IT Administrator Contracts in Cambridge

IT Administrator
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median IT Administrator daily rate in Cambridge is £425, 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 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 122 204 245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.92% 90.67% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 113 167
10th Percentile £250 £235 £194
25th Percentile £415 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £531
90th Percentile £700 £648 £597
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +10.29% -1.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 30 15
10th Percentile £16.40 £21.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £28.35 £25.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.63 £59.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £15.50
% change year-on-year -23.72% +37.87% +6.90%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in Cambridge

IT Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for IT Administrator in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 across the Cambridge region featuring IT Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Ariba
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management

IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ariba
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat