Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 159 145
Rank change year-on-year +38 -14 +32
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 1,037 502 562
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 1.79% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.97% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 212 238
10th Percentile £158 £163 £196
25th Percentile £308 £267 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.91% +6.28%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £551
90th Percentile £600 £599 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 135 70
10th Percentile £13.03 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.75 £13.50 £13.49
Median hourly rate £15.70 £15.60 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -3.88% -31.26%
75th Percentile £18.67 £21.44 £25.49
90th Percentile £24.19 £24.15 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £15.60 £16.58
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.88% -24.66%

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 42,578 25,492 30,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,092 16,398 18,391
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,683 1,411 1,311
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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
North of England +52 240 £450 +39.53% 172
London -19 223 £450 +12.50% 185
South East +12 205 £500 +26.58% 162
Midlands +27 169 £450 +28.57% 112
North West +24 141 £450 +38.46% 88
East of England +22 114 £350 -12.50% 70
West Midlands -9 93 £450 +38.46% 58
East Midlands +35 76 £150 -88.46% 53
South West -41 76 £385 -21.03% 74
Yorkshire +16 71 £466 +28.41% 59
North East -14 28 £400 +180.70% 28
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 317 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 212 (20.44%) Security Cleared
3 181 (17.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 163 (15.72%) SC Cleared
5 151 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
7 116 (11.19%) Customer Service
8 115 (11.09%) Migration
9 113 (10.90%) SAP
10 106 (10.22%) Oracle
11 97 (9.35%) SharePoint
12 88 (8.49%) SQL
13 84 (8.10%) Data Entry
14 76 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
15 74 (7.14%) Data Quality
16 71 (6.85%) SQL Server
17 70 (6.75%) Performance Tuning
18 69 (6.65%) Data Management
19 68 (6.56%) Windows
20 64 (6.17%) ERP
21 61 (5.88%) Azure
22 60 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
23 58 (5.59%) Validation
24 56 (5.40%) Continuous Improvement
25 55 (5.30%) CRM
25 55 (5.30%) Time Management
26 54 (5.21%) Google
26 54 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
27 53 (5.11%) Active Directory
28 52 (5.01%) ITIL

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 97 (9.35%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.54%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.25%) CMS
5 7 (0.68%) Confluence
6 4 (0.39%) JBoss
7 3 (0.29%) IIS
8 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.096%) Apache
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.096%) CICS
9 1 (0.096%) Mendix
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
Applications
1 181 (17.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.51%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.77%) Windchill
6 1 (0.096%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.096%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.096%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.48%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.39%) iTrent
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) SAP CS
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.096%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.096%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (5.88%) Azure
3 40 (3.86%) AWS
3 40 (3.86%) Google Workspace
4 35 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.41%) Entra ID
6 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
7 20 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (1.93%) GCP
8 19 (1.83%) SaaS
9 16 (1.54%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.45%) Google Drive
10 15 (1.45%) Google Sheets
11 12 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (0.96%) AWS KMS
12 10 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.96%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.89%) DNS
2 18 (1.74%) SSL
3 14 (1.35%) DHCP
4 12 (1.16%) Firewall
5 10 (0.96%) DKIM
5 10 (0.96%) DMARC
6 9 (0.87%) SAN
7 6 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.39%) NAS
9 4 (0.39%) Network Security
9 4 (0.39%) SNMP
9 4 (0.39%) VPN
9 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.29%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.29%) Wireless
11 2 (0.19%) BGP
11 2 (0.19%) MPLS
11 2 (0.19%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 54 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (3.66%) MySQL
4 33 (3.18%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.80%) Power BI
6 20 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.77%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) Metadata
11 7 (0.68%) MS Access
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.58%) GIS
13 5 (0.48%) Db2
13 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 51 (4.92%) JIRA
2 7 (0.68%) Git
3 5 (0.48%) GitLab
3 5 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.19%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.19%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.19%) MSI
5 2 (0.19%) Toad
6 1 (0.096%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.096%) Hudson
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.096%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.096%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.096%) TestRail
General
