The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 216 161 206
Rank change year-on-year
-55 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 179 307 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.829% 1.146% 0.864%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.898% 1.238% 0.934%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 209 172
Average daily rate £364 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.92% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £180 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 4
Average hourly rate £83.75 £22.25 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+276.40% +3.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.90 £19.00 £20.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £52.00 £26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+25.58% +7.50%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator across the London region.

London Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London -30 51 £368 +5.00%
Docklands, London - 4 £400 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Hounslow -3 1 £450 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Harrow - 1 £363 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 250 (62.50%) Linux
2 160 (40.00%) Windows
3 138 (34.50%) UNIX
4 133 (33.25%) Red Hat
4 133 (33.25%) VMware
5 107 (26.75%) Finance
6 98 (24.50%) Solaris
7 91 (22.75%) SAN
8 84 (21.00%) Active Directory
9 83 (20.75%) Perl
10 76 (19.00%) Apache
11 75 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 73 (18.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 67 (16.75%) Microsoft
13 67 (16.75%) Banking
14 66 (16.50%) Shell Script
14 66 (16.50%) ITIL
15 63 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
16 61 (15.25%) Veritas
17 60 (15.00%) DNS
18 58 (14.50%) Citrix
19 57 (14.25%) Oracle
20 56 (14.00%) Windows Server 2003
21 55 (13.75%) Cisco
22 54 (13.50%) EMC
23 53 (13.25%) SUSE
24 51 (12.75%) SQL
24 51 (12.75%) Puppet
25 46 (11.50%) MS Exchange
26 42 (10.50%) HP

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 17 (4.250%) LAMP
2 14 (3.500%) HTML
3 12 (3.000%) J2EE
4 9 (2.250%) Web Services
5 8 (2.000%) Middleware
6 7 (1.750%) Node.js
7 6 (1.500%) JDBC
8 5 (1.250%) J2SE
9 4 (1.000%) .NET
9 4 (1.000%) Application Packaging
10 3 (0.750%) COM
11 2 (0.500%) CSS
11 2 (0.500%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.500%) Memcached
12 1 (0.250%) Django
12 1 (0.250%) WSGI
12 1 (0.250%) Gearman
12 1 (0.250%) EJB
12 1 (0.250%) XML
12 1 (0.250%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 76 (19.00%) Apache
2 46 (11.50%) MS Exchange
3 39 (9.750%) IIS
4 30 (7.500%) Tomcat
5 27 (6.750%) SharePoint
6 18 (4.500%) Exchange Server 2007
7 17 (4.250%) Exchange Server 2003
7 17 (4.250%) Amazon AWS
8 14 (3.500%) Exchange Server 2010
9 8 (2.000%) OpenStack
9 8 (2.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (1.500%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.250%) SAS
11 5 (1.250%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (1.000%) Liferay
12 4 (1.000%) TeamSite
13 3 (0.750%) Lync
14 2 (0.500%) Rackspace Cloud
14 2 (0.500%) Exchange Server 2013
14 2 (0.500%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 18 (4.500%) MS Excel
2 15 (3.750%) MS Office
3 2 (0.500%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.250%) Office 365
4 1 (0.250%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.750%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.500%) HFM
3 5 (1.250%) Hyperion Planning
4 3 (0.750%) Global One
5 2 (0.500%) Summit
5 2 (0.500%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.500%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.500%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.500%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.250%) Agresso
6 1 (0.250%) Taleo
6 1 (0.250%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.250%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 91 (22.75%) SAN
2 60 (15.00%) DNS
3 40 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 39 (9.750%) Internet
5 36 (9.000%) DHCP
6 33 (8.250%) LAN
7 32 (8.000%) WAN
8 28 (7.000%) NAS
9 26 (6.500%) Firewall
