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This section looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Administrator in their job title over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkAdministrator
Location
3 months to 12 May 2008Same period last year
Rank4138
Rank change on same period last yearDown-3
Matching contract IT job ads26083064
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.277 %3.443 %
As % of the category below3.595 %3.769 %
Daily rates quoted712787
Average minimum daily rate£294£307
Average daily rate£310£322
% change on same period last year-3.62 %
Average maximum daily rate£327£337
UK excluding London average daily rate£309£298
% change on same period last year+3.49 %
Hourly rates quoted309452
Average minimum hourly rate£18.98£21.31
Average hourly rate£20.15£22.43
% change on same period last year-10.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.33£23.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.77£22.57
% change on same period last year-12.40 %
Job Titles UKJob Titles
UK
Matching contract IT job ads7254281284
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled91.15 %91.34 %
Daily rates quoted2278822841
Average minimum daily rate£385£392
Average daily rate£412£417
% change on same period last year-1.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£439£443
UK excluding London average daily rate£364£353
% change on same period last year+3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted62006548
Average minimum hourly rate£22.26£23.57
Average hourly rate£23.98£25.03
% change on same period last year-4.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.71£26.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.62£24.98
% change on same period last year-5.45 %

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.

Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Administrator across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Administrator Demand Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Administrator across the UK.

Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the UK over the past 3 months.

Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Administrator across the UK.

Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Administrator across the UK over the past 3 months.

Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Administrator
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank 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
1EnglandDown-32437£310-3.94 %
2LondonNo change01074£312-8.90 %
3South EastUp+2586£293-4.26 %
4City of LondonUp+3292£313-16.90 %
5North WestUp+20182£371+58.89 %
6BerkshireUp+19142£336+23.36 %
7South WestNo change0135£344+1.42 %
8ScotlandDown-1132£344+38.41 %
9SurreyUp+3126£356+18.44 %
10East of EnglandDown-32107£334+26.76 %
10YorkshireDown-6107£237-18.39 %
11HampshireUp+2101£273-20.77 %
12West MidlandsDown-1294£200-24.12 %
13CheshireUp+1473£337+86.54 %
14GlasgowUp+1867£327-1.26 %
15East MidlandsDown-1365£310-3.29 %
16ManchesterUp+959£378+84.47 %
17ReadingUp+2751£256+48.44 %
18Docklands, LondonUp+847£266-36.15 %
19MiddlesexDown-642£379+38.98 %
20North EastUp+2140£265-15.52 %
21West YorkshireDown-2038£191-30.63 %
21South YorkshireDown-138£266-13.77 %
21BuckinghamshireDown-2938£212-9.86 %
21BristolUp+2338£328-
22SheffieldDown-332£266-0.70 %
22OxfordshireUp+1932£243-
23HertfordshireDown-3630£320+27.74 %
23CambridgeshireDown-2530£450+72.15 %
24EdinburghDown-1229£450+98.39 %

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Administrator also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Administrator.

11473 (26.90 %)Unix
21070 (19.54 %)Solaris
3968 (17.68 %)Windows
4941 (17.18 %)Finance
5889 (16.23 %)Linux
6672 (12.27 %)Oracle
7601 (10.98 %)Microsoft
8526 (9.606 %)MS Excel
9504 (9.204 %)AIX
10503 (9.186 %)SAN
11487 (8.893 %)SQL
12480 (8.766 %)Banking
13465 (8.492 %)Active Directory
14460 (8.400 %)Red Hat
15441 (8.053 %)MS Office
16436 (7.962 %)Sun
17400 (7.305 %)VERITAS
18393 (7.177 %)SQL Server
19368 (6.720 %)Perl
20354 (6.465 %)WebSphere
21313 (5.716 %)Apache
22306 (5.588 %)IBM
23299 (5.460 %)TCP/IP
24284 (5.186 %)Shell Script
25277 (5.058 %)HP
26275 (5.022 %)HPUX
27254 (4.638 %)EMC
27254 (4.638 %)Cisco
28235 (4.291 %)Investment Banking
29232 (4.237 %)Migration