1 365 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.45%) Organisational Skills
3 102 (9.84%) Finance
4 101 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 33 (3.18%) Aerospace
8 32 (3.09%) Legal
9 28 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.83%) Banking
10 19 (1.83%) Retail
11 16 (1.54%) Local Government
12 14 (1.35%) Marketing
13 13 (1.25%) Aviation
14 11 (1.06%) Billing
14 11 (1.06%) Military
15 10 (0.96%) Advertising
15 10 (0.96%) Police
16 9 (0.87%) Law
17 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.03%) Terraform
2 17 (1.64%) Middleware
3 14 (1.35%) ISPF
4 12 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.77%) OAuth
5 8 (0.77%) XML
6 6 (0.58%) Kafka
6 6 (0.58%) REST
7 5 (0.48%) HTML
7 5 (0.48%) JDBC
8 4 (0.39%) .NET
8 4 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.39%) CSS
8 4 (0.39%) jQuery
8 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.19%) LDAP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.19%) PCRE
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.10%) Management Information System
2 58 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.80%) Clustering
4 26 (2.51%) Replication
5 25 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.16%) NHS
9 10 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.68%) BYOD
11 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.68%) Housing Association
12 6 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.58%) Blog
12 6 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.48%) CMDB
13 5 (0.48%) FMCG
13 5 (0.48%) PKI
14 4 (0.39%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.56%) Windows
2 41 (3.95%) Linux
3 31 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.64%) Unix
5 16 (1.54%) zOS
6 14 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.35%) Solaris
7 6 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.48%) AIX
8 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.19%) CentOS
12 1 (0.096%) Android
12 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.096%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (11.19%) Customer Service
3 115 (11.09%) Migration
4 84 (8.10%) Data Entry
5 70 (6.75%) Performance Tuning
6 69 (6.65%) Data Management
7 64 (6.17%) ERP
8 60 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (5.59%) Validation
10 56 (5.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (5.30%) CRM
11 55 (5.30%) Time Management
12 52 (5.01%) ITIL
13 51 (4.92%) Logistics
14 46 (4.44%) Data Protection
15 45 (4.34%) Disaster Recovery
16 39 (3.76%) Change Management
16 39 (3.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 37 (3.57%) DevOps
17 37 (3.57%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.49%) SQL
2 32 (3.09%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.22%) Python
4 8 (0.77%) C#
5 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 6 (0.58%) Bash
7 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.48%) Java
8 4 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.39%) Perl
8 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.29%) JCL
10 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.096%) Bicep
11 1 (0.096%) COBOL
11 1 (0.096%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.096%) SOQL
11 1 (0.096%) VBA
Qualifications
1 212 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 163 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.63%) Degree
4 38 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.06%) OCP
10 8 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.58%) CIPD
12 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.29%) CCA
13 3 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.29%) MCSA
13 3 (0.29%) MCSE
13 3 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.24%) GDPR
3 30 (2.89%) QA
4 13 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.25%) SLA
5 8 (0.77%) PMO
6 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.19%) GMP
7 2 (0.19%) GxP
7 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.096%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.096%) COSHH
8 1 (0.096%) GRC
8 1 (0.096%) HL7
8 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.096%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.25%) RACF
5 10 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.48%) Docker
6 5 (0.48%) Firmware
6 5 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.39%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) PowerHA
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.19%) XenApp
8 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.096%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.096%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.096%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.096%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.74%) SCCM
3 14 (1.35%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.25%) OMEGAMON
5 10 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.87%) Ansible
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.77%) SCOM
8 6 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.48%) Grafana
9 5 (0.48%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.48%) Puppet
10 4 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.39%) WSUS
11 3 (0.29%) Podman
11 3 (0.29%) vMotion
Vendors
1 317 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 113 (10.90%) SAP
3 106 (10.22%) Oracle
4 54 (5.21%) Google
5 42 (4.05%) VMware
6 38 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.93%) IBM
8 14 (1.35%) Sage
9 13 (1.25%) Citrix
9 13 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.06%) Cisco
11 11 (1.06%) Workday
12 8 (0.77%) Remedy
13 7 (0.68%) Qualys
14 6 (0.58%) Ariba
14 6 (0.58%) Juniper
14 6 (0.58%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.58%) Splunk
15 5 (0.48%) BMC