10 20 (5.000%) Intranet
11 13 (3.250%) LDAP
12 11 (2.750%) SSL
12 11 (2.750%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (2.250%) HTTP
14 7 (1.750%) SNMP
15 6 (1.500%) Network Security
15 6 (1.500%) iSCSI
16 5 (1.250%) SMTP
17 3 (0.750%) FTP
17 3 (0.750%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.750%) MySQL
3 13 (3.250%) Oracle Exadata
4 9 (2.250%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.250%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (2.000%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.750%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (1.500%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (1.250%) Informix
9 2 (0.500%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.500%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (0.500%) MS Access
9 2 (0.500%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.500%) SQL Server 2000
9 2 (0.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.500%) Redis
10 1 (0.250%) Big Data
10 1 (0.250%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.250%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (2.750%) Git (software)
2 9 (2.250%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.000%) Subversion
4 7 (1.750%) Hudson
5 4 (1.000%) Ant
5 4 (1.000%) ClearCase
5 4 (1.000%) ClearQuest
5 4 (1.000%) CruiseControl
6 3 (0.750%) Maven
6 3 (0.750%) JIRA
6 3 (0.750%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.250%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.250%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.250%) Capistrano
7 1 (0.250%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.250%) Redmine
7 1 (0.250%) Phing
7 1 (0.250%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (26.75%) Finance
2 67 (16.75%) Banking
3 28 (7.000%) Investment Banking
4 19 (4.750%) Back Office
5 11 (2.750%) Publishing
6 7 (1.750%) Retail
7 5 (1.250%) Law
8 4 (1.000%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.000%) Games
8 4 (1.000%) Marketing
9 3 (0.750%) Advertising
10 2 (0.500%) German Language
10 2 (0.500%) Legal
11 1 (0.250%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.250%) Front Office
11 1 (0.250%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.250%) French Language
11 1 (0.250%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.500%) Open Source
2 20 (5.000%) Clustering
3 19 (4.750%) Blackberry
3 19 (4.750%) Symmetrix DMX
4 16 (4.000%) Hedge funds
5 14 (3.500%) Wiki
6 10 (2.500%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.250%) Replication
8 7 (1.750%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.500%) IaaS
10 5 (1.250%) Firmware
10 5 (1.250%) Equities
10 5 (1.250%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.000%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.000%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.000%) Online Games
11 4 (1.000%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.750%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.750%) New Media
13 2 (0.500%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 250 (62.50%) Linux
2 160 (40.00%) Windows
3 138 (34.50%) UNIX
4 98 (24.50%) Solaris
5 75 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 73 (18.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 56 (14.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 53 (13.25%) SUSE
9 34 (8.500%) AIX
10 29 (7.250%) CentOS
11 26 (6.500%) Windows 7
12 20 (5.000%) Ubuntu
13 17 (4.250%) Windows XP
14 13 (3.250%) Debian
15 10 (2.500%) HPUX
16 3 (0.750%) VMS
16 3 (0.750%) Gentoo
16 3 (0.750%) Windows 2000
17 2 (0.500%) Windows 2000 Server
17 2 (0.500%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (16.50%) ITIL
2 34 (8.500%) Change Management
3 32 (8.000%) Service Management
4 29 (7.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (7.000%) Problem Management
6 27 (6.750%) Project Management
7 26 (6.500%) Migration
8 23 (5.750%) PRINCE2
9 18 (4.500%) E-Commerce
10 17 (4.250%) RDF
10 17 (4.250%) Configuration Management
11 11 (2.750%) Business Analysis
12 9 (2.250%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (2.000%) Capacity Management
14 7 (1.750%) CRM
15 6 (1.500%) Agile Software Development
