Systems Administrator Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 99 136 91
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 16 3 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.781% 0.091% 0.928%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.829% 0.097% 0.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 18
Average daily rate £293 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.40% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £243 £307
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £383 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+25.58% +7.50%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
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 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

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 South West region.

South West Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

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 Systems Administrator within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Devon - 7 £305 -
Gloucestershire +31 4 - -
Dorset 0 1 £240 -40.00%
Bristol - 1 £250 -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 14 (42.42%) ITIL
3 13 (39.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (36.36%) Windows 7
4 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 11 (33.33%) VMware
6 10 (30.30%) Windows XP
6 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
7 9 (27.27%) Linux
8 8 (24.24%) UNIX
8 8 (24.24%) SAN
8 8 (24.24%) Service Management
9 7 (21.21%) HP
9 7 (21.21%) Solaris
9 7 (21.21%) MS Exchange
9 7 (21.21%) 3PAR
9 7 (21.21%) Lync
9 7 (21.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (15.15%) Oracle
12 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
12 4 (12.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
12 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
12 4 (12.12%) SQL

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (9.091%) LAMP
2 1 (3.030%) Silverlight
2 1 (3.030%) HTML5
2 1 (3.030%) WebGL
2 1 (3.030%) HTML
2 1 (3.030%) .NET
2 1 (3.030%) WSH
2 1 (3.030%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) MS Exchange
1 7 (21.21%) Lync
1 7 (21.21%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.061%) IIS
3 2 (6.061%) Apache
4 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) SAN
2 2 (6.061%) HTTP
2 2 (6.061%) DNS
2 2 (6.061%) SSL
3 1 (3.030%) IPv4
3 1 (3.030%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.030%) VPN
3 1 (3.030%) LDAP
3 1 (3.030%) LAN
3 1 (3.030%) WAN
3 1 (3.030%) DHCP
3 1 (3.030%) Internet
3 1 (3.030%) OSPF
3 1 (3.030%) BGP-4
3 1 (3.030%) Firewall
3 1 (3.030%) IPsec
3 1 (3.030%) VLAN
3 1 (3.030%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 3 (9.091%) Hudson
General
1 2 (6.061%) Military
2 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.030%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Clustering
2 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.030%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (36.36%) Windows 7
4 10 (30.30%) Windows XP
5 9 (27.27%) Linux
6 8 (24.24%) UNIX
7 7 (21.21%) Solaris
8 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (6.061%) Ubuntu
9 2 (6.061%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) ITIL
2 8 (24.24%) Service Management
3 4 (12.12%) ITSM
3 4 (12.12%) Data Security
3 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
3 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (9.091%) Test Scripting
4 3 (9.091%) Content Management
4 3 (9.091%) PRINCE2
4 3 (9.091%) Project Management
5 2 (6.061%) SOA
5 2 (6.061%) Migration
5 2 (6.061%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.061%) Project Planning
5 2 (6.061%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.030%) ITIL V3
6 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.030%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 3 (9.091%) Python
2 3 (9.091%) Perl
2 3 (9.091%) PHP
3 2 (6.061%) C
3 2 (6.061%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.061%) Ruby
4 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.030%) Java
4 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.061%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (6.061%) Sun Certification
4 2 (6.061%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.061%) SCSA
4 2 (6.061%) Degree
5 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.030%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.030%) Terminal Server
3 1 (3.030%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.030%) Xen
3 1 (3.030%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (9.091%) NetBackup
1 3 (9.091%) Puppet
1 3 (9.091%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) VMware
2 7 (21.21%) 3PAR
2 7 (21.21%) HP
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
4 3 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.091%) Citrix
4 3 (9.091%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.091%) Mercator
5 2 (6.061%) Sun
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco
6 1 (3.030%) IBM
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