South Wales Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts within the South Wales 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	49	26
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	5	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.859 %	4.466 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£328
Average daily rate	-	£340
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£296
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£24.53
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£24.96
% change on same period last year	-23.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.50	£25.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.98	£21.45
% change on same period last year	-11.48 %
Job Titles South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	582	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.767 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	152	121
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£352
Average daily rate	£389	£381
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	£20.97
Average hourly rate	£26.91	£21.81
% change on same period last year	+23.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.32	£22.66
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 South Wales 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 South Wales region.

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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 South Wales region.

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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 South Wales 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
Cardiff	-12	3	-	-
Newport	-8	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 7 (30.43 %) Unix 2 6 (26.09 %) AIX 3 5 (21.74 %) Oracle 3 5 (21.74 %) Windows 3 5 (21.74 %) EMC 3 5 (21.74 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (17.39 %) Performance Management 4 4 (17.39 %) IBM 4 4 (17.39 %) Shell Script 5 3 (13.04 %) Red Hat 5 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 5 3 (13.04 %) RDBMS 5 3 (13.04 %) SAP 5 3 (13.04 %) Government 6 2 (8.696 %) Banking

6 2 (8.696 %) Telecoms 6 2 (8.696 %) VERITAS 6 2 (8.696 %) Change Management 6 2 (8.696 %) HPUX 6 2 (8.696 %) Solaris 6 2 (8.696 %) MS Excel 6 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 6 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (8.696 %) Sun 6 2 (8.696 %) Active Directory 6 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 6 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (4.348 %) SLA 7 1 (4.348 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 Platforms 1 2 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (8.696 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (4.348 %) Apache	Applications 1 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 1 2 (8.696 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) SAN 1 1 (4.348 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.348 %) Internet 1 1 (4.348 %) Extranet 1 1 (4.348 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (13.04 %) RDBMS 2 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (13.04 %) Government 2 2 (8.696 %) Banking 2 2 (8.696 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.348 %) Finance 3 1 (4.348 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) AS400 1 1 (4.348 %) CLARiiON 1 1 (4.348 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 7 (30.43 %) Unix 2 6 (26.09 %) AIX 3 5 (21.74 %) Windows 4 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 4 2 (8.696 %) HPUX 4 2 (8.696 %) Solaris 5 1 (4.348 %) Linux 5 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.348 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (21.74 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (17.39 %) Performance Management 3 2 (8.696 %) Change Management 4 1 (4.348 %) Validation 4 1 (4.348 %) Programme Management 4 1 (4.348 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.348 %) B2B 4 1 (4.348 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (17.39 %) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA 1 1 (4.348 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 2 (8.696 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.348 %) Samba 2 1 (4.348 %) NetBackup 2 1 (4.348 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.348 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 5 (21.74 %) Oracle 1 5 (21.74 %) EMC 2 4 (17.39 %) IBM 3 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 3 3 (13.04 %) SAP 3 3 (13.04 %) Red Hat 4 2 (8.696 %) VERITAS 4 2 (8.696 %) Sun 5 1 (4.348 %) Cognos 5 1 (4.348 %) Lotus 5 1 (4.348 %) Symantec 5 1 (4.348 %) IXOS