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

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 223 186 227
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 341 531 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.806% 0.992% 0.774%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.871% 1.072% 0.835%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 284 243
Average daily rate £350 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £180 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £418 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 16
Average hourly rate £27.50 £24.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.24% +13.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £14.85 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.75 £28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +12.50%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
UK

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 -50 181 £365 +12.30%
South East -7 64 £325 -
East of England -8 39 £256 -6.81%
South West +37 15 £293 -6.40%
North East +16 13 £265 -
East Midlands +3 9 £332 +6.32%
Yorkshire 0 8 - -
North West +4 7 £299 -0.41%
West Midlands +1 4 £168 -40.17%
Systems Administrator
UK

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 391 (52.48%) Linux
2 277 (37.18%) Windows
3 242 (32.48%) VMware
4 240 (32.21%) Red Hat
5 224 (30.07%) UNIX
6 162 (21.74%) Active Directory
7 157 (21.07%) SAN
8 147 (19.73%) Microsoft
9 143 (19.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 142 (19.06%) Finance
11 138 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 134 (17.99%) Solaris
13 132 (17.72%) ITIL
14 128 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
15 125 (16.78%) Oracle
16 121 (16.24%) Apache
17 112 (15.03%) Perl
18 105 (14.09%) Cisco
19 104 (13.96%) SQL
20 103 (13.83%) Shell Script
21 102 (13.69%) Windows Server 2003
21 102 (13.69%) DNS
22 97 (13.02%) Citrix
23 89 (11.95%) SQL Server
24 85 (11.41%) MS Exchange
25 80 (10.74%) HP
26 79 (10.60%) EMC
26 79 (10.60%) Veritas
27 76 (10.20%) Banking
28 74 (9.933%) DHCP

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (3.087%) LAMP
2 19 (2.550%) Web Services
2 19 (2.550%) Middleware
3 17 (2.282%) J2EE
4 16 (2.148%) HTML
5 9 (1.208%) .NET
6 8 (1.074%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.940%) Node.js
7 7 (0.940%) JDBC
8 5 (0.671%) J2SE
9 4 (0.537%) Application Packaging
10 3 (0.403%) Gearman
10 3 (0.403%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.403%) COM
11 2 (0.268%) CSS
11 2 (0.268%) XML
11 2 (0.268%) Java EE
11 2 (0.268%) Memcached
12 1 (0.134%) HTML5
12 1 (0.134%) WebGL
Application Platforms
1 121 (16.24%) Apache
2 85 (11.41%) MS Exchange
3 61 (8.188%) IIS
4 52 (6.980%) Tomcat
5 41 (5.503%) Exchange Server 2010
6 37 (4.966%) SharePoint
7 31 (4.161%) Exchange Server 2007
8 21 (2.819%) Exchange Server 2003
8 21 (2.819%) Amazon AWS
9 14 (1.879%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 12 (1.611%) Lync
11 10 (1.342%) OpenStack
12 8 (1.074%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (0.805%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.805%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.671%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.671%) Liferay
14 5 (0.671%) Oracle Application Server
14 5 (0.671%) SharePoint Server
14 5 (0.671%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (4.832%) MS Excel
2 34 (4.564%) MS Office
3 13 (1.745%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.537%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.134%) Office 365
5 1 (0.134%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 19 (2.550%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (1.342%) Hyperion Planning
3 8 (1.074%) HFM
4 7 (0.940%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.537%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (0.537%) Agresso
6 3 (0.403%) Global One
6 3 (0.403%) Maximo
6 3 (0.403%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.403%) Taleo
6 3 (0.403%) CODA-Financials
7 2 (0.268%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.268%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.268%) Summit
7 2 (0.268%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.268%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.134%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.134%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 157 (21.07%) SAN
2 102 (13.69%) DNS
3 74 (9.933%) DHCP
4 72 (9.664%) TCP/IP
5 54 (7.248%) Firewall
6 50 (6.711%) LAN
7 49 (6.577%) NAS
8 47 (6.309%) WAN
9 41 (5.503%) Internet
10 24 (3.221%) LDAP
11 21 (2.819%) Intranet
12 20 (2.685%) VPN
13 19 (2.550%) HTTP
13 19 (2.550%) SSL
14 13 (1.745%) SNMP
15 12 (1.611%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (1.342%) Network Security
17 8 (1.074%) SMTP
17 8 (1.074%) BIG-IP
