Essex Systems Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	51
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	1.104 %	1.417 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£218
Average daily rate	£425	£250
% change on same period last year	+70.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£343
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.30
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£27.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.21	£29.14
% change on same period last year	-10.06 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	634	635
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.845 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	244	199
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£327
Average daily rate	£299	£351
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Systems Administrator East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basildon	+9	1	£425	+21.42 %

Systems Administrator East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (87.50 %) Linux 2 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 3 5 (62.50 %) UNIX 4 4 (50.00 %) Apache 4 4 (50.00 %) Java 4 4 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery 4 4 (50.00 %) Sun 4 4 (50.00 %) SAN 4 4 (50.00 %) NetApp 4 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat 4 4 (50.00 %) Solaris 5 2 (25.00 %) Degree 5 2 (25.00 %) PHP5 5 2 (25.00 %) LAMP 5 2 (25.00 %) Games

5 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 5 2 (25.00 %) PHP 5 2 (25.00 %) SQL 5 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 6 1 (12.50 %) XML 6 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (12.50 %) MCSE

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (25.00 %) LAMP 2 1 (12.50 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) Apache 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Games	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) Linux 2 5 (62.50 %) UNIX 3 4 (50.00 %) Solaris 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 2 (25.00 %) PHP 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) PHP5 3 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (50.00 %) Sun 2 4 (50.00 %) NetApp 2 4 (50.00 %) Red Hat 3 1 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) Intel 3 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft