Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 163 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 -47 +59
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 743 420 713
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.70% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.84% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 198 338
10th Percentile £200 £190 £164
25th Percentile £350 £281 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £419 £428
Median % change year-on-year +4.54% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £490 £575
90th Percentile £600 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £447 £400 £431
% change year-on-year +11.75% -7.19% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 80 235
10th Percentile £13.00 - £11.12
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.70% -42.06%
75th Percentile £22.63 £19.13 £17.34
90th Percentile £34.62 £30.29 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.13 £14.00 £13.51
% change year-on-year +22.32% +3.63% -39.96%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 39,592 22,802 34,769
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.33% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,389 14,983 22,663
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,786 1,008 2,673
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.28 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Administrator job vacancy trend in England

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
London -28 180 £438 +2.94% 70
North of England -4 168 £438 +21.87% 55
South East -11 116 £450 +9.09% 84
East of England +30 110 £356 -16.18% 35
Midlands -23 100 £440 +33.33% 51
North West -8 93 £424 +19.71% 33
West Midlands -41 69 £445 +34.85% 36
South West -19 61 £525 +10.53% 50
Yorkshire -19 57 £438 -20.45% 16
East Midlands +1 31 £413 +32.00% 16
North East -19 18 £438 +29.63% 6
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 187 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 145 (19.52%) Microsoft
3 139 (18.71%) SC Cleared
4 103 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 94 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (11.17%) Migration
7 77 (10.36%) SAP
8 72 (9.69%) SharePoint
9 63 (8.48%) Active Directory
9 63 (8.48%) Oracle
10 60 (8.08%) Windows
11 59 (7.94%) Change Management
12 58 (7.81%) Linux
13 56 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
14 55 (7.40%) Azure
15 51 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (6.19%) Workflow
17 44 (5.92%) ITIL
18 43 (5.79%) DV Cleared
18 43 (5.79%) Performance Tuning
18 43 (5.79%) SQL
19 41 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
20 38 (5.11%) Data Quality
20 38 (5.11%) Degree
20 38 (5.11%) VMware
21 37 (4.98%) Google
21 37 (4.98%) SaaS
21 37 (4.98%) Salesforce
22 34 (4.58%) Data Management
22 34 (4.58%) High Availability

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 72 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.88%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.75%) Confluence
5 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 103 (13.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.10%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Windchill
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.54%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 56 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (7.40%) Azure
3 37 (4.98%) SaaS
4 24 (3.23%) Google Workspace
5 23 (3.10%) Entra ID
5 23 (3.10%) Power Platform
6 21 (2.83%) AWS
6 21 (2.83%) GCP
7 14 (1.88%) Google Drive
8 12 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.08%) Asana
10 8 (1.08%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.08%) ShareGate
11 6 (0.81%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.67%) GitHub
12 5 (0.67%) IaaS
12 5 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.44%) DNS
2 16 (2.15%) DHCP
3 11 (1.48%) DKIM
3 11 (1.48%) DMARC
3 11 (1.48%) Firewall
3 11 (1.48%) Network Security
3 11 (1.48%) SAN
4 8 (1.08%) SSL
5 6 (0.81%) NAS
6 5 (0.67%) LAN
7 4 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (0.54%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.40%) Intranet
8 3 (0.40%) PSTN
8 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.40%) WebEx
9 2 (0.27%) BGP
9 2 (0.27%) H.323
9 2 (0.27%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.31%) Oracle Database
2 31 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.42%) Power BI
5 10 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.35%) MySQL
6 8 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
8 6 (0.81%) GIS
8 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.40%) Metadata
11 3 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 33 (4.44%) JIRA
2 18 (2.42%) GitLab
2 18 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.15%) Git
4 5 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.40%) MSI
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.27%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.27%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.13%) Hudson
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 160 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 77 (10.36%) Finance
3 70 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 68 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (3.77%) Aerospace
7 25 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.10%) Legal
9 20 (2.69%) Banking
10 16 (2.15%) Aviation
11 15 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.62%) Military
13 10 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.35%) Law
13 10 (1.35%) Marketing
13 10 (1.35%) Publishing
14 9 (1.21%) Local Government
14 9 (1.21%) Police
15 7 (0.94%) Retail
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.83%) Middleware
2 11 (1.48%) ISPF
2 11 (1.48%) LDAP
2 11 (1.48%) SAP Basis
3 8 (1.08%) REST
4 7 (0.94%) OAuth
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
6 4 (0.54%) CSS
6 4 (0.54%) HTML
7 3 (0.40%) .NET
7 3 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.40%) XML
7 3 (0.40%) XMPP
8 2 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.27%) jQuery
8 2 (0.27%) JSON
8 2 (0.27%) YAML
9 1 (0.13%) Kafka
9 1 (0.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.02%) Clustering
5 14 (1.88%) Mainframe
6 12 (1.62%) Freedom of Information
6 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.35%) NHS
7 10 (1.35%) Replication
7 10 (1.35%) Taxonomies
8 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.81%) PKI
9 5 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.54%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.40%) CMDB
11 3 (0.40%) Life Science
11 3 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (8.08%) Windows
2 58 (7.81%) Linux
3 26 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.02%) Unix
6 11 (1.48%) CentOS
7 7 (0.94%) AIX
7 7 (0.94%) zOS
8 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.27%) Debian
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) MVS
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (11.17%) Migration
3 59 (7.94%) Change Management
4 51 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (6.19%) Workflow
6 44 (5.92%) ITIL
7 43 (5.79%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (4.58%) Data Management
8 34 (4.58%) High Availability
9 30 (4.04%) DevOps
10 28 (3.77%) Data Entry
11 27 (3.63%) ITSM
11 27 (3.63%) Validation
12 26 (3.50%) Customer Service
12 26 (3.50%) Data Protection
13 25 (3.36%) ERP
13 25 (3.36%) SAP Security
14 24 (3.23%) Time Management
15 23 (3.10%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (3.10%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.79%) SQL
2 32 (4.31%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.36%) Python
4 19 (2.56%) Shell Script
5 11 (1.48%) MATLAB
5 11 (1.48%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.08%) Bash
6 8 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.81%) C#
8 4 (0.54%) COBOL
8 4 (0.54%) JCL
8 4 (0.54%) REXX
9 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.40%) CLIST
9 3 (0.40%) Groovy
9 3 (0.40%) Java
9 3 (0.40%) Perl
10 2 (0.27%) C++
10 2 (0.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 139 (18.71%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.11%) Degree
5 31 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.67%) CCNP
7 5 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (0.54%) OCP
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.40%) CCA
9 3 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (0.40%) MCSA
9 3 (0.40%) MCSE
10 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.44%) SLA
3 21 (2.83%) GDPR
4 9 (1.21%) QA
5 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.54%) PMO
7 3 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.40%) NIST
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (8.48%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.35%) RACF
5 9 (1.21%) Firmware
5 9 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.40%) ACF2
8 3 (0.40%) Docker
8 3 (0.40%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.40%) vSphere
9 2 (0.27%) QEMU
9 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.27%) XenApp
9 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (3.36%) Ansible
2 20 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (2.56%) SCCM
4 13 (1.75%) Podman
5 11 (1.48%) Check_MK
5 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
6 9 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.21%) Terraform
7 8 (1.08%) Data Guard
8 7 (0.94%) Kubernetes
8 7 (0.94%) OMEGAMON
8 7 (0.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.67%) SCOM
11 4 (0.54%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.54%) Grafana
11 4 (0.54%) WSUS
12 3 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 145 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.36%) SAP
3 63 (8.48%) Oracle
4 38 (5.11%) VMware
5 37 (4.98%) Google
5 37 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.90%) Avature
7 24 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 24 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.15%) IBM
9 14 (1.88%) Cisco
10 13 (1.75%) Citrix
11 11 (1.48%) Okta
12 7 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.94%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.81%) Qualys
13 6 (0.81%) Sage
14 4 (0.54%) Dell
14 4 (0.54%) Juniper
14 4 (0.54%) NetApp
321 Administrator jobs in England