Administrator Contracts in Berkshire

Administrator
South East > Berkshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Berkshire is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 61 88
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 27 63 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 3.18% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 3.38% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 7
10th Percentile £313 £157 £93
25th Percentile £363 £240 £137
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £330 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £394 £480 £431
90th Percentile £400 £500 £475
South East median daily rate £400 £378 £380
% change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% +16.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 5
10th Percentile - £12.36 £31.99
25th Percentile £61.87 £25.62 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £53.20 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +6.40% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.95 £60.63
90th Percentile - £61.60 £73.07
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £13.05 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% -49.81% +57.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Berkshire

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in Berkshire

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in Berkshire

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in Berkshire

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +4 7 £375 -25.00% 15
Wokingham -7 7 £388 -19.27% 1
Slough -8 1 - - 11
Administrator
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (25.93%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (22.22%) Linux
4 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
5 5 (18.52%) yum
5 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (18.52%) GDPR
5 5 (18.52%) Oracle
5 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
5 5 (18.52%) CRM
6 4 (14.81%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (14.81%) Samba
6 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) SMTP
6 4 (14.81%) DHCP
6 4 (14.81%) FTP
6 4 (14.81%) NFS
6 4 (14.81%) DNS
6 4 (14.81%) ADO
6 4 (14.81%) Apache
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) HP

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
1 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DHCP
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
1 4 (14.81%) FTP
1 4 (14.81%) SMTP
1 4 (14.81%) Telnet
2 3 (11.11%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) MSI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
1 7 (25.93%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Military
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) ADO
2 3 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (18.52%) CRM
4 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (11.11%) Server Migrations
7 2 (7.41%) Issue Tracking
7 2 (7.41%) Project Management
7 2 (7.41%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (7.41%) Workflow
7 2 (7.41%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) PMO
3 3 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) NFS
1 4 (14.81%) Samba
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) yum
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) HP
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) Concur
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.70%) BMC
5 1 (3.70%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.70%) Remedy