The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 20 June 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 Middlesex 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 24 28 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.495% 1.053% 1.818%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.541% 1.261% 1.989%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £375 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.50 £24.38
% change year-on-year
+27.90% -11.81%
All Job Titles
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
185 238 352
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 91.58% 83.51% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 104 167
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 21
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.26 £19.52 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £39.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (50.00%) SCSA
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SCSA
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp