Systems Administrator Contracts in Bedfordshire

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in Bedfordshire is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.56% 0.45% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £428 £450 £361
% change year-on-year -5.00% +24.57% -10.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. 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 Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 164 202 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 91.40% 97.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 102 107
10th Percentile £185 £300 £187
25th Percentile £475 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £625 £573 £600
90th Percentile £700 £625 £625
East of England median daily rate £488 £447 £475
% change year-on-year +9.06% -5.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 3
10th Percentile £25.99 £15.39 £26.00
25th Percentile £63.94 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.00% +46.34%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £88.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £43.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -11.63% +18.62% +93.33%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in Bedfordshire

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in Bedfordshire

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in Bedfordshire

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Systems 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 Bedfordshire region featuring Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica