The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 20 June 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Administrator
Rank 99 106 88
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 16 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.808% 0.543% 0.368%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.857% 0.573% 0.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 5
Average daily rate £283 £328 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.74% -6.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £301 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £11.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £21.50 £24.38
% change year-on-year
+27.90% -11.81%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1867 2269 1774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.34% 94.74% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1204 881
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 136 123
Average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.13 £10.30 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.60 £31.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire +6 8 - - 3
South Yorkshire -1 5 £283 -11.37% 4
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 11 (44.00%) IBM
2 10 (40.00%) Linux
3 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (32.00%) Veritas
4 8 (32.00%) Windows
4 8 (32.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 7 (28.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 7 (28.00%) WebSphere
5 7 (28.00%) SQL
5 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (28.00%) SUSE
6 6 (24.00%) Maximo
6 6 (24.00%) Finance
6 6 (24.00%) Asset Management
6 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (20.00%) Solaris
8 4 (16.00%) SAN
8 4 (16.00%) Oracle
8 4 (16.00%) UNIX
9 3 (12.00%) JBoss
9 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
9 3 (12.00%) HP
9 3 (12.00%) NAS
10 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (8.000%) Java EE
10 2 (8.000%) AIX
10 2 (8.000%) J2EE
10 2 (8.000%) Java

Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 7 (28.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.000%) Java EE
2 2 (8.000%) J2EE
3 1 (4.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Apache
2 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.000%) Firewall
3 1 (4.000%) LDAP
3 1 (4.000%) LAN
3 1 (4.000%) WAN
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Introscope
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) NHS
1 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) NPfIT
2 1 (4.000%) HACMP
2 1 (4.000%) PMI
2 1 (4.000%) LPAR
2 1 (4.000%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 7 (28.00%) SUSE
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (20.00%) Solaris
6 4 (16.00%) UNIX
7 2 (8.000%) AIX
8 1 (4.000%) HPUX
8 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (4.000%) Migration
2 1 (4.000%) Document Management
2 1 (4.000%) Change Management
2 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
2 1 (4.000%) SOA
2 1 (4.000%) Business Analysis
2 1 (4.000%) Release Management
2 1 (4.000%) Load Testing
2 1 (4.000%) Integration Testing
2 1 (4.000%) Data Protection
2 1 (4.000%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (4.000%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) Java
2 2 (8.000%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.000%) Perl
3 1 (4.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) MCSE
1 1 (4.000%) CCA
1 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.000%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.000%) MCITP
1 1 (4.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) HL7
1 1 (4.000%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 7 (28.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) CA Wily
1 1 (4.000%) Splunk
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) IBM
2 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (32.00%) Veritas
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) JBoss
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.00%) HP
6 1 (4.000%) NetApp
6 1 (4.000%) Cisco
6 1 (4.000%) Sun
6 1 (4.000%) Dell
6 1 (4.000%) Citrix
Yorkshire and the Humber
Job Title: Linux Systems AdministratorContract: 3 - 4 MonthsRate: £300 - £350 per dayLocation: YorkshireStart: 8th - 22nd July 2013 Key Skills: Linux Systems Administrator, Implementation, Active Directory, LAMP installation, Moodle...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required... You will need to have experience with IBM and HP hardware with SAN and NAS storage...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required... You will need to have experience with IBM and HP hardware with SAN and NAS storage...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £250 - £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013