SCSA Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SCSA in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCSA over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications for the England 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Rank 510 - 569
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCSA 8 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% - 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.108% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
Average daily rate £369 - £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 7428 9291 9029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.40% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3948 4922 4412
Average daily rate £378 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.58% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 516 619
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SCSA
UK

SCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCSA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England SCSA Jobs Demand Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England SCSA Daily Rate Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCSA across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England SCSA Daily Rate Histogram

SCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England SCSA Hourly Rate Trend

SCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCSA within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London - 7 £363 -
South East - 1 £375 -
SCSA
UK

SCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA.

1 27 (100.00%) Solaris
2 25 (92.59%) Linux
2 25 (92.59%) Red Hat
3 23 (85.19%) Oracle
3 23 (85.19%) UNIX
4 21 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (70.37%) Finance
5 19 (70.37%) Sun
6 18 (66.67%) Sun Certification
6 18 (66.67%) Banking
6 18 (66.67%) Investment Banking
6 18 (66.67%) Software Deployment
7 8 (29.63%) RHCE
8 6 (22.22%) SAN
9 5 (18.52%) ITIL
9 5 (18.52%) Apache
10 4 (14.81%) MySQL
10 4 (14.81%) Veritas
10 4 (14.81%) EMC
10 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
10 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
11 3 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (11.11%) Change Management
11 3 (11.11%) Open Source
11 3 (11.11%) SSL
11 3 (11.11%) Cisco
11 3 (11.11%) Perl
11 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
11 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
11 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP

SCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 3 (11.11%) SSL
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.704%) DNS
3 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) Informix
General
1 19 (70.37%) Finance
2 18 (66.67%) Banking
2 18 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.704%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 7 (25.93%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (25.93%) Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.407%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Open Source
2 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.704%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Solaris
2 25 (92.59%) Linux
3 23 (85.19%) UNIX
4 21 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.407%) HPUX
6 1 (3.704%) FreeBSD
6 1 (3.704%) AIX
6 1 (3.704%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 5 (18.52%) ITIL
3 3 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (3.704%) Six Sigma
4 1 (3.704%) Change Control
4 1 (3.704%) Operations Management
4 1 (3.704%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Perl
2 2 (7.407%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.704%) sed
3 1 (3.704%) PHP
3 1 (3.704%) C++
3 1 (3.704%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.704%) AWK
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Sun Certification
2 8 (29.63%) RHCE
3 1 (3.704%) HPUX Certification
3 1 (3.704%) RHCT
3 1 (3.704%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.704%) VirtualBox
2 1 (3.704%) Postfix
2 1 (3.704%) Sendmail
2 1 (3.704%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.704%) Xen
2 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.704%) Nagios
2 1 (3.704%) OpenView
2 1 (3.704%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (92.59%) Red Hat
2 23 (85.19%) Oracle
3 19 (70.37%) Sun
4 4 (14.81%) Veritas
4 4 (14.81%) EMC
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (7.407%) IBM
7 1 (3.704%) Remedy
7 1 (3.704%) NetApp
7 1 (3.704%) HP
7 1 (3.704%) Intel
7 1 (3.704%) JBoss
7 1 (3.704%) Egenera
7 1 (3.704%) VMware
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