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This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkAdministrator
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank3842
Rank change on same period last yearUp+4
Matching contract IT job ads23713150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.160 %3.187 %
As % of the category below3.765 %3.733 %
Daily rates quoted714875
Average minimum daily rate£287£312
Average daily rate£306£329
% change on same period last year-7.02 %
Average maximum daily rate£324£345
UK excluding London average daily rate£309£303
% change on same period last year+1.90 %
Hourly rates quoted317509
Average minimum hourly rate£17.71£20.41
Average hourly rate£18.96£21.56
% change on same period last year-12.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate£20.21£22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.35£21.35
% change on same period last year-14.07 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching contract IT job ads6296784384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled83.93 %85.37 %
Daily rates quoted2122325739
Average minimum daily rate£380£392
Average daily rate£406£417
% change on same period last year-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate£432£443
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£353
% change on same period last year+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted53926927
Average minimum hourly rate£22.06£24.67
Average hourly rate£23.68£26.20
% change on same period last year-9.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.30£27.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.51£25.99
% change on same period last year-9.54 %
Administrator UKAdministrator
UK

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.

Administrator
Demand Trend

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

England Administrator Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Administrator
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonUp+11073£304-12.65 %
South EastUp+1512£282-11.00 %
North WestUp+11223£371+65.61 %
East of EnglandDown-13140£322+1.58 %
South WestDown-1130£324+12.14 %
YorkshireDown-593£253-3.15 %
West MidlandsDown-879£207-21.07 %
East MidlandsDown-2346£333+32.03 %
North EastUp+2239£264-23.31 %
MidlandsDown-226£415+2.10 %
South CoastUp+81--
Administrator UKAdministrator
UK

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11311 (26.54 %)UNIX
2917 (18.57 %)Finance
3912 (18.47 %)Windows
4871 (17.64 %)Solaris
5733 (14.84 %)Linux
6601 (12.17 %)Oracle
7591 (11.97 %)Microsoft
8548 (11.10 %)MS Excel
9488 (9.881 %)SQL
10470 (9.516 %)SAN
11454 (9.192 %)MS Office
12452 (9.152 %)AIX
13414 (8.382 %)Active Directory
14391 (7.917 %)Banking
15376 (7.613 %)Red Hat
16358 (7.248 %)SQL Server
17351 (7.107 %)Perl
18337 (6.823 %)VERITAS
19327 (6.621 %)Sun
20326 (6.601 %)TCP/IP
21280 (5.669 %)Shell Script
22270 (5.467 %)Security Cleared
23265 (5.365 %)HP
24263 (5.325 %)IBM
25260 (5.264 %)Cisco
26251 (5.082 %)MS PowerPoint
27244 (4.940 %)HPUX
28242 (4.900 %)Apache
29223 (4.515 %)WebSphere
