The first table below looks at the demand for SCSA in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCSA over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Rank 371 - 439
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCSA 6 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.028% - 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.189% - 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
Average daily rate £344 - £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SCSA
England

SCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCSA across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London SCSA Jobs Demand Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SCSA Daily Rate Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCSA across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London SCSA Daily Rate Histogram

SCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCSA within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Harrow - 1 £363 -
City of London - 1 £325 -
SCSA
England

SCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA.

1 23 (100.00%) Solaris
1 23 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 22 (95.65%) Linux
3 21 (91.30%) Oracle
4 20 (86.96%) UNIX
5 19 (82.61%) Finance
5 19 (82.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (78.26%) Software Deployment
6 18 (78.26%) Investment Banking
6 18 (78.26%) Banking
6 18 (78.26%) Sun Certification
6 18 (78.26%) Sun
7 5 (21.74%) RHCE
7 5 (21.74%) SAN
8 4 (17.39%) Apache
9 3 (13.04%) Informix
9 3 (13.04%) ITIL
9 3 (13.04%) MySQL
9 3 (13.04%) EMC
9 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
9 3 (13.04%) SSL
9 3 (13.04%) Cisco
9 3 (13.04%) Change Management
9 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (13.04%) Veritas
9 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
9 3 (13.04%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (13.04%) Open Source
10 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
11 1 (4.348%) Perl

SCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SAN
2 3 (13.04%) SSL
3 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Informix
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
General
1 19 (82.61%) Finance
2 18 (78.26%) Investment Banking
2 18 (78.26%) Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
1 3 (13.04%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Solaris
2 22 (95.65%) Linux
3 20 (86.96%) UNIX
4 19 (82.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Software Deployment
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
2 3 (13.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) Perl
1 1 (4.348%) AWK
1 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.348%) sed
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Sun Certification
2 5 (21.74%) RHCE
3 1 (4.348%) RHCT
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 21 (91.30%) Oracle
3 18 (78.26%) Sun
4 3 (13.04%) EMC
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Veritas