The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 20 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 34 39 52
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 21 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.559% 2.917% 1.727%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.867% 3.088% 1.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
Average daily rate £400 £325 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +47.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £275 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £350 £274
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £10.75 £41.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.93% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.50 £24.38
% change year-on-year
+27.90% -11.81%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
543 680 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 92.03% 94.44% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 323 285
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 109 104
Average hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% +125.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.40 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
East of England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +9 13 £400 +23.07% 8
Peterborough -5 1 - - 1
Huntingdon - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
East of England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 42 (68.85%) Linux
2 32 (52.46%) Red Hat
3 31 (50.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (40.98%) Oracle
5 19 (31.15%) DNS
5 19 (31.15%) Active Directory
6 18 (29.51%) DHCP
6 18 (29.51%) ITIL
7 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
7 17 (27.87%) NetApp
7 17 (27.87%) VMware
8 16 (26.23%) UNIX
8 16 (26.23%) Cisco
9 14 (22.95%) PKI
10 13 (21.31%) Oracle EBS
11 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
11 12 (19.67%) SCOM
11 12 (19.67%) MS Exchange
11 12 (19.67%) Apache
11 12 (19.67%) Perl
12 11 (18.03%) Blackberry
12 11 (18.03%) Exchange Server 2010
13 10 (16.39%) EMC
13 10 (16.39%) SQL
13 10 (16.39%) Windows
14 9 (14.75%) WSUS
14 9 (14.75%) VMware ESX
14 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Management
14 9 (14.75%) EMC NetWorker
14 9 (14.75%) Windows Server 2008

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 Development
1 4 (6.557%) Web Services
2 3 (4.918%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 12 (19.67%) MS Exchange
1 12 (19.67%) Apache
2 11 (18.03%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (13.11%) Tomcat
3 8 (13.11%) IIS
4 6 (9.836%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (8.197%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (6.557%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (3.279%) Lync
8 1 (1.639%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 4 (6.557%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.918%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.15%) DNS
2 18 (29.51%) DHCP
3 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
4 6 (9.836%) BIG-IP
5 5 (8.197%) NetScaler
6 3 (4.918%) NAS
6 3 (4.918%) VPN
6 3 (4.918%) LAN
6 3 (4.918%) WAN
6 3 (4.918%) SAN
7 2 (3.279%) MPLS
7 2 (3.279%) HTTP
8 1 (1.639%) FTP
8 1 (1.639%) Internet
8 1 (1.639%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.918%) MySQL
2 3 (4.918%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (6.557%) Subversion
2 2 (3.279%) JIRA
General
1 4 (6.557%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) PKI
2 11 (18.03%) Blackberry
3 5 (8.197%) Replication
3 5 (8.197%) Clustering
3 5 (8.197%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.639%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.639%) Open Source
4 1 (1.639%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 42 (68.85%) Linux
2 31 (50.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (26.23%) UNIX
4 10 (16.39%) Windows
5 9 (14.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (9.836%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (6.557%) HPUX
7 4 (6.557%) Windows 7
8 3 (4.918%) Debian
9 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.639%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) ITIL
2 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Management
3 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
4 4 (6.557%) ERP
4 4 (6.557%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (6.557%) System Testing
5 3 (4.918%) Data Analysis
5 3 (4.918%) Migration
6 2 (3.279%) Time Management
7 1 (1.639%) Load Balancing
7 1 (1.639%) Data Protection
7 1 (1.639%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.639%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Perl
2 10 (16.39%) SQL
3 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
4 6 (9.836%) Java
5 3 (4.918%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.639%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.639%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (9.836%) RHCE
2 3 (4.918%) OCP
2 3 (4.918%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.279%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.279%) CCNP
3 2 (3.279%) RHCT
4 1 (1.639%) Degree
4 1 (1.639%) RHCA
4 1 (1.639%) MCSE
4 1 (1.639%) CCNA
4 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.639%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (31.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.75%) VMware ESX
4 6 (9.836%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (8.197%) vSphere
5 5 (8.197%) XenApp
6 3 (4.918%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (3.279%) NFS
8 1 (1.639%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) SCOM
2 9 (14.75%) WSUS
2 9 (14.75%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (9.836%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (9.836%) Backup Exec
4 4 (6.557%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (4.918%) Puppet
5 3 (4.918%) SCCM
5 3 (4.918%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (52.46%) Red Hat
2 25 (40.98%) Oracle
3 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
3 17 (27.87%) NetApp
3 17 (27.87%) VMware
4 16 (26.23%) Cisco
5 10 (16.39%) EMC
6 7 (11.48%) Citrix
7 6 (9.836%) Symantec
7 6 (9.836%) JBoss
8 5 (8.197%) Brocade
8 5 (8.197%) Isilon
9 4 (6.557%) CODA
9 4 (6.557%) SAP
10 3 (4.918%) Akamai
10 3 (4.918%) IBM
11 1 (1.639%) HP
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