The first part of the table below 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 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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.

Administrator
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank636969
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6No change0
Matching contract IT job ads149616001219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.528 %2.607 %2.214 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.731 %2.813 %2.408 %
Number of daily rates quoted706825518
Average daily rate£310£350£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42 %+27.27 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£165£200£125
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£325£228
% change year-on-year
-7.69 %+42.85 %
Number of hourly rates quoted109133135
Average hourly rate£15.00£15.00£15.00
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.08£9.69£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£29.80£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£13.00£14.50£14.75
% change year-on-year
-10.34 %-1.69 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+31362£313-10.71 %
LondonUp+6669£325-13.33 %
South EastDown-14271£318-1.55 %
City of LondonUp+17195£350-12.50 %
East of EnglandUp+15126£225-18.18 %
North WestUp+2386£325-7.14 %
ScotlandDown-1476£266-18.07 %
YorkshireDown-575£250-41.17 %
BerkshireDown-3061£325-7.14 %
South WestDown-3951£300-6.97 %
West YorkshireUp+450£250-16.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-548£308-12.14 %
HampshireDown-748£319+6.25 %
CambridgeshireUp+1745£298+35.22 %
Milton KeynesNo change042£263-25.00 %
SurreyNo change040£375-
HertfordshireUp+336£125-60.31 %
East MidlandsNo change035£244-2.69 %
ManchesterUp+134£325-7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-2133£278+32.14 %
OxfordshireUp+831£270-28.00 %
EdinburghDown-1430£238-26.35 %
CambridgeUp+929£320-
CheshireDown-126£300-14.28 %
GlasgowUp+1925£249-25.18 %
NorfolkUp+1222£400+25.00 %
ReadingDown-322£325-23.52 %
NorwichUp+2621£428+22.14 %
LeedsDown-1720£160-50.76 %
BradfordUp+1318--

Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

1807 (28.94 %)Linux
2689 (24.70 %)Windows
3684 (24.52 %)UNIX
4492 (17.64 %)Finance
5442 (15.85 %)Oracle
6441 (15.81 %)Microsoft
7430 (15.42 %)SQL
8413 (14.81 %)Red Hat
9361 (12.94 %)VMware
10358 (12.84 %)Solaris
11298 (10.68 %)Active Directory
12289 (10.36 %)SQL Server
13284 (10.18 %)Apache
14279 (10.00 %)SAN
14279 (10.00 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15278 (9.968 %)Windows Server 2008
16261 (9.358 %)MS Excel
17259 (9.286 %)MS Office
18250 (8.964 %)ITIL
19247 (8.856 %)Windows Server 2003
19247 (8.856 %)Migration
20238 (8.534 %)IBM
20238 (8.534 %)SharePoint
21237 (8.498 %)Banking
22236 (8.462 %)AIX
23230 (8.247 %)HP
24221 (7.924 %)Perl
24221 (7.924 %)Shell Script
25217 (7.781 %)DNS
26213 (7.637 %)MySQL

Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
1177 (6.346 %)WebSphere
293 (3.335 %).NET
