The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 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 Windows 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
Windows Administrator
Rank 455 507 498
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 57 50 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.135% 0.093% 0.103%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.146% 0.101% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 42
Average daily rate £300 £350 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £280 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £400 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £300 £273
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
Average hourly rate £29.00 £27.75 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.50% +4.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+30.76% +22.64%
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%
Windows Administrator
UK

Windows Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Windows Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Windows Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Windows Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Windows Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Windows Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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 +14 33 £320 -8.57%
South East +25 10 £300 -
South West - 8 £300 -
North West +17 4 £280 -6.66%
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 £225 -
Windows Administrator
UK

Windows Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 100 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (63.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 62 (62.00%) VMware
4 58 (58.00%) Active Directory
5 49 (49.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 36 (36.00%) Microsoft
7 34 (34.00%) Citrix
8 31 (31.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 25 (25.00%) PowerShell
10 23 (23.00%) SCOM
11 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
12 21 (21.00%) DNS
13 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (20.00%) SCCM
14 19 (19.00%) DHCP
14 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (18.00%) HP
15 18 (18.00%) Windows 7
16 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
16 17 (17.00%) SQL
16 17 (17.00%) ITIL
16 17 (17.00%) SAN
17 16 (16.00%) Clustering
17 16 (16.00%) IIS
17 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
17 16 (16.00%) MS Exchange
18 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
18 15 (15.00%) VMware ESX
19 14 (14.00%) Symantec
19 14 (14.00%) Linux

Windows Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (3.000%) WSH
1 3 (3.000%) .NET
2 2 (2.000%) Application Packaging
2 2 (2.000%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.000%) LAMP
3 1 (1.000%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.000%) Middleware
3 1 (1.000%) Web Services
3 1 (1.000%) J2EE
3 1 (1.000%) Spring
3 1 (1.000%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 16 (16.00%) IIS
1 16 (16.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (7.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 6 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (6.000%) SharePoint
5 5 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (3.000%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (3.000%) Apache
7 2 (2.000%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (1.000%) Tomcat
8 1 (1.000%) ESB
8 1 (1.000%) Exchange Server 5.5
8 1 (1.000%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.000%) Zimbra
8 1 (1.000%) Mule
8 1 (1.000%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 7 (7.000%) MS Office
2 5 (5.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.000%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.000%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.00%) DNS
2 19 (19.00%) DHCP
3 17 (17.00%) SAN
4 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.000%) Firewall
6 7 (7.000%) Internet
6 7 (7.000%) NAS
7 6 (6.000%) LAN
7 6 (6.000%) WAN
8 4 (4.000%) Intranet
9 3 (3.000%) VPN
9 3 (3.000%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (2.000%) Network Security
10 2 (2.000%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.000%) SNMP
10 2 (2.000%) Broadband
11 1 (1.000%) ADSL
11 1 (1.000%) HTTP
11 1 (1.000%) SSL
11 1 (1.000%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (6.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (3.000%) MySQL
4 1 (1.000%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.000%) MSI
1 1 (1.000%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (11.00%) Banking
2 10 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (7.000%) Back Office
4 4 (4.000%) Publishing
5 2 (2.000%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.000%) Military
6 1 (1.000%) Law
6 1 (1.000%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.000%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Clustering
2 7 (7.000%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.000%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.000%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.000%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.000%) EPoS
5 1 (1.000%) CMDB
5 1 (1.000%) Derivative
5 1 (1.000%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.000%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 100 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (63.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 49 (49.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (18.00%) Windows 7
5 14 (14.00%) Linux
6 8 (8.000%) UNIX
7 7 (7.000%) Windows 2000
8 6 (6.000%) Windows NT
8 6 (6.000%) Windows XP
8 6 (6.000%) NetWare
9 5 (5.000%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (3.000%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (3.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (2.000%) CentOS
12 1 (1.000%) AIX
12 1 (1.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (17.00%) ITIL
3 13 (13.00%) Service Management
4 12 (12.00%) Migration
5 5 (5.000%) Business Continuity
5 5 (5.000%) Service Delivery
5 5 (5.000%) CRM
5 5 (5.000%) Asset Management
6 4 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (4.000%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.000%) E-Commerce
6 4 (4.000%) PRINCE2
6 4 (4.000%) Project Management
6 4 (4.000%) Risk Management
7 3 (3.000%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (3.000%) Performance Improvement
7 3 (3.000%) Network Management
8 1 (1.000%) Change Management
8 1 (1.000%) ITSM
8 1 (1.000%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (17.00%) SQL
3 9 (9.000%) VB
4 5 (5.000%) Perl
4 5 (5.000%) VBScript
5 2 (2.000%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.000%) Python
6 1 (1.000%) C#
6 1 (1.000%) Java
6 1 (1.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (14.00%) MCSE
4 14 (14.00%) Degree
5 7 (7.000%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.000%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.000%) CCNA
7 4 (4.000%) MCITP
8 2 (2.000%) MCSA
9 1 (1.000%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (58.00%) Active Directory
2 31 (31.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.00%) VMware ESX
4 12 (12.00%) vSphere
5 8 (8.000%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.000%) ISA Server
6 5 (5.000%) XenApp
6 5 (5.000%) UAG
7 4 (4.000%) DFS Replication
8 3 (3.000%) Terminal Services
8 3 (3.000%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.000%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.000%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.000%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.000%) Postfix
9 1 (1.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.000%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 23 (23.00%) SCOM
2 20 (20.00%) SCCM
3 9 (9.000%) NetBackup
3 9 (9.000%) Norton AntiVirus
4 8 (8.000%) Nagios
5 7 (7.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (7.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (6.000%) WSUS
6 6 (6.000%) Tivoli
7 5 (5.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 5 (5.000%) HP SIM
8 4 (4.000%) HP Data Protector
9 3 (3.000%) BladeLogic
9 3 (3.000%) Puppet
10 2 (2.000%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (2.000%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (2.000%) Legato
10 2 (2.000%) MOM
10 2 (2.000%) ARCserve
10 2 (2.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 62 (62.00%) VMware
2 36 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 34 (34.00%) Citrix
4 18 (18.00%) HP
5 14 (14.00%) Symantec
6 12 (12.00%) Cisco
7 8 (8.000%) NetApp
8 6 (6.000%) Altiris
8 6 (6.000%) Sophos
8 6 (6.000%) CA
9 5 (5.000%) Veeam
10 4 (4.000%) IBM
10 4 (4.000%) Dell
11 3 (3.000%) McAfee
11 3 (3.000%) EMC
11 3 (3.000%) Intel
11 3 (3.000%) Oracle
12 2 (2.000%) F5
12 2 (2.000%) Opsware
12 2 (2.000%) Lotus
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