18 7 (0.940%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 58 (7.785%) MySQL
3 22 (2.953%) SQL Server 2008
4 19 (2.550%) SQL Server 2005
5 14 (1.879%) Oracle Exadata
6 10 (1.342%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.342%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.074%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.940%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.805%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.805%) SQL Server 2012
10 5 (0.671%) BusinessObjects XI
10 5 (0.671%) MS Access
10 5 (0.671%) Informix
11 4 (0.537%) DB2
11 4 (0.537%) Essbase
12 3 (0.403%) SQL Server 2000
12 3 (0.403%) Oracle 8/8i
12 3 (0.403%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.268%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (1.879%) Subversion
2 13 (1.745%) Git (software)
3 11 (1.477%) Hudson
4 10 (1.342%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.074%) ClearCase
6 6 (0.805%) ClearQuest
7 4 (0.537%) Ant
7 4 (0.537%) CruiseControl
8 3 (0.403%) Maven
8 3 (0.403%) JIRA
8 3 (0.403%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.268%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.268%) MSI
9 2 (0.268%) Redmine
10 1 (0.134%) Capistrano
10 1 (0.134%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.134%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.134%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.134%) Phing
10 1 (0.134%) Oracle APEX
General
1 142 (19.06%) Finance
2 76 (10.20%) Banking
3 32 (4.295%) Investment Banking
4 22 (2.953%) Retail
5 19 (2.550%) Back Office
6 17 (2.282%) Publishing
7 12 (1.611%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.477%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.805%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.537%) Marketing
10 4 (0.537%) Games
10 4 (0.537%) Law
11 3 (0.403%) Legal
11 3 (0.403%) Advertising
11 3 (0.403%) Military
12 2 (0.268%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.268%) German Language
12 2 (0.268%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.134%) Billing
13 1 (0.134%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.651%) Clustering
2 31 (4.161%) Blackberry
2 31 (4.161%) Open Source
3 20 (2.685%) Symmetrix DMX
4 16 (2.148%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.148%) PKI
4 16 (2.148%) Hedge funds
5 15 (2.013%) Wiki
6 14 (1.879%) Client/Server
6 14 (1.879%) Replication
7 8 (1.074%) Mainframe
7 8 (1.074%) IaaS
8 7 (0.940%) Computer Science
8 7 (0.940%) HACMP
9 6 (0.805%) Firmware
9 6 (0.805%) LPAR
9 6 (0.805%) SaaS
10 5 (0.671%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (0.671%) Equities
10 5 (0.671%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 391 (52.48%) Linux
2 277 (37.18%) Windows
3 224 (30.07%) UNIX
4 143 (19.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 138 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 134 (17.99%) Solaris
7 102 (13.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 61 (8.188%) SUSE
9 58 (7.785%) AIX
10 52 (6.980%) Windows 7
11 51 (6.846%) CentOS
12 32 (4.295%) Windows XP
13 27 (3.624%) HPUX
13 27 (3.624%) Ubuntu
13 27 (3.624%) Debian
14 10 (1.342%) Windows 2000 Server
15 7 (0.940%) Windows 2000
16 6 (0.805%) Windows NT
17 4 (0.537%) VMS
18 3 (0.403%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (17.72%) ITIL
2 53 (7.114%) Migration
3 48 (6.443%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (6.174%) Service Management
5 39 (5.235%) Change Management
6 32 (4.295%) Problem Management
7 30 (4.027%) Project Management
8 28 (3.758%) Configuration Management
9 27 (3.624%) PRINCE2
10 20 (2.685%) Capacity Management
11 19 (2.550%) E-Commerce
12 18 (2.416%) RDF
12 18 (2.416%) ERP
12 18 (2.416%) Incident Management
13 16 (2.148%) Infrastructure Management
14 14 (1.879%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (1.745%) Business Analysis
16 11 (1.477%) Continuous Integration
17 10 (1.342%) Load Balancing
17 10 (1.342%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.03%) Perl
2 104 (13.96%) SQL
3 103 (13.83%) Shell Script
4 53 (7.114%) Java
5 40 (5.369%) Bash shell
5 40 (5.369%) PowerShell
6 36 (4.832%) PHP
7 29 (3.893%) Korn
8 23 (3.087%) Python
9 16 (2.148%) VB
9 16 (2.148%) Ruby
10 14 (1.879%) VBScript
11 13 (1.745%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.074%) C
13 7 (0.940%) sed
13 7 (0.940%) AWK
13 7 (0.940%) C++
14 5 (0.671%) C#
15 4 (0.537%) JavaScript
16 3 (0.403%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 49 (6.577%) Microsoft Certification
2 45 (6.040%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.906%) Degree
4 39 (5.235%) MCSE
5 37 (4.966%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (4.430%) RHCE
7 28 (3.758%) CCNA
8 24 (3.221%) SC Cleared
9 20 (2.685%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.208%) SCSA
