Scotland Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Driffield Dundee Durham Dyfed East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Guisborough Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pembrokeshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	20
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	112	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.148 %	0.182 %
As % of the category below	4.553 %	5.125 %
Daily rates quoted	12	22
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£288
Average daily rate	£334	£294
% change on same period last year	+13.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£296
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.13	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£16.17	£23.65
% change on same period last year	-31.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.22	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.98	£21.45
% change on same period last year	-11.48 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2460	3356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.244 %	3.560 %
Daily rates quoted	520	638
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£328	£322
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	159	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Administrator across the Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Administrator across the Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Administrator within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Glasgow	+12	44	£302	-21.18 %
Edinburgh	-18	26	£400	+38.01 %
West Lothian	-4	5	£385	-
Aberdeen	-8	4	£263	+27.53 %
Dundee	-	1	-	-
Aberdeenshire	+3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 93 (40.09 %) Unix 2 68 (29.31 %) Solaris 3 49 (21.12 %) Windows 4 45 (19.40 %) Finance 5 41 (17.67 %) VERITAS 6 34 (14.66 %) AIX 7 31 (13.36 %) WebSphere 8 25 (10.78 %) Active Directory 9 24 (10.34 %) Linux 10 23 (9.914 %) Oracle 11 22 (9.483 %) ClearCase 11 22 (9.483 %) SAN 11 22 (9.483 %) NetBackup 12 21 (9.052 %) Microsoft 12 21 (9.052 %) Sun

13 19 (8.190 %) SQL 13 19 (8.190 %) IBM 14 16 (6.897 %) Shell Script 15 15 (6.466 %) Java 15 15 (6.466 %) MS Office 16 14 (6.034 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 14 (6.034 %) HPUX 16 14 (6.034 %) Red Hat 17 13 (5.603 %) Tivoli 17 13 (5.603 %) Migration 18 12 (5.172 %) Windows XP 19 11 (4.741 %) Cisco 19 11 (4.741 %) Perl 19 11 (4.741 %) Ant 20 10 (4.310 %) Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (13.36 %) WebSphere 2 10 (4.310 %) J2EE 3 8 (3.448 %) XML 4 2 (0.862 %) HTML 4 2 (0.862 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 1 (0.431 %) ISPF 5 1 (0.431 %) Middleware 5 1 (0.431 %) LAMP 5 1 (0.431 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 14 (6.034 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 7 (3.017 %) Lotus Notes 2 7 (3.017 %) SharePoint 2 7 (3.017 %) TeamSite 3 6 (2.586 %) MQSeries 4 5 (2.155 %) Apache 4 5 (2.155 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (2.155 %) WebSphere MQ 4 5 (2.155 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 4 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 3 (1.293 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 3 (1.293 %) Oracle Application Server 6 3 (1.293 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (0.862 %) Office Project Server 8 1 (0.431 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (0.431 %) Smallworld 8 1 (0.431 %) CMS 8 1 (0.431 %) LiveLink 8 1 (0.431 %) SAS 8 1 (0.431 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 15 (6.466 %) MS Office 2 8 (3.448 %) MS Excel 3 5 (2.155 %) MS Project 4 3 (1.293 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.862 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.431 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (0.862 %) Movex 2 1 (0.431 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 22 (9.483 %) SAN 2 5 (2.155 %) LDAP 3 3 (1.293 %) HTTP 3 3 (1.293 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (0.862 %) WAN 4 2 (0.862 %) SSL 4 2 (0.862 %) LAN 4 2 (0.862 %) SMS 4 2 (0.862 %) Internet 4 2 (0.862 %) SSH 5 1 (0.431 %) Ethereal 5 1 (0.431 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.431 %) UMTS 5 1 (0.431 %) GSM 5 1 (0.431 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (3.448 %) DB2 2 