The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Administrator
Rank 17 24 25
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 19 14 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 8.190% 4.167% 1.198%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.444% 4.294% 1.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
Average daily rate £275 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £300 £323
% change year-on-year
-4.66% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.15 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £13.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 326 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 96.98% 97.02% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 185 81
Average daily rate £340 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 23
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Administrator
Oxfordshire

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxford Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 18 (40.91%) SQL
2 16 (36.36%) VMware
3 11 (25.00%) Migration
3 11 (25.00%) Altiris
3 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (25.00%) Windows
3 11 (25.00%) DNS
4 10 (22.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (22.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (20.45%) Cisco
5 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
5 9 (20.45%) DHCP
5 9 (20.45%) Firewall
5 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
6 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
7 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (15.91%) NetWare
8 6 (13.64%) UNIX
8 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (13.64%) Tivoli
8 6 (13.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (13.64%) Nagios
8 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (11.36%) BusinessObjects XI
9 5 (11.36%) Lagan
9 5 (11.36%) vSphere
9 5 (11.36%) SAN
9 5 (11.36%) SLA

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (6.818%) WSH
2 2 (4.545%) Web Services
3 1 (2.273%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.818%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (6.818%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (6.818%) MS Exchange
2 2 (4.545%) IIS
3 1 (2.273%) Jetty
3 1 (2.273%) Moodle
3 1 (2.273%) Apache
3 1 (2.273%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.545%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.273%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) DNS
2 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
2 9 (20.45%) DHCP
2 9 (20.45%) Firewall
3 5 (11.36%) SAN
4 4 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.545%) Network Security
6 1 (2.273%) BGP
6 1 (2.273%) SNMP
6 1 (2.273%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (22.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (22.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (11.36%) BusinessObjects XI
5 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (2.273%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.273%) Learning Management System
1 1 (2.273%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (15.91%) NetWare
4 6 (13.64%) UNIX
5 3 (6.818%) Linux
6 2 (4.545%) Debian
6 2 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.273%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.273%) CentOS
7 1 (2.273%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Migration
2 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (6.818%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (4.545%) ETL
6 1 (2.273%) Web Development
6 1 (2.273%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.273%) Project Management
6 1 (2.273%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) SQL
2 4 (9.091%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.818%) VB
4 1 (2.273%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.273%) C#
4 1 (2.273%) Java
4 1 (2.273%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.091%) Degree
2 3 (6.818%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.818%) MCSE
3 1 (2.273%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.273%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.36%) vSphere
3 2 (4.545%) vCloud
4 1 (2.273%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Tivoli
1 6 (13.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (13.64%) Nagios
2 1 (2.273%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) VMware
2 11 (25.00%) Altiris
3 9 (20.45%) Cisco
4 5 (11.36%) Lagan
4 5 (11.36%) Business Objects
5 3 (6.818%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.818%) Citrix
6 2 (4.545%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.273%) Blackboard
7 1 (2.273%) Dell
7 1 (2.273%) EMC
7 1 (2.273%) Oracle