The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 87 87 68
Rank change year-on-year
0 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 5 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.389% 0.499% 0.365%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.411% 0.527% 0.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +12.50%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1218 1519 1029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.86% 94.70% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 840 477
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 67 76
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds -7 2 - -
Systems Administrator
Yorkshire

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) Maximo
3 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) JBoss
4 2 (18.18%) J2EE
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Java EE
5 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Test Management
5 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.091%) CentOS
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.091%) XenApp
5 1 (9.091%) CA Wily
5 1 (9.091%) Splunk
5 1 (9.091%) Document Management
5 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.091%) MCITP
5 1 (9.091%) Squid

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 2 (18.18%) J2EE
2 2 (18.18%) Java EE
3 1 (9.091%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maximo
2 1 (9.091%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Introscope
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
1 1 (9.091%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) CentOS
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.091%) HPUX
3 1 (9.091%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
2 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Test Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Document Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
2 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
2 1 (9.091%) SOA
2 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) MCITP
1 1 (9.091%) MCSE
1 1 (9.091%) CCA
1 1 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) XenApp
1 1 (9.091%) Squid
1 1 (9.091%) NFS
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) CA Wily
1 1 (9.091%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) JBoss
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
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