The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 62 71 74
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 11 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.250% 0.869% 0.395%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.373% 0.943% 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £225 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -43.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.50 £25.76
% change year-on-year
+27.90% -16.53%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
801 1060 876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.09% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 370 393
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 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Systems Administrator
Berkshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
3 16 (76.19%) SQL Server
3 16 (76.19%) VMware
3 16 (76.19%) Retail
4 14 (66.67%) MS Office
4 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 11 (52.38%) SQL Server 2008
6 10 (47.62%) vSphere
6 10 (47.62%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (47.62%) SCCM
6 10 (47.62%) SCOM
7 9 (42.86%) System Testing
7 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
8 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (28.57%) MS Visio
10 4 (19.05%) MS Exchange
10 4 (19.05%) SQL
10 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
10 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (9.524%) Content Management
12 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
12 2 (9.524%) ISA Server
12 2 (9.524%) Middleware
12 2 (9.524%) Clearswift

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (9.524%) Middleware
1 2 (9.524%) J2EE
2 1 (4.762%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) MS Exchange
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
1 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (9.524%) IIS
3 1 (4.762%) Apache
3 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.762%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (66.67%) MS Office
2 6 (28.57%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.762%) LAN
2 1 (4.762%) HTTP
2 1 (4.762%) SAN
2 1 (4.762%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) SQL Server
2 11 (52.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (4.762%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) ClearCase
1 1 (4.762%) Subversion
General
1 16 (76.19%) Retail
2 1 (4.762%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Solaris
4 1 (4.762%) Linux
4 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) System Testing
2 2 (9.524%) Content Management
3 1 (4.762%) ITIL
3 1 (4.762%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (47.62%) vSphere
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.524%) ISA Server
5 1 (4.762%) NFS
5 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.762%) Veritas File System
5 1 (4.762%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) SCCM
1 10 (47.62%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (76.19%) VMware
3 2 (9.524%) Clearswift
4 1 (4.762%) Sun
4 1 (4.762%) Remedy
4 1 (4.762%) Websense
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco
4 1 (4.762%) IBM
4 1 (4.762%) HP
4 1 (4.762%) Juniper
4 1 (4.762%) Veritas
4 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.762%) Lumension