29223 (4.515 %)EMC

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1223 (4.515 %)WebSphere
2151 (3.057 %)Middleware
388 (1.782 %)J2EE
487 (1.761 %)HTML
567 (1.357 %)XML
664 (1.296 %).NET
737 (0.749 %)CSS
832 (0.648 %)WebServices
925 (0.506 %)ASP.NET
1024 (0.486 %)SAP Basis
1118 (0.364 %)RSS
1216 (0.324 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1314 (0.283 %)Spring
1411 (0.223 %)JSP
1510 (0.202 %)LAMP
169 (0.182 %)ASP
169 (0.182 %).NET Framework
178 (0.162 %)Java EE
178 (0.162 %)XHTML
187 (0.142 %)WSH
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1242 (4.900 %)Apache
2164 (3.321 %)Exchange Server 2003
3161 (3.260 %)MS Exchange
4156 (3.159 %)SharePoint
5124 (2.511 %)WebLogic
6122 (2.470 %)IIS
6122 (2.470 %)Tomcat
7112 (2.268 %)Lotus Notes
884 (1.701 %)WebSphere Application Server
973 (1.478 %)CMS
1072 (1.458 %)WebSphere MQ
1162 (1.255 %)Exchange Server 2000
1255 (1.114 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1342 (0.850 %)Lotus Domino
1342 (0.850 %)JBoss
1439 (0.790 %)MQSeries
1531 (0.628 %)Oracle Application Server
1628 (0.567 %)Exchange Server 2007
1724 (0.486 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1820 (0.405 %)Oracle 10gAS
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1548 (11.10 %)MS Excel
2454 (9.192 %)MS Office
3251 (5.082 %)MS PowerPoint
4159 (3.219 %)MS Project
5152 (3.078 %)Spreadsheet
657 (1.154 %)MS Visio
715 (0.304 %)CA Clarity
811 (0.223 %)Photoshop
93 (0.061 %)Acrobat
93 (0.061 %)AutoCAD
102 (0.040 %)Fireworks
102 (0.040 %)Maya
102 (0.040 %)3ds Max
102 (0.040 %)Adobe Captivate
111 (0.020 %)ArcView
111 (0.020 %)Pro/ENGINEER
111 (0.020 %)MATLAB
111 (0.020 %)S-PLUS
111 (0.020 %)PageMaker
111 (0.020 %)Paint Shop Pro
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
124 (0.486 %)Oracle Applications
222 (0.445 %)Oracle 11i
318 (0.364 %)Oracle Financials
413 (0.263 %)Summit
511 (0.223 %)Academy Housing
610 (0.202 %)Loan IQ
79 (0.182 %)WebTrends
86 (0.121 %)Oracle ERP
86 (0.121 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
86 (0.121 %)arcHouse
95 (0.101 %)Cognos Planning
104 (0.081 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
104 (0.081 %)Cerner Millennium
104 (0.081 %)assyst
104 (0.081 %)MAXIMO
104 (0.081 %)SoftGrid
104 (0.081 %)MFGPRO
104 (0.081 %)BusinessWorks
113 (0.061 %)Oracle EBS
113 (0.061 %)Global One
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1470 (9.516 %)SAN
2326 (6.601 %)TCP/IP
3193 (3.908 %)Firewall
4186 (3.766 %)DNS
5126 (2.551 %)Internet
5126 (2.551 %)LAN
6116 (2.349 %)WAN
773 (1.478 %)LDAP
870 (1.417 %)Intranet
952 (1.053 %)DHCP
1047 (0.952 %)SNA
1142 (0.850 %)VPN
1233 (0.668 %)Network Security
1330 (0.607 %)SNMP
1427 (0.547 %)VoIP
1525 (0.506 %)HTTP
1623 (0.466 %)SMTP
1623 (0.466 %)Connectrix
1722 (0.445 %)Ethernet
1820 (0.405 %)FTP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1358 (7.248 %)SQL Server
2156 (3.159 %)Oracle 10g
3146 (2.956 %)MySQL
4116 (2.349 %)SQL Server 2005
5105 (2.126 %)SQL Server 2000
690 (1.822 %)Oracle 9i
764 (1.296 %)MS Access
860 (1.215 %)DB2
860 (1.215 %)Oracle 8/8i
954 (1.093 %)RDBMS
1040 (0.810 %)Crystal Reports