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Administrator also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Administrator. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1354 (6.465 %)WebSphere
2167 (3.050 %)Middleware
3141 (2.575 %)J2EE
496 (1.753 %)HTML
573 (1.333 %)XML
650 (0.913 %).NET
735 (0.639 %)CSS
833 (0.603 %)ASP.NET
929 (0.530 %)SAP Basis
1024 (0.438 %)ASP
1118 (0.329 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1217 (0.310 %)WebServices
1313 (0.237 %)Java EE
1411 (0.201 %)SAP XI
1510 (0.183 %)LAMP
1510 (0.183 %)XSLT
1510 (0.183 %)Spring
168 (0.146 %)ODBC
168 (0.146 %)JSP
168 (0.146 %)XHTML
Application Platforms
1313 (5.716 %)Apache
2186 (3.397 %)MS Exchange
3180 (3.287 %)Exchange Server 2003
4158 (2.885 %)WebLogic
5156 (2.849 %)Tomcat
6138 (2.520 %)SharePoint
7129 (2.356 %)Lotus Notes
8124 (2.264 %)IIS
9123 (2.246 %)WebSphere Application Server
10100 (1.826 %)WebSphere MQ
1178 (1.424 %)Exchange Server 2000
1269 (1.260 %)JBoss
1363 (1.150 %)CMS
1461 (1.114 %)MQSeries
1543 (0.785 %)Lotus Domino
1641 (0.749 %)Oracle Application Server
1734 (0.621 %)TIBCO EMS
1833 (0.603 %)MQSI
1927 (0.493 %)IBM HTTP Server
2026 (0.475 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Applications
1526 (9.606 %)MS Excel
2441 (8.053 %)MS Office
3210 (3.835 %)MS PowerPoint
4177 (3.232 %)MS Project
544 (0.804 %)MS Visio
617 (0.310 %)CA Clarity
715 (0.274 %)Photoshop
85 (0.091 %)AutoCAD
92 (0.037 %)InfoPath
92 (0.037 %)Adobe Captivate
101 (0.018 %)MATLAB
101 (0.018 %)S-PLUS
101 (0.018 %)Pro/ENGINEER
101 (0.018 %)Fireworks
Business Applications
130 (0.548 %)Oracle Applications
227 (0.493 %)BusinessWorks
324 (0.438 %)TIBCO iProcess
422 (0.402 %)Oracle Financials
516 (0.292 %)Oracle 11i
612 (0.219 %)Academy Housing
79 (0.164 %)SAP R/3
88 (0.146 %)Hyperion Enterprise
97 (0.128 %)assyst
97 (0.128 %)Loan IQ
106 (0.110 %)Remedy AR System
106 (0.110 %)arcHouse
106 (0.110 %)Oracle EBS
106 (0.110 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
115 (0.091 %)Summit
124 (0.073 %)SoftGrid
124 (0.073 %)MFGPRO
124 (0.073 %)HFM
124 (0.073 %)PeopleSoft Financials
124 (0.073 %)SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1503 (9.186 %)SAN
2299 (5.460 %)TCP/IP
3200 (3.652 %)DNS
4198 (3.616 %)Firewall
5169 (3.086 %)Internet
6120 (2.191 %)LAN
7101 (1.844 %)WAN
883 (1.516 %)Intranet
978 (1.424 %)LDAP
1061 (1.114 %)DHCP
1154 (0.986 %)VPN
1240 (0.730 %)HTTP
1331 (0.566 %)PBX
1331 (0.566 %)Network Security
1430 (0.548 %)SMTP
1526 (0.475 %)Ethernet
1622 (0.402 %)WINS
1622 (0.402 %)Wireless
1622 (0.402 %)Connectrix
1721 (0.383 %)SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1393 (7.177 %)SQL Server
2171 (3.123 %)MySQL
3157 (2.867 %)Oracle 10g
4148 (2.703 %)SQL Server 2005
5145 (2.648 %)SQL Server 2000
6101 (1.844 %)Oracle 9i
780 (1.461 %)RDBMS
873 (1.333 %)DB2
959 (1.077 %)Oracle 8/8i
1052 (0.950 %)MS Access
1144 (0.804 %)Crystal Reports
1242 (0.767 %)Oracle Reports
