The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol 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 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 Bristol 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
System Administrator
Rank 50 - 47
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.190% - 0.960%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.200% - 1.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £250 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £328
% change year-on-year
- -8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £27.75 £22.88
% change year-on-year
-2.70% +21.28%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
499 796 590
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 95.05% 93.32% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 534 316
Average daily rate £325 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £218 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 39
Average hourly rate £13.75 £21.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.52% +31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.90 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £35.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Bristol region.

Bristol Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 2 (50.00%) Lync
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Lync
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) 3PAR