West Sussex Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the West Sussex 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Bletchley Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	44
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	4	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.270 %	1.124 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£350
Average daily rate	£308	£350
% change on same period last year	-12.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£331
% change on same period last year	-5.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.75	£28.09
% change on same period last year	-15.44 %
Job Titles West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	315	534
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.496 %	0.572 %
Daily rates quoted	84	180
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£327
Average daily rate	£330	£341
% change on same period last year	-3.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.68	£15.65
Average hourly rate	£26.80	£16.84
% change on same period last year	+59.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.92	£18.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Systems Administrator South East

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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Administrator across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 Sussex region.

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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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Crawley	+15	3	£277	-20.95 %
Gatwick	-3	1	£400	+14.28 %

Systems Administrator South East

Systems Administrator
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 5 (62.50 %) IBM 2 4 (50.00 %) HP 2 4 (50.00 %) Intel 2 4 (50.00 %) Citrix 2 4 (50.00 %) VERITAS 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (50.00 %) VMware 2 4 (50.00 %) NetBackup 2 4 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (50.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (25.00 %) BladeLogic

4 1 (12.50 %) Clustering 4 1 (12.50 %) FTP 4 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) AIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 1 (12.50 %) Sun 4 1 (12.50 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) FTP 1 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 4 (50.00 %) UNIX 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (12.50 %) AIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Management	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (50.00 %) NetBackup 1 4 (50.00 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) IBM 2 4 (50.00 %) HP 2 4 (50.00 %) Intel 2 4 (50.00 %) Citrix 2 4 (50.00 %) VERITAS 2 4 (50.00 %) VMware 3 2 (25.00 %) BladeLogic 4 1 (12.50 %) Sun