Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 160 177
Rank change year-on-year +87 +17 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 542 369 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.65% 1.57% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 1.67% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 222 239
10th Percentile £158 £154 £163
25th Percentile £258 £268 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +25.49%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £491
90th Percentile £625 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £446 £435
% change year-on-year -4.71% +2.53% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 36 51
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.25 £10.50
25th Percentile £11.81 £17.94 £11.75
Median hourly rate £13.00 £33.85 £14.36
Median % change year-on-year -61.59% +135.71% +2.57%
75th Percentile £16.80 £53.75 £19.00
90th Percentile £46.00 £67.56 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £13.18 £26.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -49.30% +79.31% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +69 173 £378 +0.13% 164
South West +38 99 £550 +29.41% 98
North of England +49 86 £375 +15.38% 157
Midlands +52 78 £425 +13.33% 127
Scotland +56 53 £375 -0.13% 40
West Midlands +36 52 £425 +30.77% 70
East of England +21 49 £375 -11.76% 91
North West +17 46 £313 -18.30% 92
East Midlands +42 26 £443 +34.24% 57
Yorkshire +30 23 £470 +121.18% 47
North East +24 17 £475 +69.64% 20
Wales +20 8 £575 +259.38% 15
Northern Ireland -2 1 £350 -17.65% 6
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 141 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 119 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 118 (21.77%) Security Cleared
4 114 (21.03%) Windows
5 91 (16.79%) Microsoft Excel
6 76 (14.02%) DV Cleared
7 74 (13.65%) Microsoft Office
8 62 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (11.07%) Finance
10 52 (9.59%) Azure
10 52 (9.59%) Public Sector
11 49 (9.04%) Linux
12 48 (8.86%) PKI
13 47 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (8.49%) Customer Service
15 42 (7.75%) SharePoint
16 41 (7.56%) Data Entry
17 37 (6.83%) SAP
18 35 (6.46%) SC Cleared
19 34 (6.27%) PowerShell
20 32 (5.90%) Time Management
21 31 (5.72%) DevOps
21 31 (5.72%) Active Directory
22 30 (5.54%) SQL Server
22 30 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
23 29 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
24 28 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
25 27 (4.98%) Degree
25 27 (4.98%) Manufacturing
26 25 (4.61%) QA

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) IIS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) Moodle
6 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 91 (16.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (13.65%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (3.14%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.55%) Windchill
7 2 (0.37%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.29%) iTrent
3 4 (0.74%) Maximo
3 4 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.37%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.59%) Azure
2 30 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (2.77%) Power Platform
4 12 (2.21%) AWS
5 9 (1.66%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.48%) PaaS
7 6 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.74%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.74%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.55%) GCP
10 3 (0.55%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.55%) OCI
10 3 (0.55%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.55%) SaaS
10 3 (0.55%) ShareGate
11 2 (0.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.66%) TCP/IP
1 9 (1.66%) WAN
2 8 (1.48%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) VPN
3 7 (1.29%) DNS
3 7 (1.29%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (1.29%) SAN
4 6 (1.11%) LAN
5 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 5 (0.92%) Internet
5 5 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (0.74%) Intranet
6 4 (0.74%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.55%) IPsec
7 3 (0.55%) MPLS
7 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.37%) FTP
8 2 (0.37%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.21%) Power BI
3 7 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (1.11%) Ingres
4 6 (1.11%) MySQL
5 5 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.74%) Metadata
7 3 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.55%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 20 (3.69%) JIRA
2 4 (0.74%) GitLab
3 3 (0.55%) Fiddler
3 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 119 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.07%) Finance
3 52 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.21%) Retail
8 11 (2.03%) Legal
9 10 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.85%) Banking
9 10 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.29%) Marketing
10 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.11%) Automotive
12 5 (0.92%) Aviation
13 4 (0.74%) Avionics
13 4 (0.74%) Law
14 3 (0.55%) Back Office
14 3 (0.55%) Billing
14 3 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.40%) Itk
2 9 (1.66%) HTML
3 8 (1.48%) CSS
4 5 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.92%) Google Maps API
4 5 (0.92%) Middleware
5 4 (0.74%) .NET
5 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.74%) Node.js
5 4 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.74%) SAML
6 3 (0.55%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.55%) jQuery
6 3 (0.55%) SPFx
7 2 (0.37%) ISPF
7 2 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.37%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.18%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.18%) Ajax
8 1 (0.18%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.86%) PKI
2 16 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 10 (1.85%) Blog
4 10 (1.85%) NHS
4 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.74%) CCTV
7 4 (0.74%) Clustering
7 4 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.55%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.55%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.55%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.55%) Replication
9 2 (0.37%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.37%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 114 (21.03%) Windows
2 49 (9.04%) Linux
3 23 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.40%) Mac OS
7 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.66%) Unix
9 6 (1.11%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.92%) Solaris
11 4 (0.74%) AIX
11 4 (0.74%) CentOS
12 3 (0.55%) zOS
13 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.18%) HPUX
14 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (8.49%) Customer Service
3 41 (7.56%) Data Entry
4 32 (5.90%) Time Management
5 31 (5.72%) DevOps
6 23 (4.24%) Data Protection
7 22 (4.06%) Change Management
8 21 (3.87%) Project Management
9 18 (3.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (2.95%) Migration
11 15 (2.77%) Asset Management
11 15 (2.77%) PLM
12 13 (2.40%) Data Management
12 13 (2.40%) Document Management
12 13 (2.40%) Mathematics
12 13 (2.40%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (2.40%) Validation
13 12 (2.21%) Agile
13 12 (2.21%) High Availability
14 11 (2.03%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 34 (6.27%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.43%) SQL
3 12 (2.21%) Bash
4 10 (1.85%) C
5 6 (1.11%) C++
5 6 (1.11%) Python
6 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.74%) Perl
8 2 (0.37%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.37%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.37%) AWK
8 2 (0.37%) Bourne shell
8 2 (0.37%) Groovy
8 2 (0.37%) JCL
8 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 2 (0.37%) REXX
9 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.02%) DV Cleared
3 35 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.98%) Degree
5 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.74%) RHCSA
6 3 (0.55%) AAT
6 3 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.55%) HNC
6 3 (0.55%) RHCE
7 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.37%) MCSE
8 1 (0.18%) MCITP
8 1 (0.18%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.61%) QA
2 12 (2.21%) PMO
3 11 (2.03%) SLA
4 8 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.48%) GDPR
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.92%) VMware Server
4 5 (0.92%) vSphere
5 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.55%) Docker
6 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) ACF2
7 2 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (2.21%) Ansible
2 10 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (1.66%) SCOM
4 8 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.29%) Terraform
6 6 (1.11%) Grafana
6 6 (1.11%) Nagios
6 6 (1.11%) NetBackup
6 6 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 5 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.55%) Graylog
9 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.55%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 141 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.83%) SAP
3 24 (4.43%) VMware
4 12 (2.21%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.03%) Oracle
6 10 (1.85%) Google
7 9 (1.66%) Apple
8 7 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.11%) EMC
9 6 (1.11%) IBM
9 6 (1.11%) Sage
10 5 (0.92%) Cisco
10 5 (0.92%) Progress
11 4 (0.74%) F5
11 4 (0.74%) Facebook
11 4 (0.74%) Splunk
12 3 (0.55%) IFS
12 3 (0.55%) PeopleSoft