Senior Systems Administrator Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin)
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior System Administrator (Senior Sysadmin) daily rate in Work from Home is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 463 622
Rank change year-on-year +130 +159 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Administrator 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.016% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.016% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £363 £376 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% -16.39% +19.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Systems Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Systems Administrator.

Senior Systems Administrator daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Systems Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Itk
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) PLM
3 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter

Senior Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Itk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) PLM
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft