Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 174 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 -53 +57
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 695 379 709
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.54% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.66% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 189 352
10th Percentile £203 £204 £158
25th Percentile £334 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +4.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £569
90th Percentile £575 £575 £599
UK median daily rate £438 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 58 220
10th Percentile £13.01 £12.94 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.05 £13.39 £11.95
Median hourly rate £17.69 £14.00 £13.64
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% +2.66% -47.55%
75th Percentile £22.63 £24.08 £17.30
90th Percentile £57.25 £30.63 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.13 £16.00 £13.39
% change year-on-year +7.03% +19.53% -48.42%

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 36,659 22,788 34,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.72% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,966 15,194 23,034
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 881 2,397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £19.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.06% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -4 180 £425 +0.77% 59
North of England -2 159 £429 +19.36% 66
East of England +47 115 £373 -13.37% 33
Midlands -14 93 £438 +32.58% 48
North West -9 88 £408 +13.51% 33
South East -30 81 £350 -6.67% 74
West Midlands -34 66 £438 +32.58% 28
South West -11 63 £525 +11.11% 25
Yorkshire -12 56 £438 -7.89% 17
East Midlands -8 27 £475 +17.21% 20
North East -8 15 £438 +29.63% 16
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 166 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 152 (21.87%) Microsoft
3 129 (18.56%) SC Cleared
4 108 (15.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 91 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (10.94%) SAP
7 72 (10.36%) Linux
8 62 (8.92%) Change Management
8 62 (8.92%) Migration
9 59 (8.49%) Azure
10 55 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (7.77%) Active Directory
12 53 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
12 53 (7.63%) SharePoint
13 51 (7.34%) Oracle
14 44 (6.33%) Windows
15 41 (5.90%) ITIL
15 41 (5.90%) SLA
15 41 (5.90%) Workflow
16 39 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
16 39 (5.61%) SaaS
17 37 (5.32%) SQL
18 36 (5.18%) DevOps
19 35 (5.04%) Python
20 34 (4.89%) JIRA
20 34 (4.89%) ServiceNow
20 34 (4.89%) Time Management
21 33 (4.75%) DV Cleared
21 33 (4.75%) Google
22 32 (4.60%) Customer Service

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 53 (7.63%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.16%) Confluence
4 4 (0.58%) CMS
4 4 (0.58%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.29%) Drupal
5 2 (0.29%) IIS
5 2 (0.29%) Moodle
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 108 (15.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.74%) Spreadsheet
4 21 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.58%) Maximo
2 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.58%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) iTrent
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 59 (8.49%) Azure
2 53 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (5.61%) SaaS
4 30 (4.32%) Entra ID
5 26 (3.74%) AWS
6 23 (3.31%) GCP
7 19 (2.73%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.73%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.87%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.73%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.44%) GitHub
10 10 (1.44%) Serverless
11 9 (1.29%) IaaS
12 8 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.15%) PaaS
12 8 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.01%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.17%) DNS
2 16 (2.30%) Firewall
3 14 (2.01%) Network Security
4 12 (1.73%) DHCP
5 10 (1.44%) VPN
6 9 (1.29%) DKIM
6 9 (1.29%) DMARC
6 9 (1.29%) SAN
7 8 (1.15%) LAN
8 6 (0.86%) WebEx
9 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.58%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.58%) NAS
9 4 (0.58%) WAN
9 4 (0.58%) Wireless
9 4 (0.58%) WLAN
10 3 (0.43%) Intranet
10 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.43%) VoIP
11 2 (0.29%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.45%) Oracle Database
4 16 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 12 (1.73%) Power BI
6 11 (1.58%) MySQL
7 10 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.01%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (0.43%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.43%) Big Data
13 3 (0.43%) GIS
13 3 (0.43%) Impala
13 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (4.89%) JIRA
2 20 (2.88%) GitLab
2 20 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.45%) Git
4 5 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.29%) Subversion
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 158 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 71 (10.22%) Finance
3 64 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 55 (7.91%) Organisational Skills
5 53 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.74%) Legal
8 21 (3.02%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.88%) Banking
10 13 (1.87%) Marketing
