Hampshire Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Hampshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Hull Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	104
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	34	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	1.763 %	0.622 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£300
Average daily rate	£288	£350
% change on same period last year	-17.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£332
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.06	£14.98
Average hourly rate	£26.63	£16.81
% change on same period last year	+58.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.19	£18.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.71	£26.62
% change on same period last year	-7.18 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1928	2413
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.714 %	2.438 %
Daily rates quoted	520	679
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£336
Average daily rate	£364	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	425	419
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.08	£27.13
Average hourly rate	£28.84	£28.96
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.60	£30.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems Administrator South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Portsmouth	+11	21	£292	-
Southampton	+10	5	-	-
Havant	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 38 (65.52 %) UNIX 2 32 (55.17 %) Solaris 3 24 (41.38 %) Sun 4 22 (37.93 %) AIX 5 20 (34.48 %) Windows 6 19 (32.76 %) IBM 6 19 (32.76 %) Korn 7 16 (27.59 %) Shell Script 8 15 (25.86 %) SAN 8 15 (25.86 %) Security Cleared 9 14 (24.14 %) WebSphere 10 13 (22.41 %) OpenVMS 11 12 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 11 12 (20.69 %) SC Cleared 12 11 (18.97 %) Tivoli

12 11 (18.97 %) Tru64 12 11 (18.97 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 13 10 (17.24 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 10 (17.24 %) HP 14 8 (13.79 %) Active Directory 14 8 (13.79 %) MS Exchange 14 8 (13.79 %) VMware 15 7 (12.07 %) Backup Exec 15 7 (12.07 %) Linux 15 7 (12.07 %) LDAP 15 7 (12.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 6 (10.34 %) EMC NetWorker 16 6 (10.34 %) Citrix 17 5 (8.621 %) Windows 2000 17 5 (8.621 %) HPUX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 14 (24.14 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 8 (13.79 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (12.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (6.897 %) WPS 3 4 (6.897 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (3.448 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (6.897 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 15 (25.86 %) SAN 2 7 (12.07 %) LDAP 3 4 (6.897 %) VPN 3 4 (6.897 %) Firewall 3 4 (6.897 %) Intrusion Detection 3 4 (6.897 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (3.448 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (1.724 %) LAN	Development Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) Ant
General 1 4 (6.897 %) Government 2 1 (1.724 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.448 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.724 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 38 (65.52 %) UNIX 2 32 (55.17 %) Solaris 3 22 (37.93 %) AIX 4 20 (34.48 %) Windows 5 13 (22.41 %) OpenVMS 6 12 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 7 11 (18.97 %) Tru64 8 7 (12.07 %) Linux 9 5 (8.621 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (8.621 %) HPUX 10 3 (5.172 %) VMS 11 2 (3.448 %) Windows XP 12 1 (1.724 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (25.86 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (20.69 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (3.448 %) ITIL 3 2 (3.448 %) Migration 4 1 (1.724 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.724 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.724 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 19 (32.76 %) Korn 2 16 (27.59 %) Shell Script 3 4 (6.897 %) SQL 4 1 (1.724 %) Perl	System Software 1 10 (17.24 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 8 (13.79 %) Active Directory 3 7 (12.07 %) Backup Exec 4 5 (8.621 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 11 (18.97 %) Tivoli 1 11 (18.97 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (10.34 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 24 (41.38 %) Sun 2 19 (32.76 %) IBM 3 10 (17.24 %) HP 4 8 (13.79 %) VMware 5 6 (10.34 %) Citrix 6 4 (6.897 %) Compaq 6 4 (6.897 %) Microsoft 6 4 (6.897 %) Siebel 6 4 (6.897 %) Cisco 6 4 (6.897 %) CheckPoint 7 2 (3.448 %) SAP 8 1 (1.724 %) Remedy 8 1 (1.724 %) Orchard 8 1 (1.724 %) Novell 8 1 (1.724 %) VERITAS