1335 (0.639 %)BusinessObjects
1433 (0.603 %)Datawarehouse
1532 (0.584 %)DTS
1630 (0.548 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1726 (0.475 %)SQL Server 7
1821 (0.383 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1917 (0.310 %)ETL
2013 (0.237 %)TOAD
Development Applications
190 (1.644 %)ClearCase
245 (0.822 %)ClearQuest
342 (0.767 %)Ant
420 (0.365 %)Visual Studio
519 (0.347 %)Oracle Forms
519 (0.347 %)Subversion
614 (0.256 %)Dreamweaver
711 (0.201 %)FrontPage
711 (0.201 %)JIRA
89 (0.164 %)OpenDeploy
98 (0.146 %)Flash
105 (0.091 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
105 (0.091 %)Eclipse
105 (0.091 %)Bugzilla
105 (0.091 %)VSS/SourceSafe
114 (0.073 %)ARTiSAN
114 (0.073 %)MSI
123 (0.055 %)LSMW
123 (0.055 %)TestDirector
123 (0.055 %)QuickTest Pro
General
1941 (17.18 %)Finance
2480 (8.766 %)Banking
3235 (4.291 %)Investment Banking
4185 (3.378 %)Telecoms
5171 (3.123 %)Government
681 (1.479 %)Financial Institution
778 (1.424 %)Health
865 (1.187 %)Insurance
959 (1.077 %)Education
1058 (1.059 %)Legal
1145 (0.822 %)Billing
1241 (0.749 %)Retail
1241 (0.749 %)Pharmaceutical
1339 (0.712 %)Law
1438 (0.694 %)Publishing
1438 (0.694 %)Marketing
1533 (0.603 %)Back Office
1630 (0.548 %)Front Office
1727 (0.493 %)Pensions
1826 (0.475 %)Auditing
Miscellaneous
1165 (3.013 %)Clustering
2101 (1.844 %)Replication
2101 (1.844 %)HACMP
392 (1.680 %)Blackberry
488 (1.607 %)CLARiiON
578 (1.424 %)Asset Management
668 (1.242 %)Symmetrix
750 (0.913 %)NHS
846 (0.840 %)Mainframe
944 (0.804 %)Statistics
1041 (0.749 %)Management Information System
1129 (0.530 %)Celerra
1222 (0.402 %)AS400
1222 (0.402 %)PKI
1317 (0.310 %)Handset
1416 (0.292 %)Firmware
1514 (0.256 %)Spanish Language
1514 (0.256 %)Derivative
1613 (0.237 %)Client/Server
1712 (0.219 %)SecurID
Operating Systems
11473 (26.90 %)Unix
21070 (19.54 %)Solaris
3968 (17.68 %)Windows
4889 (16.23 %)Linux
5504 (9.204 %)AIX
6275 (5.022 %)HPUX
7227 (4.145 %)Windows Server 2003
8187 (3.415 %)Windows 2000
9120 (2.191 %)Windows NT
1083 (1.516 %)Windows XP
1161 (1.114 %)SUSE
1221 (0.383 %)FreeBSD
1320 (0.365 %)Debian
1415 (0.274 %)zOS
1513 (0.237 %)Fedora
169 (0.164 %)Tru64
169 (0.164 %)NetWare
169 (0.164 %)VMS
177 (0.128 %)Gentoo
186 (0.110 %)MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1232 (4.237 %)Migration
2181 (3.305 %)ITIL
3166 (3.031 %)Project Management
4140 (2.557 %)Change Management
5118 (2.155 %)Disaster Recovery
695 (1.735 %)Service Delivery
793 (1.698 %)Configuration Management
875 (1.370 %)PRINCE2
955 (1.004 %)Time Management
1051 (0.931 %)Content Management
1147 (0.858 %)Performance Management
1246 (0.840 %)CRM
1341 (0.749 %)E-Commerce
1341 (0.749 %)Project Planning
1440 (0.730 %)Validation
1538 (0.694 %)Incident Management
1636 (0.657 %)Service Management
1735 (0.639 %)Document Management
1735 (0.639 %)Data Migration
1834 (0.621 %)Problem Management
Programming Languages
1487 (8.893 %)SQL
2368 (6.720 %)Perl
