The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex 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 Sussex 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 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.811% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.865% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year
+22.72% -3.84%
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
347 630 407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 93.78% 95.74% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 372 198
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 25 46
Average hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £32.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex 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
Crawley - 2 £285 -
Horsham - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
South East

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) VBScript
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) Postfix
5 1 (16.67%) XenApp
5 1 (16.67%) Zimbra
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (16.67%) Lync
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 Development
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Zimbra
1 1 (16.67%) Lync
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
2 1 (16.67%) ADSL
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) CommVault
4 1 (16.67%) Sophos
4 1 (16.67%) Avaya
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) HP