1138 (0.769 %)Datawarehouse
1237 (0.749 %)Oracle Reports
1237 (0.749 %)SQL Server 7
1333 (0.668 %)BusinessObjects
1431 (0.628 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1527 (0.547 %)DTS
1621 (0.425 %)SQLPlus
1719 (0.385 %)OLTP
1818 (0.364 %)SQL Server Integration Services
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
145 (0.911 %)ClearCase
223 (0.466 %)Flash
321 (0.425 %)Oracle Forms
321 (0.425 %)Subversion
420 (0.405 %)ClearQuest
519 (0.385 %)Visual Studio
617 (0.344 %)Ant
713 (0.263 %)Dreamweaver
88 (0.162 %)FrontPage
88 (0.162 %)StarTeam
97 (0.142 %)JIRA
106 (0.121 %)TestDirector
115 (0.101 %)Eclipse
115 (0.101 %)Introscope
115 (0.101 %)Bugzilla
123 (0.061 %)LSMW
123 (0.061 %)PVCS
123 (0.061 %)VSS/SourceSafe
123 (0.061 %)ARTiSAN
123 (0.061 %)ERwin
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1917 (18.57 %)Finance
2391 (7.917 %)Banking
3192 (3.887 %)Investment Banking
4167 (3.381 %)Telecoms
5163 (3.300 %)Government
695 (1.923 %)Health
774 (1.498 %)Legal
865 (1.316 %)Education
865 (1.316 %)Insurance
964 (1.296 %)Financial Institution
1040 (0.810 %)Marketing
1136 (0.729 %)Retail
1232 (0.648 %)Billing
1232 (0.648 %)Publishing
1330 (0.607 %)Back Office
1429 (0.587 %)Pensions
1528 (0.567 %)Front Office
1627 (0.547 %)Law
1723 (0.466 %)Pharmaceutical
1819 (0.385 %)Auditing
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1153 (3.098 %)Clustering
2102 (2.065 %)HACMP
373 (1.478 %)Replication
373 (1.478 %)CLARiiON
471 (1.438 %)Blackberry
558 (1.174 %)Mainframe
654 (1.093 %)NHS
741 (0.830 %)Symmetrix
837 (0.749 %)Statistics
932 (0.648 %)Management Information System
1028 (0.567 %)Celerra
1122 (0.445 %)Client/Server
1216 (0.324 %)IBM Mainframe
1315 (0.304 %)SecurID
1414 (0.283 %)AS400
1513 (0.263 %)Handset
1513 (0.263 %)French Language
1612 (0.243 %)Firmware
1710 (0.202 %)VLE
1710 (0.202 %)Mathematics
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11311 (26.54 %)UNIX
2912 (18.47 %)Windows
3871 (17.64 %)Solaris
4733 (14.84 %)Linux
5452 (9.152 %)AIX
6244 (4.940 %)HPUX
7195 (3.948 %)Windows Server 2003
8180 (3.644 %)Windows 2000
987 (1.761 %)Windows NT
1075 (1.519 %)Windows XP
1142 (0.850 %)SUSE
1220 (0.405 %)Debian
1220 (0.405 %)Tru64
1317 (0.344 %)OpenVMS
1415 (0.304 %)FreeBSD
1513 (0.263 %)zOS
1612 (0.243 %)Windows Mobile
1710 (0.202 %)Mac OS X
188 (0.162 %)Fedora
197 (0.142 %)NetWare
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1270 (5.467 %)Security Cleared
2220 (4.454 %)Migration
3169 (3.422 %)ITIL
4143 (2.895 %)SC Cleared
5138 (2.794 %)Project Management
6134 (2.713 %)Change Management
7115 (2.328 %)Disaster Recovery
889 (1.802 %)Asset Management
979 (1.600 %)PRINCE2
1074 (1.498 %)Configuration Management
1171 (1.438 %)Service Delivery
1266 (1.336 %)Content Management
1364 (1.296 %)Time Management
1445 (0.911 %)Performance Management
1544 (0.891 %)Security Management
1640 (0.810 %)Service Management
1640 (0.810 %)DV Cleared
1738 (0.769 %)Project Planning
1738 (0.769 %)Business Intelligence
1837 (0.749 %)CRM
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1488 (9.881 %)SQL
