Data Administrator Contracts

Data Administrator
UK

The median Data Administrator daily rate in the UK is £180 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 673 827
Rank change year-on-year +143 +154 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Data Administrator 59 47 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.076% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.081% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 15
10th Percentile £131 £109 £111
25th Percentile £154 £241 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £406 £200
Median % change year-on-year -55.69% +103.13% +33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £281
90th Percentile - £526 £315
UK excluding London median daily rate £180 £325 £125
% change year-on-year -44.62% +160.00% -34.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 3 11
10th Percentile £10.42 £12.45 £10.49
25th Percentile £10.59 £13.88 £10.56
Median hourly rate £12.25 £17.50 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +28.87% -3.00%
75th Percentile £14.00 £22.38 £18.13
90th Percentile £21.50 £24.55 £19.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.25 £19.00 £12.42
% change year-on-year -35.53% +53.01% -11.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,676 58,105 85,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.57% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,585 40,497 60,269
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,648 2,131
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%

Data Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Administrator in the UK

Data Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Administrator in the UK

Data Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Administrator over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Administrator in the UK

Data Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Administrator in the UK

Data Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Administrator over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Administrator in the UK

Data Administrator
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +131 54 £200 -43.86% 24
UK excluding London +87 53 £180 -44.62% 22
North of England +44 16 £225 -55.00% 8
South East +31 14 £180 - 8
Work from Home +122 13 £180 -60.00% 7
Midlands +47 12 £163 -26.97% 3
North West +35 7 £225 -55.00% 4
North East +26 7 - - 1
London +103 6 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands +34 6 £294 +32.02%
East Midlands - 6 £160 - 3
Scotland +42 5 £150 -72.73% 2
South West +31 5 £104 -53.16% 2
Yorkshire +23 2 - - 3
East of England +11 2 £480 +37.14% 2

Data Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Data 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 featuring Data Administrator in the job title.

1 18 (30.51%) Data Entry
2 17 (28.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.25%) QA
5 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
5 8 (13.56%) Power BI
5 8 (13.56%) Data Protection
6 7 (11.86%) Data Cleansing
6 7 (11.86%) Finance
7 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (8.47%) Validation
8 5 (8.47%) Data Management
8 5 (8.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (8.47%) Data Interpretation
8 5 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
9 4 (6.78%) Customer Service
9 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (6.78%) Degree
9 4 (6.78%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (6.78%) Migration
9 4 (6.78%) Legal
9 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (6.78%) NHS
10 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
10 3 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (5.08%) Data Modelling

Data Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.78%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.39%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) InfiniBand
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Power BI
2 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.69%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
3 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 3 (5.08%) Aviation
6 3 (5.08%) Marketing
7 2 (3.39%) Billing
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) CSS
1 1 (1.69%) Google Maps API
1 1 (1.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.78%) NHS
3 3 (5.08%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (3.39%) Blog
4 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) CCTV
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Data Entry
2 8 (13.56%) Data Protection
3 7 (11.86%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (8.47%) Data Interpretation
4 5 (8.47%) Data Management
4 5 (8.47%) Validation
5 4 (6.78%) Customer Service
5 4 (6.78%) Migration
5 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.08%) Asset Management
6 3 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.08%) Data Enrichment
6 3 (5.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (5.08%) Information Management
6 3 (5.08%) Master Data Management
6 3 (5.08%) Process Improvement
7 2 (3.39%) Data Validation
7 2 (3.39%) Document Management
7 2 (3.39%) EAM
7 2 (3.39%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.39%) Refinitiv
3 2 (3.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.69%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow