Administrator Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Administrator
England > East of England

The median Administrator daily rate in the East of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 51 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 48 35 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.00% 3.10% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.35% 3.48% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 11
10th Percentile £255 - £213
25th Percentile £359 £121 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £270 £325
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -16.92% -23.53%
75th Percentile £492 £434 £425
90th Percentile £525 £445 £480
England median daily rate £413 £413 £400
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.25 £13.63
25th Percentile £14.28 £12.81 -
Median hourly rate £17.69 £15.29 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +8.00% -80.60%
75th Percentile £20.35 £19.63 £20.00
90th Percentile £21.95 £22.48 £28.35
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.75 £21.32
% change year-on-year -10.43% -7.36% +25.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,433 1,006 1,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 89.11% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 447 866
10th Percentile £193 £220 £200
25th Percentile £340 £318 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £685 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 160 295
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.70 £21.46 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +24.15% +91.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +37.32%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Administrator job vacancy trend in the East of England

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the East of England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Hertfordshire +7 39 £450 +37.40% 34
Essex - 3 - - 28
Suffolk +6 2 - - 7
Cambridgeshire -8 2 £445 +3.49% 25
Bedfordshire -18 2 - - 14
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 29 December 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 East of England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (33.33%) Linux
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SAP
2 15 (31.25%) SLA
3 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
4 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (22.92%) Logistics
6 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
7 7 (14.58%) Time Management
8 6 (12.50%) Dell
8 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
9 5 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (10.42%) Customer Service
9 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
9 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (8.33%) Change Management
10 4 (8.33%) HP
10 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.33%) VMware
11 3 (6.25%) AI
11 3 (6.25%) Ansible
11 3 (6.25%) CentOS
11 3 (6.25%) Cisco
11 3 (6.25%) E-Commerce
11 3 (6.25%) Git
11 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
11 3 (6.25%) ITSM

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (6.25%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP IBP
1 3 (6.25%) Shopify
2 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) VLAN
1 2 (4.17%) Wireless
2 1 (2.08%) DHCP
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) RTP
2 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) SAP BW
1 3 (6.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Aviation
5 4 (8.33%) Finance
6 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Marketing
6 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.25%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) LDAP
1 3 (6.25%) SAP Basis
1 3 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.25%) Life Science
2 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) Clustering
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.25%) CentOS
3 3 (6.25%) Unix
3 3 (6.25%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Debian
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Logistics
2 7 (14.58%) Time Management
3 5 (10.42%) Customer Service
4 4 (8.33%) Change Management
4 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.25%) AI
5 3 (6.25%) E-Commerce
5 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
5 3 (6.25%) ITSM
5 3 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (6.25%) Problem Management
5 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.25%) SAP Security
5 3 (6.25%) Telesales
6 2 (4.17%) DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (4.17%) Order Management
6 2 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (4.17%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.17%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GAMP
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) Firmware
3 1 (2.08%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Ansible
1 3 (6.25%) Podman
2 2 (4.17%) Check_MK
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.08%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) SAP
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) Dell
4 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.33%) HP
5 4 (8.33%) VMware
6 3 (6.25%) Cisco
7 2 (4.17%) Intel
7 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.08%) Dialogic
8 1 (2.08%) Metaswitch
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle
8 1 (2.08%) Salesforce