South East Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Hull Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	170
Rank change on same period last year	+42
Matching contract IT job ads	126	132
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.133 %
As % of the category below	1.155 %	0.842 %
Daily rates quoted	35	49
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£316
Average daily rate	£310	£329
% change on same period last year	-5.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£332
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.63	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£25.51	£24.91
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.39	£26.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.71	£26.62
% change on same period last year	-7.18 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	10913	15672
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.36 %	15.84 %
Daily rates quoted	2841	4021
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£337
Average daily rate	£353	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1271	2066
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.91	£24.95
Average hourly rate	£24.44	£26.43
% change on same period last year	-7.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£27.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Systems Administrator England

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 Systems Administrator across the South East 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 Systems Administrator across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Systems Administrator across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Hampshire	+37	34	£288	-17.85 %
Surrey	+25	29	£319	-3.27 %
Berkshire	+22	20	£316	-12.28 %
Buckinghamshire	+5	15	£305	+62.93 %
Oxfordshire	-1	8	£275	-
West Sussex	+17	7	£307	-12.24 %
Middlesex	-4	5	£400	-
East Sussex	+13	4	-	-
M4 Corridor	+2	2	-	-
Thames Valley	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 107 (47.77 %) UNIX 2 78 (34.82 %) Solaris 3 76 (33.93 %) Windows 4 57 (25.45 %) Linux 5 48 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 6 42 (18.75 %) Sun 7 37 (16.52 %) Active Directory 8 34 (15.18 %) SAN 9 33 (14.73 %) IBM 10 31 (13.84 %) HP 11 30 (13.39 %) Shell Script 11 30 (13.39 %) AIX 12 29 (12.95 %) SQL 13 28 (12.50 %) Perl 13 28 (12.50 %) VMware

14 25 (11.16 %) HPUX 14 25 (11.16 %) MS Exchange 15 23 (10.27 %) VERITAS 15 23 (10.27 %) Red Hat Linux 16 22 (9.821 %) Security Cleared 16 22 (9.821 %) Citrix 16 22 (9.821 %) Oracle 17 20 (8.929 %) Red Hat 17 20 (8.929 %) Korn 17 20 (8.929 %) WebSphere 18 18 (8.036 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 18 (8.036 %) Tivoli 19 17 (7.589 %) Microsoft 19 17 (7.589 %) TCP/IP 19 17 (7.589 %) DNS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 20 (8.929 %) WebSphere 2 5 (2.232 %) Drupal 3 4 (1.786 %) LAMP 4 3 (1.339 %) HTML 4 3 (1.339 %) WSH 5 2 (0.893 %) Middleware 5 2 (0.893 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (0.893 %) .NET 5 2 (0.893 %) J2EE 6 1 (0.446 %) ASP 6 1 (0.446 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 25 (11.16 %) MS Exchange 2 18 (8.036 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 13 (5.804 %) Apache 4 12 (5.357 %) CMS 5 7 (3.125 %) IIS 6 4 (1.786 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 4 (1.786 %) WPS 6 4 (1.786 %) WebSphere MQ 7 3 (1.339 %) Tomcat 7 3 (1.339 %) SharePoint 8 2 (0.893 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 1 (0.446 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 1 (0.446 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 1 (0.446 %) Oracle Application Server 9 1 (0.446 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.446 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (0.446 %) Site Server 9 1 (0.446 %) WebLogic 9 1 (0.446 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (3.571 %) MS Excel 2 5 (2.232 %) MS Office 3 3 (1.339 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (1.339 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (0.446 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 34 (15.18 %) SAN 2 17 (7.589 %) TCP/IP 2 17 (7.589 %) DNS 3 16 (7.143 %) LDAP 4 14 (6.250 %) Firewall 5 13 (5.804 %) LAN 6 11 (4.911 %) IP Telephony 7 10 (4.464 %) DHCP 7 10 (4.464 %) HTTP 8 9 (4.018 %) SNMP 8 9 (4.018 %) WAN 9 8 (3.571 %) SMTP 9 8 (3.571 %) PBX 10 7 (3.125 %) VPN 11 6 (2.679 %) Internet 12 5 (2.232 %) ISDN 13 4 (1.786 %) Cisco PIX 13 4 (1.786 %) Intrusion Detection 14 3 (1.339 %) SSH 14 3 (1.339 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (7.589 %) MySQL 2 5 (2.232 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.339 %) Informix 4 2 (0.893 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (0.893 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (0.893 