The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 20 18 15
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 4 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.920% 3.478% 5.000%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.053% 3.636% 5.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
131 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.62% 95.65% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 52
Average daily rate £325 £375 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +5.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +292.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.54 £50.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Administrator
Cheshire

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) IDMS
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Tru64
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) OLTP
2 1 (20.00%) VLDB
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) IDMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Tru64
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
Chester, North West
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