West Yorkshire Systems Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire 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 29 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 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 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 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 Wimbledon Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	71
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.753 %	1.283 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£314
Average daily rate	£350	£339
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.12	£26.70
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1726	1871
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.301 %	1.866 %
Daily rates quoted	414	308
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£334
Average daily rate	£345	£356
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	124	169
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.65	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.96	£26.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Systems Administrator Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 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
Leeds	-9	8	£350	+3.70 %
Dewsbury	-	1	-	-
Bradford	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 13 (56.52 %) Windows 2 10 (43.48 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (34.78 %) Linux 4 6 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (26.09 %) Debian 4 6 (26.09 %) Firewall 5 5 (21.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (21.74 %) Mac OS X 5 5 (21.74 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (21.74 %) UNIX 6 4 (17.39 %) ITIL 6 4 (17.39 %) Apple 6 4 (17.39 %) Solaris 6 4 (17.39 %) WAN 6 4 (17.39 %) X-Windows

7 3 (13.04 %) RHCT 7 3 (13.04 %) Active Directory 7 3 (13.04 %) Social Network 7 3 (13.04 %) SUSE 8 2 (8.696 %) Red Hat Linux 8 2 (8.696 %) HP 8 2 (8.696 %) Novell 8 2 (8.696 %) Lotus 8 2 (8.696 %) Red Hat 8 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft 8 2 (8.696 %) Sun 8 2 (8.696 %) HPUX 8 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 8 2 (8.696 %) Lotus Notes 9 1 (4.348 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (17.39 %) X-Windows 2 1 (4.348 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.348 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 5 (21.74 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (21.74 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (8.696 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (4.348 %) Tomcat 3 1 (4.348 %) JRun 3 1 (4.348 %) ATG Dynamo 3 1 (4.348 %) JBoss
Communications & Networking 1 6 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 1 6 (26.09 %) Firewall 2 4 (17.39 %) WAN 3 1 (4.348 %) Broadband 3 1 (4.348 %) SAN 3 1 (4.348 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) MySQL 1 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) Subversion	General 1 1 (4.348 %) Financial Institution 1 1 (4.348 %) Finance 1 1 (4.348 %) Health 1 1 (4.348 %) Marketing 1 1 (4.348 %) Auditing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (13.04 %) Social Network 2 1 (4.348 %) NHS 2 1 (4.348 %) PACS	Operating Systems 1 13 (56.52 %) Windows 2 10 (43.48 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (34.78 %) Linux 4 6 (26.09 %) Debian 5 5 (21.74 %) Mac OS X 5 5 (21.74 %) UNIX 6 4 (17.39 %) Solaris 7 3 (13.04 %) SUSE 8 2 (8.696 %) HPUX 8 2 (8.696 %) Red Hat Linux 9 1 (4.348 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (4.348 %) Mac OS X Server 9 1 (4.348 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (17.39 %) ITIL 2 1 (4.348 %) CRM 2 1 (4.348 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (4.348 %) OOD 2 1 (4.348 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Asset Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) Perl 1 1 (4.348 %) Shell Script 1 1 (4.348 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 3 (13.04 %) RHCT	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (13.04 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (17.39 %) Apple 2 2 (8.696 %) Novell 2 2 (8.696 %) Lotus 2 2 (8.696 %) Red Hat 2 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.696 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.696 %) Sun 2 2 (8.696 %) HP 3 1 (4.348 %) EMC 3 1 (4.348 %) Nokia 3 1 (4.348 %) SAP 3 1 (4.348 %) Siebel 3 1 (4.348 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.348 %) IBM 3 1 (4.348 %) webMethods 3 1 (4.348 %) ATG 3 1 (4.348 %) VMware