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The table looks at the demand for the Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 Administrator
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank5837
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-21
Matching contract IT job ads8462669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.463 %3.467 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.773 %3.827 %
Daily rates quoted278742
Average daily rate£295£300
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-1.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£147£150
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£426£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£263£320
% change on same period last year-18.06 %
Hourly rates quoted139306
Average hourly rate£17.50£15.25
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year+14.75 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£14.00
% change on same period last year+25.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3051169739
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK88.82 %90.58 %
Daily rates quoted1179222223
Average daily rate£375£400
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£205£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350
% change on same period last year-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted23755970
Average hourly rate£19.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-2.500 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.25£11.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.50£20.00
% change on same period last year-2.500 %

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.

Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Administrator within 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 IT contract jobs citing Administrator within 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Administrator within 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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Administrator
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-21783£300-
LondonDown-20342£325+8.33 %
South EastDown-14162£300-
City of LondonDown-24101£338+26.76 %
South WestUp+1277£275-8.33 %
East of EnglandUp+354£190-43.28 %
West MidlandsUp+1646£210+16.66 %
North WestDown-3540£200-51.51 %
BerkshireDown-2738£320-1.53 %
ScotlandDown-935£291-16.18 %
OxfordshireUp+334£335+21.81 %
HampshireDown-1531£248-29.28 %
YorkshireDown-1027£200-33.33 %
GlasgowUp+322£225-30.23 %
WiltshireUp+2319£338+37.75 %
GloucestershireUp+719£130-65.97 %
ManchesterDown-1219£213-49.25 %
East MidlandsUp+1018£290-2.54 %
BristolDown-517£310+18.09 %
ReadingDown-1617£320+45.45 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2416£233+19.48 %
HertfordshireUp+516£240-31.42 %
West YorkshireUp+516£200+42.85 %
BirminghamUp+2115£400+82.85 %
EssexUp+1215£125-34.21 %
SwindonUp+2314£450+80.00 %
WalesUp+3213£159-51.15 %
CambridgeshireUp+313£250-29.82 %
OxfordUp+812£335+21.81 %
West SussexUp+2011£300+150.00 %

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1484 (23.95 %)Windows
