The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 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 Windows Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Administrator
Rank 344 375 396
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 33 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.153% 0.130% 0.123%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.166% 0.141% 0.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 29
Average daily rate £320 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £300 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £273
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Average hourly rate £25.50 £23.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.86% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+30.76% +22.64%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
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 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Windows Administrator
England

Windows Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Windows Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Windows Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Windows Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Windows Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Administrator across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Windows Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Windows Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Administrator within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +18 11 £450 +28.57%
Windows Administrator
England

Windows Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Windows 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 Windows Administrator in their job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 35 (62.50%) VMware
4 33 (58.93%) Active Directory
5 24 (42.86%) PowerShell
6 23 (41.07%) Citrix
6 23 (41.07%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (39.29%) Microsoft
8 18 (32.14%) SCCM
8 18 (32.14%) SCOM
9 17 (30.36%) DNS
10 15 (26.79%) DHCP
11 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
11 13 (23.21%) Symantec
12 12 (21.43%) IIS
12 12 (21.43%) MS Exchange
12 12 (21.43%) TCP/IP
12 12 (21.43%) HP
12 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (19.64%) vSphere
13 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (19.64%) Banking
14 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (17.86%) ITIL
15 9 (16.07%) SQL
15 9 (16.07%) Linux
15 9 (16.07%) Service Management
15 9 (16.07%) Norton AntiVirus
15 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
16 8 (14.29%) VMware ESX

Windows Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Windows 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 Windows Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.571%) Application Packaging
1 2 (3.571%) ASP.NET
1 2 (3.571%) .NET
2 1 (1.786%) J2EE
2 1 (1.786%) LAMP
2 1 (1.786%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.786%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 12 (21.43%) IIS
1 12 (21.43%) MS Exchange
2 7 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (10.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
4 5 (8.929%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (3.571%) Apache
6 2 (3.571%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (1.786%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.786%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.786%) Mule
7 1 (1.786%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) MS Office
2 2 (3.571%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.786%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.786%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (8.929%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) DNS
2 15 (26.79%) DHCP
3 12 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 8 (14.29%) SAN
5 7 (12.50%) Internet
6 6 (10.71%) Firewall
7 5 (8.929%) LAN
7 5 (8.929%) WAN
8 4 (7.143%) Intranet
9 1 (1.786%) VPN
9 1 (1.786%) HTTP
9 1 (1.786%) VLAN
9 1 (1.786%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.786%) Network Security
9 1 (1.786%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.571%) MySQL
4 1 (1.786%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.786%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (19.64%) Banking
2 7 (12.50%) Back Office
3 5 (8.929%) Finance
4 3 (5.357%) Publishing
5 2 (3.571%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.786%) Law
6 1 (1.786%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.786%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 6 (10.71%) Blackberry
3 4 (7.143%) Clustering
4 1 (1.786%) Derivative
4 1 (1.786%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (1.786%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 56 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (41.07%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (16.07%) Linux
5 6 (10.71%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.357%) UNIX
7 2 (3.571%) CentOS
7 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.571%) Windows NT
8 1 (1.786%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.786%) AIX
8 1 (1.786%) Solaris
8 1 (1.786%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.786%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (17.86%) ITIL
3 9 (16.07%) Service Management
4 5 (8.929%) CRM
4 5 (8.929%) Asset Management
5 4 (7.143%) Problem Management
5 4 (7.143%) Business Continuity
5 4 (7.143%) Risk Management
5 4 (7.143%) Project Management
5 4 (7.143%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.143%) E-Commerce
5 4 (7.143%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.357%) Migration
6 3 (5.357%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (5.357%) Performance Improvement
7 2 (3.571%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.786%) ITSM
8 1 (1.786%) Security Management
8 1 (1.786%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (1.786%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.07%) SQL
3 5 (8.929%) VB
3 5 (8.929%) Perl
4 4 (7.143%) VBScript
5 2 (3.571%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.786%) Python
6 1 (1.786%) C#
6 1 (1.786%) Java
6 1 (1.786%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) MCSE
4 7 (12.50%) Degree
5 5 (8.929%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.143%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.143%) MCITP
6 4 (7.143%) CCNA
6 4 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.786%) MCSA
7 1 (1.786%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (58.93%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (19.64%) vSphere
4 8 (14.29%) VMware ESX
5 7 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (8.929%) ISA Server
6 5 (8.929%) UAG
7 4 (7.143%) DFS Replication
7 4 (7.143%) XenApp
8 1 (1.786%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.786%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (32.14%) SCCM
1 18 (32.14%) SCOM
2 9 (16.07%) Norton AntiVirus
3 5 (8.929%) NetBackup
3 5 (8.929%) WSUS
3 5 (8.929%) HP SIM
3 5 (8.929%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 4 (7.143%) HP Data Protector
4 4 (7.143%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (5.357%) Puppet
6 2 (3.571%) Nagios
7 1 (1.786%) Legato
7 1 (1.786%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) VMware
2 23 (41.07%) Citrix
3 22 (39.29%) Microsoft
4 13 (23.21%) Symantec
5 12 (21.43%) HP
6 7 (12.50%) NetApp
7 5 (8.929%) CA
7 5 (8.929%) Cisco
7 5 (8.929%) Sophos
7 5 (8.929%) Veeam
8 4 (7.143%) IBM
8 4 (7.143%) Dell
9 3 (5.357%) EMC
10 2 (3.571%) F5
10 2 (3.571%) Opsware
10 2 (3.571%) AppSense
10 2 (3.571%) McAfee
10 2 (3.571%) Lotus
10 2 (3.571%) Oracle
11 1 (1.786%) Red Hat