10 9 (1.208%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.940%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.940%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.940%) OCP
12 6 (0.805%) CCNP
12 6 (0.805%) RHCT
13 5 (0.671%) MCITP
14 4 (0.537%) Sun Certification
15 3 (0.403%) CISSP
16 2 (0.268%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.430%) SLA
2 7 (0.940%) QA
3 5 (0.671%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.403%) GAMP
4 3 (0.403%) GxP
5 2 (0.268%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.268%) COBIT
6 1 (0.134%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.134%) HL7
6 1 (0.134%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 162 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 128 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (5.772%) VMware ESX
4 41 (5.503%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 39 (5.235%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 34 (4.564%) vSphere
7 22 (2.953%) NFS
8 19 (2.550%) Hyper-V
9 18 (2.416%) XenApp
10 13 (1.745%) Oracle RMAN
10 13 (1.745%) ISA Server
11 12 (1.611%) Varnish
12 10 (1.342%) XenServer
13 9 (1.208%) VMware ESXi
14 7 (0.940%) Postfix
14 7 (0.940%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.940%) Squid
15 6 (0.805%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.805%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.671%) UAG
Systems Management
1 69 (9.262%) Puppet
2 62 (8.322%) SCOM
3 42 (5.638%) Nagios
4 39 (5.235%) SCCM
5 20 (2.685%) NetBackup
6 17 (2.282%) WSUS
7 16 (2.148%) Tivoli
7 16 (2.148%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 14 (1.879%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 14 (1.879%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 13 (1.745%) EMC NetWorker
10 10 (1.342%) HP SIM
11 9 (1.208%) Norton AntiVirus
12 8 (1.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (1.074%) HP Data Protector
12 8 (1.074%) Backup Exec
12 8 (1.074%) SolarWinds Orion
13 6 (0.805%) Control-M
13 6 (0.805%) CFEngine
13 6 (0.805%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 242 (32.48%) VMware
2 240 (32.21%) Red Hat
3 147 (19.73%) Microsoft
4 125 (16.78%) Oracle
5 105 (14.09%) Cisco
6 97 (13.02%) Citrix
7 80 (10.74%) HP
8 79 (10.60%) EMC
8 79 (10.60%) Veritas
9 47 (6.309%) Sun
10 43 (5.772%) NetApp
11 36 (4.832%) Symantec
12 32 (4.295%) IBM
13 27 (3.624%) JBoss
14 19 (2.550%) SAP
14 19 (2.550%) Sybase
15 12 (1.611%) Interwoven
15 12 (1.611%) Hyperion
15 12 (1.611%) Dell
16 10 (1.342%) SolarWinds
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Weybridge, Surrey
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Systems Administrator
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You will need an excellent knowledge of Linux systems such as Redhat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora etc as well as experience working in Microsoft environments on Windows 7...
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Rate: £300 - £360 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Systems Administrator
Skipton, Yorkshire
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Rate: £200 per day
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Systems Administrator
Skipton, North Yorkshire
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Rate: £200 per day
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Senior Linux Systems Administrator - City - Digital Agency
London
Linux (CentOS), MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP, clustering (SAN, NAS), Senior Systems Administrator, Canary Wharf, Contract Role, Digital Agency... *Strong experience with MySQL, Apache, Exim and PHP... *Languages: Bash,...
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Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Linux Systems Administrator
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
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Systems Administrator / Architect
South East
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Venn Group
Rate: £300 Per Day
Posted: 17 May 2013
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London
Surrey
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Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
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System Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer - Windows - Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
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Systems Administrator / Technical Specialist - Maximo, SQL, Websphere
Castleford, West Yorkshire
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3RD Line Systems Engineer, Windows Server, Systems Administrator
Southampton, Hampshire
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Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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