The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 110 113 118
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 7 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.305% 0.600% 0.455%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.326% 0.655% 0.490%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 8
Average daily rate £299 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £13.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -34.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+25.58% +7.50%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2144 2900 2856
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.34% 91.57% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1014 1446 1426
Average daily rate £335 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 169 190
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.12% +14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West 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 West region.

North West 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 West region.

North West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +9 4 £289 -11.15%
Lancashire +14 1 £300 -
Cheshire -3 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (60.00%) UNIX
1 9 (60.00%) AIX
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Linux
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) LPAR
5 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (26.67%) HACMP
5 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
5 4 (26.67%) Solaris
6 3 (20.00%) SAN
6 3 (20.00%) CCNA
6 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (20.00%) MCSE
6 3 (20.00%) SNMP
6 3 (20.00%) Cisco
6 3 (20.00%) DLPAR
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (20.00%) QA
6 3 (20.00%) Network Management
7 2 (13.33%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (13.33%) Clustering
7 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (13.33%) Banking
7 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (6.667%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SNMP
1 3 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 1 (6.667%) Firewall
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) HACMP
1 4 (26.67%) LPAR
2 3 (20.00%) DLPAR
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) UNIX
1 9 (60.00%) AIX
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.667%) VMS
5 1 (6.667%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.667%) Data Management
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) OOD
3 1 (6.667%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.667%) Korn
3 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.667%) RHCE
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Veritas
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 1 (6.667%) Hyperion
4 1 (6.667%) NetApp
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) IBM
4 1 (6.667%) Sun
Lancashire, North West
We are looking for someone with proven Hyperion HFM administration, with an understanding of SQL and Data management who is able to gel and work effectively with the...
Rate: £200.00 - £400.00 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013