Edinburgh Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the Edinburgh 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 Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Driffield Dundee Durham Dyfed East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	15
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	31	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.090 %
As % of the category below	3.695 %	7.081 %
Daily rates quoted	3	18
Average minimum daily rate	£217	£256
Average daily rate	£247	£266
% change on same period last year	-7.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.93	£28.71
Average hourly rate	£25.43	£28.96
% change on same period last year	-12.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.93	£29.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.48	£21.53
% change on same period last year	-9.51 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	839	1271
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.107 %	1.266 %
Daily rates quoted	193	286
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£309
Average daily rate	£302	£325
% change on same period last year	-7.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.54	£24.46
Average hourly rate	£27.80	£25.17
% change on same period last year	+10.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.07	£25.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Administrator Scotland

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 Administrator across the Edinburgh 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 Administrator across the Edinburgh region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 24 (40.68 %) UNIX 2 14 (23.73 %) AIX 3 13 (22.03 %) VERITAS 4 12 (20.34 %) Solaris 5 11 (18.64 %) Linux 5 11 (18.64 %) Windows 5 11 (18.64 %) Apache 5 11 (18.64 %) WebSphere 6 10 (16.95 %) Finance 6 10 (16.95 %) Oracle 7 9 (15.25 %) Load Balancing 8 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 9 7 (11.86 %) Clustering 9 7 (11.86 %) JBoss 9 7 (11.86 %) SSL

9 7 (11.86 %) Sun 10 6 (10.17 %) IBM 10 6 (10.17 %) HTTP 10 6 (10.17 %) JMS 10 6 (10.17 %) SOAP 11 5 (8.475 %) Ant 11 5 (8.475 %) ClearCase 11 5 (8.475 %) HPUX 11 5 (8.475 %) Oracle HTTP Server 11 5 (8.475 %) Shell Script 11 5 (8.475 %) Degree 11 5 (8.475 %) Banking 12 4 (6.780 %) Migration 12 4 (6.780 %) Computer Science 12 4 (6.780 %) Perl

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 Development 1 11 (18.64 %) WebSphere 2 6 (10.17 %) JMS 2 6 (10.17 %) SOAP 3 3 (5.085 %) HTML 4 1 (1.695 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.695 %) CSS 4 1 (1.695 %) Middleware 4 1 (1.695 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 11 (18.64 %) Apache 2 7 (11.86 %) JBoss 3 5 (8.475 %) Oracle HTTP Server 4 3 (5.085 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (3.390 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.695 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.695 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (1.695 %) IIS 6 1 (1.695 %) WebSphere MQ 6 1 (1.695 %) IBM HTTP Server 6 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.695 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.695 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.695 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 2 7 (11.86 %) SSL 3 6 (10.17 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.695 %) LDAP 4 1 (1.695 %) Internet 4 1 (1.695 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.390 %) DB2 1 2 (3.390 %) MySQL 2 1 (1.695 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.695 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) Ant 1 5 (8.475 %) ClearCase 2 1 (1.695 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 10 (16.95 %) Finance 2 5 (8.475 %) Banking 3 2 (3.390 %) Retail 3 2 (3.390 %) Electronics 4 1 (1.695 %) Retail Banking	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.86 %) Clustering 2 4 (6.780 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.695 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.695 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 24 (40.68 %) UNIX 2 14 (23.73 %) AIX 3 12 (20.34 %) Solaris 4 11 (18.64 %) Linux 4 11 (18.64 %) Windows 5 5 (8.475 %) HPUX 6 2 (3.390 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (1.695 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (1.695 %) NetWare 7 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.25 %) Load Balancing 2 4 (6.780 %) Migration 3 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (1.695 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.695 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.695 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (1.695 %) Asset Management 4 1 (1.695 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (8.475 %) Shell Script 2 4 (6.780 %) Perl 3 2 (3.390 %) PHP 4 1 (1.695 %) SQL 4 1 (1.695 %) Java 4 1 (1.695 %) JCL 4 1 (1.695 %) Jython	Qualifications 1 5 (8.475 %) Degree 2 3 (5.085 %) Sun Certification
System Software 1 2 (3.390 %) Samba 1 2 (3.390 %) NetBackup 1 2 (3.390 %) NFS 2 1 (1.695 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (1.695 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (3.390 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 2 (3.390 %) Legato 2 1 (1.695 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.695 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.695 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.695 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 13 (22.03 %) VERITAS 2 10 (16.95 %) Oracle 3 7 (11.86 %) Sun 4 6 (10.17 %) IBM 5 2 (3.390 %) StorageTek 5 2 (3.390 %) HP 5 2 (3.390 %) EMC 5 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft 5 2 (3.390 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.695 %) Sophos 6 1 (1.695 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.695 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.695 %) Peregrine 6 1 (1.695 %) VMware