Systems Administrator Contracts in Leicestershire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in Leicestershire is £535 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 3.82% - 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £507 - £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £165
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.67%
75th Percentile £578 - £183
90th Percentile £584 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £520 £500 £325
% change year-on-year +4.00% +53.85% +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 143 170 257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 97.70% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 147 208
10th Percentile £137 £211 £154
25th Percentile £257 £319 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £395 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £570 £450 £475
90th Percentile £625 £561 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.98 -
25th Percentile £19.81 £14.08 £14.82
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.32 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% +9.84% +15.63%
75th Percentile £27.81 £22.73 £37.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £41.75 £46.34
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.50 £20.32 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.88% +16.11% +17.85%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Leicestershire

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in Leicestershire

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in Leicestershire

Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 6 £535 - 3
Systems Administrator
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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