The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 20 June 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 Suffolk 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 25 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.714% - 1.327%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.741% - 1.402%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.50 £24.38
% change year-on-year
+27.90% -11.81%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
135 243 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 96.43% 97.59% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 119 110
Average daily rate £325 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £258 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 9
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £12.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £35.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
East of England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco