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 £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 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
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 39 40 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.01% 2.62% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.56% 2.98% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 18
10th Percentile £150 £104 £191
25th Percentile £231 £121 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £255 £413
Median % change year-on-year +56.86% -38.18% +3.13%
75th Percentile £506 £363 £500
90th Percentile £525 £420 £550
England median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £12.63 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £13.69 £14.33
Median hourly rate £18.90 £14.78 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% -15.54% +29.63%
75th Percentile £22.63 £15.73 £19.50
90th Percentile - £17.46 £20.80
England median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.13% -36.00% +71.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,094 1,343 1,664
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.41% 88.01% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 539 991
10th Percentile £187 £204 £200
25th Percentile £363 £306 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.76% +0.53%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £600
90th Percentile £688 £615 £704
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 369 248
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.42 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £38.00 £47.50 £40.38
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% +103.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £84.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -47.05% +6.15% +68.87%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +3 19 £400 +284.02% 12
Cambridgeshire +13 14 £250 -23.08% 12
Norfolk -9 3 £500 +75.44% 5
Suffolk +3 2 - - 10
Essex -2 1 - - 15
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 12 September 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 East of England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) AWS
3 12 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 11 (28.21%) SAP
4 11 (28.21%) Python
4 11 (28.21%) Ansible
5 10 (25.64%) Linux
6 9 (23.08%) DNS
6 9 (23.08%) Shell Script
6 9 (23.08%) ITSM
6 9 (23.08%) GitLab
6 9 (23.08%) JIRA
6 9 (23.08%) PCI DSS
6 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 8 (20.51%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (20.51%) TeamCity
8 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
8 7 (17.95%) VMware
8 7 (17.95%) Degree
9 6 (15.38%) Finance
9 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
9 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.38%) Terraform
10 5 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (12.82%) OpenStack
10 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
10 5 (12.82%) iSCSI
10 5 (12.82%) Computer Science

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (12.82%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.69%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (5.13%) Azure
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) DNS
2 5 (12.82%) iSCSI
2 5 (12.82%) SAN
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) VLAN
4 2 (5.13%) BGP
4 2 (5.13%) OSPF
4 2 (5.13%) VPN
4 2 (5.13%) Wireless
5 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
5 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.69%) SAP BW
1 3 (7.69%) SAP HANA
1 3 (7.69%) Sqoop
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) GitLab
1 9 (23.08%) JIRA
2 8 (20.51%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.26%) Aviation
4 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) SAP Basis
1 3 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
1 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.13%) Life Science
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) CentOS
2 5 (12.82%) Ubuntu
3 4 (10.26%) Windows
4 3 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
1 9 (23.08%) ITSM
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
4 4 (10.26%) Change Management
4 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.26%) Data Science
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.26%) Network Management
4 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Security
5 3 (7.69%) Asset Management
5 3 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 3 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 3 (7.69%) Logistics
5 3 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Ansible
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.26%) Puppet
3 4 (10.26%) Salt
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 12 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 11 (28.21%) SAP
3 7 (17.95%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Twitter
5 3 (7.69%) Informatica
6 2 (5.13%) Ariba
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) Dell
6 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.13%) Huawei
6 2 (5.13%) Intel
6 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) Adobe
7 1 (2.56%) Snow
7 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds