Administrator Jobs in the West Midlands

Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Administrator salary in the West Midlands is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 180 189
Rank change year-on-year +40 +9 -31
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 126 100 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.74% 1.48% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.65% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 70 60
10th Percentile £22,625 £26,375 £21,175
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,650 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.35% +1.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,625
90th Percentile £63,750 £60,775 £58,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -10 54 £57,500 +35.29% 7
Staffordshire -4 22 £40,000 +21.52% 12
Warwickshire +66 18 £23,750 -36.67% 5
Shropshire +12 12 £32,000 -45.76% 7
Worcestershire -21 6 £23,375 -39.68% 12
Dudley - 3 £40,000 -
Coventry +30 1 - - 4
Brierley Hill - 1 £55,000 -
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Administrator 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 permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 46 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (30.16%) Microsoft
3 33 (26.19%) Azure
4 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.43%) SQL
6 26 (20.63%) SQL Server
7 24 (19.05%) Windows
7 24 (19.05%) SharePoint
7 24 (19.05%) Customer Service
8 22 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (16.67%) Patch Management
9 21 (16.67%) T-SQL
9 21 (16.67%) LAN
9 21 (16.67%) WAN
10 18 (14.29%) PowerShell
11 17 (13.49%) Linux
12 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
12 16 (12.70%) Law
12 16 (12.70%) Load Balancing
12 16 (12.70%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (11.90%) Logistics
14 13 (10.32%) Firewall
14 13 (10.32%) CRM
14 13 (10.32%) Wiki
15 12 (9.52%) BIG-IP
15 12 (9.52%) DHCP
15 12 (9.52%) DNS
15 12 (9.52%) Migration
15 12 (9.52%) Windows Server
15 12 (9.52%) F5

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 24 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.59%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.59%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.19%) Azure
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.79%) AWS
5 1 (0.79%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.79%) GitHub
5 1 (0.79%) PaaS
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.67%) LAN
1 21 (16.67%) WAN
2 13 (10.32%) Firewall
3 12 (9.52%) BIG-IP
3 12 (9.52%) DHCP
3 12 (9.52%) DNS
4 11 (8.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (3.17%) SAN
7 1 (0.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (4.76%) Power BI
4 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Looker
4 3 (2.38%) Tableau
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
General
1 46 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.70%) Law
3 16 (12.70%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Finance
5 8 (6.35%) Local Government
5 8 (6.35%) Marketing
6 5 (3.97%) Legal
6 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Back Office
9 2 (1.59%) Billing
9 2 (1.59%) Police
9 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (0.79%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Wiki
2 10 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.76%) Cyberattack
3 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.97%) Replication
5 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) PKI
5 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.38%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.79%) CMDB
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.05%) Windows
2 17 (13.49%) Linux
3 12 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) CentOS
4 4 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.59%) Unix
5 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.79%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (19.05%) Customer Service
3 21 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 16 (12.70%) Load Balancing
5 15 (11.90%) Logistics
6 13 (10.32%) CRM
7 12 (9.52%) Migration
8 9 (7.14%) Data Protection
9 8 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (6.35%) Problem Management
10 7 (5.56%) Computer Science
10 7 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (5.56%) Time Management
11 6 (4.76%) Change Management
11 6 (4.76%) Data Migration
11 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (3.97%) Application Security
12 5 (3.97%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.43%) SQL
2 21 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 18 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.73%) Perl
4 11 (8.73%) Python
5 4 (3.17%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.17%) SLA
2 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.79%) PMO
2 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.17%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.17%) VMware Server
4 4 (3.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.17%) vCenter Server
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.59%) SCCM
2 2 (1.59%) SCOM
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) F5
3 10 (7.94%) VMware
4 6 (4.76%) SAP
5 4 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) Aruba
6 2 (1.59%) Dell
6 2 (1.59%) NEC
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle
6 2 (1.59%) Quadient
6 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) HP
7 1 (0.79%) QAD
7 1 (0.79%) Sage
7 1 (0.79%) Zoho