382 (2.940 %)Middleware
477 (2.761 %)HTML
576 (2.725 %)LAMP
648 (1.721 %)J2EE
741 (1.470 %)XML
835 (1.255 %)Web Services
933 (1.183 %)CSS
1027 (0.968 %)ASP.NET
1118 (0.645 %).NET Framework
1210 (0.359 %)SOAP
139 (0.323 %)Application Packaging
139 (0.323 %)XSLT
148 (0.287 %)Flash
157 (0.251 %)Oracle Fusion
157 (0.251 %)jQuery
166 (0.215 %)Windows SharePoint Services
166 (0.215 %)Visualforce
175 (0.179 %)ASP.NET 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1284 (10.18 %)Apache
2238 (8.534 %)SharePoint
3153 (5.486 %)MS Exchange
4120 (4.303 %)Tomcat
5103 (3.693 %)IIS
697 (3.478 %)WebSphere Application Server
785 (3.048 %)SharePoint 2010
878 (2.797 %)Exchange Server 2010
977 (2.761 %)WebLogic
1057 (2.044 %)Exchange Server 2003
1153 (1.900 %)Exchange Server 2007
1247 (1.685 %)IBM HTTP Server
1345 (1.613 %)WebSphere MQ
1444 (1.578 %)SharePoint Server
1539 (1.398 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1630 (1.076 %)SAS
1729 (1.040 %)Lotus Notes
1826 (0.932 %)CMS
1920 (0.717 %)Lotus Domino
2019 (0.681 %)Oracle Application Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1261 (9.358 %)MS Excel
2259 (9.286 %)MS Office
374 (2.653 %)MS PowerPoint
452 (1.864 %)MS Visio
545 (1.613 %)MS Project
627 (0.968 %)Spreadsheet
720 (0.717 %)InfoPath
89 (0.323 %)Photoshop
96 (0.215 %)Office 365
105 (0.179 %)Google Apps
114 (0.143 %)AutoCAD
123 (0.108 %)Acrobat
131 (0.036 %)FastStats
131 (0.036 %)Adobe Illustrator
131 (0.036 %)S-PLUS
131 (0.036 %)MATLAB
131 (0.036 %)PowerPivot
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
125 (0.896 %)Dynamics CRM
224 (0.861 %)Oracle EBS
315 (0.538 %)Oracle 11i
413 (0.466 %)Oracle EBS R12
512 (0.430 %)Oracle Applications
611 (0.394 %)Dynamics AX
710 (0.359 %)Oracle BPM
88 (0.287 %)HFM
88 (0.287 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
97 (0.251 %)Oracle Financials
97 (0.251 %)Agresso
97 (0.251 %)BusinessWorks
106 (0.215 %)Kondor+
115 (0.179 %)Remedy ITSM
115 (0.179 %)assyst
115 (0.179 %)Maximo
124 (0.143 %)WebTrends
133 (0.108 %)Hyperion Planning
133 (0.108 %)Cerner Millennium
133 (0.108 %)SAP ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1279 (10.00 %)SAN
2217 (7.781 %)DNS
3200 (7.171 %)TCP/IP
4149 (5.342 %)LDAP
5115 (4.123 %)HTTP
6100 (3.586 %)Firewall
792 (3.299 %)Internet
883 (2.976 %)LAN
883 (2.976 %)DHCP
982 (2.940 %)WAN
1076 (2.725 %)NAS
1149 (1.757 %)SSL
1242 (1.506 %)SMTP
1336 (1.291 %)Intranet
1434 (1.219 %)FTP
1533 (1.183 %)SNMP
1632 (1.147 %)VPN
1632 (1.147 %)VLAN
1731 (1.112 %)Fibre Channel
1829 (1.040 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1289 (10.36 %)SQL Server
2213 (7.637 %)MySQL
399 (3.550 %)Oracle 11g
488 (3.155 %)SQL Server 2008
578 (2.797 %)Oracle 10g
677 (2.761 %)SQL Server 2005
774 (2.653 %)Oracle 8/8i
856 (2.008 %)Data Warehouse
954 (1.936 %)DB2
1047 (1.685 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1142 (1.506 %)ETL
1234 (1.219 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1328 (1.004 %)Oracle 9i
1427 (0.968 %)RDBMS
1522 (0.789 %)PostgreSQL
