Hertfordshire Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Bletchley Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	78
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	8	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.869 %	1.063 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£342
Average daily rate	-	£356
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£326
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£29.25
% change on same period last year	-23.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£28.64
% change on same period last year	-18.34 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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.

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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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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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 Hertfordshire region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 14 (66.67 %) HP 2 13 (61.90 %) Linux 3 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 3 12 (57.14 %) Red Hat 3 12 (57.14 %) Red Hat Linux 4 11 (52.38 %) MySQL 4 11 (52.38 %) EMC 5 10 (47.62 %) Cisco Certification 5 10 (47.62 %) Cisco 5 10 (47.62 %) CheckPoint 5 10 (47.62 %) J2EE 5 10 (47.62 %) Firewall 5 10 (47.62 %) CCNA 5 10 (47.62 %) Nokia

6 5 (23.81 %) Windows 6 5 (23.81 %) Solaris 7 3 (14.29 %) AIX 7 3 (14.29 %) SAN 8 2 (9.524 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (9.524 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (9.524 %) HPUX 8 2 (9.524 %) GxP 8 2 (9.524 %) Cisco PIX 8 2 (9.524 %) VMware 8 2 (9.524 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 2 (9.524 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX 9 1 (4.762 %) NetBackup 9 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (47.62 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 10 (47.62 %) Firewall 2 3 (14.29 %) SAN 3 2 (9.524 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (4.762 %) RTSP 4 1 (4.762 %) SMTP 4 1 (4.762 %) FTP 4 1 (4.762 %) HTTP 4 1 (4.762 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (52.38 %) MySQL
General 1 2 (9.524 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (4.762 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) NHS 1 1 (4.762 %) HACMP 1 1 (4.762 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 14 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 13 (61.90 %) Linux 3 12 (57.14 %) Red Hat Linux 4 5 (23.81 %) Solaris 4 5 (23.81 %) Windows 5 3 (14.29 %) AIX 6 2 (9.524 %) HPUX 6 2 (9.524 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (9.524 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 1 (4.762 %) Tru64 7 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2008 7 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.762 %) Migration 1 1 (4.762 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.762 %) C# 1 1 (4.762 %) C++ 1 1 (4.762 %) VB 1 1 (4.762 %) Progress 4GL 1 1 (4.762 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 10 (47.62 %) CCNA 1 10 (47.62 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.524 %) GxP	System Software 1 1 (4.762 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.762 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (4.762 %) NetBackup 1 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (4.762 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 1 1 (4.762 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 14 (66.67 %) HP 2 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 2 12 (57.14 %) Red Hat 3 11 (52.38 %) EMC 4 10 (47.62 %) Cisco 4 10 (47.62 %) CheckPoint 4 10 (47.62 %) Nokia 5 2 (9.524 %) VMware 6 1 (4.762 %) VERITAS 6 1 (4.762 %) Sun 6 1 (4.762 %) NetApp