11 12 (1.73%) Publishing
12 10 (1.44%) Aviation
12 10 (1.44%) Military
13 9 (1.29%) Local Government
13 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.15%) Law
14 8 (1.15%) Retail
15 7 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.72%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.16%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.58%) ISPF
2 11 (1.58%) Middleware
3 10 (1.44%) JSON
3 10 (1.44%) REST
4 9 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.29%) LDAP
5 7 (1.01%) .NET
5 7 (1.01%) YAML
6 6 (0.86%) XMPP
7 5 (0.72%) HTML
7 5 (0.72%) OAuth
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.72%) XML
8 4 (0.58%) CSS
8 4 (0.58%) Node.js
9 3 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.43%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.43%) Kafka
10 2 (0.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.63%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.02%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.01%) Mainframe
4 14 (2.01%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.73%) NHS
6 11 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.44%) Clustering
8 9 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
9 8 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.15%) PKI
9 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.01%) Replication
11 6 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.86%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.72%) Fat Client
12 5 (0.72%) Thin Client
13 4 (0.58%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.36%) Linux
2 44 (6.33%) Windows
3 25 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.01%) Unix
4 14 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.44%) CentOS
6 5 (0.72%) AIX
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) Debian
9 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.14%) MVS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (8.92%) Change Management
2 62 (8.92%) Migration
3 55 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (5.90%) ITIL
4 41 (5.90%) Workflow
5 36 (5.18%) DevOps
6 34 (4.89%) Time Management
7 32 (4.60%) Customer Service
7 32 (4.60%) High Availability
8 31 (4.46%) Performance Tuning
9 30 (4.32%) Data Protection
10 28 (4.03%) ITSM
10 28 (4.03%) Service Delivery
11 26 (3.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (3.74%) Project Delivery
12 25 (3.60%) SAP Security
12 25 (3.60%) Service Management
13 24 (3.45%) Agile
14 23 (3.31%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.32%) SQL
2 35 (5.04%) Python
3 29 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 17 (2.45%) Shell Script
5 13 (1.87%) Bash
6 12 (1.73%) REXX
7 11 (1.58%) CLIST
7 11 (1.58%) COBOL
7 11 (1.58%) JCL
8 10 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.29%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.01%) C#
10 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.86%) Perl
12 3 (0.43%) Groovy
12 3 (0.43%) VBA
13 2 (0.29%) C++
13 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 166 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 129 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.75%) DV Cleared
4 29 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.74%) Degree
6 20 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.01%) CCNP
7 7 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.86%) OCP
8 6 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.58%) CCIE
9 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.58%) MOS
10 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.90%) SLA
2 24 (3.45%) GDPR
3 19 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.01%) PMO
5 6 (0.86%) QA
6 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.43%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 54 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.58%) ACF2
3 11 (1.58%) RACF
3 11 (1.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 8 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.01%) Docker
5 7 (1.01%) Firmware
6 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.43%) HDFS
8 3 (0.43%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.29%) QEMU
9 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.29%) XenApp
9 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.14%) GPFS
10 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (4.17%) Ansible
2 24 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (2.73%) Terraform
4 14 (2.01%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 11 (1.58%) CA Endevor
6 11 (1.58%) Podman
6 11 (1.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.44%) Grafana
7 10 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (1.44%) Tivoli
8 9 (1.29%) Check_MK
9 8 (1.15%) SCCM
10 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.72%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.43%) WSUS
14 2 (0.29%) Norton AntiVirus
14 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 152 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.94%) SAP
3 51 (7.34%) Oracle
4 34 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 33 (4.75%) Google
6 29 (4.17%) Avature
6 29 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 24 (3.45%) VMware
8 22 (3.17%) Salesforce
9 17 (2.45%) Cisco
10 15 (2.16%) Okta
11 11 (1.58%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.58%) Citrix
12 9 (1.29%) Sage
13 8 (1.15%) IBM
14 6 (0.86%) Dell
14 6 (0.86%) HP
14 6 (0.86%) SolarWinds
15 5 (0.72%) Workday
16 4 (0.58%) F5
270 Administrator jobs in England