1621 (0.753 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1621 (0.753 %)SQL Server 2000
1720 (0.717 %)Oracle Reports
1720 (0.717 %)Crystal Reports
1816 (0.574 %)DataStage
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
146 (1.649 %)Subversion
225 (0.896 %)JIRA
322 (0.789 %)ClearCase
416 (0.574 %)Visual Studio
515 (0.538 %)MSI
611 (0.394 %)PeopleTools
710 (0.359 %)FishEye
89 (0.323 %)Git (software)
98 (0.287 %)Maven
98 (0.287 %)Team Foundation Server
107 (0.251 %)Ant
116 (0.215 %)Hudson
125 (0.179 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
125 (0.179 %)Oracle Forms
125 (0.179 %)Introscope
125 (0.179 %)InstallShield
134 (0.143 %)ClearQuest
134 (0.143 %)VSS/SourceSafe
143 (0.108 %)Dreamweaver
143 (0.108 %)Apache Continuum
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1492 (17.64 %)Finance
2237 (8.498 %)Banking
3102 (3.657 %)Telecoms
486 (3.084 %)Investment Banking
544 (1.578 %)Retail
544 (1.578 %)Financial Institution
635 (1.255 %)Publishing
732 (1.147 %)Marketing
826 (0.932 %)Billing
924 (0.861 %)Pharmaceutical
1022 (0.789 %)Back Office
1118 (0.645 %)Legal
1214 (0.502 %)Advertising
1312 (0.430 %)Law
1410 (0.359 %)Local Government
158 (0.287 %)Manufacturing
158 (0.287 %)Spanish Language
165 (0.179 %)French Language
165 (0.179 %)Automotive
174 (0.143 %)Front Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1153 (5.486 %)Clustering
2103 (3.693 %)Replication
354 (1.936 %)Blackberry
449 (1.757 %)HACMP
548 (1.721 %)Open Source
646 (1.649 %)Mainframe
739 (1.398 %)Management Information System
835 (1.255 %)NHS
931 (1.112 %)Hedge funds
1030 (1.076 %)CLARiiON
1128 (1.004 %)Symmetrix DMX
1220 (0.717 %)Firmware
1220 (0.717 %)Client/Server
1319 (0.681 %)Derivative
1416 (0.574 %)Computer Science
1515 (0.538 %)Celerra
1515 (0.538 %)EMC Centera
1614 (0.502 %)Symmetrix
1713 (0.466 %)Wiki
1713 (0.466 %)Enterprise Storage
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1807 (28.94 %)Linux
2689 (24.70 %)Windows
3684 (24.52 %)UNIX
4358 (12.84 %)Solaris
5279 (10.00 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6278 (9.968 %)Windows Server 2008
7247 (8.856 %)Windows Server 2003
8236 (8.462 %)AIX
9103 (3.693 %)HPUX
1087 (3.119 %)CentOS
1144 (1.578 %)Ubuntu
1243 (1.542 %)Windows XP
1340 (1.434 %)Windows 7
1436 (1.291 %)SUSE
1436 (1.291 %)Debian
1436 (1.291 %)Oracle Linux
1531 (1.112 %)Windows 2000
1619 (0.681 %)Windows 2000 Server
1716 (0.574 %)VMS
1814 (0.502 %)zOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1250 (8.964 %)ITIL
2247 (8.856 %)Migration
3127 (4.554 %)Disaster Recovery
4108 (3.872 %)Change Management
599 (3.550 %)Project Management
692 (3.299 %)CRM
788 (3.155 %)Change Control
872 (2.582 %)Configuration Management
969 (2.474 %)E-Commerce
1054 (1.936 %)Workflow
1150 (1.793 %)Capacity Planning
1246 (1.649 %)Content Management
1345 (1.613 %)PRINCE2
1345 (1.613 %)Load Balancing
1441 (1.470 %)Service Delivery
1441 (1.470 %)User Acceptance Testing
1540 (1.434 %)Incident Management
1639 (1.398 %)Business Intelligence
1738 (1.362 %)Time Management
1738 (1.362 %)SOA
