Systems Administrator Contracts in the South East

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > South East

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in the South East is £462 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 191 248
Rank change year-on-year +46 +57 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 60 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.08% 0.45% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.47% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 7
10th Percentile £376 £51 £325
25th Percentile £378 £325 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £373 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -12.35% +41.67%
75th Percentile £529 £400 £453
90th Percentile £575 £475 £456
England median daily rate £500 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 4
10th Percentile £42.00 £34.58 £53.25
25th Percentile £48.40 £47.73 £71.25
Median hourly rate £58.30 £51.25 £83.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -38.44% +131.25%
75th Percentile £61.60 £58.91 £84.19
90th Percentile - £71.00 £84.53
England median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year -16.19% +82.61% +69.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,153 5,511 7,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.43% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,838 5,032
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 242 335
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Administrator in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Administrator in the South East

Systems Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Administrator within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +21 35 £500 +31.58% 6
Berkshire +2 31 £500 +20.48% 4
Hampshire +14 11 £539 +54.00% 4
Kent - 10 £378 - 1
Oxfordshire +8 4 - - 1
Surrey +13 3 £363 -9.38%
East Sussex +6 1 £500 +42.86%
Systems Administrator
England

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 job ads across the South East region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 38 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 32 (53.33%) Windows
3 26 (43.33%) DV Cleared
4 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
5 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 17 (28.33%) Linux
7 16 (26.67%) Azure
7 16 (26.67%) Windows Server
8 13 (21.67%) Itk
8 13 (21.67%) DevOps
8 13 (21.67%) PLM
9 11 (18.33%) Change Management
9 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (16.67%) VMware
10 10 (16.67%) C
10 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
11 8 (13.33%) SCOM
11 8 (13.33%) Blog
11 8 (13.33%) Teamcenter
11 8 (13.33%) Apple
11 8 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (13.33%) Mac OS
11 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
13 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (10.00%) C++
13 6 (10.00%) Docker

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.67%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.67%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.67%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Skype
2 2 (3.33%) LAN
2 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Banking
3 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Itk
2 1 (1.67%) Django
2 1 (1.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Blog
2 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 17 (28.33%) Linux
3 16 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (13.33%) Mac OS
6 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.67%) Solaris
7 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) DevOps
1 13 (21.67%) PLM
2 11 (18.33%) Change Management
2 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (8.33%) Agile
5 4 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (5.00%) Migration
6 3 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (3.33%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.33%) Patch Management
7 2 (3.33%) Release Management
7 2 (3.33%) SDLC
7 2 (3.33%) Software Deployment
7 2 (3.33%) Storage Management
7 2 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (1.67%) Microservices
8 1 (1.67%) Security Patching
8 1 (1.67%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) C
2 6 (10.00%) C++
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Bash
4 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (43.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) Docker
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) NFS
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (13.33%) SCOM
2 4 (6.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (6.67%) SCCM
3 3 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) VMware
3 8 (13.33%) Apple
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.67%) Citrix
5 4 (6.67%) EMC
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) IBM