15 6 (1.500%) Asset Management
15 6 (1.500%) Service Delivery
15 6 (1.500%) Fund Accounting
15 6 (1.500%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.75%) Perl
2 66 (16.50%) Shell Script
3 51 (12.75%) SQL
4 37 (9.250%) Bash shell
5 35 (8.750%) Java
6 30 (7.500%) PowerShell
7 28 (7.000%) PHP
8 20 (5.000%) Korn
9 18 (4.500%) Python
10 14 (3.500%) VB
11 12 (3.000%) VBScript
11 12 (3.000%) Ruby
12 7 (1.750%) C++
13 6 (1.500%) AWK
13 6 (1.500%) C
13 6 (1.500%) sed
14 5 (1.250%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.750%) C#
16 2 (0.500%) JavaScript
16 2 (0.500%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 33 (8.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (7.250%) Degree
3 28 (7.000%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (7.000%) MCSE
4 22 (5.500%) CCNA
4 22 (5.500%) RHCE
5 17 (4.250%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.500%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.750%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.250%) SCSA
9 4 (1.000%) RHCT
9 4 (1.000%) MCITP
9 4 (1.000%) CISSP
10 3 (0.750%) CCNP
10 3 (0.750%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.750%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.500%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.500%) OCA
11 2 (0.500%) MCP
12 1 (0.250%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.750%) SLA
2 4 (1.000%) QA
3 2 (0.500%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.500%) COBIT
4 1 (0.250%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (0.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 84 (21.00%) Active Directory
2 63 (15.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (8.250%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 31 (7.750%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 19 (4.750%) VMware ESX
6 17 (4.250%) vSphere
7 15 (3.750%) NFS
8 12 (3.000%) Hyper-V
9 10 (2.500%) Varnish
10 9 (2.250%) XenApp
11 7 (1.750%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (1.500%) XenServer
12 6 (1.500%) Samba
12 6 (1.500%) ISA Server
13 5 (1.250%) UAG
14 4 (1.000%) DFS Replication
14 4 (1.000%) Squid
14 4 (1.000%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.750%) Xen
15 3 (0.750%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (12.75%) Puppet
2 34 (8.500%) Nagios
3 26 (6.500%) SCCM
4 22 (5.500%) SCOM
5 10 (2.500%) NetBackup
5 10 (2.500%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 9 (2.250%) Norton AntiVirus
7 7 (1.750%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 6 (1.500%) Splunk
8 6 (1.500%) Control-M
8 6 (1.500%) WSUS
9 5 (1.250%) ZABBIX
9 5 (1.250%) CFEngine
9 5 (1.250%) HP SIM
9 5 (1.250%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 4 (1.000%) Cobbler
10 4 (1.000%) Cacti
10 4 (1.000%) Ganglia
10 4 (1.000%) HP Data Protector
11 3 (0.750%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 133 (33.25%) Red Hat
1 133 (33.25%) VMware
2 67 (16.75%) Microsoft
3 61 (15.25%) Veritas
4 58 (14.50%) Citrix
5 57 (14.25%) Oracle
6 55 (13.75%) Cisco
7 54 (13.50%) EMC
8 42 (10.50%) HP
9 34 (8.500%) Sun
10 23 (5.750%) Symantec
11 19 (4.750%) NetApp
12 18 (4.500%) Sybase
13 13 (3.250%) Interwoven
14 12 (3.000%) IBM
15 10 (2.500%) JBoss
16 7 (1.750%) Dell
16 7 (1.750%) CA
17 6 (1.500%) Hyperion
17 6 (1.500%) Juniper
London
Linux (CentOS), MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP, clustering (SAN, NAS), Senior Systems Administrator, Canary Wharf, Contract Role, Digital Agency... *Strong experience with MySQL, Apache, Exim and PHP... *Languages: Bash,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Here's the wish list: - Linux Sys Administration (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu) - VMWare would be very useful - Scripting in such as Bash, Shell, Python - Open source tools (Nagios, Puppet,...
Prism Digital
Rate: £300 - £340 per day + extensions likely
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
WE WANT YOU to join our team of highly skilled contractors who we will then coach, support and enable to open the Pandora’s Box that is the...
Bite Consulting
Rate: From £25 to £50 per hour DOE and skills range & location
Posted: 30 April 2013