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 2 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 163 144
Rank change year-on-year +37 -19 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 1,014 507 564
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 1.81% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.99% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 214 240
10th Percentile £160 £166 £187
25th Percentile £313 £277 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £428
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.43% +6.88%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £554
90th Percentile £600 £597 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 133 72
10th Percentile £13.03 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.71 £15.50 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -4.50% -29.03%
75th Percentile £18.67 £21.44 £26.23
90th Percentile £24.17 £24.33 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.02 £15.50 £16.58
% change year-on-year -3.10% -6.49% -22.15%

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 42,886 25,528 30,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 91.21% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,349 16,462 18,545
10th Percentile £325 £279 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,627 1,402 1,358
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.31 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.20%
75th Percentile £67.87 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +40 241 £450 +38.46% 169
London -26 215 £450 +9.42% 187
South East +4 199 £500 +26.58% 175
Midlands +20 168 £450 +28.57% 137
North West +17 141 £450 +38.46% 85
East of England +24 107 £325 -18.75% 86
West Midlands -6 95 £450 +38.46% 73
East Midlands +33 73 £150 -88.46% 64
South West -37 72 £385 -21.03% 85
Yorkshire +18 70 £466 -6.90% 59
North East -15 30 £400 +180.70% 28
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 297 (29.29%) Microsoft
2 209 (20.61%) Security Cleared
3 170 (16.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 161 (15.88%) SC Cleared
5 142 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (13.02%) Microsoft Office
7 117 (11.54%) Migration
8 109 (10.75%) Oracle
9 108 (10.65%) Customer Service
10 104 (10.26%) SAP
11 99 (9.76%) SharePoint
12 87 (8.58%) SQL
13 79 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
14 76 (7.50%) Data Entry
15 72 (7.10%) SQL Server
16 70 (6.90%) Data Quality
17 69 (6.80%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (6.80%) Windows
18 61 (6.02%) Azure
18 61 (6.02%) Data Management
18 61 (6.02%) ERP
19 57 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
20 56 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
21 55 (5.42%) Active Directory
21 55 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
21 55 (5.42%) Validation
22 54 (5.33%) Google
23 53 (5.23%) Time Management
24 52 (5.13%) ITIL
25 51 (5.03%) CRM

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 99 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.58%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.28%) CMS
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
6 4 (0.39%) JBoss
7 3 (0.30%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.099%) Apache
9 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.099%) CICS
9 1 (0.099%) Mendix
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 170 (16.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (13.02%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.79%) Windchill
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.49%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.39%) iTrent
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.099%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.099%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.099%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (6.02%) Azure
3 42 (4.14%) Google Workspace
4 38 (3.75%) AWS
5 31 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 22 (2.17%) SaaS
8 21 (2.07%) GCP
9 20 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.48%) Google Drive
11 15 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.28%) Google Sheets
13 12 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.99%) ShareGate
16 9 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (0.89%) AWS KMS
16 9 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.16%) DNS
2 18 (1.78%) SSL
3 14 (1.38%) DHCP
4 12 (1.18%) Firewall
5 11 (1.08%) DKIM
5 11 (1.08%) DMARC
6 10 (0.99%) SAN
7 6 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.49%) NAS
8 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.39%) Network Security
9 4 (0.39%) SNMP
9 4 (0.39%) VPN
9 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.30%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.30%) Wireless
11 2 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.20%) Junos
11 2 (0.20%) Skype
11 2 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 55 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (3.65%) MySQL
4 33 (3.25%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.66%) Power BI
6 19 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.69%) Metadata
10 7 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.69%) Redis
10 7 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.59%) GIS
12 5 (0.49%) Db2
12 5 (0.49%) MS Access
12 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 50 (4.93%) JIRA
2 7 (0.69%) Git
3 5 (0.49%) GitLab
3 5 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.20%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.20%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.20%) MSI
5 2 (0.20%) Toad
6 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.099%) Hudson
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.099%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.099%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.099%) TestRail
General
1 343 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 172 (16.96%) Organisational Skills
3 99 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.57%) Finance
5 69 (6.80%) Manufacturing
5 69 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.16%) Legal
7 30 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 26 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.87%) Banking
10 18 (1.78%) Retail
11 16 (1.58%) Local Government
12 15 (1.48%) Marketing
13 14 (1.38%) Military
14 11 (1.08%) Aviation
14 11 (1.08%) Billing
15 10 (0.99%) Law
15 10 (0.99%) Police
16 8 (0.79%) Advertising
17 7 (0.69%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.87%) Terraform
2 17 (1.68%) Middleware
3 14 (1.38%) ISPF
4 12 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.79%) OAuth
6 7 (0.69%) REST
7 6 (0.59%) Kafka
7 6 (0.59%) XML
8 5 (0.49%) HTML
8 5 (0.49%) JDBC
9 4 (0.39%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.39%) CSS
9 4 (0.39%) jQuery
9 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.30%) .NET
10 3 (0.30%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.20%) LDAP
11 2 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.20%) PCRE
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 53 (5.23%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.86%) Clustering
4 25 (2.47%) Replication
5 23 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.68%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
8 12 (1.18%) NHS
9 9 (0.89%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.69%) BYOD
10 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.59%) Blog
11 6 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.59%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.49%) CMDB
12 5 (0.49%) PKI
13 4 (0.39%) FMCG
13 4 (0.39%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.80%) Windows
2 41 (4.04%) Linux
3 32 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.68%) Unix
5 16 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.58%) zOS
6 14 (1.38%) Solaris
7 6 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.49%) AIX
8 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
12 1 (0.099%) Android
12 1 (0.099%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.099%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (11.54%) Migration
3 108 (10.65%) Customer Service
4 76 (7.50%) Data Entry
5 69 (6.80%) Performance Tuning
6 61 (6.02%) Data Management
6 61 (6.02%) ERP
7 57 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (5.42%) Validation
10 53 (5.23%) Time Management
11 52 (5.13%) ITIL
12 51 (5.03%) CRM
13 49 (4.83%) Logistics
14 45 (4.44%) Data Protection
15 44 (4.34%) Disaster Recovery
16 42 (4.14%) Change Management
17 38 (3.75%) Root Cause Analysis
18 37 (3.65%) High Availability
19 36 (3.55%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (8.58%) SQL
2 32 (3.16%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.17%) Python
4 8 (0.79%) C#
5 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.69%) Shell Script
6 6 (0.59%) Bash
7 5 (0.49%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.49%) Java
8 4 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.39%) Perl
8 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.30%) JCL
10 2 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.099%) Bicep
11 1 (0.099%) COBOL
11 1 (0.099%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.099%) SOQL
11 1 (0.099%) VBA
Qualifications
1 209 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 161 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.54%) Degree
4 38 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.08%) OCP
10 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.59%) CIPD
12 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.30%) CCA
13 3 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.30%) MCSA
13 3 (0.30%) MCSE
13 3 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.24%) GDPR
3 30 (2.96%) QA
4 14 (1.38%) SLA
5 12 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.69%) PMO
7 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.20%) GMP
8 2 (0.20%) GxP
8 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.099%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.099%) COSHH
9 1 (0.099%) GRC
9 1 (0.099%) HL7
9 1 (0.099%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.099%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.099%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.48%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.28%) RACF
5 10 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.49%) Docker
7 5 (0.49%) Firmware
8 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.39%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.20%) XenApp
9 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.099%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.099%) NFS
10 1 (0.099%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.099%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.78%) SCCM
3 14 (1.38%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.28%) OMEGAMON
5 10 (0.99%) Ansible
5 10 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.79%) SCOM
8 6 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.49%) Grafana
9 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.49%) Puppet
9 5 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.39%) WSUS
11 3 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 297 (29.29%) Microsoft
2 109 (10.75%) Oracle
3 104 (10.26%) SAP
4 54 (5.33%) Google
5 43 (4.24%) VMware
6 36 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.97%) IBM
8 14 (1.38%) Sage
9 13 (1.28%) Citrix
9 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.08%) Cisco
11 11 (1.08%) Workday
12 8 (0.79%) Remedy
13 7 (0.69%) Avature
13 7 (0.69%) Qualys
14 6 (0.59%) Ariba
14 6 (0.59%) Juniper
14 6 (0.59%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.59%) Splunk
831 Administrator jobs in England