Systems Administrator Contracts in the City of London

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Central London > City of London

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in the City of London is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 161 176
Rank change year-on-year +40 +15 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 4 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile £279 £227 £323
25th Percentile £303 £241 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £340 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -36.74% +13.16%
75th Percentile £428 £574 £575
90th Percentile £456 £600 £579
Central London median daily rate £363 £333 £538
% change year-on-year +9.02% -38.14% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,071 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in the City of London

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Systems Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) VMS
4 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
1 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas