The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 49 77 56
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -21
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 82 64 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 3.343% 1.995% 2.666%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.661% 2.185% 2.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 38
Average daily rate £100 £321 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.87% -0.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £89 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 18
Average hourly rate £27.50 £11.94 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+130.36% -4.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.60 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £13.16 £15.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -10.71%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2240 2929 2637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.32% 91.30% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 1039 1001
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 126 181
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -39.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Administrator
South East

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +32 52 £100 -69.23%
Maidenhead -3 5 - -
Bracknell -12 4 £180 -
Slough -21 4 £133 -59.23%
Windsor - 1 - -
Administrator
South East

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Administrator in their job title.

1 47 (33.10%) Telecoms
2 40 (28.17%) Fault Management
3 28 (19.72%) MS Office
4 24 (16.90%) Windows
5 22 (15.49%) SLA
6 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
7 18 (12.68%) ITIL
8 17 (11.97%) MS Excel
9 16 (11.27%) VMware
9 16 (11.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (9.859%) SQL Server
10 14 (9.859%) Windows Server 2003
11 13 (9.155%) Remedy
11 13 (9.155%) Finance
11 13 (9.155%) VMware Infrastructure
12 12 (8.451%) Spreadsheet
12 12 (8.451%) Retail
12 12 (8.451%) TCP/IP
13 11 (7.746%) Linux
13 11 (7.746%) Oracle
13 11 (7.746%) Active Directory
13 11 (7.746%) SQL Server 2008
14 10 (7.042%) SQL Server 2005
14 10 (7.042%) HP
14 10 (7.042%) SQL
14 10 (7.042%) UNIX
14 10 (7.042%) HTTP
15 9 (6.338%) SharePoint
15 9 (6.338%) Problem Management
15 9 (6.338%) PowerShell

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Administrator in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (5.634%) Middleware
2 6 (4.225%) Web Services
3 5 (3.521%) J2EE
4 3 (2.113%) .NET
5 2 (1.408%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.704%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.704%) SAP Business Workflow
6 1 (0.704%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.338%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.634%) MS Exchange
3 6 (4.225%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (4.225%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (3.521%) IIS
5 4 (2.817%) Apache
5 4 (2.817%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.113%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.408%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.408%) FileNet
8 1 (0.704%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.704%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.704%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.704%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.704%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.704%) ESB
8 1 (0.704%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (19.72%) MS Office
2 17 (11.97%) MS Excel
3 12 (8.451%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (5.634%) MS Visio
5 5 (3.521%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (1.408%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.704%) SAP R/3
1 1 (0.704%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.704%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.704%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.704%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (0.704%) HFM
1 1 (0.704%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.451%) TCP/IP
2 10 (7.042%) HTTP
3 8 (5.634%) VPN
4 7 (4.930%) FTP
4 7 (4.930%) WAN
4 7 (4.930%) SMTP
5 5 (3.521%) SAN
6 4 (2.817%) LAN
6 4 (2.817%) ATM
6 4 (2.817%) Internet
7 3 (2.113%) SSL
8 2 (1.408%) LLU
8 2 (1.408%) SSH
8 2 (1.408%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.408%) GSM
8 2 (1.408%) UMTS
8 2 (1.408%) DHCP
8 2 (1.408%) DNS
8 2 (1.408%) Firewall
8 2 (1.408%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.859%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.746%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (7.042%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.408%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.408%) MySQL
4 2 (1.408%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.408%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (1.408%) IDOL
5 1 (0.704%) MSDE
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.704%) MS Access
5 1 (0.704%) OLAP
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.704%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 1 (0.704%) ClearCase
1 1 (0.704%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (0.704%) Subversion
General
1 47 (33.10%) Telecoms
2 13 (9.155%) Finance
3 12 (8.451%) Retail
4 3 (2.113%) Banking
5 2 (1.408%) Military
5 2 (1.408%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.408%) Marketing
5 2 (1.408%) Law
6 1 (0.704%) Legal
6 1 (0.704%) Automotive
6 1 (0.704%) Billing
6 1 (0.704%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.521%) Clustering
2 4 (2.817%) Replication
3 2 (1.408%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.704%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (0.704%) SaaS
4 1 (0.704%) FMCG
4 1 (0.704%) PKI
4 1 (0.704%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.704%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.90%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (9.859%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (7.746%) Linux
5 10 (7.042%) UNIX
6 5 (3.521%) HPUX
7 4 (2.817%) SUSE
8 3 (2.113%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.408%) Solaris
10 1 (0.704%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.704%) AIX
10 1 (0.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.704%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.17%) Fault Management
2 18 (12.68%) ITIL
3 9 (6.338%) Problem Management
4 7 (4.930%) Change Management
5 6 (4.225%) Migration
5 6 (4.225%) Incident Management
5 6 (4.225%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (4.225%) Workflow
6 5 (3.521%) Data Entry
7 4 (2.817%) Validation
7 4 (2.817%) Content Management
7 4 (2.817%) System Testing
7 4 (2.817%) Time Management
8 3 (2.113%) ERP
8 3 (2.113%) CRM
8 3 (2.113%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (1.408%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (1.408%) Resource Management
9 2 (1.408%) Data Management
9 2 (1.408%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.042%) SQL
2 9 (6.338%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.113%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.113%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.113%) C
4 2 (1.408%) VB
5 1 (0.704%) C#
5 1 (0.704%) Java
5 1 (0.704%) Perl
5 1 (0.704%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (2.817%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.113%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.113%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.408%) Degree
4 1 (0.704%) ACCA
4 1 (0.704%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.704%) CIPFA
4 1 (0.704%) CIMA
4 1 (0.704%) CCNA
4 1 (0.704%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) SLA
2 2 (1.408%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.155%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.746%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.521%) vSphere
4 3 (2.113%) ISA Server
5 2 (1.408%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.704%) NFS
6 1 (0.704%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.704%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.704%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.704%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.704%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (4.225%) SCCM
2 5 (3.521%) SCOM
3 3 (2.113%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.408%) HP SIM
4 2 (1.408%) Foglight
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.704%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.27%) VMware
3 13 (9.155%) Remedy
4 11 (7.746%) Oracle
5 10 (7.042%) HP
6 7 (4.930%) Citrix
7 4 (2.817%) SAP
7 4 (2.817%) Cisco
7 4 (2.817%) IBM
8 3 (2.113%) Salesforce.com
8 3 (2.113%) Ericsson
8 3 (2.113%) Clearswift
9 2 (1.408%) ReadSoft
9 2 (1.408%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.408%) Symantec
10 1 (0.704%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.704%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.704%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.704%) NetApp
10 1 (0.704%) Veritas