Administrator Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Administrator
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 14 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.67% 2.11% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.65% 2.50% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £228 £282 -
25th Percentile - £283 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £306 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £438 £345 £388
90th Percentile £442 £356 -
East of England median daily rate £388 £363 £425
% change year-on-year +6.90% -14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Median hourly rate - £15.14 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.14% +3.70%
East of England median hourly rate £19.40 £14.68 £17.75
% change year-on-year +32.12% -17.30% +32.46%

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 248 440 454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.67% 84.29% 81.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 164 278
10th Percentile £246 £220 £213
25th Percentile £379 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £553 £530
90th Percentile £688 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £488 £442 £475
% change year-on-year +10.35% -6.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 169 90
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +37.87% +6.90%
75th Percentile £29.29 £28.75 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £27.63
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £39.03
% change year-on-year -12.79% +10.19% +106.75%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 30 June 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 +19 14 £250 -13.04% 41
Administrator
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 11 (78.57%) ServiceNow
2 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 9 (64.29%) PCI DSS
2 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) GitLab
2 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
2 9 (64.29%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 9 (64.29%) Shell Script
2 9 (64.29%) ITSM
2 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (57.14%) TeamCity
4 7 (50.00%) SAN
4 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 7 (50.00%) Linux
5 5 (35.71%) Degree
5 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
5 5 (35.71%) VMware
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
5 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (35.71%) CentOS
5 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (35.71%) OpenStack
5 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
5 5 (35.71%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
6 4 (28.57%) Salt

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 5 (35.71%) OpenStack
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 7 (50.00%) SAN
3 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
4 2 (14.29%) LAN
4 2 (14.29%) NAS
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) GitLab
1 9 (64.29%) JIRA
2 8 (57.14%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
1 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (35.71%) CentOS
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
1 9 (64.29%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Data Science
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
1 9 (64.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 4 (28.57%) Puppet
2 4 (28.57%) Salt
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) ServiceNow
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Ariba
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) SAP