The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Administrator
Rank 224 242 240
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 5 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.063% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.042% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £275 £400 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% -8.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
-17.24% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7340 9547 9507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.65% 92.30% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3646 4278 4096
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 732 811
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Senior Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Oxfordshire +3 3 £275 -24.13%
Berkshire - 1 - -
Senior Systems Administrator
England

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (53.85%) Retail
4 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (46.15%) MS Office
4 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
5 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
6 4 (30.77%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
6 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
6 4 (30.77%) SQL
6 4 (30.77%) SAN
7 3 (23.08%) vSphere
7 3 (23.08%) vCloud
8 2 (15.38%) Cisco
8 2 (15.38%) System Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
8 2 (15.38%) ISA Server
8 2 (15.38%) Clearswift
8 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (15.38%) Firewall
8 2 (15.38%) Linux

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Office
1 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 1 (7.692%) LAN
3 1 (7.692%) WAN
3 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.692%) VPN
3 1 (7.692%) SSL
3 1 (7.692%) Network Security
3 1 (7.692%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) IDOL
General
1 7 (53.85%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Financial Institution
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
4 1 (7.692%) Debian
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) System Testing
1 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CCNA
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
2 3 (23.08%) vCloud
3 2 (15.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
1 1 (7.692%) SCOM
1 1 (7.692%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Clearswift
4 1 (7.692%) JBoss
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix