Administrator Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Administrator
North West > Cheshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Cheshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 64 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 13 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.66% 1.37% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.52% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £400 - £199
25th Percentile - £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £338 £388
90th Percentile £538 - £410
North West median daily rate £438 £359 £275
% change year-on-year +21.87% +30.55% -33.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £12.82 - £10.93
25th Percentile £13.00 - £11.00
Median hourly rate £13.28 - £13.49
75th Percentile £13.57 - -
90th Percentile £13.74 - £19.94
North West median hourly rate £22.68 £20.26 £13.49
% change year-on-year +11.97% +50.15% -24.21%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 707 527 498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 90.09% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 391 344
10th Percentile £313 £308 £297
25th Percentile £405 £358 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £430 £464
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -7.32% -7.20%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £575
90th Percentile £651 £640 £629
North West median daily rate £490 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +8.89% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 26 33
10th Percentile £15.52 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £26.24 £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +23.08% -11.14%
75th Percentile £83.75 £46.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.63 -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £29.50
% change year-on-year +73.91% -2.54% +11.32%

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
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 20 July 2026. 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 -1 10 £450 +38.46% 1
Winsford - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - -
Administrator
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 2026, 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 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Data Guard
3 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Nagios
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN

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 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
1 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 12c
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Toad
General
1 2 (15.38%) Legal
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
1 3 (23.08%) High Availability
1 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
2 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
3 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Data Guard
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) vMotion
2 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware