The first table below looks at the demand for the Server Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Server Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Administrator
Rank - - 46
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.585%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.645%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £295
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -21.56%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
409 588 465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.17% 94.69% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 318 258
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £183 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £494 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 28
Average hourly rate £16.38 £14.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.93% +11.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.73 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.30 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Server Administrator
West Midlands

Server Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Server Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Server Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Server Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Server Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Server Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Server Administrator
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Server 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 Server Administrator in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

Server Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Server 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 Server Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat