Systems Administrator Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

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
System Administrator
Rank 90 86 93
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 5 17 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.306% 0.758% 0.476%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.332% 0.821% 0.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
Average daily rate £168 £280 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.17% +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year
+22.72% -3.84%
Search 22 Systems Administrator jobs in the West Midlands
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1508 2071 1748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.35% 92.37% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 946 791
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 167 154
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.10 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.22% -11.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Administrator across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the West Midlands region 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
Worcestershire - 2 £168 -
Warwickshire -8 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 8 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) NAS
3 6 (37.50%) UNIX
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 6 (37.50%) SAN
3 6 (37.50%) Cisco
4 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (31.25%) Service Management
4 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
4 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) MySQL
4 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (31.25%) Firewall
5 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (18.75%) Document Management
6 3 (18.75%) Open Text
6 3 (18.75%) LiveLink
6 3 (18.75%) WAN
7 2 (12.50%) WLAN
7 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
7 2 (12.50%) VMware
7 2 (12.50%) Finance
7 2 (12.50%) ITIL V3
7 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) LiveLink
2 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) NAS
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 2 (12.50%) WLAN
5 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.250%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) UNIX
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) SUSE
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Service Management
3 3 (18.75%) Document Management
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL V3
5 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
3 3 (18.75%) Open Text
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) EMC
5 1 (6.250%) Avaya
5 1 (6.250%) IBM
5 1 (6.250%) Veritas
5 1 (6.250%) Cognos
Cognos Systems Administrator/Architect
Warwickshire
You will have 5 years plus exposure of Cognos. The successful candidate Must be capable of installing and configuring a multi-server Cognos environment, including the following elements :-...
Firway Consulting
Rate: Unspecified Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
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