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.446 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.446 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 6 (2.679 %) Subversion 2 1 (0.446 %) Ant	General 1 16 (7.143 %) Finance 2 12 (5.357 %) Government 3 10 (4.464 %) Telecoms 4 6 (2.679 %) Banking 5 5 (2.232 %) Investment Banking 6 3 (1.339 %) General Ledger 6 3 (1.339 %) Local Government 7 2 (0.893 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (0.893 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.446 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.446 %) Education 8 1 (0.446 %) Health 8 1 (0.446 %) Law 8 1 (0.446 %) Games 8 1 (0.446 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.446 %) Retail 8 1 (0.446 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 15 (6.696 %) Clustering 2 11 (4.911 %) Firmware 3 7 (3.125 %) Handset 4 6 (2.679 %) Replication 5 3 (1.339 %) HACMP 5 3 (1.339 %) Mainframe 6 2 (0.893 %) AS400 6 2 (0.893 %) IPTV 6 2 (0.893 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.446 %) French Language 7 1 (0.446 %) German Language 7 1 (0.446 %) Italian Language 7 1 (0.446 %) Spanish Language 7 1 (0.446 %) MPEG 7 1 (0.446 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 107 (47.77 %) UNIX 2 78 (34.82 %) Solaris 3 76 (33.93 %) Windows 4 57 (25.45 %) Linux 5 48 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 6 30 (13.39 %) AIX 7 25 (11.16 %) HPUX 8 23 (10.27 %) Red Hat Linux 9 16 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 16 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 10 14 (6.250 %) Tru64 11 13 (5.804 %) OpenVMS 12 8 (3.571 %) CentOS 12 8 (3.571 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 6 (2.679 %) Windows XP 14 5 (2.232 %) Debian 14 5 (2.232 %) FreeBSD 15 4 (1.786 %) Windows NT 15 4 (1.786 %) NetWare 16 3 (1.339 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (9.821 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (7.143 %) Migration 3 15 (6.696 %) SC Cleared 4 13 (5.804 %) ITIL 5 11 (4.911 %) Disaster Recovery 6 5 (2.232 %) Problem Management 7 4 (1.786 %) Logistics 8 3 (1.339 %) Content Management 8 3 (1.339 %) E-Procurement 8 3 (1.339 %) Workflow 8 3 (1.339 %) Service Delivery 8 3 (1.339 %) Change Management 8 3 (1.339 %) Time Management 8 3 (1.339 %) DV Cleared 9 2 (0.893 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (0.893 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (0.893 %) Software Engineering 9 2 (0.893 %) Incident Management 10 1 (0.446 %) Load Balancing 10 1 (0.446 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 30 (13.39 %) Shell Script 2 29 (12.95 %) SQL 3 28 (12.50 %) Perl 4 20 (8.929 %) Korn 5 7 (3.125 %) AWK 5 7 (3.125 %) C 6 6 (2.679 %) Java 7 4 (1.786 %) VBScript 8 3 (1.339 %) VB 8 3 (1.339 %) PHP 9 2 (0.893 %) Python 9 2 (0.893 %) C++ 10 1 (0.446 %) C# 10 1 (0.446 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 14 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (5.357 %) MCSE 3 6 (2.679 %) MCSA 4 5 (2.232 %) Degree 5 4 (1.786 %) Cisco Certification 6 2 (0.893 %) MCP 6 2 (0.893 %) CCNA 7 1 (0.446 %) CNE 7 1 (0.446 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (0.446 %) RHCE 7 1 (0.446 %) RHCA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.786 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (0.893 %) SLA
System Software 1 37 (16.52 %) Active Directory 2 16 (7.143 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 10 (4.464 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 10 (4.464 %) NetBackup 4 8 (3.571 %) Backup Exec 4 8 (3.571 %) VMware ESX 5 6 (2.679 %) ISA Server 6 5 (2.232 %) Samba 7 4 (1.786 %) NFS 8 2 (0.893 %) Xen 9 1 (0.446 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (0.446 %) Snort 9 1 (0.446 %) RACF 9 1 (0.446 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 18 (8.036 %) Tivoli 2 11 (4.911 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 7 (3.125 %) EMC NetWorker 4 6 (2.679 %) BMC PATROL 4 6 (2.679 %) OpenView 5 5 (2.232 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 3 (1.339 %) WSUS 7 2 (0.893 %) Legato 7 2 (0.893 %) Nagios 8 1 (0.446 %) MIMEsweeper 8 1 (0.446 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (0.446 %) Netcool 8 1 (0.446 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 8 1 (0.446 %) Netcool/Proviso 8 1 (0.446 %) BMC Performance Manager 8 1 (0.446 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 42 (18.75 %) Sun 2 33 (14.73 %) IBM 3 31 (13.84 %) HP 4 28 (12.50 %) VMware 5 23 (10.27 %) VERITAS 6 22 (9.821 %) Oracle 6 22 (9.821 %) Citrix 7 20 (8.929 %) Red Hat 8 17 (7.589 %) Microsoft 9 14 (6.250 %) Cisco 9 14 (6.250 %) Avaya 10 10 (4.464 %) Intel 11 7 (3.125 %) BMC 11 7 (3.125 %) Compaq 12 6 (2.679 %) Siebel 12 6 (2.679 %) CheckPoint 13 5 (2.232 %) Novell 14 4 (1.786 %) Agresso 14 4 (1.786 %) SAP 15 3 (1.339 %) EMC