The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems 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
Senior System Administrator
Rank 499 565 566
Rank change year-on-year
+66 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 31 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.067% 0.022% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.024% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 16
Average daily rate £396 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.25% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £291 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
-17.24% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
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%

Senior Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Senior Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 21 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems 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 +66 30 £396 +0.63%
London +29 15 £450 +16.12%
City of London +17 7 £450 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £300 -
North East - 7 £300 -
Tyne and Wear - 7 £300 -
South East +25 5 £275 -31.25%
Oxfordshire +9 3 £275 -24.13%
East Midlands - 3 £408 -
Oxford +4 2 £275 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 £408 -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Buxton - 1 - -

Senior Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (50.98%) Linux
2 25 (49.02%) Windows
3 24 (47.06%) VMware
4 22 (43.14%) Red Hat
5 18 (35.29%) Active Directory
5 18 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (25.49%) Firewall
7 13 (25.49%) Citrix
7 13 (25.49%) SAN
7 13 (25.49%) DNS
7 13 (25.49%) Apache
7 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
8 12 (23.53%) SQL
8 12 (23.53%) HP
9 11 (21.57%) Cisco
9 11 (21.57%) MS Exchange
9 11 (21.57%) DHCP
9 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
10 10 (19.61%) UNIX
11 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
11 9 (17.65%) vSphere
12 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
12 8 (15.69%) CentOS
12 8 (15.69%) MS Visio
12 8 (15.69%) ITIL
12 8 (15.69%) Tomcat
12 8 (15.69%) Service Management

Senior Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (7.843%) HTML
2 2 (3.922%) JDBC
3 1 (1.961%) Web Services
3 1 (1.961%) LAMP
3 1 (1.961%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.961%) Spring
3 1 (1.961%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.961%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.961%) J2EE
3 1 (1.961%) EJB
3 1 (1.961%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.49%) Apache
2 11 (21.57%) MS Exchange
3 8 (15.69%) Tomcat
4 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
6 5 (9.804%) IIS
7 4 (7.843%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (7.843%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.961%) Confluence
8 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (1.961%) Mule
8 1 (1.961%) Liferay
8 1 (1.961%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.961%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (1.961%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (1.961%) ESB
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) MS Visio
2 6 (11.76%) MS Office
3 2 (3.922%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) DNS
1 13 (25.49%) SAN
1 13 (25.49%) Firewall
2 11 (21.57%) DHCP
3 8 (15.69%) Internet
4 6 (11.76%) LDAP
4 6 (11.76%) LAN
4 6 (11.76%) WAN
5 5 (9.804%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.804%) VPN
6 4 (7.843%) SSL
7 3 (5.882%) Intranet
7 3 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (3.922%) tcpdump
8 2 (3.922%) TELNET
8 2 (3.922%) HTTP
9 1 (1.961%) SNMP
9 1 (1.961%) SMTP
9 1 (1.961%) OSPF
9 1 (1.961%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) MySQL
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.961%) Big Data
4 1 (1.961%) IDOL
4 1 (1.961%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.882%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.922%) Subversion
3 1 (1.961%) Maven
3 1 (1.961%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.961%) Hudson
3 1 (1.961%) Redmine
3 1 (1.961%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (13.73%) Retail
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (3.922%) Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.961%) German Language
4 1 (1.961%) Publishing
4 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.961%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.882%) Blackberry
1 3 (5.882%) New Media
2 2 (3.922%) Clustering
2 2 (3.922%) Cryptography
2 2 (3.922%) Open Source
3 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.961%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.961%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.961%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.98%) Linux
2 25 (49.02%) Windows
3 18 (35.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (19.61%) UNIX
6 8 (15.69%) CentOS
6 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
7 7 (13.73%) Solaris
7 7 (13.73%) Windows XP
8 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (11.76%) Debian
9 3 (5.882%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.961%) MVS
10 1 (1.961%) SUSE
10 1 (1.961%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (15.69%) ITIL
2 8 (15.69%) Service Management
3 5 (9.804%) Project Management
4 4 (7.843%) Business Analysis
4 4 (7.843%) Service Delivery
5 3 (5.882%) PRINCE2
6 2 (3.922%) Identity Management
6 2 (3.922%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.922%) System Testing
6 2 (3.922%) Memory Management
7 1 (1.961%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.961%) Analytics
7 1 (1.961%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (1.961%) Electronic Design Automation
7 1 (1.961%) Validation
7 1 (1.961%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (1.961%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) SQL
2 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
3 7 (13.73%) Java
3 7 (13.73%) Perl
4 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.843%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.922%) sed
6 2 (3.922%) AWK
6 2 (3.922%) Ruby
6 2 (3.922%) Python
7 1 (1.961%) REXX
7 1 (1.961%) VBScript
7 1 (1.961%) VB
7 1 (1.961%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.961%) JCL
7 1 (1.961%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.961%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.804%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.804%) MCSE
2 5 (9.804%) DV Cleared
2 5 (9.804%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.843%) CCNA
4 3 (5.882%) RHCE
5 2 (3.922%) CCNP
6 1 (1.961%) CISSP
6 1 (1.961%) RHCA
6 1 (1.961%) RHCT
6 1 (1.961%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.961%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 15 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (17.65%) vSphere
4 4 (7.843%) DFS Replication
4 4 (7.843%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.882%) XenServer
5 3 (5.882%) vCloud
6 2 (3.922%) ISA Server
6 2 (3.922%) Nmap
7 1 (1.961%) Squid
7 1 (1.961%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.961%) NFS
7 1 (1.961%) Postfix
7 1 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) SCCM
1 7 (13.73%) SCOM
1 7 (13.73%) Puppet
2 6 (11.76%) Nagios
2 6 (11.76%) WSUS
3 4 (7.843%) Norton AntiVirus
3 4 (7.843%) HP Data Protector
4 3 (5.882%) CFEngine
5 1 (1.961%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.961%) YUM
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) VMware
2 22 (43.14%) Red Hat
3 13 (25.49%) Citrix
4 12 (23.53%) HP
5 11 (21.57%) Cisco
6 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 5 (9.804%) Oracle
7 5 (9.804%) NetApp
7 5 (9.804%) Veeam
8 4 (7.843%) Symantec
8 4 (7.843%) EMC
9 3 (5.882%) Joyent
9 3 (5.882%) Rackspace
9 3 (5.882%) SAP
9 3 (5.882%) JBoss
9 3 (5.882%) Dell
10 2 (3.922%) Sun
10 2 (3.922%) Murex
10 2 (3.922%) Clearswift
10 2 (3.922%) Veritas
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Posted: 16 May 2013