Devon Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Devon 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 10 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 Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	46
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	16	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	7.583 %	1.266 %
Daily rates quoted	12	1
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£550
Average daily rate	£275	£550
% change on same period last year	-50.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£332
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.71	£26.62
% change on same period last year	-7.18 %
Job Titles Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	211	395
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.297 %	0.399 %
Daily rates quoted	69	94
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£322
Average daily rate	£324	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	86
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.87	£23.05
Average hourly rate	£19.24	£24.15
% change on same period last year	-20.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.61	£25.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems Administrator South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Devon region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Devon region over the 3 months to 10 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
Plymouth	+4	11	£308	-43.93 %
Exeter	-	5	£173	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 17 (77.27 %) SQL 2 14 (63.64 %) UNIX 3 13 (59.09 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 9 (40.91 %) Windows 4 9 (40.91 %) Client/Server 5 8 (36.36 %) TCP/IP 6 7 (31.82 %) FTP 6 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 6 7 (31.82 %) AIX 6 7 (31.82 %) Disaster Recovery 7 6 (27.27 %) BMC PATROL 7 6 (27.27 %) Perl 7 6 (27.27 %) Intel 7 6 (27.27 %) BMC 8 5 (22.73 %) SAN

8 5 (22.73 %) ITIL 8 5 (22.73 %) Thin Client 8 5 (22.73 %) Fat Client 9 4 (18.18 %) Tivoli 9 4 (18.18 %) HACMP 9 4 (18.18 %) Samba 9 4 (18.18 %) Change Management 9 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 9 4 (18.18 %) Crystal Reports 9 4 (18.18 %) SLA 9 4 (18.18 %) IBM 9 4 (18.18 %) HTTP 9 4 (18.18 %) NFS 10 3 (13.64 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 3 (13.64 %) Windows XP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 3 (13.64 %) Middleware 2 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) Documentum 1 3 (13.64 %) WebLogic 1 3 (13.64 %) IIS 2 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (4.545 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) MS Office 1 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 8 (36.36 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (31.82 %) FTP 3 5 (22.73 %) SAN 4 4 (18.18 %) HTTP 5 3 (13.64 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (18.18 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (13.64 %) Oracle 9i 2 3 (13.64 %) DataStage 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (4.545 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 9 (40.91 %) Client/Server 2 5 (22.73 %) Thin Client 2 5 (22.73 %) Fat Client 3 4 (18.18 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 14 (63.64 %) UNIX 2 9 (40.91 %) Windows 3 7 (31.82 %) AIX 4 3 (13.64 %) Windows XP 4 3 (13.64 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (31.82 %) Disaster Recovery 2 5 (22.73 %) ITIL 3 4 (18.18 %) Change Management 4 3 (13.64 %) Data Protection 4 3 (13.64 %) Service Management 5 2 (9.091 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 17 (77.27 %) SQL 2 6 (27.27 %) Perl 3 3 (13.64 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (13.64 %) C 3 3 (13.64 %) VBScript 3 3 (13.64 %) VB 3 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (18.18 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (18.18 %) Samba 1 4 (18.18 %) NFS 2 3 (13.64 %) Active Directory 2 3 (13.64 %) Terminal Services 2 3 (13.64 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (13.64 %) Oracle RMAN 2 3 (13.64 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 13 (59.09 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (27.27 %) BMC PATROL 3 4 (18.18 %) Tivoli 4 3 (13.64 %) Tivoli Remote Control 4 3 (13.64 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 2 6 (27.27 %) Intel 2 6 (27.27 %) BMC 3 4 (18.18 %) Oracle 3 4 (18.18 %) IBM 4 3 (13.64 %) HP 4 3 (13.64 %) McAfee Security 4 3 (13.64 %) VMware 5 1 (4.545 %) Lotus