 |
| PL | 17 |
| HK | 15 |
| IN | 11 |
| BY | 10 |
| CA | 8 |
| RO | 7 |
The top country for System Administrator demand is the US (156 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, Azure, Windows Server and Python.
Demand by grade: System Administrator
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 86 |
| junior | 54 |
| middle | 36 |
| principal | 16 |
| lead | 15 |
Senior-and-above is about 57% of 207 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 296 employers. The largest accounts for 6.0%, the top ten for 22.6%; the remaining 77.4% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 6.0% |
| top-3 | 13.4% |
| top-10 | 22.6% |
| long tail | 77.4% |
System Administrator openings come from 296 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 6.0% 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 16.4% — 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
- Senior System Administrator Team Lead · US
- Системный администратор Linux / DevOps инженер · RU
- Junior Site Reliability Engineer/Системный администратор Linux · RU
- Системный администратор (ТЦ Юнимолл) · RU
- Системный администратор (г. Красногорск ТЦ Юнимолл) · RU
- Senior System Administrator · PL
- IT System Administrator (3rd Level / Cloud Infrastructure), Munich (Hybrid Role) · DE
- Системный администратор · BY
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 2026-10-25
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, Azure, Windows Server and Python 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 476 open positions.
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