6 (2.586 %) SQL Server 3 5 (2.155 %) MySQL 3 5 (2.155 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.724 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (1.724 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (1.293 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (1.293 %) RDBMS 6 1 (0.431 %) ETL 6 1 (0.431 %) GIS 6 1 (0.431 %) Sybase ASE 6 1 (0.431 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 22 (9.483 %) ClearCase 2 11 (4.741 %) Ant 3 7 (3.017 %) OpenDeploy 4 3 (1.293 %) Eclipse 5 2 (0.862 %) ClearQuest 5 2 (0.862 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.431 %) Visual Studio	General 1 45 (19.40 %) Finance 2 10 (4.310 %) Banking 3 6 (2.586 %) Telecoms 4 4 (1.724 %) Billing 5 2 (0.862 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (0.862 %) Electronics 6 1 (0.431 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.431 %) Education 6 1 (0.431 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.431 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.431 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.431 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.879 %) Clustering 2 8 (3.448 %) Mainframe 3 3 (1.293 %) Asset Management 4 2 (0.862 %) AS400 4 2 (0.862 %) Replication 5 1 (0.431 %) Equities 5 1 (0.431 %) Data Integration 5 1 (0.431 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 93 (40.09 %) Unix 2 68 (29.31 %) Solaris 3 49 (21.12 %) Windows 4 34 (14.66 %) AIX 5 24 (10.34 %) Linux 6 14 (6.034 %) HPUX 7 12 (5.172 %) Windows XP 8 8 (3.448 %) zOS 9 7 (3.017 %) Windows 2000 10 4 (1.724 %) Windows Server 2003 11 2 (0.862 %) OS/390 11 2 (0.862 %) Windows NT 12 1 (0.431 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (5.603 %) Migration 2 9 (3.879 %) ITIL 3 4 (1.724 %) Configuration Management 3 4 (1.724 %) Project Management 3 4 (1.724 %) Change Management 3 4 (1.724 %) Problem Management 4 3 (1.293 %) Release Management 4 3 (1.293 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (1.293 %) ERP 5 2 (0.862 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (0.862 %) Web Design 5 2 (0.862 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (0.862 %) Incident Management 5 2 (0.862 %) Project Planning 5 2 (0.862 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (0.862 %) Time Management 5 2 (0.862 %) Content Management 6 1 (0.431 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (0.431 %) Data Migration 6 1 (0.431 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 19 (8.190 %) SQL 2 16 (6.897 %) Shell Script 3 15 (6.466 %) Java 4 11 (4.741 %) Perl 5 4 (1.724 %) C 6 3 (1.293 %) JCL 7 2 (0.862 %) Jython 7 2 (0.862 %) Korn 7 2 (0.862 %) RPG 7 2 (0.862 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (0.862 %) PHP 8 1 (0.431 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (2.155 %) HND 2 2 (0.862 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.862 %) HNC 3 1 (0.431 %) Degree 3 1 (0.431 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.431 %) CCNP 3 1 (0.431 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.431 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.862 %) SLA 2 1 (0.431 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.431 %) QA
System Software 1 25 (10.78 %) Active Directory 2 22 (9.483 %) NetBackup 3 7 (3.017 %) NFS 4 4 (1.724 %) Oracle RMAN 5 2 (0.862 %) Samba 6 1 (0.431 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.431 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 1 (0.431 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 13 (5.603 %) Tivoli 2 2 (0.862 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (0.862 %) Legato 3 1 (0.431 %) MOM 3 1 (0.431 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.431 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.431 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.431 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.431 %) AssetCenter
Vendors 1 41 (17.67 %) VERITAS 2 23 (9.914 %) Oracle 3 21 (9.052 %) Microsoft 3 21 (9.052 %) Sun 4 19 (8.190 %) IBM 5 14 (6.034 %) Red Hat 6 11 (4.741 %) Cisco 7 8 (3.448 %) Citrix 8 7 (3.017 %) Lotus 8 7 (3.017 %) Brocade 9 6 (2.586 %) Interwoven 10 5 (2.155 %) BMC 11 4 (1.724 %) SAP 11 4 (1.724 %) EMC 11 4 (1.724 %) Intec 12 3 (1.293 %) StorageTek 12 3 (1.293 %) HP 12 3 (1.293 %) Sybase 13 2 (0.862 %) VMware 14 1 (0.431 %) Geac