2434 (21.47 %)UNIX
3357 (17.66 %)Linux
4319 (15.78 %)Microsoft
5305 (15.09 %)Finance
6277 (13.71 %)Solaris
7250 (12.37 %)Windows Server 2003
8247 (12.22 %)Security Cleared
9232 (11.48 %)Active Directory
10228 (11.28 %)Oracle
11200 (9.896 %)Banking
12195 (9.649 %)MS Excel
13191 (9.451 %)SQL
14181 (8.956 %)MS Office
15175 (8.659 %)SQL Server
16162 (8.016 %)Red Hat Linux
17159 (7.867 %)Red Hat
18154 (7.620 %)SC Cleared
19133 (6.581 %)SAN
20132 (6.531 %)HP
21122 (6.037 %)MS Exchange
22121 (5.987 %)VMware
23110 (5.443 %)WebSphere
24107 (5.294 %)DNS
25106 (5.245 %)SharePoint
26105 (5.195 %)AIX
27101 (4.998 %)Shell Script
2896 (4.750 %)Government
2991 (4.503 %)Cisco
3089 (4.404 %)Oracle 10g

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1110 (5.443 %)WebSphere
260 (2.969 %)J2EE
334 (1.682 %)HTML
433 (1.633 %).NET
433 (1.633 %)XML
532 (1.583 %)Middleware
630 (1.484 %)WebServices
726 (1.286 %)JSP
819 (0.940 %)LAMP
918 (0.891 %)JSR 168
1016 (0.792 %)ASP.NET
1112 (0.594 %)Lucene
1211 (0.544 %)CSS
139 (0.445 %)Windows SharePoint Services
139 (0.445 %)Java EE
139 (0.445 %)Oracle Fusion
145 (0.247 %)WAMP
145 (0.247 %)OC4J
154 (0.198 %)Flash
163 (0.148 %)JDBC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1122 (6.037 %)MS Exchange
2106 (5.245 %)SharePoint
382 (4.057 %)Apache
480 (3.958 %)Exchange Server 2003
573 (3.612 %)IIS
666 (3.266 %)WebSphere Portal
739 (1.930 %)Lotus Notes
739 (1.930 %)Tomcat
837 (1.831 %)SharePoint Server 2007
934 (1.682 %)Exchange Server 2007
1032 (1.583 %)Lotus Domino
1131 (1.534 %)WebLogic
1230 (1.484 %)CMS
1328 (1.385 %)Site Server
1426 (1.286 %)WebSphere Application Server
1521 (1.039 %)Oracle Application Server
1619 (0.940 %)WebSphere Process Server
1712 (0.594 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1712 (0.594 %)WebSphere MQ
1712 (0.594 %)MQSeries
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1195 (9.649 %)MS Excel
2181 (8.956 %)MS Office
345 (2.227 %)MS Project
438 (1.880 %)Spreadsheet
535 (1.732 %)MS PowerPoint
619 (0.940 %)MS Visio
713 (0.643 %)Photoshop
85 (0.247 %)CA Clarity
92 (0.099 %)InfoPath
92 (0.099 %)Acrobat
92 (0.099 %)Fireworks
101 (0.049 %)AutoCAD
101 (0.049 %)CorelDRAW
101 (0.049 %)Open Workbench
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
112 (0.594 %)Teamcenter
29 (0.445 %)BusinessWorks
29 (0.445 %)TIBCO iProcess
38 (0.396 %)Oracle Applications
46 (0.297 %)Oracle EBS
46 (0.297 %)Oracle Financials
55 (0.247 %)SAP CRM
55 (0.247 %)Hyperion Enterprise
64 (0.198 %)assyst
64 (0.198 %)Summit
64 (0.198 %)Oracle 11i
64 (0.198 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
73 (0.148 %)Staffware
73 (0.148 %)Oracle HRMS
73 (0.148 %)RMDS
73 (0.148 %)Oracle iProcurement
82 (0.099 %)arcHouse
82 (0.099 %)ENOVIA
82 (0.099 %)SAP IS-U
82 (0.099 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1133 (6.581 %)SAN
2107 (5.294 %)DNS
387 (4.305 %)TCP/IP
482 (4.057 %)Internet
579 (3.909 %)Firewall
678 (3.859 %)DHCP
756 (2.771 %)LDAP
853 (2.622 %)LAN
951 (2.524 %)WAN
1042 (2.078 %)Intranet
1140 (1.979 %)VPN
1219 (0.940 %)VLAN
1318 (0.891 %)SNMP
1417 (0.841 %)FTP
1417 (0.841 %)NetScreen
1516 (0.792 %)TACACS
1516 (0.792 %)HTTP
