Systems Administrator Contracts in the North East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 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 North East 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 22 42 35
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 13 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 4.887% 1.440% 2.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.221% 1.566% 2.228%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
Average daily rate £265 - £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £20.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+22.72% +10.00%
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 249 447 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 93.61% 91.98% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 225 182
Average daily rate £300 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +20.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.18 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

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 North East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Tyne and Wear +21 11 £300 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 13 (72.22%) Red Hat
3 11 (61.11%) CentOS
4 9 (50.00%) Cisco
5 8 (44.44%) Apache
6 7 (38.89%) MySQL
6 7 (38.89%) Citrix
6 7 (38.89%) Firewall
7 6 (33.33%) HP
7 6 (33.33%) DNS
7 6 (33.33%) DHCP
8 5 (27.78%) VPN
8 5 (27.78%) LDAP
8 5 (27.78%) Nagios
8 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (22.22%) XenServer
9 4 (22.22%) Debian
9 4 (22.22%) VMware
9 4 (22.22%) SAN
9 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (22.22%) Windows
10 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
10 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
10 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
11 2 (11.11%) WSUS
11 2 (11.11%) SCOM
11 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) DHCP
2 6 (33.33%) DNS
3 5 (27.78%) VPN
3 5 (27.78%) LDAP
4 4 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (11.11%) Internet
5 2 (11.11%) OSPF
5 2 (11.11%) BGP
6 1 (5.556%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 11 (61.11%) CentOS
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (22.22%) Debian
4 4 (22.22%) Windows
5 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (11.11%) UNIX
6 2 (11.11%) Solaris
7 1 (5.556%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
2 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) Java
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.556%) RHCE
2 1 (5.556%) CCNP
2 1 (5.556%) CCNA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (22.22%) XenServer
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) WSUS
2 2 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Red Hat
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (38.89%) Citrix
4 6 (33.33%) HP
5 4 (22.22%) VMware
6 1 (5.556%) JBoss
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