The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 34 39 47
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 24 44 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.756% 4.418% 2.826%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.941% 4.746% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 8
Average daily rate £269 £163 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.38% -39.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £122 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £367 £314 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £323
% change year-on-year
- -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -36.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+13.46% -5.79%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
609 927 871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.31% 93.07% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 409 384
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 87 111
Average hourly rate £18.00 £29.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.93% +79.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £11.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Administrator
East of England

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead +18 10 £325 - 2
Stevenage +5 5 £350 - 1
Watford -4 2 £238 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Hertford - - - -
Potters Bar - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
Royston - - - -
St Albans - - - - 1
Administrator
East of England

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 19 (57.58%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Red Hat
2 10 (30.30%) Windows
3 9 (27.27%) UNIX
4 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Apache
5 6 (18.18%) Subversion
5 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (18.18%) Puppet
5 6 (18.18%) PHP
5 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
6 5 (15.15%) Debian
6 5 (15.15%) VMware
6 5 (15.15%) Clustering
6 5 (15.15%) Solaris
6 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
6 5 (15.15%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (15.15%) Varnish
6 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
7 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
7 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
7 4 (12.12%) Postfix
7 4 (12.12%) Gearman
7 4 (12.12%) Memcached
7 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
7 4 (12.12%) ITIL
7 4 (12.12%) IIS
7 4 (12.12%) Perl

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (12.12%) Gearman
1 4 (12.12%) Memcached
2 2 (6.061%) .NET
2 2 (6.061%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.030%) Middleware
3 1 (3.030%) LAMP
3 1 (3.030%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) Apache
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (12.12%) IIS
4 1 (3.030%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.030%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Adobe Captivate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 3 (9.091%) SMTP
3 3 (9.091%) DHCP
3 3 (9.091%) FTP
3 3 (9.091%) SNMP
4 2 (6.061%) LAN
4 2 (6.061%) WAN
5 1 (3.030%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.091%) MySQL
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Subversion
2 2 (6.061%) ClearQuest
2 2 (6.061%) ClearCase
3 1 (3.030%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.030%) Redmine
General
1 3 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.030%) Finance
2 1 (3.030%) German Language
2 1 (3.030%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Clustering
2 1 (3.030%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 19 (57.58%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Windows
3 9 (27.27%) UNIX
4 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (15.15%) Debian
5 5 (15.15%) Solaris
5 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.061%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (6.061%) CentOS
6 2 (6.061%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.061%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.061%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
2 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
2 4 (12.12%) ITIL
3 3 (9.091%) Content Management
4 2 (6.061%) Software Engineering
5 1 (3.030%) Project Management
5 1 (3.030%) Data Security
5 1 (3.030%) Validation
5 1 (3.030%) Migration
5 1 (3.030%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.030%) ERP
5 1 (3.030%) Data Entry
5 1 (3.030%) Capacity Management
5 1 (3.030%) Network Architecture
5 1 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.030%) Time Management
5 1 (3.030%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.030%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.030%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (3.030%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) PHP
3 4 (12.12%) Perl
4 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
5 1 (3.030%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.061%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.061%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Varnish
2 4 (12.12%) Postfix
3 3 (9.091%) Samba
3 3 (9.091%) NFS
4 2 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.030%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.030%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.030%) Cygwin
5 1 (3.030%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.030%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Puppet
2 4 (12.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Veritas
4 3 (9.091%) Sun
5 2 (6.061%) Opsware
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco
5 2 (6.061%) IBM
5 2 (6.061%) HP
6 1 (3.030%) JD Edwards
6 1 (3.030%) Business Objects
6 1 (3.030%) Oracle
6 1 (3.030%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.030%) Adobe
6 1 (3.030%) Percona
6 1 (3.030%) Twitter
6 1 (3.030%) Orchard
Hemel Hempstead, South East
System administrator with over 5 years experience required to support an e-commerce platform. This platform consists of a number of application servers based on Linux operating system,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 3 June 2013