1615 (0.742 %)SMTP
1714 (0.693 %)Network Security
1813 (0.643 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1175 (8.659 %)SQL Server
289 (4.404 %)Oracle 10g
366 (3.266 %)SQL Server 2005
459 (2.919 %)SQL Server 2000
459 (2.919 %)MySQL
540 (1.979 %)Oracle 9i
625 (1.237 %)Oracle Reports
724 (1.188 %)Oracle 8/8i
724 (1.188 %)Datawarehouse
821 (1.039 %)MS Access
918 (0.891 %)DTS
918 (0.891 %)Oracle 11g
1017 (0.841 %)Oracle Discoverer
1116 (0.792 %)RDBMS
1214 (0.693 %)DB2
1313 (0.643 %)ETL
1313 (0.643 %)SQL Server 2008
1410 (0.495 %)Data Cleansing
1410 (0.495 %)OLAP
159 (0.445 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
130 (1.484 %)Ant
220 (0.990 %)ClearCase
319 (0.940 %)Oracle Forms
410 (0.495 %)TestDirector
57 (0.346 %)ClearQuest
66 (0.297 %)PeopleTools
75 (0.247 %)Visual Studio
84 (0.198 %)VSS/SourceSafe
93 (0.148 %)RequisitePro
93 (0.148 %)Talend Open Studio
102 (0.099 %)Dreamweaver
102 (0.099 %)Subversion
102 (0.099 %)FrontPage
111 (0.049 %)StarTeam
111 (0.049 %)JIRA
111 (0.049 %)Oracle APEX
111 (0.049 %)MSI
111 (0.049 %)AdminStudio
111 (0.049 %)Telelogic DOORS
111 (0.049 %)InterDev
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1305 (15.09 %)Finance
2200 (9.896 %)Banking
396 (4.750 %)Government
480 (3.958 %)Investment Banking
561 (3.018 %)Telecoms
658 (2.870 %)Retail
746 (2.276 %)Health
831 (1.534 %)Retail Banking
928 (1.385 %)Publishing
1027 (1.336 %)Legal
1126 (1.286 %)Education
1224 (1.188 %)Insurance
1315 (0.742 %)Local Government
1315 (0.742 %)Financial Institution
1414 (0.693 %)Front Office
1414 (0.693 %)Marketing
1512 (0.594 %)Pharmaceutical
1611 (0.544 %)Pensions
179 (0.445 %)Billing
187 (0.346 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
169 (3.414 %)NHS
262 (3.068 %)Clustering
338 (1.880 %)Replication
431 (1.534 %)Blackberry
518 (0.891 %)Management Information System
615 (0.742 %)AS400
615 (0.742 %)SecurID
714 (0.693 %)Statistics
813 (0.643 %)LPAR
912 (0.594 %)CLARiiON
1010 (0.495 %)HACMP
119 (0.445 %)Symmetrix DMX
127 (0.346 %)Mathematics
127 (0.346 %)Mainframe
136 (0.297 %)Firmware
136 (0.297 %)Computer Science
145 (0.247 %)DLPAR
145 (0.247 %)Fat Client
145 (0.247 %)Video Conferencing
145 (0.247 %)Thin Client
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1484 (23.95 %)Windows
2434 (21.47 %)UNIX
3357 (17.66 %)Linux
4277 (13.71 %)Solaris
5250 (12.37 %)Windows Server 2003
6162 (8.016 %)Red Hat Linux
7105 (5.195 %)AIX
864 (3.167 %)Windows 2000
960 (2.969 %)HPUX
1059 (2.919 %)Windows XP
1143 (2.128 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1239 (1.930 %)Windows Server 2008
1330 (1.484 %)Windows 2000 Server
1421 (1.039 %)Windows Vista
1510 (0.495 %)Debian
169 (0.445 %)Windows NT
177 (0.346 %)OpenVMS
186 (0.297 %)Tru64
186 (0.297 %)SUSE
186 (0.297 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
182 (4.057 %)Migration
270 (3.464 %)ITIL
358 (2.870 %)Project Management
432 (1.583 %)Workflow
432 (1.583 %)Asset Management
432 (1.583 %)Load Balancing
531 (1.534 %)Content Management
629 (1.435 %)Data Management
629 (1.435 %)PRINCE2
629 (1.435 %)Configuration Management
728 (1.385 %)CRM
827 (1.336 %)SOA
