The first table below looks at the demand for the Network 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 Network 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Administrator
Rank 505 548 544
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Network Administrator 25 30 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.051% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.056% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 34
Average daily rate £200 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £400 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-44.82% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £29.98 £18.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.05% -36.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.98 £18.50 -
% change year-on-year
+62.05% -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Network Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Network Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Network Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK.

Network Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Network Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Network Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Network Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK.

Network Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Network Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Network Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Network Administrator
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
England +43 24 £206 -45.00%
South East +27 14 £180 -52.00%
Oxfordshire - 7 £160 -
Hampshire -2 5 £200 -42.85%
Tyne and Wear - 5 £300 -
North East - 5 £300 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 5 £300 -
London +10 3 - -
Basingstoke - 3 £200 -
City of London +12 2 - -
Oxford - 2 - -
East of England +13 1 - -
Milton Keynes +10 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +9 1 - -
Wales - 1 £123 -
South West - 1 £350 -
South Wales - 1 £123 -
Norfolk - 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £350 -
Norwich - 1 - -
Newport - 1 £123 -
Maidstone - 1 - -
Cheltenham - 1 £350 -

Network Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network 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 Network Administrator in their job title.

1 29 (60.42%) Cisco
2 23 (47.92%) Firewall
3 22 (45.83%) Windows
4 16 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (29.17%) DNS
6 13 (27.08%) VMware
7 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (22.92%) DHCP
8 10 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (18.75%) UNIX
9 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
10 8 (16.67%) SAN
10 8 (16.67%) CCNA
10 8 (16.67%) ITIL
10 8 (16.67%) Linux
10 8 (16.67%) WAN
10 8 (16.67%) Citrix
10 8 (16.67%) VLAN
10 8 (16.67%) Altiris
11 7 (14.58%) LAN
11 7 (14.58%) VPN
12 5 (10.42%) Degree
12 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
12 5 (10.42%) NetWare
13 4 (8.333%) CCNP
13 4 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (8.333%) MPLS
13 4 (8.333%) Network Security
13 4 (8.333%) SC Cleared

Network Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Network 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 Network Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.167%) Web Services
2 1 (2.083%) WAP
2 1 (2.083%) .NET
2 1 (2.083%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.250%) IIS
2 2 (4.167%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.083%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 3 (6.250%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.083%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 23 (47.92%) Firewall
2 16 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 14 (29.17%) DNS
4 11 (22.92%) DHCP
5 8 (16.67%) SAN
5 8 (16.67%) WAN
5 8 (16.67%) VLAN
6 7 (14.58%) VPN
6 7 (14.58%) LAN
7 4 (8.333%) Network Security
7 4 (8.333%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (8.333%) IPsec
7 4 (8.333%) HSRP
7 4 (8.333%) MPLS
8 3 (6.250%) OSPF
8 3 (6.250%) VoIP
9 2 (4.167%) ADSL
9 2 (4.167%) Intranet
9 2 (4.167%) BGP
9 2 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.083%) MySQL
General
1 3 (6.250%) Finance
1 3 (6.250%) Military
2 2 (4.167%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.083%) Back Office
3 1 (2.083%) Advertising
3 1 (2.083%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.250%) SecurID
2 1 (2.083%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.083%) IVR
2 1 (2.083%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 22 (45.83%) Windows
2 10 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (18.75%) UNIX
4 8 (16.67%) Linux
5 5 (10.42%) NetWare
5 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (6.250%) AIX
6 3 (6.250%) Solaris
7 2 (4.167%) VMS
7 2 (4.167%) CentOS
8 1 (2.083%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.083%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.083%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.083%) Debian
8 1 (2.083%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.083%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (6.250%) Load Balancing
3 2 (4.167%) Incident Management
3 2 (4.167%) Service Delivery
3 2 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (4.167%) Validation
4 1 (2.083%) Migration
4 1 (2.083%) Information Security
4 1 (2.083%) Asset Management
4 1 (2.083%) Network Design
4 1 (2.083%) PRINCE
4 1 (2.083%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.083%) Project Management
4 1 (2.083%) Network Management
4 1 (2.083%) SIEM
4 1 (2.083%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.167%) SQL
2 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (16.67%) CCNA
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 4 (8.333%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.333%) CCNP
4 4 (8.333%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.250%) MCSE
6 1 (2.083%) CCIE
6 1 (2.083%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.083%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.167%) XenServer
3 2 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.167%) Terminal Server
3 2 (4.167%) Snort
4 1 (2.083%) Squid
4 1 (2.083%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 2 (4.167%) Nessus
2 1 (2.083%) SCCM
2 1 (2.083%) OpenView
2 1 (2.083%) Nagios
2 1 (2.083%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 29 (60.42%) Cisco
2 13 (27.08%) VMware
3 8 (16.67%) Altiris
3 8 (16.67%) Citrix
4 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.250%) HP
6 2 (4.167%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.167%) Avaya
6 2 (4.167%) Juniper
6 2 (4.167%) Sourcefire
6 2 (4.167%) F5
7 1 (2.083%) Mitel
7 1 (2.083%) Polycom
7 1 (2.083%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.083%) Genesys
7 1 (2.083%) Symantec