Administrator Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Administrator
North West > Cheshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Cheshire is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 11 16 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.59% 2.99% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 3.20% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £233 £241 £325
25th Percentile £313 £264 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £315 £398
Median % change year-on-year +23.02% -20.75% -20.50%
75th Percentile £450 £354 £448
90th Percentile - £370 £472
North West median daily rate £325 £250 £375
% change year-on-year +30.00% -33.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £13.49 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year - -42.86% -
North West median hourly rate £21.10 £22.50 £20.58
% change year-on-year -6.22% +9.33% +28.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 616 500 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.28% 93.46% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 289 216
10th Percentile £275 £312 £258
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -6.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £575
90th Percentile £688 £645 £606
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.49 £16.80
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.08 £23.05 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -24.54% +40.22%
75th Percentile £36.86 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £24.88 £35.00 £31.77
% change year-on-year -28.91% +10.17% +39.65%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Administrator job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Cheshire

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in Cheshire

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Cheshire

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Warrington -3 6 £388 +1.97% 4
Northwich - 5 - -
Administrator
North West

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Data Entry
2 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
3 4 (36.36%) Data Validation
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) CRM
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) SCCM
4 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 3 (27.27%) McAfee
4 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (27.27%) Application Security
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (9.09%) DHCP
6 1 (9.09%) DNS
6 1 (9.09%) SLA
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (9.09%) IIS

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Entry
2 4 (36.36%) CRM
2 4 (36.36%) Data Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Application Security
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
4 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) vMotion
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) McAfee
3 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 1 (9.09%) VMware