The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 56 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.120% - 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.127% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
-17.24% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785 1022 1226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.24% 94.02% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 508 595
Average daily rate £400 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Systems Administrator
Scotland

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam