North West Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Administrator
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Bletchley Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Rhyl Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	16
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	116	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.186 %	0.261 %
As % of the category below	3.825 %	5.988 %
Daily rates quoted	20	67
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£283
Average daily rate	£310	£288
% change on same period last year	+7.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£291
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.41	£14.26
Average hourly rate	£16.85	£15.94
% change on same period last year	+5.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.30	£17.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.02	£21.56
% change on same period last year	-21.04 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Administrator England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Administrator across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-12	42	£261	+7.40 %
Cheshire	-8	37	£352	+71.67 %
Merseyside	-11	17	£350	-12.50 %
Lancashire	-8	3	£475	+109.45 %

Administrator England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 80 (32.26 %) UNIX 2 62 (25.00 %) AIX 3 43 (17.34 %) Windows 4 35 (14.11 %) Finance 4 35 (14.11 %) Oracle 5 33 (13.31 %) SQL 5 33 (13.31 %) Solaris 6 31 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 31 (12.50 %) Middleware 7 28 (11.29 %) Tivoli 8 27 (10.89 %) HACMP 8 27 (10.89 %) Microsoft 9 25 (10.08 %) TCP/IP 10 24 (9.677 %) Oracle 10g 10 24 (9.677 %) Linux

11 23 (9.274 %) Shell Script 12 22 (8.871 %) Oracle 9i 13 21 (8.468 %) MS Office 14 20 (8.065 %) Sun 15 19 (7.661 %) VERITAS 15 19 (7.661 %) Change Management 16 18 (7.258 %) PL/SQL 17 17 (6.855 %) Perl 17 17 (6.855 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 18 16 (6.452 %) HPUX 19 15 (6.048 %) MS Excel 19 15 (6.048 %) Windows Server 2003 19 15 (6.048 %) SAN 19 15 (6.048 %) Active Directory 19 15 (6.048 %) SNA

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 31 (12.50 %) Middleware 2 9 (3.629 %) WebSphere 3 7 (2.823 %) .NET 4 3 (1.210 %) Spring 4 3 (1.210 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (0.806 %) COM+ 5 2 (0.806 %) SOAP 5 2 (0.806 %) WebServices 5 2 (0.806 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 2 (0.806 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (0.806 %) HTML 6 1 (0.403 %) ASP 6 1 (0.403 %) ODBC 6 1 (0.403 %) EDI 6 1 (0.403 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 8 (3.226 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 7 (2.823 %) Oracle Application Server 2 7 (2.823 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 7 (2.823 %) SharePoint 3 6 (2.419 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (2.016 %) WebSphere MQ 4 5 (2.016 %) IIS 5 3 (1.210 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 2 (0.806 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (0.806 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 2 (0.806 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (0.806 %) Apache 7 1 (0.403 %) Tomcat 7 1 (0.403 %) ArcIMS 7 1 (0.403 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (0.403 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 21 (8.468 %) MS Office 2 15 (6.048 %) MS Excel 3 12 (4.839 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (0.806 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.403 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (0.403 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.403 %) Maya 5 1 (0.403 %) 3ds Max	Business Applications 1 7 (2.823 %) Oracle 11i 1 7 (2.823 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (0.806 %) arcHouse 3 1 (0.403 %) Dynamics CRM 3 1 (0.403 %) Summit 3 1 (0.403 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 25 (10.08 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (6.048 %) SNA 2 15 (6.048 %) SAN 3 11 (4.435 %) LAN 4 10 (4.032 %) WAN 5 6 (2.419 %) Internet 5 6 (2.419 %) Firewall 6 5 (2.016 %) DNS 7 4 (1.613 %) VPN 7 4 (1.613 %) Ethernet 7 4 (1.613 %) LDAP 8 3 (1.210 %) SMS 9 2 (0.806 %) HTTP 9 2 (0.806 %) SSL 9 2 (0.806 %) Wireless 9 2 (0.806 %) VLAN 10 1 (0.403 %) Cisco PIX 10 1 (0.403 %) CTI 10 1 (0.403 %) Intranet 10 1 (0.403 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (9.677 %) Oracle 10g 2 22 (8.871 %) Oracle 9i 3 14 (5.645 %) SQL Server 4 12 (4.839 %) Hyperion Essbase 5 6 (2.419 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (2.016 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (2.016 %) DB2 6 5 (2.016 %) OLAP 6 5 (2.016 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 5 (2.016 %) RDBMS 7 3 (1.210 %) DTS 8 2 (0.806 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (0.806 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (0.806 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.403 %) ETL 9 1 (0.403 %) TOAD 9 1 (0.403 %) Crystal Enterprise 9 1 (0.403 %) MySQL 9 1 (0.403 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.403 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 7 (2.823 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (1.210 %) FrontPage 3 1 (0.403 %) PVCS 3 1 (0.403 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.403 %) TeamTrack	General 1 35 (14.11 %) Finance 2 8 (3.226 %) Health 3 7 (2.823 %) Banking 4 6 (2.419 %) Telecoms 5 4 (1.613 %) Pharmaceutical 5 4 (1.613 %) Government 6 3 (1.210 %) Marketing 6 3 (1.210 %) Legal 7 2 (0.806 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (0.806 %) Education 7 2 (0.806 %) Military 8 1 (0.403 %) FMCG 8 1 (0.403 %) Law 8 1 (0.403 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.403 %) Construction 8 1 (0.403 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.403 %) 3D Graphics 8 1 (0.403 %) Retail 8 1 (0.403 %) Billing 8 1 (0.403 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 27 (10.89 %) HACMP 2 7 (2.823 %) Mainframe 3 6 (2.419 %) Clustering 4 4 (1.613 %) Statistics 5 3 (1.210 %) AS400 5 3 (1.210 %) NHS 6 2 (0.806 %) Replication 6 2 (0.806 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.403 %) Dutch Language 7 1 (0.403 %) French Language 7 1 (0.403 %) Italian Language 7 1 (0.403 %) Spanish Language 7 1 (0.403 %) VLE 7 1 (0.403 %) Tandem 7 1 (0.403 %) CLARiiON 7 1 (0.403 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.403 %) EPoS 7 1 (0.403 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 80 (32.26 %) UNIX 2 62 (25.00 %) AIX 3 43 (17.34 %) Windows 4 33 (13.31 %) Solaris 5 24 (9.677 %) Linux 6 16 (6.452 %) HPUX 7 15 (6.048 %) Windows Server 2003 8 8 (3.226 %) Windows XP 9 7 (2.823 %) Red Hat Linux 10 5 (2.016 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 4 (1.613 %) Windows 2000 12 2 (0.806 %) Fedora 12 2 (0.806 %) Tru64 12 2 (0.806 %) NetWare 13 1 (0.403 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 1 (0.403 %) Debian 13 1 (0.403 %) OS/400 13 1 (0.403 %) Windows Vista 13 1 (0.403 %) CentOS 13 1 (0.403 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (7.661 %) Change Management 2 14 (5.645 %) Business Intelligence 3 9 (3.629 %) Disaster Recovery 4 8 (3.226 %) Migration 4 8 (3.226 %) UML 5 7 (2.823 %) ITIL 5 7 (2.823 %) Time Management 6 6 (2.419 %) Network Design 7 5 (2.016 %) Configuration Management 8 4 (1.613 %) CRM 8 4 (1.613 %) Document Management 8 4 (1.613 %) Project Planning 9 3 (1.210 %) Service Management 9 3 (1.210 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (1.210 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (1.210 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (1.210 %) Asset Management 9 3 (1.210 %) Requirements Management 10 2 (0.806 %) Project Management 10 2 (0.806 %) Benchmarking	Programming Languages 1 33 (13.31 %) SQL 2 23 (9.274 %) Shell Script 3 18 (7.258 %) PL/SQL 4 17 (6.855 %) Perl 5 12 (4.839 %) Korn 6 9 (3.629 %) VB 6 9 (3.629 %) JavaScript 7 6 (2.419 %) C 7 6 (2.419 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (0.806 %) Java 9 1 (0.403 %) C# 9 1 (0.403 %) PHP 9 1 (0.403 %) RPG 9 1 (0.403 %) VBA 9 1 (0.403 %) Python
Qualifications 1 14 (5.645 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (4.435 %) MCSE 3 6 (2.419 %) Degree 4 3 (1.210 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (0.806 %) MCDBA 5 2 (0.806 %) CCNP 5 2 (0.806 %) CCNA 5 2 (0.806 %) ISEB 5 2 (0.806 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.403 %) CIPD 6 1 (0.403 %) MCP 6 1 (0.403 %) HNC 6 1 (0.403 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (3.629 %) QA 2 1 (0.403 %) SLA
System Software 1 17 (6.855 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 15 (6.048 %) Active Directory 3 14 (5.645 %) Oracle RMAN 3 14 (5.645 %) Oracle RAC 4 3 (1.210 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (1.210 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.806 %) NetBackup 5 2 (0.806 %) Novell eDirectory 6 1 (0.403 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 1 (0.403 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 31 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 28 (11.29 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.806 %) ServiceCenter 3 2 (0.806 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.403 %) Nagios 4 1 (0.403 %) CA SiteMinder 4 1 (0.403 %) WSUS 4 1 (0.403 %) OMEGAMON 4 1 (0.403 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.403 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.403 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 1 (0.403 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 35 (14.11 %) Oracle 2 27 (10.89 %) Microsoft 3 20 (8.065 %) Sun 4 19 (7.661 %) VERITAS 5 13 (5.242 %) IBM 6 12 (4.839 %) Hyperion 7 10 (4.032 %) Citrix 8 7 (2.823 %) Red Hat 9 6 (2.419 %) HP 10 5 (2.016 %) Cisco 10 5 (2.016 %) EMC 11 3 (1.210 %) Remedy 11 3 (1.210 %) Novell 11 3 (1.210 %) SAP 12 2 (0.806 %) Cognos 12 2 (0.806 %) Business Objects 12 2 (0.806 %) Peregrine 12 2 (0.806 %) BMC 12 2 (0.806 %) Lotus 12 2 (0.806 %) VMware