Hooookay, so what's the average salary for a system administrator?

Trouble is, the answer varies by city. Also, there are "system 
administrators" who keep 3 PCs running and make sure Word is still 
working. And there are system administrators who supervise a small army 
of technitions who keep an entire data center operational 24x7. The 

Now define "average".

Google isn't especially helpful here. I can see particular job adverts 
and the salaries they *claim* to offer - but that's not the same as what 
the applicants actually end up getting paid. The other problem is that 
almost all salary data is for the USA, not the UK. But I did manage to 
find two useful links:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/systems%20administrator.do

http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/System_Administrator_2991

The first link provides not only an average, but some confidence 
intervals and even a histogram, which is nice.





Does anybody have any better data to offer?

Obviously, if I get a new job, I want them to pay me as much money as 

hire somebody else instead. And if I tell them that I currently work in 
a highly-regulated environment which large amounts of responsibility for 


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