3284 (5.186 %)Shell Script
4209 (3.817 %)Java
5115 (2.100 %)Korn
677 (1.406 %)PHP
762 (1.132 %)C
856 (1.023 %)Transact-SQL
953 (0.968 %)VB
1048 (0.877 %)VBScript
1048 (0.877 %)PL/SQL
1136 (0.657 %)VBA
1229 (0.530 %)JavaScript
1328 (0.511 %)C#
1422 (0.402 %)AWK
1516 (0.292 %)Python
1613 (0.237 %)C++
1613 (0.237 %)JCL
179 (0.164 %)Ruby
188 (0.146 %)Jython
Qualifications
1143 (2.611 %)Microsoft Certification
2103 (1.881 %)MCSE
3102 (1.863 %)Degree
474 (1.351 %)Cisco Certification
560 (1.096 %)CCNA
642 (0.767 %)MCP
722 (0.402 %)MCSA
820 (0.365 %)CCNP
917 (0.310 %)Oracle Certification
1012 (0.219 %)RHCE
1110 (0.183 %)OCP
1110 (0.183 %)IBM Certification
129 (0.164 %)ITIL Certification
138 (0.146 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
147 (0.128 %)MCDBA
147 (0.128 %)HND
156 (0.110 %)ECDL
164 (0.073 %)Sun Certification
164 (0.073 %)PRINCE2 Certification
164 (0.073 %)HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
183 (1.516 %)SLA
224 (0.438 %)QA
321 (0.383 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
44 (0.073 %)ISO27001
44 (0.073 %)ISO9000
53 (0.055 %)GMP
62 (0.037 %)COBIT
62 (0.037 %)Basel II
71 (0.018 %)ISO9001
71 (0.018 %)BS7799
System Software
1465 (8.492 %)Active Directory
2222 (4.054 %)NetBackup
389 (1.625 %)NFS
467 (1.224 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
549 (0.895 %)Oracle RAC
647 (0.858 %)VMware ESX
744 (0.804 %)Samba
842 (0.767 %)Oracle RMAN
935 (0.639 %)Backup Exec
1027 (0.493 %)Terminal Services
1126 (0.475 %)ISA Server
1222 (0.402 %)Squid
1319 (0.347 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1411 (0.201 %)AquaLogic
1411 (0.201 %)Xen
1510 (0.183 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
168 (0.146 %)MetaFrame
177 (0.128 %)VMware Server
186 (0.110 %)Terminal Server
186 (0.110 %)VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1198 (3.616 %)Tivoli
2115 (2.100 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
356 (1.023 %)EMC NetWorker
445 (0.822 %)EMC TimeFinder
544 (0.804 %)Legato
641 (0.749 %)OpenView
739 (0.712 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
829 (0.530 %)MOM
924 (0.438 %)OMEGAMON
1023 (0.420 %)AutoSys
1120 (0.365 %)WSUS
1219 (0.347 %)TIBCO Hawk
1318 (0.329 %)HP Data Protector
1416 (0.292 %)BMC PATROL
1514 (0.256 %)Norton AntiVirus
1612 (0.219 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1710 (0.183 %)CiscoWorks
189 (0.164 %)CA SiteMinder
198 (0.146 %)Unicenter
207 (0.128 %)EMC Navisphere
Vendors
1672 (12.27 %)Oracle
2601 (10.98 %)Microsoft
3460 (8.400 %)Red Hat
4436 (7.962 %)Sun
5400 (7.305 %)VERITAS
6306 (5.588 %)IBM
7277 (5.058 %)HP
8254 (4.638 %)EMC
8254 (4.638 %)Cisco
9184 (3.360 %)Citrix
10182 (3.324 %)SAP
11169 (3.086 %)VMware
12134 (2.447 %)Lotus
13106 (1.936 %)Brocade
1494 (1.717 %)Remedy
1585 (1.552 %)Sybase
1661 (1.114 %)Symantec
1751 (0.931 %)BEA
1848 (0.877 %)TIBCO
1945 (0.822 %)NetApp
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