Administrator Contracts in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 180 259
Rank change year-on-year +57 +79 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 702 741 798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.89% 1.47% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.55% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 480 493
10th Percentile £158 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £550
90th Percentile £588 £617 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £447 £425
% change year-on-year -4.92% +5.18% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 43 55
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.50 £10.83
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £13.46 £26.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.23% +79.31% +3.57%
75th Percentile £17.26 £52.97 £23.38
90th Percentile £46.00 £59.78 £44.25
UK median hourly rate £13.05 £25.95 £14.50
% change year-on-year -49.71% +78.97% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in England.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in England.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London -8 208 £400 -11.11% 117
South East +71 180 £378 -0.53% 161
South West +34 99 £550 +29.41% 75
North of England +46 86 £375 +15.38% 141
Midlands +43 73 £425 +28.79% 110
East of England +23 48 £375 -11.76% 78
West Midlands +35 47 £425 +47.83% 60
North West +23 47 £269 -23.21% 86
East Midlands +41 26 £318 +0.79% 49
Yorkshire +31 22 £470 +121.18% 39
North East +31 17 £475 +69.64% 17
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 172 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 164 (23.36%) Microsoft
3 156 (22.22%) Windows
4 138 (19.66%) Security Cleared
5 89 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
6 84 (11.97%) DV Cleared
7 81 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
8 76 (10.83%) Finance
9 73 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (9.97%) Azure
11 65 (9.26%) SharePoint
12 64 (9.12%) Active Directory
13 62 (8.83%) Linux
14 60 (8.55%) Customer Service
15 58 (8.26%) Windows Server
16 51 (7.26%) VMware
17 48 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
18 46 (6.55%) Public Sector
18 46 (6.55%) SQL
18 46 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
19 45 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
20 43 (6.13%) PKI
20 43 (6.13%) Degree
21 42 (5.98%) PowerShell
21 42 (5.98%) Data Entry
22 41 (5.84%) SAP
23 38 (5.41%) SQL Server
23 38 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
23 38 (5.41%) SC Cleared
24 35 (4.99%) DevOps

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 65 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.28%) Exchange Server 2013
4 15 (2.14%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (1.28%) Apache
6 7 (1.00%) Confluence
6 7 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.85%) IIS
8 4 (0.57%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.28%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.14%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.57%) Maximo
3 4 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.28%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (9.97%) Azure
2 46 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (3.42%) AWS
4 15 (2.14%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.42%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.14%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.85%) GCP
8 6 (0.85%) PaaS
9 4 (0.57%) Google Sheets
9 4 (0.57%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.57%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.57%) ShareGate
10 3 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.43%) Cloudflare
10 3 (0.43%) SaaS
10 3 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.99%) DNS
2 18 (2.56%) Intranet
3 7 (1.00%) WAN
4 6 (0.85%) Internet
4 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.71%) Firewall
6 4 (0.57%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.57%) LAN
6 4 (0.57%) Skype
6 4 (0.57%) SMTP
6 4 (0.57%) SSL
6 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.43%) MPLS
7 3 (0.43%) Network Security
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
7 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (1.71%) MySQL
3 12 (1.71%) Power BI
4 11 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.85%) DB2
7 6 (0.85%) Ingres
7 6 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (0.57%) Metadata
9 4 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.57%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.43%) EDMS
10 3 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.13%) JIRA
2 5 (0.71%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.71%) GitLab
3 4 (0.57%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 172 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (10.83%) Finance
3 48 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 20 (2.85%) Banking
8 17 (2.42%) Marketing
9 16 (2.28%) Legal
9 16 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.99%) Law
10 14 (1.99%) Retail
11 12 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.85%) Automotive
13 6 (0.85%) Electronics
13 6 (0.85%) Police
14 5 (0.71%) Back Office
14 5 (0.71%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.85%) Itk
2 10 (1.42%) CSS
2 10 (1.42%) HTML
3 6 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (0.85%) Middleware
4 5 (0.71%) .NET
4 5 (0.71%) Google Maps API
5 4 (0.57%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.57%) LDAP
5 4 (0.57%) Node.js
5 4 (0.57%) SAML
6 3 (0.43%) jQuery
6 3 (0.43%) Kafka
6 3 (0.43%) SPFx
7 2 (0.28%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.28%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.14%) Django
8 1 (0.14%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.13%) PKI
2 23 (3.28%) NHS
3 19 (2.71%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.71%) Blog
6 11 (1.57%) Replication
7 10 (1.42%) Clustering
8 8 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
11 4 (0.57%) CCTV
11 4 (0.57%) CMDB
11 4 (0.57%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.43%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.43%) Smartphone
12 3 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 156 (22.22%) Windows
2 62 (8.83%) Linux
3 58 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.28%) Windows 7
4 16 (2.28%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.85%) Unix
8 12 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.14%) VMS
10 6 (0.85%) Solaris
11 4 (0.57%) AIX
11 4 (0.57%) zOS
12 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (8.55%) Customer Service
3 42 (5.98%) Data Entry
4 35 (4.99%) DevOps
5 33 (4.70%) Change Management
5 33 (4.70%) Time Management
6 32 (4.56%) ITIL
7 29 (4.13%) Data Protection
8 24 (3.42%) Migration
9 23 (3.28%) High Availability
10 22 (3.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (2.85%) Workflow
12 19 (2.71%) Project Management
13 18 (2.56%) Asset Management
14 17 (2.42%) Agile
14 17 (2.42%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (2.42%) Problem Management
14 17 (2.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (2.28%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (2.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.55%) SQL
2 42 (5.98%) PowerShell
3 13 (1.85%) Python
4 12 (1.71%) Bash
5 10 (1.42%) C
5 10 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.00%) Perl
6 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
6 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.85%) C++
8 5 (0.71%) Groovy
8 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.57%) Korn
10 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.28%) AWK
10 2 (0.28%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.14%) Java
11 1 (0.14%) tcsh
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 138 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.97%) DV Cleared
3 43 (6.13%) Degree
4 38 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.57%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.43%) AAT
9 3 (0.43%) MCITP
9 3 (0.43%) MCSE
9 3 (0.43%) MCTS
9 3 (0.43%) RHCE
10 2 (0.28%) PMP
11 1 (0.14%) CCNA
11 1 (0.14%) ECDL
11 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.28%) QA
2 13 (1.85%) GDPR
3 12 (1.71%) SLA
4 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.14%) PMO
5 6 (0.85%) NIST
6 5 (0.71%) GRC
6 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) IFRS
7 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 64 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.14%) Docker
4 6 (0.85%) Firmware
5 5 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.28%) NFS
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) KVM
9 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.71%) SCOM
3 10 (1.42%) Ansible
4 8 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (1.14%) NetBackup
5 7 (1.00%) Control-M
6 5 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.71%) SCCM
7 4 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.57%) Puppet
7 4 (0.57%) Terraform
8 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.43%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.43%) Grafana
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 2 (0.28%) yum
Vendors
1 164 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.26%) VMware
3 41 (5.84%) SAP
4 30 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.99%) Oracle
6 17 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.85%) Google
8 11 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.28%) Apple
9 9 (1.28%) Veeam
10 8 (1.14%) EMC
10 8 (1.14%) F5
11 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.85%) Sage
12 5 (0.71%) Citrix
12 5 (0.71%) IBM
12 5 (0.71%) Progress
12 5 (0.71%) Veritas
13 4 (0.57%) Cisco
13 4 (0.57%) HP