Administrator Contracts in Cheshire

Administrator
North West > Cheshire

The median Administrator daily rate in Cheshire is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 47 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Administrator 8 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.26% 2.19% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 2.31% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £255 £418
25th Percentile £313 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -15.56% +17.34%
75th Percentile £338 £403 £475
90th Percentile - £416 £483
North West median daily rate £325 £275 £363
% change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £13.49 -
North West median hourly rate £20.26 £15.15 £20.58
% change year-on-year +33.72% -26.40% +39.90%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 566 476 353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 94.82% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 311 218
10th Percentile £275 £311 £275
25th Percentile £358 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £568 £588
90th Percentile £639 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.70 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.75 £13.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £37.08 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.63 £46.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £30.65
% change year-on-year -23.54% +7.33% +34.71%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northwich - 5 - -
Warrington -3 2 £325 -14.47% 5
Knutsford -18 1 - -
Administrator
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 Cheshire region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Data Entry
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) WSUS
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) SLA
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) vMotion
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) IIS
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Entry
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Password Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (25.00%) vMotion
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) CyberArk