Berkshire Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Administrator
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Driffield Dundee Durham Dyfed East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	31
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	133	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.215 %
As % of the category below	4.189 %	4.722 %
Daily rates quoted	45	72
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£292
Average daily rate	£281	£305
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.95	£21.54
Average hourly rate	£20.18	£22.85
% change on same period last year	-11.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.41	£24.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.40	£21.53
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3175	4574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.190 %	4.555 %
Daily rates quoted	784	1441
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£350
Average daily rate	£360	£367
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	233	460
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.29	£28.17
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-15.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Administrator South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+9	55	£301	-14.49 %
Bracknell	+19	11	£250	-
Slough	-16	9	-	-
Maidenhead	+2	9	-	-
Newbury	+8	6	£150	-49.20 %

Administrator South East

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 54 (19.29 %) UNIX 2 42 (15.00 %) MS PowerPoint 3 41 (14.64 %) Oracle 4 37 (13.21 %) Finance 5 35 (12.50 %) SQL 5 35 (12.50 %) Windows 5 35 (12.50 %) Solaris 5 35 (12.50 %) MS Excel 6 26 (9.286 %) Shell Script 6 26 (9.286 %) IBM 7 25 (8.929 %) WebLogic 7 25 (8.929 %) Telecoms 8 24 (8.571 %) SAP 8 24 (8.571 %) Microsoft 9 23 (8.214 %) MS Office

10 21 (7.500 %) Spreadsheet 11 18 (6.429 %) Perl 12 17 (6.071 %) HP 12 17 (6.071 %) SQLPlus 12 17 (6.071 %) Government 13 16 (5.714 %) Active Directory 14 14 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 15 13 (4.643 %) Service Delivery 15 13 (4.643 %) Red Hat 15 13 (4.643 %) HPUX 15 13 (4.643 %) Apache 16 12 (4.286 %) Windows Server 2003 16 12 (4.286 %) CMS 17 11 (3.929 %) Sun 17 11 (3.929 %) Linux

