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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 947 515 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 1.87% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 2.05% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 217 257
10th Percentile £185 £178 £195
25th Percentile £350 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £575
90th Percentile £600 £594 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £444
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.86% +10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 135 78
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.00 £11.44
25th Percentile £13.53 £13.43 £12.25
Median hourly rate £15.72 £15.50 £15.87
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -2.30% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.44 £25.49
90th Percentile £24.19 £24.15 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.04 £15.50 £16.58
% change year-on-year -2.97% -6.49% -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 42,472 25,165 30,541
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 91.31% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,344 16,231 19,205
10th Percentile £325 £280 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,400 1,346 1,510
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.64
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +25 226 £450 +24.14% 142
London -14 225 £450 +9.09% 159
South East -2 170 £513 +29.75% 161
Midlands +21 160 £450 +25.87% 96
North West +9 137 £450 +38.46% 60
West Midlands -9 96 £450 +38.46% 43
East of England +13 95 £300 -25.00% 74
East Midlands +26 64 £225 -82.69% 53
Yorkshire +8 63 £450 -14.29% 57
South West -50 61 £393 -19.90% 75
North East -17 26 £438 +45.83% 28
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 243 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 205 (21.65%) Security Cleared
3 158 (16.68%) SC Cleared
4 136 (14.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 132 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (11.83%) Migration
7 107 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
8 102 (10.77%) Oracle
9 95 (10.03%) SharePoint
10 81 (8.55%) SQL
11 78 (8.24%) SAP
12 74 (7.81%) Customer Service
13 71 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (7.39%) Performance Tuning
14 70 (7.39%) SQL Server
15 68 (7.18%) Windows
16 66 (6.97%) Data Entry
16 66 (6.97%) Data Quality
17 63 (6.65%) Azure
18 59 (6.23%) Active Directory
18 59 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (6.23%) ITIL
19 54 (5.70%) Validation
20 53 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
21 51 (5.39%) Stakeholder Management
22 48 (5.07%) JIRA
23 47 (4.96%) Linux
24 45 (4.75%) Data Management
24 45 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
24 45 (4.75%) Time Management

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 95 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.69%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.37%) Confluence
5 12 (1.27%) CMS
6 4 (0.42%) JBoss
7 3 (0.32%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.32%) WordPress
8 2 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.11%) CICS
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 136 (14.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.74%) Windchill
6 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) NetSuite
1 8 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.42%) iTrent
3 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.32%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.32%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) Magento
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (6.65%) Azure
3 37 (3.91%) AWS
4 31 (3.27%) Google Workspace
5 29 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.64%) SaaS
7 24 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 21 (2.22%) GCP
9 18 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.48%) Google Drive
10 14 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.16%) Google Sheets
11 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.06%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.06%) ShareGate
12 10 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.80%) DNS
2 18 (1.90%) SSL
3 15 (1.58%) DHCP
4 13 (1.37%) Firewall
5 11 (1.16%) DKIM
5 11 (1.16%) DMARC
6 9 (0.95%) SAN
7 6 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.42%) NAS
8 4 (0.42%) Network Security
8 4 (0.42%) SNMP
8 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.42%) VPN
9 3 (0.32%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.32%) WAN
9 3 (0.32%) Wireless
10 2 (0.21%) BGP
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) MPLS
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 53 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (3.48%) MySQL
3 33 (3.48%) Oracle Database
4 26 (2.75%) Power BI
5 17 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
10 8 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.74%) Redis
12 6 (0.63%) GIS
12 6 (0.63%) Metadata
13 5 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.42%) Big Data
14 4 (0.42%) Db2
14 4 (0.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (5.07%) JIRA
2 8 (0.84%) Git
3 7 (0.74%) GitLab
3 7 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.21%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.21%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.21%) MSI
5 2 (0.21%) Toad
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) Hudson
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 284 (29.99%) Social Skills
2 141 (14.89%) Organisational Skills
3 93 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (8.98%) Finance
5 73 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 28 (2.96%) Legal
8 24 (2.53%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.11%) Banking
10 17 (1.80%) Marketing
11 16 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.48%) Retail
13 13 (1.37%) Military
14 11 (1.16%) Law
14 11 (1.16%) Local Government
15 10 (1.06%) Police
16 9 (0.95%) Aviation
17 7 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.53%) Back Office
18 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.11%) Middleware
2 16 (1.69%) Terraform
3 14 (1.48%) ISPF
4 13 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (1.16%) REST
6 8 (0.84%) OAuth
7 7 (0.74%) HTML
8 6 (0.63%) CSS
8 6 (0.63%) Kafka
9 5 (0.53%) XML
10 4 (0.42%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.42%) JDBC
10 4 (0.42%) jQuery
10 4 (0.42%) LDAP
10 4 (0.42%) Software Packaging
11 3 (0.32%) .NET
11 3 (0.32%) Lightning Web Components
12 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (0.21%) PCRE
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.44%) Management Information System
2 44 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.06%) Clustering
4 25 (2.64%) Replication
5 23 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 17 (1.80%) Mainframe
6 17 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (0.74%) BYOD
8 7 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.74%) NHS
9 6 (0.63%) Blog
10 5 (0.53%) CMDB
10 5 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.53%) PKI
11 4 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.42%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.42%) EPoS
11 4 (0.42%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.18%) Windows
2 47 (4.96%) Linux
3 32 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.90%) Unix
6 16 (1.69%) zOS
7 11 (1.16%) Solaris
8 5 (0.53%) AIX
8 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.42%) CentOS
9 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (11.83%) Migration
3 74 (7.81%) Customer Service
4 70 (7.39%) Performance Tuning
5 66 (6.97%) Data Entry
6 59 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (6.23%) ITIL
7 54 (5.70%) Validation
8 51 (5.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (4.75%) Data Management
9 45 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (4.75%) Time Management
10 44 (4.65%) Change Management
11 42 (4.44%) CRM
11 42 (4.44%) ERP
11 42 (4.44%) High Availability
12 37 (3.91%) DevOps
12 37 (3.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 36 (3.80%) Logistics
13 36 (3.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 81 (8.55%) SQL
2 35 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 25 (2.64%) Python
4 11 (1.16%) Shell Script
5 9 (0.95%) C#
6 8 (0.84%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.63%) Bash
8 5 (0.53%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.53%) Java
9 4 (0.42%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.42%) Perl
9 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.32%) Groovy
10 3 (0.32%) JCL
11 2 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.11%) Bicep
12 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.11%) SOQL
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 158 (16.68%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.22%) Degree
4 37 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.16%) OCP
10 7 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.42%) CIPD
13 3 (0.32%) CCA
13 3 (0.32%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.32%) MCSA
13 3 (0.32%) MCSE
13 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.27%) GDPR
3 29 (3.06%) QA
4 17 (1.80%) SLA
5 9 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.63%) PMO
7 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.21%) GMP
8 2 (0.21%) GxP
8 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.11%) COSHH
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.37%) RACF
5 12 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.53%) Docker
8 5 (0.53%) Firmware
9 4 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.42%) vSphere
10 2 (0.21%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.21%) XenApp
10 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.11%) NFS
11 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.90%) SCCM
3 15 (1.58%) Ansible
3 15 (1.58%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.37%) OMEGAMON
4 13 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (0.84%) SCOM
7 6 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.53%) Check_MK
8 5 (0.53%) Grafana
8 5 (0.53%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.53%) Podman
8 5 (0.53%) Puppet
8 5 (0.53%) WSUS
9 4 (0.42%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 243 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.77%) Oracle
3 78 (8.24%) SAP
4 45 (4.75%) VMware
5 42 (4.44%) Google
6 40 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.22%) IBM
8 19 (2.01%) Avature
9 15 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 14 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.37%) Citrix
12 12 (1.27%) Cisco
13 10 (1.06%) Sage
14 8 (0.84%) Remedy
14 8 (0.84%) Workday
15 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.74%) Qualys
15 7 (0.74%) SolarWinds
15 7 (0.74%) Splunk
16 6 (0.63%) Juniper