The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Administrator in their job title 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Administrator
Rank 522 569 561
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Administrator 18 12 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.038% 0.021% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.022% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
Average daily rate £140 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £98 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £340 £588
UK excluding London average daily rate £140 £300 £363
% change year-on-year
-53.33% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
Average hourly rate £12.00 £14.58 £8.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.66% +71.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £14.58 £8.50
% change year-on-year
-14.23% +71.47%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Technical Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Technical Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Technical Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Technical 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 Technical Administrator 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 +48 14 £258 -14.16%
South East +28 5 £375 -
Hampshire - 4 - -
City of London +15 2 - -
London +13 2 - -
East of England +12 2 - -
Yorkshire +5 2 £140 -
West Yorkshire +3 2 £140 -
Leeds -6 2 £140 -
Norwich - 2 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
Norfolk - 2 - -
Tyne and Wear - 2 - -
Farnborough - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Cardiff - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £375 -
Manchester - 1 - -

Technical Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical 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 Technical Administrator in their job title.

1 9 (34.62%) Windows
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
3 6 (23.08%) HTML
3 6 (23.08%) MS Office
3 6 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
5 4 (15.38%) CRM
5 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (15.38%) Back Office
5 4 (15.38%) UNIX
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (11.54%) SCOM
6 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (11.54%) LPAR
6 3 (11.54%) DLPAR
6 3 (11.54%) Bash shell
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (11.54%) QA
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco
6 3 (11.54%) HACMP
6 3 (11.54%) SAN
6 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Clustering
6 3 (11.54%) Finance

Technical Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical 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 Technical Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (23.08%) HTML
2 2 (7.692%) XML
3 1 (3.846%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.692%) IIS
3 1 (3.846%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.846%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.846%) Documentum
3 1 (3.846%) Apache
3 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
2 6 (23.08%) MS Office
3 4 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (7.692%) MS Visio
5 1 (3.846%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) SAP SRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 1 (3.846%) Symposium
2 1 (3.846%) 3G
2 1 (3.846%) Intranet
2 1 (3.846%) Extranet
2 1 (3.846%) FTP
2 1 (3.846%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.692%) MySQL
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
2 4 (15.38%) Back Office
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.692%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.846%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) LPAR
1 3 (11.54%) DLPAR
1 3 (11.54%) HACMP
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 1 (3.846%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.846%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) UNIX
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (11.54%) AIX
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 1 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) CRM
2 3 (11.54%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) Data Entry
4 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.846%) Content Management
4 1 (3.846%) Data Management
4 1 (3.846%) Information Security
4 1 (3.846%) Workflow
4 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.846%) Change Management
4 1 (3.846%) ITIL
4 1 (3.846%) SOA
4 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Shell Script
2 3 (11.54%) Bash shell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.692%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.692%) PHP
4 1 (3.846%) C
4 1 (3.846%) Java
4 1 (3.846%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) SCOM
2 2 (7.692%) WSUS
3 1 (3.846%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 2 (7.692%) HP
3 2 (7.692%) Oracle
3 2 (7.692%) SAP
4 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.846%) EMC
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Experienced Technical Administrator required for a leading Aerospace company based in Cheltenham to manage all Engineering documentation. This is a long term contract opportunity for a self-motivated...
Experis Engineering
Posted: 17 May 2013
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
It would also be beneficial to have experience of IIS, WSUS, SCOM, Hyper-V, Cisco, HP Proliant, HP blade range of servers and Cisco. The role will require...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Competitive rates on application
Posted: 20 May 2013