924 (1.188 %)Change Management
1021 (1.039 %)Document Management
1021 (1.039 %)Investment Management
1021 (1.039 %)Time Management
1119 (0.940 %)Programme Management
1119 (0.940 %)Disaster Recovery
1218 (0.891 %)Service Management
1317 (0.841 %)Business Intelligence
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1191 (9.451 %)SQL
2101 (4.998 %)Shell Script
385 (4.206 %)Perl
483 (4.107 %)Java
544 (2.177 %)PHP
643 (2.128 %)C
739 (1.930 %)Jython
829 (1.435 %)Python
923 (1.138 %)T-SQL
923 (1.138 %)Korn
1019 (0.940 %)VBA
1116 (0.792 %)VB
1116 (0.792 %)PL/SQL
1210 (0.495 %)C++
1210 (0.495 %)PowerShell
138 (0.396 %)AWK
147 (0.346 %)JavaScript
147 (0.346 %)VBScript
154 (0.198 %)Tcl
154 (0.198 %)PeopleCode
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1247 (12.22 %)Security Cleared
2154 (7.620 %)SC Cleared
372 (3.563 %)Microsoft Certification
442 (2.078 %)MCSE
535 (1.732 %)DV Cleared
630 (1.484 %)Degree
721 (1.039 %)MCP
820 (0.990 %)Cisco Certification
820 (0.990 %)MCSA
919 (0.940 %)CCNA
1016 (0.792 %)RHCE
1111 (0.544 %)CISSP
128 (0.396 %)RHCT
137 (0.346 %)BC Cleared
146 (0.297 %)RHCA
155 (0.247 %)CTC Cleared
155 (0.247 %)MCTS
164 (0.198 %)MCDST
164 (0.198 %)ITIL Certification
164 (0.198 %)Oracle Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
171 (3.513 %)SLA
232 (1.583 %)QA
38 (0.396 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
45 (0.247 %)PCI DSS
53 (0.148 %)COBIT
62 (0.099 %)GCP
71 (0.049 %)ISO27001
71 (0.049 %)BS7799
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1232 (11.48 %)Active Directory
242 (2.078 %)NetBackup
340 (1.979 %)ISA Server
436 (1.781 %)VMware Infrastructure
535 (1.732 %)Oracle RAC
625 (1.237 %)NFS
724 (1.188 %)Veritas Volume Manager
823 (1.138 %)Oracle RMAN
920 (0.990 %)VMware ESX
1014 (0.693 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1113 (0.643 %)Backup Exec
1212 (0.594 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1310 (0.495 %)Samba
148 (0.396 %)RACF
148 (0.396 %)Sendmail
156 (0.297 %)Squid
156 (0.297 %)Xen
165 (0.247 %)Terminal Server
165 (0.247 %)Terminal Services
165 (0.247 %)Postfix
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
126 (1.286 %)Tivoli
222 (1.089 %)CA SiteMinder
317 (0.841 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
416 (0.792 %)Legato
514 (0.693 %)Norton AntiVirus
613 (0.643 %)ARCserve
613 (0.643 %)OpenView
613 (0.643 %)HP Data Protector
613 (0.643 %)Data Guard
712 (0.594 %)MOM
712 (0.594 %)EMC NetWorker
811 (0.544 %)BMC PATROL
99 (0.445 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
108 (0.396 %)MIIS
117 (0.346 %)TIBCO Hawk
117 (0.346 %)SCCM
126 (0.297 %)ServiceCenter
135 (0.247 %)Nagios
135 (0.247 %)WSUS
135 (0.247 %)AutoSys
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1319 (15.78 %)Microsoft
2228 (11.28 %)Oracle
3159 (7.867 %)Red Hat
4132 (6.531 %)HP
5121 (5.987 %)VMware
691 (4.503 %)Cisco
786 (4.255 %)Sun
869 (3.414 %)Veritas
965 (3.216 %)Citrix
1060 (2.969 %)EMC
1151 (2.524 %)SAP
1243 (2.128 %)IBM
1342 (2.078 %)Lotus
1441 (2.029 %)Remedy
1535 (1.732 %)CheckPoint
1631 (1.534 %)Symantec
1729 (1.435 %)CA
1824 (1.188 %)NetApp
1922 (1.089 %)PeopleSoft
2020 (0.990 %)Siebel