The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 509 533 552
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 26 16 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.059% 0.030% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.033% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 22
Average daily rate £430 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.96% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £325 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £363 £255
% change year-on-year
-13.79% +42.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Systems Administrator
UK

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Senior Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +23 13 £450 +18.03% 10
South East +21 8 £275 -31.25% 3
North East - 4 £350 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - - - - 1
East of England - - - - 3
North West - - - -
Yorkshire - - - - 1
Senior Systems Administrator
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Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 29 (52.73%) Linux
2 26 (47.27%) Windows
3 25 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 25 (45.45%) VMware
4 20 (36.36%) Active Directory
5 17 (30.91%) Citrix
5 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (27.27%) SQL Server
7 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (25.45%) Firewall
7 14 (25.45%) vSphere
8 13 (23.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (23.64%) SAN
8 13 (23.64%) HP
8 13 (23.64%) DNS
8 13 (23.64%) Apache
9 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
9 12 (21.82%) SCOM
9 12 (21.82%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (21.82%) PowerShell
10 11 (20.00%) Cisco
10 11 (20.00%) DHCP
11 10 (18.18%) UNIX
11 10 (18.18%) MS Visio
11 10 (18.18%) Retail
11 10 (18.18%) CentOS
12 9 (16.36%) SCCM
13 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
13 8 (14.55%) Finance
13 8 (14.55%) MySQL

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 Development
1 3 (5.455%) Application Packaging
2 2 (3.636%) HTML
2 2 (3.636%) JDBC
3 1 (1.818%) Web Services
3 1 (1.818%) LAMP
3 1 (1.818%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.818%) J2EE
3 1 (1.818%) EJB
3 1 (1.818%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (23.64%) Apache
2 7 (12.73%) Tomcat
2 7 (12.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (12.73%) MS Exchange
3 5 (9.091%) IIS
4 4 (7.273%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (7.273%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (5.455%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.818%) Confluence
6 1 (1.818%) Liferay
6 1 (1.818%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 8 (14.55%) MS Office
3 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) Firewall
2 13 (23.64%) DNS
2 13 (23.64%) SAN
3 11 (20.00%) DHCP
4 6 (10.91%) VPN
4 6 (10.91%) LDAP
4 6 (10.91%) Internet
5 5 (9.091%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.273%) SSL
7 3 (5.455%) LAN
7 3 (5.455%) WAN
8 2 (3.636%) HTTP
8 2 (3.636%) TELNET
8 2 (3.636%) NAS
8 2 (3.636%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.818%) Wireless
9 1 (1.818%) SSH
9 1 (1.818%) VLAN
9 1 (1.818%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.818%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) MySQL
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (7.273%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.818%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.818%) Big Data
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (5.455%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.636%) Subversion
3 1 (1.818%) Maven
3 1 (1.818%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.818%) Hudson
3 1 (1.818%) Redmine
3 1 (1.818%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (18.18%) Retail
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 3 (5.455%) Banking
4 2 (3.636%) Publishing
5 1 (1.818%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.818%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.818%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.455%) Clustering
1 3 (5.455%) New Media
2 2 (3.636%) Cryptography
2 2 (3.636%) Open Source
3 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.818%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.818%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.818%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.818%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Linux
2 26 (47.27%) Windows
3 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (18.18%) CentOS
5 10 (18.18%) UNIX
6 6 (10.91%) Windows 7
6 6 (10.91%) Debian
6 6 (10.91%) Solaris
7 5 (9.091%) Windows XP
7 5 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.455%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.818%) SUSE
9 1 (1.818%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (10.91%) ITIL
2 6 (10.91%) Service Management
3 5 (9.091%) Identity Management
3 5 (9.091%) System Testing
4 4 (7.273%) Validation
4 4 (7.273%) Service Delivery
5 3 (5.455%) Project Management
6 2 (3.636%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.636%) Business Analysis
6 2 (3.636%) Memory Management
7 1 (1.818%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.818%) Analytics
7 1 (1.818%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (1.818%) Electronic Design Automation
7 1 (1.818%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.818%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.55%) SQL
3 6 (10.91%) Java
3 6 (10.91%) Perl
4 5 (9.091%) Bash shell
4 5 (9.091%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.455%) VB
6 2 (3.636%) Python
6 2 (3.636%) AWK
6 2 (3.636%) Ruby
6 2 (3.636%) sed
7 1 (1.818%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.818%) JCL
7 1 (1.818%) REXX
7 1 (1.818%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.818%) PHP
7 1 (1.818%) VBScript
7 1 (1.818%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.091%) DV Cleared
1 5 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.455%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.636%) RHCE
3 2 (3.636%) CCNA
4 1 (1.818%) RHCA
4 1 (1.818%) RHCT
4 1 (1.818%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.818%) MCSE
4 1 (1.818%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.273%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (25.45%) vSphere
3 12 (21.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (12.73%) XenServer
5 4 (7.273%) DFS Replication
5 4 (7.273%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.455%) vCloud
7 2 (3.636%) XenDesktop
7 2 (3.636%) XenApp
7 2 (3.636%) VMware ESX
7 2 (3.636%) Nmap
8 1 (1.818%) Squid
8 1 (1.818%) ISA Server
8 1 (1.818%) NFS
8 1 (1.818%) Postfix
8 1 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) SCOM
2 9 (16.36%) SCCM
3 6 (10.91%) Nagios
3 6 (10.91%) Puppet
4 5 (9.091%) WSUS
5 4 (7.273%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (7.273%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (5.455%) CFEngine
7 2 (3.636%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
7 2 (3.636%) HP SIM
7 2 (3.636%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (3.636%) Control-M
8 1 (1.818%) YUM
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 25 (45.45%) VMware
2 17 (30.91%) Citrix
3 13 (23.64%) HP
4 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
5 11 (20.00%) Cisco
6 4 (7.273%) Oracle
6 4 (7.273%) Veeam
6 4 (7.273%) Symantec
6 4 (7.273%) NetApp
7 3 (5.455%) Joyent
7 3 (5.455%) Rackspace
7 3 (5.455%) SAP
7 3 (5.455%) JBoss
7 3 (5.455%) Dell
7 3 (5.455%) EMC
8 2 (3.636%) BMC
8 2 (3.636%) Sun
8 2 (3.636%) Murex
8 2 (3.636%) Veritas
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