SCSA Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SCSA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCSA over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Rank 531 - 576
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCSA 9 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% - 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.106% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
Average daily rate £363 - £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8525 10094 9522
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.06% 17.27% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4567 5265 4539
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 551 661
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%

SCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCSA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

SCSA Jobs Demand Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

SCSA Daily Rate Trend

SCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SCSA within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

SCSA Daily Rate Histogram

SCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SCSA Hourly Rate Trend

SCSA
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCSA within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 - 8 £369 -
London - 7 £363 -
Scotland - 1 £195 -
Harrow - 1 £363 -
Glasgow - 1 £195 -
South East - 1 £375 -
City of London - 1 £325 -
Middlesex - 1 £375 -

SCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA.

1 31 (100.00%) Solaris
2 27 (87.10%) Linux
2 27 (87.10%) UNIX
2 27 (87.10%) Oracle
3 26 (83.87%) Red Hat
4 22 (70.97%) Sun
4 22 (70.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (67.74%) Sun Certification
6 20 (64.52%) Finance
7 19 (61.29%) Banking
7 19 (61.29%) Investment Banking
7 19 (61.29%) Software Deployment
8 8 (25.81%) RHCE
9 7 (22.58%) ITIL
10 6 (19.35%) SAN
11 5 (16.13%) EMC
11 5 (16.13%) Apache
12 4 (12.90%) MySQL
12 4 (12.90%) Veritas
12 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
12 4 (12.90%) NetBackup
13 3 (9.677%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (9.677%) Change Management
13 3 (9.677%) Informix
13 3 (9.677%) SSL
13 3 (9.677%) Cisco
13 3 (9.677%) IBM
13 3 (9.677%) Perl
13 3 (9.677%) Tomcat
13 3 (9.677%) Client/Server

SCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SCSA also 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 that cited SCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.226%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) Apache
2 3 (9.677%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.452%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (3.226%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) SAN
2 3 (9.677%) SSL
2 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.226%) Internet
3 1 (3.226%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
2 3 (9.677%) Informix
General
1 20 (64.52%) Finance
2 19 (61.29%) Banking
2 19 (61.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.226%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 9 (29.03%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (22.58%) Administrator
4 6 (19.35%) UNIX Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.226%) Solaris Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.226%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.677%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.677%) Open Source
3 1 (3.226%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Solaris
2 27 (87.10%) Linux
2 27 (87.10%) UNIX
3 22 (70.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.452%) AIX
4 2 (6.452%) HPUX
5 1 (3.226%) OpenBSD
5 1 (3.226%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Software Deployment
2 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 3 (9.677%) Change Management
4 2 (6.452%) Test Scripting
4 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.452%) Project Management
4 2 (6.452%) ITSM
4 2 (6.452%) Data Security
4 2 (6.452%) Service Management
4 2 (6.452%) Business Continuity
5 1 (3.226%) Migration
5 1 (3.226%) Six Sigma
5 1 (3.226%) Operations Management
5 1 (3.226%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) Perl
2 2 (6.452%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.226%) AWK
3 1 (3.226%) PHP
3 1 (3.226%) C++
3 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.226%) sed
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Sun Certification
2 8 (25.81%) RHCE
3 2 (6.452%) Degree
3 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (6.452%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.226%) RHCT
4 1 (3.226%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.226%) HPUX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.677%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.226%) Xen
2 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.226%) Postfix
2 1 (3.226%) Sendmail
2 1 (3.226%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.226%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.226%) Nagios
2 1 (3.226%) OpenView
2 1 (3.226%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Oracle
2 26 (83.87%) Red Hat
3 22 (70.97%) Sun
4 5 (16.13%) EMC
5 4 (12.90%) Veritas
6 3 (9.677%) Cisco
6 3 (9.677%) IBM
7 1 (3.226%) VMware
7 1 (3.226%) Remedy
7 1 (3.226%) NetApp
7 1 (3.226%) Intel
7 1 (3.226%) HP
7 1 (3.226%) JBoss
7 1 (3.226%) Egenera
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