Administrator Contracts in Central London

Administrator
London > Central London

The median Administrator daily rate in Central London is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 120 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 +13 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 30 16 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.51% 0.68% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.71% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 28
10th Percentile £251 £130 £231
25th Percentile £281 £185 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £250 £400
Median % change year-on-year +78.70% -37.50% -17.95%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £551
90th Percentile £675 £544 £608
London median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £19.00 £16.94 £16.75
% change year-on-year +12.16% +1.13% -25.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,853 2,264 3,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.61% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,572 2,383
10th Percentile £348 £350 £320
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £714
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 22
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.07 £15.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £51.31 £32.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £47.00 £87.97
London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.86% -25.84% +7.14%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Central London

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in Central London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in Central London

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in Central London

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
City of London +20 25 £480 +92.00% 43
West End of London - 3 £288 - 2
Administrator
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 Central London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 7 (23.33%) Finance
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) High Availability
3 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (16.67%) Replication
3 5 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.33%) Linux
4 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.33%) Clustering
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (13.33%) Azure
5 3 (10.00%) Data Entry
5 3 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (10.00%) Confluence
5 3 (10.00%) Terraform
5 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (10.00%) NFS
5 3 (10.00%) PMI
5 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.00%) Windows
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) ProjectWise
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Subversion
2 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) LDAP
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Replication
2 4 (13.33%) Clustering
3 3 (10.00%) PMI
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) AS400
5 1 (3.33%) iSeries
5 1 (3.33%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) OpenVMS
4 1 (3.33%) Solaris
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) High Availability
1 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps
2 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (10.00%) Data Entry
4 2 (6.67%) CRM
4 2 (6.67%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (6.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (6.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (6.67%) Migration
4 2 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (6.67%) Runbook
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (6.67%) Workflow
5 1 (3.33%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (3.33%) Records Management
5 1 (3.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) AWK
4 2 (6.67%) sed
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) NFS
2 2 (6.67%) GPFS
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas File System
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Control-M
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Netcool
3 1 (3.33%) QRadar
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) Civica
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) VMware