West Midlands Systems Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Driffield Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	113
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	11	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.357 %	0.611 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£406
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£31.13
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£34.25
% change on same period last year	-22.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£37.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.71	£27.72
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3081	3275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.066 %	3.262 %
Daily rates quoted	782	755
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£341
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	292	467
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£21.96
Average hourly rate	£20.49	£23.70
% change on same period last year	-13.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.05	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Administrator across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	+5	4	-	-
Coventry	-9	2	-	-
Birmingham	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 16 (61.54 %) UNIX 2 12 (46.15 %) Linux 3 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat 3 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat Linux 4 6 (23.08 %) HPUX 4 6 (23.08 %) Solaris 5 5 (19.23 %) Windows 5 5 (19.23 %) SAN 5 5 (19.23 %) HP 6 4 (15.38 %) Shell Script 6 4 (15.38 %) AIX 6 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (11.54 %) SQL 7 3 (11.54 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory

7 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 2 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 2 (7.692 %) Dell 8 2 (7.692 %) EMC 8 2 (7.692 %) DNS 8 2 (7.692 %) Cisco 8 2 (7.692 %) IBM 8 2 (7.692 %) VB 8 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 8 2 (7.692 %) LDAP 8 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 8 2 (7.692 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (7.692 %) IBM Mainframe 8 2 (7.692 %) HP Data Protector

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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.

Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (19.23 %) SAN 2 2 (7.692 %) DNS 2 2 (7.692 %) LDAP 3 1 (3.846 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.846 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (11.54 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Subversion
General 1 2 (7.692 %) Automotive 2 1 (3.846 %) Criminal Justice 2 1 (3.846 %) Games 2 1 (3.846 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) IBM Mainframe 1 2 (7.692 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 16 (61.54 %) UNIX 2 12 (46.15 %) Linux 3 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat Linux 4 6 (23.08 %) HPUX 4 6 (23.08 %) Solaris 5 5 (19.23 %) Windows 6 4 (15.38 %) AIX 7 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 2 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 2 (7.692 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (7.692 %) Tru64 8 2 (7.692 %) Fedora 9 1 (3.846 %) SUSE 9 1 (3.846 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (7.692 %) Migration 3 1 (3.846 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (3.846 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (3.846 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (3.846 %) Problem Management 3 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.846 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (15.38 %) Shell Script 2 3 (11.54 %) SQL 3 2 (7.692 %) VB 4 1 (3.846 %) Korn 4 1 (3.846 %) Java 4 1 (3.846 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree 1 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 3 (11.54 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.692 %) NetBackup 3 1 (3.846 %) Samba	Systems Management 1 2 (7.692 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat 2 5 (19.23 %) HP 3 2 (7.692 %) Dell 3 2 (7.692 %) EMC 3 2 (7.692 %) Cisco 3 2 (7.692 %) IBM 3 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.846 %) 3Com 4 1 (3.846 %) VMware 4 1 (3.846 %) NETGEAR 4 1 (3.846 %) Altiris 4 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft 4 1 (3.846 %) Sun 4 1 (3.846 %) VERITAS 4 1 (3.846 %) Sage