IT Administrator Contracts

IT Administrator
UK

The median IT Administrator daily rate in the UK is £360 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 642 753
Rank change year-on-year +131 +111 -70
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 60 45 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.084% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 47
10th Percentile £144 £120 £133
25th Percentile £207 £203 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £326 £210
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +55.36% +27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £472 £263
90th Percentile £675 £638 £343
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £275 £220
% change year-on-year +100.00% +25.00% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 19
10th Percentile £11.85 £27.81 £12.35
25th Percentile £12.00 £30.15 £13.25
Median hourly rate £13.41 £34.35 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.96% +136.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £31.05 £35.80 £20.50
90th Percentile £51.91 - £29.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £34.35 £14.50
% change year-on-year -62.15% +136.90% +16.00%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Administrator over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Administrator over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +126 58 £360 +9.09% 53
UK excluding London +80 47 £550 +100.00% 46
South East +49 23 £550 +109.52% 12
London +94 11 £340 -46.71% 13
North of England +40 10 £225 -28.57% 12
Midlands +26 8 £100 -35.48% 7
North West +26 7 £225 -45.78% 6
East Midlands +19 7 £100 -69.70% 5
Work from Home +105 6 £225 -18.18% 16
South West +5 3 £250 -44.44% 6
East of England +3 3 - - 7
Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
West Midlands +23 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Windows
3 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
5 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
5 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
6 9 (15.00%) Linux
7 8 (13.33%) SharePoint
8 6 (10.00%) Finance
9 5 (8.33%) Aerospace
9 5 (8.33%) Software Deployment
10 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (6.67%) Banking
10 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
10 4 (6.67%) SAP
10 4 (6.67%) Customer Service
10 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
11 3 (5.00%) NHS
11 3 (5.00%) Logistics
11 3 (5.00%) Software Engineering
11 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (5.00%) CCTV
11 3 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (5.00%) GitLab
11 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 2 (3.33%) Critical Thinking
12 2 (3.33%) NIST

IT 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 8 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.33%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.67%) AWS
3 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.67%) Slack
3 1 (1.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Intranet
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) NAS
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VoIP
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Power BI
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) CCTV
1 3 (5.00%) NHS
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Solaris
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (8.33%) Software Deployment
2 4 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (5.00%) Logistics
3 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (5.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (3.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (3.33%) Change Control
4 2 (3.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (3.33%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (3.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (3.33%) Information Security
4 2 (3.33%) Patch Management
4 2 (3.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (3.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) Bash
1 1 (1.67%) Google Apps Script
1 1 (1.67%) Python
1 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) HNC
3 1 (1.67%) MCSE
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) GRC
1 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (1.67%) Dell
3 1 (1.67%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.67%) HP
3 1 (1.67%) Okta