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The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSystem Administrator
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008		Same period last year
Rank112113
Rank change on same period last yearUp+1
Matching contract IT job ads6874
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.107 %0.079 %
As % of the category below1.179 %1.261 %
Daily rates quoted3326
Average minimum daily rate£322£395
Average daily rate£336£416
% change on same period last year-19.35 %
Average maximum daily rate£350£438
UK excluding London average daily rate£311£331
% change on same period last year-5.86 %
Hourly rates quoted63
Average minimum hourly rate£32.49£18.33
Average hourly rate£35.32£18.33
% change on same period last year+92.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate£38.16£18.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.75£28.09
% change on same period last year-15.44 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads57705867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled9.088 %6.287 %
Daily rates quoted30262493
Average minimum daily rate£400£451
Average daily rate£433£477
% change on same period last year-9.07 %
Average maximum daily rate£467£503
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£351
% change on same period last year+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted267232
Average minimum hourly rate£22.85£22.62
Average hourly rate£24.72£23.87
% change on same period last year+3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.60£25.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.42
% change on same period last year-4.31 %
Systems Administrator LondonSystems Administrator
London

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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Systems Administrator Demand Trend

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 City of London region.

City of London Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

City of London Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

City of London Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1100 (51.02 %)UNIX
288 (44.90 %)Linux
379 (40.31 %)Windows
471 (36.22 %)Solaris
554 (27.55 %)Red Hat Linux
554 (27.55 %)Red Hat
646 (23.47 %)Finance
745 (22.96 %)VERITAS
841 (20.92 %)Banking
934 (17.35 %)Windows Server 2003
1029 (14.80 %)EMC
1127 (13.78 %)SAN
1127 (13.78 %)Microsoft
1127 (13.78 %)Firewall
1226 (13.27 %)MySQL
1325 (12.76 %)Sun
1325 (12.76 %)Active Directory
1424 (12.24 %)HP
1523 (11.73 %)TCP/IP
1523 (11.73 %)DNS
1622 (11.22 %)Perl
1721 (10.71 %)Investment Banking
1820 (10.20 %)Oracle
1918 (9.184 %)Cisco
2017 (8.673 %)SQL Server
2017 (8.673 %)IIS
2017 (8.673 %)VMware
2116 (8.163 %)IBM
2214 (7.143 %)Shell Script
2214 (7.143 %)Debian

