The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 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 Reading 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
Administrator
Rank 23 59 57
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 50 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 5.988% 2.242% 2.687%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.579% 2.432% 3.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 13
Average daily rate £100 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-69.23% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
-0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
Average hourly rate £28.75 £11.94 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.83% +8.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £13.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Administrator
Berkshire

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 37 (39.36%) Fault Management
2 28 (29.79%) Telecoms
3 22 (23.40%) SLA
4 19 (20.21%) MS Office
5 15 (15.96%) Windows
6 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
7 13 (13.83%) Remedy
7 13 (13.83%) ITIL
8 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
9 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
9 10 (10.64%) Retail
10 9 (9.574%) VMware
10 9 (9.574%) Problem Management
10 9 (9.574%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (8.511%) SQL Server 2008
11 8 (8.511%) HTTP
11 8 (8.511%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (7.447%) VPN
12 7 (7.447%) Active Directory
12 7 (7.447%) SQL
12 7 (7.447%) MS Visio
12 7 (7.447%) WAN
12 7 (7.447%) SMTP
12 7 (7.447%) FTP
12 7 (7.447%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (7.447%) Finance
12 7 (7.447%) Change Management
12 7 (7.447%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (7.447%) PowerShell
13 6 (6.383%) MS Excel

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 5 (5.319%) Middleware
2 3 (3.191%) Web Services
3 2 (2.128%) J2EE
4 1 (1.064%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.064%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.064%) SAP Business Workflow
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.319%) SharePoint
1 5 (5.319%) MS Exchange
1 5 (5.319%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (5.319%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (2.128%) IIS
2 2 (2.128%) Apache
2 2 (2.128%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.064%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.064%) ESB
3 1 (1.064%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 19 (20.21%) MS Office
2 7 (7.447%) MS Visio
3 6 (6.383%) MS Excel
4 4 (4.255%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (2.128%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.064%) SAP R/3
1 1 (1.064%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.064%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.064%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
2 8 (8.511%) HTTP
3 7 (7.447%) VPN
3 7 (7.447%) WAN
3 7 (7.447%) SMTP
3 7 (7.447%) FTP
4 4 (4.255%) ATM
5 3 (3.191%) SSL
6 2 (2.128%) SSH
6 2 (2.128%) 2G
6 2 (2.128%) GSM
6 2 (2.128%) LAN
6 2 (2.128%) UMTS
6 2 (2.128%) 3G
6 2 (2.128%) Internet
6 2 (2.128%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (1.064%) SAN
7 1 (1.064%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.511%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (7.447%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.128%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (2.128%) IDOL
4 2 (2.128%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.064%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.064%) MSDE
5 1 (1.064%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.064%) ClearCase
1 1 (1.064%) Subversion
General
1 28 (29.79%) Telecoms
2 10 (10.64%) Retail
3 7 (7.447%) Finance
4 2 (2.128%) Military
5 1 (1.064%) Billing
5 1 (1.064%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.128%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.064%) Replication
2 1 (1.064%) CLARiiON
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (1.064%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Windows
2 9 (9.574%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (8.511%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (5.319%) UNIX
5 3 (3.191%) Linux
6 1 (1.064%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.064%) HPUX
6 1 (1.064%) Solaris
6 1 (1.064%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.064%) SUSE
6 1 (1.064%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Fault Management
2 13 (13.83%) ITIL
3 9 (9.574%) Problem Management
4 7 (7.447%) Change Management
5 5 (5.319%) Incident Management
5 5 (5.319%) Migration
5 5 (5.319%) Data Entry
6 4 (4.255%) Time Management
6 4 (4.255%) Workflow
7 3 (3.191%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (3.191%) System Testing
7 3 (3.191%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (2.128%) Resource Management
8 2 (2.128%) Content Management
8 2 (2.128%) Validation
8 2 (2.128%) ERP
8 2 (2.128%) CRM
9 1 (1.064%) SOA
9 1 (1.064%) Information Security
9 1 (1.064%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.447%) SQL
1 7 (7.447%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.191%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.128%) C
3 2 (2.128%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (4.255%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.064%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.064%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.064%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.40%) SLA
2 1 (1.064%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.447%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.447%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.191%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.128%) vSphere
4 1 (1.064%) NFS
4 1 (1.064%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (1.064%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.064%) Veritas File System
4 1 (1.064%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (4.255%) SCCM
1 4 (4.255%) SCOM
2 1 (1.064%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.064%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.83%) Remedy
3 9 (9.574%) VMware
4 6 (6.383%) Citrix
5 5 (5.319%) Oracle
6 3 (3.191%) HP
6 3 (3.191%) Ericsson
6 3 (3.191%) Clearswift
7 2 (2.128%) Salesforce.com
7 2 (2.128%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.128%) Cisco
8 1 (1.064%) Lumension
8 1 (1.064%) IBM
8 1 (1.064%) Sun
8 1 (1.064%) Veritas
8 1 (1.064%) Juniper
8 1 (1.064%) Websense
8 1 (1.064%) SAP
8 1 (1.064%) JBoss
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 24 May 2013