Systems Administrator Contracts in Leicester

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in Leicester is £535 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 5.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £507 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £584 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £535 - £165
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leicester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leicester with a recognized job title 103 108 183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 96.43% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 92 156
10th Percentile £138 £263 £289
25th Percentile £319 £333 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% +3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £450 £488
90th Percentile £625 £563 £600
Leicestershire median daily rate £375 £395 £400
% change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.98 £14.17
25th Percentile £19.81 £14.08 £14.91
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% +16.11% +9.38%
75th Percentile £27.81 £22.73 £45.84
90th Percentile £28.38 £41.75 £46.67
Leicestershire median hourly rate £25.00 £20.32 £18.50
% change year-on-year +23.03% +9.84% +15.63%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings that featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Leicester

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in Leicester

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in Leicester.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in Leicester

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Systems Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leicester region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) KVM
5 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Clustering
5 1 (16.67%) SLA
5 1 (16.67%) RHCE

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
1 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat