Salary Survey for System Administrators

I conducted a study of the site HH.ru to understand which of the Sysadmins earns the most.

I compared the number of vacancies and resumes by vacancies Sysadmin, DevOPS. compared Linux and Windows admins.

How did I compare

1) Number of vacancies upon request System administrator

2) The number of resumes to measure the competition

Here is a simple request to HH.ru

Resume request: Here is the link

Request for vacancies: Here is the link

Jobs "System administrator" throughout Russia

You see?

For 3301 vacancies, 15516 people are looking for work

5 people for one system administrator position!

Distribution of salaries.

59,6% of vacancies offer a salary from 35 rubles to 000 rubles

More than half of people will earn a maximum of 70 rubles, and for 000% of people, 83,4 rubles is the salary cap. Not enough?

OK. Something needs to be done about this.

Let's see the difference between Windows Server admins and Linux admins

if you search only for the word “windows” instead of “windows server”, then there are 1950 vacancies - apparently they are looking for 1151 “enikey workers”

Resumes with Windows Server as Key Skills

Competition Windows Server administrators 2,18 people per seat

867 vacancies for 1893 applicants

Windows Server Administrator Salaries

46% will receive from 35 to 000 rubles

And the vast majority of 73% salary of 90 rubles is the ceiling

Jobs that indicate knowledge of Linux

Resumes with Linux in Key Skills

Competition Linux administrators 1,3 people per seat

1416 vacancies for 1866 applicants

More vacancies, less competition

Linux system administrator salaries

Okay what about DevOPS?

Salaries of DevOPS engineers

Conclusions

There is an overabundance of Windows sysadmins on the market. Competition 2,3 people per place with an average salary of 35 to 000 rubles

There are enough Linux administrators in the labor market. Competition 1,3 people per seat. Average salaries from 50 to 000 rubles

The market lacks DevOPS. There is no competition - 0,1 person per place. Average salaries from 65000 to 130 rubles

What to do?

I think you need to become a DevOPS engineer.

We launched a simulation game where you do real tasks in part 1 and upgrade from Windows to Linux admin and in part 2 Linux admin to DevOPS

Try the game simulator from 0 to DevOPS

It's a game like you've been hired as an intern SysAdmin and taught from 0 Linux to DevOPS. Tasks are close to real. You can play at any time at the pace that suits you. Assignments are checked automatically. You will set up real Linux based routers, set up web servers on Nginx, configure DNS servers, automate deployment on Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, run automated tests.

Source: habr.com