The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 63 52 72
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 6 21 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.739% 2.094% 0.189%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.796% 2.236% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £263 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £328
% change year-on-year
- -8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £10.00 £12.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+170.00% -18.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £27.75 £22.88
% change year-on-year
-2.70% +21.28%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
754 939 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.86% 93.62% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 408 378
Average daily rate £315 £315 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £163 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 72 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes -9 3 - -
Amersham - 3 - -
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 7 (53.85%) Clustering
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2008
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
1 7 (53.85%) SAN
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (53.85%) NAS
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Windows NT
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (38.46%) UNIX
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 2000 Server
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (30.77%) SCOM
4 4 (30.77%) BladeLogic
4 4 (30.77%) Degree
4 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) VMware ESX
4 4 (30.77%) Terminal Services
4 4 (30.77%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (30.77%) ISA Server
4 4 (30.77%) IIS
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 2000
4 4 (30.77%) MCSE
4 4 (30.77%) HPUX
4 4 (30.77%) Solaris
4 4 (30.77%) Intel
4 4 (30.77%) Citrix
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 1 (7.692%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (30.77%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) lighttpd
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) SAN
1 7 (53.85%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) Broadband
3 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.692%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2008
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (46.15%) Windows NT
3 5 (38.46%) UNIX
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 2000 Server
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 2000
4 4 (30.77%) HPUX
4 4 (30.77%) Solaris
5 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL
2 1 (7.692%) Database Tuning
2 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
2 1 (7.692%) Six Sigma
2 1 (7.692%) Change Management
2 1 (7.692%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.692%) Perl
2 1 (7.692%) VBScript
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) MCSE
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.692%) RHCE
2 1 (7.692%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 4 (30.77%) VMware ESX
2 4 (30.77%) Terminal Services
2 4 (30.77%) ISA Server
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCOM
1 4 (30.77%) BladeLogic
2 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
2 3 (23.08%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (23.08%) HP SIM
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Intel
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) Sun
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) CommVault
4 1 (7.692%) IBM
4 1 (7.692%) Symantec