Administrator Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Administrator
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £430, 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 35 42 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 10 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.62% 2.63% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.46% 3.04% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £413 - £303
25th Percentile £414 £281 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £288 £425
Median % change year-on-year +49.57% -32.35% -2.86%
75th Percentile £445 £294 £463
90th Percentile - - £478
East of England median daily rate £430 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +14.67% -11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile £20.98 - -
25th Percentile £21.31 £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £22.25 £14.48 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.66% +3.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £22.81 £15.45 -
90th Percentile £22.93 £15.78 -
East of England median hourly rate £19.40 £14.16 £35.80
% change year-on-year +36.97% -60.45% +165.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 224 427 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.16% 86.26% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 161 310
10th Percentile £333 £206 £200
25th Percentile £413 £350 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £553 £563 £534
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 196 101
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%
75th Percentile £21.46 £27.50 £20.25
90th Percentile £39.35 £59.63 £26.67
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Cambridgeshire

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in Cambridgeshire

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in Cambridgeshire

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +16 7 £430 +49.57% 15
Peterborough +7 2 - - 11
Administrator
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) NetApp
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (40.00%) Resource Management
1 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (40.00%) NAS
1 4 (40.00%) Data Entry
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) e-Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (20.00%) Movex
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) Intranet
3 2 (20.00%) Management Information System

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) iTrent
1 2 (20.00%) Movex
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) NAS
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) Data Entry
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (20.00%) Order Management
2 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) NetApp
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow