Cambridgeshire Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Hull Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	38
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	17	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	2.644 %	3.609 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£413
Average daily rate	£285	£438
% change on same period last year	-34.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+103.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.15	£26.62
% change on same period last year	-9.26 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	643	1053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.914 %	1.063 %
Daily rates quoted	133	194
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£304
Average daily rate	£337	£321
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	143	188
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.24	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£21.75	£30.52
% change on same period last year	-28.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.26	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Systems Administrator East of England

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.

Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

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

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Cambridge	+19	9	£285	-36.66 %

Systems Administrator East of England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 23 (74.19 %) Windows 2 19 (61.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (54.84 %) SQL Server 4 15 (48.39 %) Active Directory 5 13 (41.94 %) MS Exchange 5 13 (41.94 %) Citrix 5 13 (41.94 %) UNIX 6 9 (29.03 %) SMS 7 8 (25.81 %) Microsoft Certification 7 8 (25.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 8 (25.81 %) Terminal Server 7 8 (25.81 %) Finance 8 7 (22.58 %) Mac OS X 8 7 (22.58 %) Change Management 8 7 (22.58 %) MCSE

8 7 (22.58 %) Linux 9 6 (19.35 %) SQL 10 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2005 10 4 (12.90 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 3 (9.677 %) Samba 11 3 (9.677 %) HPUX 11 3 (9.677 %) Solaris 11 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server 2000 11 3 (9.677 %) HP 12 2 (6.452 %) TCP/IP 12 2 (6.452 %) VPN 12 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 12 2 (6.452 %) SAN 12 2 (6.452 %) Lotus

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 13 (41.94 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (25.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (12.90 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (6.452 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint 4 2 (6.452 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (3.226 %) Office Communications Server	Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 1 2 (6.452 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (3.226 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 9 (29.03 %) SMS 2 2 (6.452 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.452 %) VPN 2 2 (6.452 %) SAN 2 2 (6.452 %) IPsec 3 1 (3.226 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.226 %) Ethernet 3 1 (3.226 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (54.84 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) CruiseControl	General 1 8 (25.81 %) Finance 2 2 (6.452 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.226 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (3.226 %) Banking 3 1 (3.226 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 23 (74.19 %) Windows 2 19 (61.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (41.94 %) UNIX 4 7 (22.58 %) Mac OS X 4 7 (22.58 %) Linux 5 3 (9.677 %) HPUX 5 3 (9.677 %) Solaris 6 2 (6.452 %) AIX 6 2 (6.452 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (3.226 %) Ubuntu 7 1 (3.226 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (22.58 %) Change Management 2 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (3.226 %) Migration 2 1 (3.226 %) OO 2 1 (3.226 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (3.226 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 6 (19.35 %) SQL 2 2 (6.452 %) Perl 3 1 (3.226 %) C 3 1 (3.226 %) Java
Qualifications 1 8 (25.81 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (22.58 %) MCSE 3 1 (3.226 %) MCDBA	System Software 1 15 (48.39 %) Active Directory 2 8 (25.81 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (9.677 %) Samba 4 1 (3.226 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 13 (41.94 %) Citrix 2 3 (9.677 %) HP 3 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.452 %) Lotus 3 2 (6.452 %) Red Hat 4 1 (3.226 %) MKS 4 1 (3.226 %) VMware