600 live roles · 161 fully remote · freshest first

Systems Administrator jobs

Live systems administrator openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: systems administrator salary.

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 94 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 33 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	8	1	—
Untagged (mid)	474	36	$100k–$154k
Senior / lead	118	6	$119k–$125k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Linux42%
Networking27%
Azure24%
Brewing18%
Terraform14%
Kubernetes11%
Python10%
SQL10%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

Hiring the most right now

Yellowshark61
Jobup28
Hays (Schweiz) AG9
Bechtle Suisse SA8
RUAG SA8
Shieldai7

Routes into systems administrator

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

DevOps Engineer → Systems Administrator58% readiness
Security Engineer → Systems Administrator48% readiness

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Quick answers

How many systems administrator jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 systems administrator openings on our board, and 94 of them arrived in the last seven days. 161 of them are fully remote (remote systems administrator jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do systems administrator jobs pay?

43 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $100k to $150k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the systems administrator salary page.

What skills do systems administrator postings ask for?

The three skills systems administrator postings name most often are Linux (42% of postings), Networking (27%) and Azure (24%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into systems administrator work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 2 measured routes lead into systems administrator work. The closest is from devops engineer: a typical devops engineer profile already covers 58% of what systems administrator postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.