The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows System Administrator
Rank 466 517 531
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Systems Administrator 47 42 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.113% 0.079% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.122% 0.085% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 31
Average daily rate £300 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £264 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £415 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £242 £220
% change year-on-year
+24.10% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £23.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 - £20.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 - £25.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - £23.25
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £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 Systems Administrator
UK

Windows Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Windows Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Windows Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Windows Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Windows Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Windows Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Systems Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Windows Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +35 27 £335 -8.21%
South East +17 10 £300 -
South West - 7 £300 -
North West +15 3 £280 -6.66%
Windows Systems Administrator
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Windows Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Windows
2 49 (64.47%) VMware
3 48 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 47 (61.84%) Active Directory
5 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
6 32 (42.11%) Citrix
7 31 (40.79%) Windows Server 2003
8 25 (32.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 25 (32.89%) PowerShell
9 24 (31.58%) SCOM
10 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
11 20 (26.32%) SCCM
12 19 (25.00%) Clustering
13 18 (23.68%) Windows 7
14 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
15 16 (21.05%) HP
15 16 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (19.74%) DNS
17 14 (18.42%) DHCP
17 14 (18.42%) IIS
17 14 (18.42%) ITIL
17 14 (18.42%) Symantec
18 13 (17.11%) Service Management
18 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
19 12 (15.79%) MCSE
19 12 (15.79%) MS Exchange
19 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
19 12 (15.79%) VMware ESX
19 12 (15.79%) Migration
20 11 (14.47%) Linux

Windows Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.632%) .NET
1 2 (2.632%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.316%) J2EE
2 1 (1.316%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.316%) Web Services
2 1 (1.316%) LAMP
2 1 (1.316%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.316%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (18.42%) IIS
2 12 (15.79%) MS Exchange
3 7 (9.211%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (9.211%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (6.579%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (6.579%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (6.579%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (6.579%) SharePoint
5 3 (3.947%) Apache
5 3 (3.947%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.316%) ESB
6 1 (1.316%) Mule
6 1 (1.316%) Zimbra
6 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.316%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 6 (7.895%) MS Office
2 3 (3.947%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.316%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (6.579%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.74%) DNS
2 14 (18.42%) DHCP
3 11 (14.47%) TCP/IP
3 11 (14.47%) SAN
4 7 (9.211%) Internet
5 6 (7.895%) Firewall
6 5 (6.579%) NAS
6 5 (6.579%) LAN
6 5 (6.579%) WAN
7 4 (5.263%) Intranet
8 3 (3.947%) SNMP
9 2 (2.632%) Broadband
9 2 (2.632%) VPN
10 1 (1.316%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.316%) ADSL
10 1 (1.316%) SSL
10 1 (1.316%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.895%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (7.895%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.947%) MySQL
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.316%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (1.316%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (13.16%) Finance
2 9 (11.84%) Banking
3 7 (9.211%) Back Office
4 3 (3.947%) Publishing
5 2 (2.632%) Retail
5 2 (2.632%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.632%) Military
6 1 (1.316%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.316%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Clustering
2 7 (9.211%) Hedge funds
3 6 (7.895%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.632%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.316%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.316%) Derivative
5 1 (1.316%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 76 (100.00%) Windows
2 48 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 31 (40.79%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (23.68%) Windows 7
5 11 (14.47%) Linux
6 5 (6.579%) Windows XP
7 4 (5.263%) Windows NT
7 4 (5.263%) Windows 2000
7 4 (5.263%) UNIX
7 4 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.316%) CentOS
8 1 (1.316%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.316%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.316%) AIX
8 1 (1.316%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.42%) ITIL
2 13 (17.11%) Service Management
3 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (15.79%) Migration
4 6 (7.895%) Asset Management
5 5 (6.579%) CRM
5 5 (6.579%) Service Delivery
6 4 (5.263%) Business Continuity
6 4 (5.263%) Risk Management
6 4 (5.263%) Project Management
6 4 (5.263%) PRINCE2
6 4 (5.263%) Problem Management
7 3 (3.947%) Network Management
7 3 (3.947%) Performance Improvement
7 3 (3.947%) E-Commerce
8 2 (2.632%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (1.316%) Release Management
9 1 (1.316%) Load Balancing
9 1 (1.316%) Network Load Balancing
9 1 (1.316%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) PowerShell
2 11 (14.47%) SQL
3 5 (6.579%) Perl
3 5 (6.579%) VB
4 4 (5.263%) VBScript
5 2 (2.632%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.316%) Ruby
6 1 (1.316%) C#
6 1 (1.316%) Java
6 1 (1.316%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (15.79%) MCSE
5 10 (13.16%) Degree
6 7 (9.211%) DV Cleared
6 7 (9.211%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (9.211%) CCNA
7 3 (3.947%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.579%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (61.84%) Active Directory
2 25 (32.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.79%) VMware ESX
4 10 (13.16%) vSphere
5 8 (10.53%) ISA Server
5 8 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (6.579%) UAG
6 5 (6.579%) XenApp
7 4 (5.263%) DFS Replication
8 3 (3.947%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (3.947%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.316%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.316%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.316%) Postfix
9 1 (1.316%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.316%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (31.58%) SCOM
2 20 (26.32%) SCCM
3 9 (11.84%) Norton AntiVirus
4 7 (9.211%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (9.211%) NetBackup
5 5 (6.579%) WSUS
5 5 (6.579%) HP SIM
5 5 (6.579%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 4 (5.263%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (3.947%) BladeLogic
8 2 (2.632%) MOM
8 2 (2.632%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (2.632%) Puppet
9 1 (1.316%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.316%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.316%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.316%) OpenView
9 1 (1.316%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (64.47%) VMware
2 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 32 (42.11%) Citrix
4 16 (21.05%) HP
5 14 (18.42%) Symantec
6 10 (13.16%) Cisco
7 8 (10.53%) NetApp
8 6 (7.895%) Sophos
9 5 (6.579%) CA
10 4 (5.263%) Veeam
11 3 (3.947%) IBM
11 3 (3.947%) Intel
12 2 (2.632%) AppSense
12 2 (2.632%) McAfee
12 2 (2.632%) Dell
12 2 (2.632%) EMC
12 2 (2.632%) Oracle
13 1 (1.316%) 3PAR
13 1 (1.316%) Opsware
13 1 (1.316%) F5
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