The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows System Administrator
Rank 53 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Systems Administrator 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.377% 0.430% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.402% 0.455% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £242 £220
% change year-on-year
+24.10% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - £23.25
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
497 659 570
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 93.60% 94.41% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 272 216
Average daily rate £325 £315 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 48 75
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Windows Systems Administrator
Buckinghamshire

Windows Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Windows Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Windows Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) SCOM
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) BladeLogic
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) ISA Server
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Intel
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Broadband

Windows Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Windows 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 Windows Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (75.00%) ISA Server
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
1 3 (75.00%) BladeLogic
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Intel
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix