The first table below looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Southampton 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
Administrator
Rank 20 22 24
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 15 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 5.085% 4.367% 2.186%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.338% 4.587% 2.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 3
Average daily rate £300 £265 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% -3.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 £37.50 £8.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.66% +354.54%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
281 218 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.25% 95.20% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 113 75
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 53 29
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -15.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Administrator
Hampshire

Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Southampton Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 6 (26.09%) Citrix
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
4 5 (21.74%) MS Office
4 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
5 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) Retail
5 4 (17.39%) MySQL
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) Clustering
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Linux
6 3 (13.04%) JBoss
6 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
6 3 (13.04%) UNIX
7 2 (8.696%) MS PowerPoint
7 2 (8.696%) Open Source
7 2 (8.696%) Digital Media
7 2 (8.696%) SQL
7 2 (8.696%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
7 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.348%) Sage
8 1 (4.348%) EPoS
8 1 (4.348%) Commerce Server

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.348%) Commerce Server
1 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 5.5
1 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Office
2 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
3 2 (8.696%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (4.348%) MS Project
4 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 2 (8.696%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (17.39%) Retail
2 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
2 2 (8.696%) Open Source
2 2 (8.696%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.348%) CMDB
3 1 (4.348%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
3 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) UNIX
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.348%) Debian
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.348%) AIX
4 1 (4.348%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) ITIL
1 4 (17.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.696%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) VMware
2 6 (26.09%) Citrix
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) HP
4 3 (13.04%) JBoss
5 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.348%) Sage
6 1 (4.348%) SAP