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 2 (0.714 %) Middleware 1 2 (0.714 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (0.714 %) .NET 1 2 (0.714 %) Oracle Streams	Application Platforms 1 25 (8.929 %) WebLogic 2 13 (4.643 %) Apache 3 12 (4.286 %) CMS 4 9 (3.214 %) SharePoint 5 7 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes 6 6 (2.143 %) IIS 6 6 (2.143 %) MS Exchange 6 6 (2.143 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 4 (1.429 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.357 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 1 (0.357 %) Office Project Server 8 1 (0.357 %) Lotus Domino 8 1 (0.357 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 42 (15.00 %) MS PowerPoint 2 35 (12.50 %) MS Excel 3 23 (8.214 %) MS Office 4 21 (7.500 %) Spreadsheet 5 5 (1.786 %) MS Visio 6 4 (1.429 %) MS Project 7 1 (0.357 %) Photoshop 7 1 (0.357 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 2 (0.714 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.357 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 1 (0.357 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 8 (2.857 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (2.143 %) Internet 2 6 (2.143 %) DNS 2 6 (2.143 %) LAN 3 5 (1.786 %) Firewall 3 5 (1.786 %) WAN 4 4 (1.429 %) SAN 5 3 (1.071 %) Wireless 5 3 (1.071 %) SMS 6 2 (0.714 %) VPN 6 2 (0.714 %) SMTP 6 2 (0.714 %) DHCP 6 2 (0.714 %) FTP 6 2 (0.714 %) HTTP 6 2 (0.714 %) NGN 6 2 (0.714 %) Network Security 7 1 (0.357 %) iSCSI 7 1 (0.357 %) VLAN 7 1 (0.357 %) SSH 7 1 (0.357 %) Fast Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (6.071 %) SQLPlus 2 10 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse 3 8 (2.857 %) SQL Server 4 6 (2.143 %) DataStage 4 6 (2.143 %) QualityStage 5 4 (1.429 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 4 (1.429 %) Oracle 9i 6 3 (1.071 %) MySQL 6 3 (1.071 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (1.071 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (0.714 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (0.714 %) DTS 7 2 (0.714 %) Informix 7 2 (0.714 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (0.357 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.357 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.357 %) GIS 8 1 (0.357 %) Oracle Reports 8 1 (0.357 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.357 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 8 (2.857 %) StarTeam 2 6 (2.143 %) ClearCase 3 4 (1.429 %) ClearQuest 3 4 (1.429 %) TestDirector 4 3 (1.071 %) Introscope 5 2 (0.714 %) Flash 5 2 (0.714 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.357 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.357 %) Ant	General 1 37 (13.21 %) Finance 2 25 (8.929 %) Telecoms 3 17 (6.071 %) Government 4 10 (3.571 %) Marketing 5 8 (2.857 %) Health 6 7 (2.500 %) Education 7 6 (2.143 %) Advertising 8 4 (1.429 %) Publishing 8 4 (1.429 %) Legal 8 4 (1.429 %) Billing 9 3 (1.071 %) Military 9 3 (1.071 %) Front Office 10 2 (0.714 %) Back Office 10 2 (0.714 %) Financial Institution 11 1 (0.357 %) Pensions 11 1 (0.357 %) Retail 11 1 (0.357 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 7 (2.500 %) Statistics 2 5 (1.786 %) Clustering 3 3 (1.071 %) Management Information System 4 2 (0.714 %) Replication 5 1 (0.357 %) PDA 5 1 (0.357 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.357 %) AS400 5 1 (0.357 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.357 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 54 (19.29 %) UNIX 2 35 (12.50 %) Windows 2 35 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 13 (4.643 %) HPUX 4 12 (4.286 %) Windows Server 2003 5 11 (3.929 %) Linux 6 8 (2.857 %) AIX 7 6 (2.143 %) Windows 2000 7 6 (2.143 %) Red Hat Linux 8 4 (1.429 %) Windows XP 9 3 (1.071 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 2 (0.714 %) FreeBSD 11 1 (0.357 %) Windows Vista 11 1 (0.357 %) SUSE 11 1 (0.357 %) Windows NT 11 1 (0.357 %) OpenVMS 11 1 (0.357 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (4.643 %) Service Delivery 3 9 (3.214 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (3.214 %) Migration 3 9 (3.214 %) Configuration Management 3 9 (3.214 %) Project Management 4 8 (2.857 %) Business Intelligence 4 8 (2.857 %) ITIL 5 6 (2.143 %) Data Architecture 6 5 (1.786 %) Requirements Management 6 5 (1.786 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (1.429 %) Content Management 8 3 (1.071 %) Time Management 8 3 (1.071 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (0.714 %) Disaster Recovery 9 2 (0.714 %) Problem Management 10 1 (0.357 %) Test Scripting 10 1 (0.357 %) Performance Management 10 1 (0.357 %) QMS 10 1 (0.357 %) DV Cleared	Programming Languages 1 35 (12.50 %) SQL 2 26 (9.286 %) Shell Script 3 18 (6.429 %) Perl 4 6 (2.143 %) AWK 5 4 (1.429 %) VB 5 4 (1.429 %) C 5 4 (1.429 %) Korn 6 2 (0.714 %) VBScript 7 1 (0.357 %) VBA 7 1 (0.357 %) C# 7 1 (0.357 %) Java 7 1 (0.357 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.357 %) PHP 7 1 (0.357 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.357 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.357 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 5 (1.786 %) MCSE 1 5 (1.786 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.429 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (1.429 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.357 %) CIPD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.500 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 5 (1.786 %) QA 3 2 (0.714 %) SLA
System Software 1 16 (5.714 %) Active Directory 2 6 (2.143 %) ISA Server 2 6 (2.143 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.357 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.357 %) Samba 3 1 (0.357 %) NFS 3 1 (0.357 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 7 (2.500 %) OpenView 1 7 (2.500 %) Tivoli 1 7 (2.500 %) BMC PATROL 2 6 (2.143 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 4 (1.429 %) CA SiteMinder 4 3 (1.071 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 3 (1.071 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.714 %) Netcool 5 2 (0.714 %) Netcool/Proviso
Vendors 1 41 (14.64 %) Oracle 2 26 (9.286 %) IBM 3 24 (8.571 %) SAP 3 24 (8.571 %) Microsoft 4 17 (6.071 %) HP 5 13 (4.643 %) Red Hat 6 11 (3.929 %) Sun 7 9 (3.214 %) VERITAS 8 8 (2.857 %) Lotus 8 8 (2.857 %) Borland 8 8 (2.857 %) BMC 8 8 (2.857 %) CA 8 8 (2.857 %) Citrix 8 8 (2.857 %) Serena 9 4 (1.429 %) VMware 10 3 (1.071 %) Mercator 10 3 (1.071 %) Siebel 10 3 (1.071 %) Business Objects 10 3 (1.071 %) EMC 10 3 (1.071 %) Alcatel