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
17 (3.571 %).NET
26 (3.061 %)HTML
26 (3.061 %)ASP.NET
32 (1.020 %)CSS
32 (1.020 %)WebServices
41 (0.510 %)WebSphere
41 (0.510 %)LAMP
41 (0.510 %)Middleware
41 (0.510 %)J2EE
41 (0.510 %)XML
41 (0.510 %)COM
41 (0.510 %)ASP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
117 (8.673 %)IIS
211 (5.612 %)MS Exchange
39 (4.592 %)Apache
45 (2.551 %)Exchange Server 2007
45 (2.551 %)Lotus Notes
53 (1.531 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
62 (1.020 %)Tomcat
62 (1.020 %)Lotus Domino
62 (1.020 %)WebLogic
62 (1.020 %)Exchange Server 2003
71 (0.510 %)Office Project Server
71 (0.510 %)WebSphere MQ
71 (0.510 %)WebSphere Application Server
71 (0.510 %)SharePoint
71 (0.510 %)MQSeries
71 (0.510 %)Documentum
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
110 (5.102 %)MS Excel
25 (2.551 %)MS Office
32 (1.020 %)CA Clarity
41 (0.510 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.510 %)MS Project
41 (0.510 %)MS Visio
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
13 (1.531 %)Global One
13 (1.531 %)Summit
21 (0.510 %)Cognos Planning
21 (0.510 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
21 (0.510 %)Oracle 11i
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
127 (13.78 %)SAN
127 (13.78 %)Firewall
223 (11.73 %)TCP/IP
223 (11.73 %)DNS
310 (5.102 %)LDAP
45 (2.551 %)SMTP
45 (2.551 %)DHCP
45 (2.551 %)FTP
54 (2.041 %)Internet
63 (1.531 %)Network Security
63 (1.531 %)LAN
63 (1.531 %)WAN
72 (1.020 %)SNMP
72 (1.020 %)POP3
72 (1.020 %)DMZ
72 (1.020 %)IMAP
81 (0.510 %)DECnet
81 (0.510 %)SNA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
126 (13.27 %)MySQL
217 (8.673 %)SQL Server
33 (1.531 %)Oracle 10g
33 (1.531 %)DB2
33 (1.531 %)Oracle 8/8i
42 (1.020 %)RDBMS
42 (1.020 %)FileMaker
42 (1.020 %)SQL Server 2005
51 (0.510 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51 (0.510 %)SQL Server 2000
51 (0.510 %)DataStage
51 (0.510 %)Oracle Discoverer
51 (0.510 %)TOAD
51 (0.510 %)Oracle Reports
51 (0.510 %)Cognos Powerplay
51 (0.510 %)Datawarehouse
51 (0.510 %)DTS
51 (0.510 %)Ingres
51 (0.510 %)ETL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
110 (5.102 %)Subversion
22 (1.020 %)Flash
22 (1.020 %)ClearCase
31 (0.510 %)Ant
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
146 (23.47 %)Finance
241 (20.92 %)Banking
321 (10.71 %)Investment Banking
45 (2.551 %)Retail
52 (1.020 %)Financial Institution
61 (0.510 %)Corporate Banking
61 (0.510 %)Auditing
61 (0.510 %)Telecoms
61 (0.510 %)Government
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
16 (3.061 %)Clustering
25 (2.551 %)CLARiiON
32 (1.020 %)Blackberry
32 (1.020 %)Replication
32 (1.020 %)Symmetrix
32 (1.020 %)Celerra
41 (0.510 %)Derivative
41 (0.510 %)SecurID
41 (0.510 %)Social Network
41 (0.510 %)Management Information System
41 (0.510 %)Fixed Income
41 (0.510 %)Tandem
41 (0.510 %)Mainframe
41 (0.510 %)Firmware
41 (0.510 %)HACMP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1100 (51.02 %)UNIX
288 (44.90 %)Linux
379 (40.31 %)Windows
471 (36.22 %)Solaris
554 (27.55 %)Red Hat Linux
634 (17.35 %)Windows Server 2003
714 (7.143 %)Debian
810 (5.102 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
99 (4.592 %)Windows 2000
108 (4.082 %)SUSE
117 (3.571 %)Windows XP
126 (3.061 %)CentOS
135 (2.551 %)AIX
144 (2.041 %)Windows NT
153 (1.531 %)Gentoo
153 (1.531 %)HPUX
161 (0.510 %)Ubuntu
161 (0.510 %)Windows Server 2008
161 (0.510 %)Windows 2000 Server
161 (0.510 %)Fedora
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
112 (6.122 %)ITIL
28 (4.082 %)Disaster Recovery
36 (3.061 %)Asset Management
36 (3.061 %)Migration
43 (1.531 %)Performance Management
52 (1.020 %)Agile Software Development
52 (1.020 %)Content Management
52 (1.020 %)Information Security
61 (0.510 %)Load Balancing
61 (0.510 %)Software Testing
61 (0.510 %)Business Analysis
61 (0.510 %)Problem Management
61 (0.510 %)Data Mapping
61 (0.510 %)Investment Management
61 (0.510 %)Time Management
61 (0.510 %)Service Management
61 (0.510 %)Service Delivery
61 (0.510 %)Change Management
61 (0.510 %)Data Management
61 (0.510 %)BCP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
122 (11.22 %)Perl
214 (7.143 %)Shell Script
311 (5.612 %)SQL
45 (2.551 %)Java
54 (2.041 %)C#
54 (2.041 %)AWK
54 (2.041 %)Korn
62 (1.020 %)VB
62 (1.020 %)C
62 (1.020 %)JCL
62 (1.020 %)LotusScript
71 (0.510 %)DCL
71 (0.510 %)VBScript
71 (0.510 %)PL/SQL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
16 (3.061 %)RHCT
25 (2.551 %)Microsoft Certification
25 (2.551 %)RHCE
25 (2.551 %)MCSE
34 (2.041 %)Cisco Certification
43 (1.531 %)Degree
52 (1.020 %)CCNA
52 (1.020 %)SCSA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (2.551 %)SLA
21 (0.510 %)QA
21 (0.510 %)HL7
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
125 (12.76 %)Active Directory
213 (6.633 %)NetBackup
39 (4.592 %)VMware ESX
39 (4.592 %)VMware Infrastructure
47 (3.571 %)NFS
47 (3.571 %)ISA Server
53 (1.531 %)Citrix Presentation Server
62 (1.020 %)Backup Exec
71 (0.510 %)Oracle RAC
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
17 (3.571 %)Legato
26 (3.061 %)BMC PATROL
34 (2.041 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
34 (2.041 %)EMC NetWorker
42 (1.020 %)Norton AntiVirus
42 (1.020 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
51 (0.510 %)Nagios
51 (0.510 %)Tivoli
51 (0.510 %)MOM
51 (0.510 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.510 %)OpenView
51 (0.510 %)CiscoWorks
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
154 (27.55 %)Red Hat
245 (22.96 %)VERITAS
329 (14.80 %)EMC
427 (13.78 %)Microsoft
525 (12.76 %)Sun
624 (12.24 %)HP
720 (10.20 %)Oracle
818 (9.184 %)Cisco
917 (8.673 %)VMware
1016 (8.163 %)IBM
119 (4.592 %)Citrix
127 (3.571 %)BMC
127 (3.571 %)NetApp
127 (3.571 %)Remedy
127 (3.571 %)Apple
136 (3.061 %)Symantec
136 (3.061 %)Dell
145 (2.551 %)Lotus
154 (2.041 %)Sybase
154 (2.041 %)Fujitsu
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