Systems Administrator Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 111 121 105
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 12 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.496% 0.590% 0.673%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.542% 0.648% 0.747%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 14
Average daily rate £356 £325 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £202 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £365 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+25.58% +7.50%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2213 2776 2679
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.45% 91.05% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 979 1024
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 121 185
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.89% -41.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.87 £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 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +14 6 £413 +26.92%
Maidenhead - 2 - -
Slough -17 1 £285 -24.00%
Bracknell - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
4 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
6 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
6 10 (41.67%) Retail
7 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (37.50%) MS Office
8 8 (33.33%) MS Visio
8 8 (33.33%) MS Exchange
8 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
9 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
9 6 (25.00%) Linux
10 5 (20.83%) UNIX
10 5 (20.83%) vSphere
10 5 (20.83%) SCCM
10 5 (20.83%) SCOM
11 4 (16.67%) System Testing
11 4 (16.67%) ITIL
11 4 (16.67%) SQL
11 4 (16.67%) HP
12 3 (12.50%) SAN
12 3 (12.50%) Middleware
12 3 (12.50%) ISA Server

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) J2EE
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (8.333%) Web Services
3 1 (4.167%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.167%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 6 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (12.50%) IIS
4 2 (8.333%) Apache
4 2 (8.333%) Tomcat
4 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (8.333%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (4.167%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (4.167%) FileNet
5 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (37.50%) MS Office
2 8 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) HFM
1 1 (4.167%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (8.333%) Firewall
2 2 (8.333%) LAN
2 2 (8.333%) DHCP
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (4.167%) VPN
3 1 (4.167%) Network Security
3 1 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (8.333%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) ClearCase
1 1 (4.167%) Subversion
General
1 10 (41.67%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Automotive
3 1 (4.167%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Clustering
2 1 (4.167%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (25.00%) Linux
5 5 (20.83%) UNIX
6 2 (8.333%) Solaris
6 2 (8.333%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.167%) AIX
7 1 (4.167%) HPUX
7 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
7 1 (4.167%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) ITIL
1 4 (16.67%) System Testing
2 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (12.50%) Content Management
3 2 (8.333%) Workflow
4 1 (4.167%) ETL
4 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.167%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.167%) Release Management
4 1 (4.167%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.167%) Korn
4 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) CCNA
2 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.167%) ACCA
2 1 (4.167%) CIPFA
2 1 (4.167%) CIMA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) vSphere
4 3 (12.50%) ISA Server
5 1 (4.167%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.167%) Veritas File System
5 1 (4.167%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.167%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
1 5 (20.83%) SCOM
2 2 (8.333%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.167%) Foglight
3 1 (4.167%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Clearswift
5 2 (8.333%) Symantec
5 2 (8.333%) Oracle
6 1 (4.167%) Redknee
6 1 (4.167%) Crossbeam
6 1 (4.167%) F5
6 1 (4.167%) Lumension
6 1 (4.167%) Remedy
6 1 (4.167%) Websense
6 1 (4.167%) ReadSoft
6 1 (4.167%) Ab Initio
6 1 (4.167%) Sun
6 1 (4.167%) Dell
6 1 (4.167%) Citrix
6 1 (4.167%) Juniper
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