The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 11 23 27
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 23 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 10.60% 4.264% 2.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.00% 4.490% 2.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 3
Average daily rate £275 £263 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -0.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £263 £141
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £289 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £11.37 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -62.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
209 245 233
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.31% 94.96% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 113 112
Average daily rate £330 £300 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -1.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £131
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £418 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 45 34
Average hourly rate £11.50 £18.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.11% +24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £11.37 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Administrator
North West

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Merseyside Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool +18 22 £275 +4.76%
Administrator
North West

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 17 (48.57%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) MS Office
2 13 (37.14%) Software Testing
2 13 (37.14%) QA
3 12 (34.29%) UNIX
4 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
5 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
6 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 5 (14.29%) Oracle
6 5 (14.29%) Linux
6 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
7 4 (11.43%) NetApp
8 3 (8.571%) VMware
8 3 (8.571%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (8.571%) EMC
8 3 (8.571%) Solaris
8 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (8.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (8.571%) vSphere
9 2 (5.714%) Network Management
9 2 (5.714%) Performance Management
9 2 (5.714%) Windows 7
9 2 (5.714%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (5.714%) vCloud
9 2 (5.714%) WebLogic
9 2 (5.714%) Java
9 2 (5.714%) SQL
9 2 (5.714%) JDeveloper
9 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
9 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle ADF
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.714%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (37.14%) MS Office
2 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) SAN
1 1 (2.857%) SMS
1 1 (2.857%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) JDeveloper
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Replication
2 1 (2.857%) NHS
2 1 (2.857%) Statistics
2 1 (2.857%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) UNIX
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (8.571%) Solaris
4 3 (8.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.714%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Software Testing
2 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 2 (5.714%) Network Management
3 2 (5.714%) Performance Management
3 2 (5.714%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (5.714%) Change Management
4 1 (2.857%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.714%) Java
1 2 (5.714%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.857%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (37.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.571%) vSphere
2 2 (5.714%) vCloud
2 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.857%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.857%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) NetApp
3 3 (8.571%) VMware
3 3 (8.571%) EMC
4 1 (2.857%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.857%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.857%) Brocade