The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 23 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 Gloucestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 35 69 42
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 2 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.735% 0.152% 1.584%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.772% 0.164% 1.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £225 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -27.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £334
% change year-on-year
- -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £27.75 £22.88
% change year-on-year
-2.70% +21.28%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
259 609 413
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.22% 92.69% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 358 165
Average daily rate £380 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 63
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £21.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.40 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheltenham - 1 - -
Gloucester - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
South West

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (75.00%) UNIX
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Solaris
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
4 3 (37.50%) Content Management
4 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
4 3 (37.50%) LAMP
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) MySQL
4 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (37.50%) Mercator
4 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
4 3 (37.50%) Puppet
4 3 (37.50%) Hudson
5 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 3 (37.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
1 3 (37.50%) Hudson
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Solaris
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Content Management
4 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Mercator
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) IBM