2351 (7.107 %)Perl
3280 (5.669 %)Shell Script
4134 (2.713 %)Korn
5132 (2.673 %)Java
662 (1.255 %)PHP
760 (1.215 %)VB
853 (1.073 %)C
948 (0.972 %)VBScript
1042 (0.850 %)PL/SQL
1139 (0.790 %)Transact-SQL
1237 (0.749 %)C#
1332 (0.648 %)VBA
1421 (0.425 %)Python
1520 (0.405 %)JavaScript
1616 (0.324 %)AWK
1710 (0.202 %)Jython
189 (0.182 %)JCL
198 (0.162 %)Ruby
207 (0.142 %)VB.NET
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1148 (2.997 %)Microsoft Certification
2113 (2.288 %)MCSE
393 (1.883 %)Degree
483 (1.681 %)Cisco Certification
559 (1.195 %)CCNA
629 (0.587 %)RHCE
721 (0.425 %)CCNP
820 (0.405 %)MCP
919 (0.385 %)MCSA
1016 (0.324 %)MCDBA
1115 (0.304 %)ITIL Certification
1213 (0.263 %)Oracle Certification
1311 (0.223 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
148 (0.162 %)OCP
157 (0.142 %)PRINCE2 Certification
157 (0.142 %)RHCT
166 (0.121 %)VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
166 (0.121 %)Sun Certification
166 (0.121 %)Citrix Certification
166 (0.121 %)CISSP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
173 (1.478 %)SLA
234 (0.688 %)QA
318 (0.364 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
45 (0.101 %)ISO27001
53 (0.061 %)COBIT
53 (0.061 %)ISO9000
53 (0.061 %)PCI DSS
62 (0.040 %)GxP
62 (0.040 %)Basel II
71 (0.020 %)ISO9001
71 (0.020 %)BS7799
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1414 (8.382 %)Active Directory
2183 (3.705 %)NetBackup
371 (1.438 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
469 (1.397 %)VMware ESX
565 (1.316 %)Oracle RAC
663 (1.276 %)NFS
753 (1.073 %)VMware Infrastructure
850 (1.012 %)Oracle RMAN
936 (0.729 %)Backup Exec
1030 (0.607 %)ISA Server
1030 (0.607 %)Samba
1122 (0.445 %)Squid
1220 (0.405 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1318 (0.364 %)Terminal Services
148 (0.162 %)AquaLogic
156 (0.121 %)MetaFrame
156 (0.121 %)Terminal Server
156 (0.121 %)Xen
164 (0.081 %)MailMarshal
164 (0.081 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1163 (3.300 %)Tivoli
2151 (3.057 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
349 (0.992 %)EMC NetWorker
447 (0.952 %)OpenView
447 (0.952 %)EMC TimeFinder
539 (0.790 %)Legato
632 (0.648 %)HP Data Protector
731 (0.628 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
822 (0.445 %)AutoSys
920 (0.405 %)WSUS
920 (0.405 %)Norton AntiVirus
1019 (0.385 %)BMC PATROL
1116 (0.324 %)MOM
1215 (0.304 %)OMEGAMON
1312 (0.243 %)CiscoWorks
1410 (0.202 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1410 (0.202 %)Tivoli Monitoring
159 (0.182 %)MIIS
168 (0.162 %)CA SiteMinder
168 (0.162 %)Unicenter
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1601 (12.17 %)Oracle
2591 (11.97 %)Microsoft
3376 (7.613 %)Red Hat
4337 (6.823 %)VERITAS
5327 (6.621 %)Sun
6265 (5.365 %)HP
7263 (5.325 %)IBM
8260 (5.264 %)Cisco
9223 (4.515 %)EMC
10185 (3.746 %)VMware
11171 (3.462 %)SAP
12151 (3.057 %)Citrix
13116 (2.349 %)Lotus
1496 (1.944 %)Remedy
1586 (1.741 %)Sybase
1682 (1.660 %)Brocade
1770 (1.417 %)Symantec
1854 (1.093 %)NetApp
1945 (0.911 %)CheckPoint
1945 (0.911 %)BMC
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