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1430 (15.42 %)SQL
2221 (7.924 %)Perl
2221 (7.924 %)Shell Script
3132 (4.733 %)Java
4118 (4.231 %)PHP
576 (2.725 %)PowerShell
670 (2.510 %)Bash shell
763 (2.259 %)T-SQL
862 (2.223 %)Korn
957 (2.044 %)Python
1042 (1.506 %)C
1141 (1.470 %)C#
1237 (1.327 %)PL/SQL
1237 (1.327 %)VB
1333 (1.183 %)VBScript
1431 (1.112 %)JavaScript
1521 (0.753 %)Ruby
1521 (0.753 %)Jython
1618 (0.645 %)VBA
1712 (0.430 %)Apex Code
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1196 (7.028 %)Security Cleared
2125 (4.482 %)SC Cleared
385 (3.048 %)Degree
481 (2.904 %)Microsoft Certification
559 (2.115 %)MCSE
650 (1.793 %)DV Cleared
748 (1.721 %)Cisco Certification
845 (1.613 %)CCNA
928 (1.004 %)RHCE
1021 (0.753 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1120 (0.717 %)ISEB
1218 (0.645 %)MCITP
1316 (0.574 %)CISSP
1415 (0.538 %)Oracle Certification
1415 (0.538 %)CISM
1511 (0.394 %)MCP
169 (0.323 %)MCSA
178 (0.287 %)Citrix Certification
187 (0.251 %)CCNP
187 (0.251 %)VCP4
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1100 (3.586 %)SLA
229 (1.040 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
328 (1.004 %)QA
47 (0.251 %)ISO 9001
55 (0.179 %)PCI DSS
63 (0.108 %)ISO/IEC 27001
63 (0.108 %)BS7799
63 (0.108 %)Data Quality
71 (0.036 %)BS25999
71 (0.036 %)HL7
71 (0.036 %)ISO/IEC 17799
71 (0.036 %)ISO 9000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1298 (10.68 %)Active Directory
2169 (6.060 %)VMware Infrastructure
378 (2.797 %)Veritas Cluster Server
470 (2.510 %)VMware ESX
564 (2.295 %)vSphere
661 (2.187 %)NFS
745 (1.613 %)Veritas Volume Manager
839 (1.398 %)Oracle RAC
938 (1.362 %)XenApp
1032 (1.147 %)Sendmail
1130 (1.076 %)SRDF
1227 (0.968 %)Hyper-V
1325 (0.896 %)VMware ESXi
1423 (0.825 %)Varnish
1521 (0.753 %)Samba
1615 (0.538 %)Veritas File System
1615 (0.538 %)Oracle RMAN
1714 (0.502 %)Postfix
1813 (0.466 %)XenServer
1910 (0.359 %)Terminal Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
191 (3.263 %)Tivoli
275 (2.689 %)NetBackup
368 (2.438 %)Puppet
462 (2.223 %)Nagios
561 (2.187 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
641 (1.470 %)SCCM
730 (1.076 %)OpenView
825 (0.896 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
923 (0.825 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1021 (0.753 %)Cobbler
1119 (0.681 %)Zenoss
1218 (0.645 %)BMC PATROL
1218 (0.645 %)SCOM
1316 (0.574 %)HP SIM
1415 (0.538 %)Data Guard
1415 (0.538 %)CA SiteMinder
1415 (0.538 %)vCenter
1514 (0.502 %)ARCserve
1613 (0.466 %)EMC Navisphere
1613 (0.466 %)Control-M
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1442 (15.85 %)Oracle
2441 (15.81 %)Microsoft
3413 (14.81 %)Red Hat
4361 (12.94 %)VMware
5238 (8.534 %)IBM
6230 (8.247 %)HP
7148 (5.307 %)Veritas
8125 (4.482 %)Sun
9115 (4.123 %)EMC
10107 (3.837 %)Cisco
11101 (3.621 %)Citrix
1284 (3.012 %)NetApp
1372 (2.582 %)Remedy
1463 (2.259 %)Symantec
1556 (2.008 %)JBoss
1652 (1.864 %)SAP
1740 (1.434 %)BMC
1835 (1.255 %)Lotus
1931 (1.112 %)Sybase
2029 (1.040 %)Brocade