The first table below looks at the demand for the Server 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 Server Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Server Administrator
Rank 497 532 480
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Server Administrator 32 52 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.069% 0.089% 0.170%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.096% 0.184%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 39
Average daily rate £340 £315 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.93% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £152 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £379 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £295
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
Average hourly rate £31.12 £26.50 £25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.41% +3.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.01 £21.30 £18.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.22 £31.70 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -21.56%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Server Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Server Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Server Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Server Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Server Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Server Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Server Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Server Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Server Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Server Administrator Hourly Rate Histogram

Server Administrator
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +26 27 £340 +10.56%
South East +19 13 £300 +6.66%
London +27 8 £340 +2.25%
Hampshire - 6 £300 -
Southampton - 6 £300 -
Berkshire +18 4 £400 +14.28%
South West +29 3 £350 +13.82%
East of England +10 3 £255 +64.51%
Maidenhead - 3 - -
Surrey +13 2 £300 -
Plymouth +11 2 £350 +11.11%
Devon +3 2 £350 +11.11%
Suffolk - 2 £255 -
West Sussex +17 1 £400 -
City of London +11 1 - -
Crawley +10 1 £400 -
Scotland -8 1 - -
Essex - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Bournemouth - 1 - -
Basildon - 1 - -

Server Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Server 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 Server Administrator in their job title.

1 31 (43.66%) SQL Server
2 30 (42.25%) Windows
3 23 (32.39%) SQL
4 22 (30.99%) Microsoft
5 21 (29.58%) Clustering
6 20 (28.17%) VMware
7 18 (25.35%) SQL Server 2008
8 17 (23.94%) SQL Server 2005
9 15 (21.13%) WebSphere
9 15 (21.13%) Active Directory
9 15 (21.13%) Linux
10 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
11 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
11 13 (18.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
11 13 (18.31%) WebSphere Application Server
12 12 (16.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (16.90%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (15.49%) SC Cleared
13 11 (15.49%) Replication
14 10 (14.08%) Citrix
14 10 (14.08%) IBM
15 9 (12.68%) Oracle
15 9 (12.68%) Finance
15 9 (12.68%) Migration
15 9 (12.68%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (12.68%) Windows 7
16 8 (11.27%) UNIX
16 8 (11.27%) .NET
17 7 (9.859%) ITIL

Server Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Server 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 Server Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (21.13%) WebSphere
2 8 (11.27%) .NET
3 6 (8.451%) J2EE
4 5 (7.042%) Middleware
5 4 (5.634%) Web Services
6 3 (4.225%) Java EE
7 2 (2.817%) ISPF
7 2 (2.817%) JMS
8 1 (1.408%) ISAPI
8 1 (1.408%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.408%) HTML
8 1 (1.408%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 13 (18.31%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (8.451%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (8.451%) IIS
3 4 (5.634%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.634%) MS Exchange
3 4 (5.634%) IBM HTTP Server
4 3 (4.225%) Apache
4 3 (4.225%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.817%) GlassFish
5 2 (2.817%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (1.408%) FileNet
6 1 (1.408%) Commerce Server
6 1 (1.408%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.408%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (1.408%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.408%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.408%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.408%) Drupal
6 1 (1.408%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (5.634%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.408%) MS Office
2 1 (1.408%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.859%) TCP/IP
1 7 (9.859%) DNS
2 6 (8.451%) HTTP
3 4 (5.634%) SSL
4 3 (4.225%) Firewall
4 3 (4.225%) SAN
4 3 (4.225%) NAS
5 2 (2.817%) LDAP
6 1 (1.408%) Internet
6 1 (1.408%) BGP
6 1 (1.408%) LAN
6 1 (1.408%) DHCP
6 1 (1.408%) VPN
6 1 (1.408%) MRTG
6 1 (1.408%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (43.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (25.35%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (23.94%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (18.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (16.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (9.859%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.042%) RDBMS
7 5 (7.042%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.634%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2000
9 3 (4.225%) MySQL
9 3 (4.225%) OLAP
10 2 (2.817%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (2.817%) DB2
10 2 (2.817%) OLTP
10 2 (2.817%) DTS
11 1 (1.408%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (1.408%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (1.408%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 3 (4.225%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.817%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.408%) Dreamweaver
General
1 9 (12.68%) Finance
2 7 (9.859%) Banking
3 5 (7.042%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.225%) Portuguese Language
5 2 (2.817%) Military
6 1 (1.408%) Marketing
6 1 (1.408%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Clustering
2 11 (15.49%) Replication
3 3 (4.225%) Derivative
3 3 (4.225%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (2.817%) SaaS
4 2 (2.817%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.408%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.408%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.408%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 30 (42.25%) Windows
2 15 (21.13%) Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (12.68%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (12.68%) Windows 7
5 8 (11.27%) UNIX
6 6 (8.451%) AIX
7 5 (7.042%) Solaris
8 4 (5.634%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.817%) zOS
10 1 (1.408%) Windows NT
10 1 (1.408%) HPUX
10 1 (1.408%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.408%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (12.68%) Migration
2 7 (9.859%) ITIL
2 7 (9.859%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (9.859%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (5.634%) ETL
4 3 (4.225%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (4.225%) Project Management
4 3 (4.225%) High Availability
4 3 (4.225%) Database Tuning
5 2 (2.817%) Resource Management
5 2 (2.817%) Performance Management
5 2 (2.817%) Change Control
5 2 (2.817%) Capacity Management
5 2 (2.817%) PRINCE2
5 2 (2.817%) BCP
5 2 (2.817%) Workflow
6 1 (1.408%) Scrum
6 1 (1.408%) Process Management
6 1 (1.408%) Service Delivery
6 1 (1.408%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.39%) SQL
2 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
3 5 (7.042%) Java
3 5 (7.042%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.634%) Perl
4 4 (5.634%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.225%) C#
6 2 (2.817%) JCL
6 2 (2.817%) Jython
7 1 (1.408%) Python
7 1 (1.408%) VBScript
7 1 (1.408%) VB
7 1 (1.408%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.408%) VBA
7 1 (1.408%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.408%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.451%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.225%) MCDBA
4 3 (4.225%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.817%) Degree
5 2 (2.817%) MCSE
6 1 (1.408%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.408%) MCP
6 1 (1.408%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.042%) QA
2 1 (1.408%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Active Directory
2 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.225%) VMware ESX
4 2 (2.817%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.817%) vSphere
4 2 (2.817%) Terminal Server
5 1 (1.408%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.408%) LiteSpeed
Systems Management
1 2 (2.817%) WSUS
1 2 (2.817%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (1.408%) Foglight
2 1 (1.408%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.408%) Nagios
2 1 (1.408%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (1.408%) HP SIM
2 1 (1.408%) Cacti
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Microsoft
2 20 (28.17%) VMware
3 10 (14.08%) Citrix
3 10 (14.08%) IBM
4 9 (12.68%) Oracle
5 5 (7.042%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.225%) CA
6 3 (4.225%) JBoss
7 2 (2.817%) DataSynapse
7 2 (2.817%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.817%) HP
7 2 (2.817%) Sun
7 2 (2.817%) McAfee
8 1 (1.408%) ReadSoft
8 1 (1.408%) BMC
8 1 (1.408%) NetApp
8 1 (1.408%) Lotus
8 1 (1.408%) EMC
8 1 (1.408%) Akamai
8 1 (1.408%) Red Gate
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Posted: 20 May 2013