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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 179 249
Rank change year-on-year +55 +70 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 689 713 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.87% 1.45% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.53% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 461 492
10th Percentile £158 £200 £181
25th Percentile £273 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £613 £619 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £445 £438
% change year-on-year -4.49% +1.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 41 59
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.50 £10.94
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.50 £12.75
Median hourly rate £13.46 £26.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.23% +79.31% +3.57%
75th Percentile £17.26 £53.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £60.63 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £13.18 £25.98 £14.50
% change year-on-year -49.26% +79.14% +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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -6 202 £400 -11.11% 126
South East +60 172 £378 +0.13% 165
South West +43 98 £550 +33.33% 94
North of England +50 86 £375 +15.38% 154
Midlands +46 76 £425 +13.33% 131
West Midlands +35 50 £425 +30.77% 72
East of England +16 48 £375 -11.76% 89
North West +25 46 £313 -18.30% 90
East Midlands +37 26 £443 +34.24% 59
Yorkshire +38 23 £470 +121.18% 46
North East +27 17 £475 +69.64% 20
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 169 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 168 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 151 (21.92%) Windows
4 136 (19.74%) Security Cleared
5 89 (12.92%) Microsoft Excel
6 84 (12.19%) DV Cleared
7 78 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
8 77 (11.18%) Finance
9 71 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (9.58%) SharePoint
11 64 (9.29%) Azure
12 62 (9.00%) Linux
13 61 (8.85%) Active Directory
14 57 (8.27%) Customer Service
15 55 (7.98%) Windows Server
16 49 (7.11%) VMware
17 47 (6.82%) SQL
17 47 (6.82%) PKI
18 46 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
18 46 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
18 46 (6.68%) Public Sector
19 44 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
20 42 (6.10%) PowerShell
20 42 (6.10%) Data Entry
20 42 (6.10%) SAP
21 40 (5.81%) SQL Server
22 39 (5.66%) Degree
23 36 (5.22%) SC Cleared
24 35 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
25 34 (4.93%) 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 66 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.18%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (1.02%) Apache
5 7 (1.02%) Confluence
6 6 (0.87%) IIS
7 5 (0.73%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.58%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.15%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (12.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (3.05%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.16%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.58%) Maximo
2 4 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.29%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.29%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 64 (9.29%) Azure
2 44 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (3.63%) AWS
4 14 (2.03%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.45%) OneDrive
6 7 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (0.87%) Entra ID
7 6 (0.87%) GCP
8 5 (0.73%) PaaS
9 4 (0.58%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.44%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.44%) Cloudflare
10 3 (0.44%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.44%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.44%) ShareGate
10 3 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.21%) DNS
2 19 (2.76%) Intranet
3 10 (1.45%) WAN
4 7 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (1.02%) LAN
4 7 (1.02%) SAN
5 6 (0.87%) DHCP
5 6 (0.87%) Internet
5 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.73%) Firewall
6 5 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.58%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.44%) MPLS
8 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.44%) SMTP
8 3 (0.44%) SSL
8 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) FTP
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (1.74%) MySQL
4 11 (1.60%) Power BI
4 11 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 10 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.87%) DB2
7 6 (0.87%) Ingres
7 6 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.44%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.44%) Metadata
10 3 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.19%) JIRA
2 5 (0.73%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (0.58%) Fiddler
3 4 (0.58%) GitLab
4 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 168 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 77 (11.18%) Finance
3 46 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (6.68%) Public Sector
4 31 (4.50%) Manufacturing
5 20 (2.90%) Banking
6 18 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.47%) Marketing
8 16 (2.32%) Legal
9 14 (2.03%) Retail
10 13 (1.89%) Law
11 11 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.45%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.02%) Electronics
14 6 (0.87%) Automotive
14 6 (0.87%) Police
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
15 5 (0.73%) Back Office
15 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.89%) Itk
2 10 (1.45%) CSS
2 10 (1.45%) HTML
3 5 (0.73%) .NET
3 5 (0.73%) Google Maps API
3 5 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.73%) Middleware
4 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.58%) Node.js
4 4 (0.58%) SAML
5 3 (0.44%) jQuery
5 3 (0.44%) Kafka
5 3 (0.44%) SPFx
6 2 (0.29%) LDAP
6 2 (0.29%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.15%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.15%) Series 60
7 1 (0.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.82%) PKI
2 22 (3.19%) NHS
3 20 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.74%) Blog
7 11 (1.60%) Replication
8 10 (1.45%) Clustering
9 9 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.73%) Freedom of Information Act
12 4 (0.58%) CCTV
12 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.58%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.44%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.44%) Smartphone
14 2 (0.29%) CMDB
14 2 (0.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 151 (21.92%) Windows
2 62 (9.00%) Linux
3 55 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.18%) Windows 7
5 15 (2.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 12 (1.74%) Unix
8 12 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.16%) VMS
10 6 (0.87%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.73%) Solaris
12 4 (0.58%) CentOS
12 4 (0.58%) zOS
13 3 (0.44%) AIX
14 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (8.27%) Customer Service
3 42 (6.10%) Data Entry
4 34 (4.93%) DevOps
5 31 (4.50%) Data Protection
5 31 (4.50%) Time Management
6 30 (4.35%) Change Management
6 30 (4.35%) ITIL
7 23 (3.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (3.34%) High Availability
8 22 (3.19%) Migration
8 22 (3.19%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (2.90%) Project Management
10 18 (2.61%) Workflow
11 17 (2.47%) Problem Management
11 17 (2.47%) Task Automation
12 16 (2.32%) Agile
12 16 (2.32%) Document Management
12 16 (2.32%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (2.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.82%) SQL
2 42 (6.10%) PowerShell
3 14 (2.03%) Bash
4 11 (1.60%) Python
5 10 (1.45%) C
5 10 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.02%) Perl
6 7 (1.02%) Shell Script
6 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.87%) C++
8 5 (0.73%) Groovy
8 5 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.44%) Korn
10 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.29%) AWK
10 2 (0.29%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.15%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.15%) Java
11 1 (0.15%) tcsh
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 136 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.19%) DV Cleared
3 39 (5.66%) Degree
4 36 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.58%) MCITP
8 4 (0.58%) MCTS
8 4 (0.58%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.44%) AAT
9 3 (0.44%) MCSE
9 3 (0.44%) RHCE
10 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.15%) ECDL
11 1 (0.15%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.34%) QA
2 13 (1.89%) GDPR
3 11 (1.60%) SLA
4 8 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.16%) PMO
5 5 (0.73%) GRC
5 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.73%) NIST
6 1 (0.15%) IFRS
6 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 61 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 35 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.87%) Firmware
3 6 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.73%) Docker
4 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.73%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.73%) VMware Server
4 5 (0.73%) vSphere
5 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) NFS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.15%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.45%) SCOM
4 9 (1.31%) Ansible
5 8 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.16%) NetBackup
6 7 (1.02%) Control-M
7 5 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.58%) Terraform
9 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.44%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.44%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 2 (0.29%) Grafana
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.29%) yum
Vendors
1 169 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.11%) VMware
3 42 (6.10%) SAP
4 23 (3.34%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.90%) Oracle
6 14 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.89%) Google
8 11 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.31%) Apple
9 9 (1.31%) Veeam
10 8 (1.16%) F5
11 6 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.87%) EMC
11 6 (0.87%) IBM
11 6 (0.87%) Sage
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco
12 5 (0.73%) Progress
12 5 (0.73%) Veritas
13 4 (0.58%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.58%) HP