Senior Systems Administrator Contracts in London

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
England > London

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) daily rate in London is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 494 595
Rank change year-on-year +105 +101 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 4 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.043% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.045% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £258 £357 £347
25th Percentile £326 £360 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £420 £430
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -21.82%
75th Percentile - £534 £473
90th Percentile - £600 £489
England median daily rate £363 £420 £463
% change year-on-year -13.69% -9.19% +14.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,716 26,473 37,451
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 95.27% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,077 19,090 27,318
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.84%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 303 458
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.59 £16.50
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.24 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.77 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

Senior Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator in London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Systems Administrator in London

Senior Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
East London - 1 £440 -
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Northgate
2 2 (50.00%) Capita
2 2 (50.00%) OPENHousing
2 2 (50.00%) Social Housing
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) tcsh

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Housing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Capita
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Northgate
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) VMware