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 24 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 160 135
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 +53
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 977 505 577
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 1.81% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 1.99% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 211 248
10th Percentile £170 £176 £185
25th Percentile £325 £269 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.19% +7.75%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £565
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £430
% change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 132 77
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.00 £11.86
25th Percentile £13.74 £13.46 £13.00
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -3.13% -36.00%
75th Percentile £18.67 £21.44 £25.99
90th Percentile £24.19 £24.41 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.02 £15.50 £16.65
% change year-on-year -3.10% -6.91% -24.32%

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 42,964 25,407 30,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 91.30% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,379 18,703
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,556 1,389 1,420
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +36 234 £450 +38.46% 190
London -26 216 £450 +9.42% 174
South East +2 184 £525 +32.91% 165
Midlands +23 162 £450 +25.87% 132
North West +16 141 £450 +38.46% 91
East of England +21 105 £350 -12.50% 92
West Midlands -6 94 £450 +38.46% 67
East Midlands +25 68 £150 -88.46% 65
Yorkshire +11 67 £458 -16.77% 74
South West -41 65 £385 -21.43% 87
North East -20 26 £419 +186.32% 27
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 266 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 205 (20.98%) Security Cleared
3 159 (16.27%) SC Cleared
4 149 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 139 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (12.08%) Microsoft Office
7 114 (11.67%) Migration
8 105 (10.75%) Oracle
9 98 (10.03%) SharePoint
10 94 (9.62%) Customer Service
11 90 (9.21%) SAP
12 83 (8.50%) SQL
13 75 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (7.16%) Data Entry
14 70 (7.16%) SQL Server
15 69 (7.06%) Performance Tuning
16 68 (6.96%) Data Quality
16 68 (6.96%) Windows
17 61 (6.24%) Azure
18 58 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (5.94%) ITIL
19 55 (5.63%) Active Directory
20 54 (5.53%) Validation
21 53 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
22 52 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
23 51 (5.22%) Data Management
23 51 (5.22%) ERP
23 51 (5.22%) JIRA
24 49 (5.02%) Time Management
25 46 (4.71%) 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 98 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.64%) SharePoint 2013
4 12 (1.23%) CMS
5 11 (1.13%) Confluence
6 4 (0.41%) JBoss
7 3 (0.31%) IIS
7 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.31%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) Mendix
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 149 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (12.08%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.72%) Windchill
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.61%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.41%) iTrent
4 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.41%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.31%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) Maximo
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (6.24%) Azure
3 36 (3.68%) AWS
3 36 (3.68%) Google Workspace
4 28 (2.87%) Power Platform
5 23 (2.35%) SaaS
6 21 (2.15%) Entra ID
6 21 (2.15%) GCP
7 18 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (1.54%) Google Drive
10 13 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.23%) Google Sheets
12 11 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.02%) ShareGate
13 10 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (0.92%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.82%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.48%) DNS
2 18 (1.84%) SSL
3 15 (1.54%) DHCP
4 12 (1.23%) Firewall
5 11 (1.13%) DKIM
5 11 (1.13%) DMARC
6 10 (1.02%) SAN
7 6 (0.61%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.51%) NAS
8 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.41%) Network Security
9 4 (0.41%) SNMP
9 4 (0.41%) VPN
10 3 (0.31%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.31%) Wireless
11 2 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.20%) Junos
11 2 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 53 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (3.68%) MySQL
4 34 (3.48%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.66%) Power BI
6 17 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (0.72%) Redis
12 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.61%) GIS
13 6 (0.61%) Metadata
13 6 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.51%) Db2
14 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.41%) Big Data
15 4 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (5.22%) JIRA
2 8 (0.82%) Git
3 7 (0.72%) GitLab
3 7 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.41%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (0.41%) 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 (0.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Hudson
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.10%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 305 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
3 96 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (9.11%) Finance
5 69 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.83%) Manufacturing
7 29 (2.97%) Legal
8 27 (2.76%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.94%) Banking
11 17 (1.74%) Marketing
12 15 (1.54%) Retail
13 13 (1.33%) Local Government
13 13 (1.33%) Military
14 11 (1.13%) Law
15 10 (1.02%) Aviation
16 9 (0.92%) Police
17 7 (0.72%) Billing
18 6 (0.61%) Back Office
18 6 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.05%) Middleware
2 17 (1.74%) Terraform
3 14 (1.43%) ISPF
4 12 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (1.13%) REST
6 8 (0.82%) OAuth
7 6 (0.61%) HTML
7 6 (0.61%) Kafka
8 5 (0.51%) CSS
8 5 (0.51%) XML
9 4 (0.41%) .NET
9 4 (0.41%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.41%) JDBC
9 4 (0.41%) jQuery
9 4 (0.41%) LDAP
9 4 (0.41%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.31%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 44 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.97%) Clustering
4 24 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.35%) Replication
6 21 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.74%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.23%) Freedom of Information
9 10 (1.02%) NHS
10 7 (0.72%) BYOD
10 7 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.61%) Blog
11 6 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.61%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.51%) CMDB
12 5 (0.51%) PKI
13 4 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.41%) EPoS
14 3 (0.31%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.96%) Windows
2 45 (4.61%) Linux
3 32 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.84%) Unix
6 16 (1.64%) zOS
7 13 (1.33%) Solaris
8 5 (0.51%) AIX
8 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.41%) CentOS
9 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.10%) Android
11 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (11.67%) Migration
3 94 (9.62%) Customer Service
4 70 (7.16%) Data Entry
5 69 (7.06%) Performance Tuning
6 58 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (5.94%) ITIL
7 54 (5.53%) Validation
8 52 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 51 (5.22%) Data Management
9 51 (5.22%) ERP
10 49 (5.02%) Time Management
11 46 (4.71%) CRM
12 44 (4.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (4.40%) Change Management
14 42 (4.30%) Logistics
15 40 (4.09%) High Availability
16 39 (3.99%) Data Protection
17 37 (3.79%) DevOps
17 37 (3.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (8.50%) SQL
2 33 (3.38%) PowerShell
3 25 (2.56%) Python
4 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
5 9 (0.92%) C#
6 8 (0.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.82%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.61%) Bash
8 5 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.51%) Java
9 4 (0.41%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.41%) Perl
9 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.31%) Groovy
10 3 (0.31%) JCL
11 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.10%) SOQL
12 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 159 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.30%) Degree
4 38 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.13%) OCP
10 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.51%) CIPD
11 5 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.41%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.31%) CCA
13 3 (0.31%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.31%) MCSA
13 3 (0.31%) MCSE
13 3 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 38 (3.89%) GDPR
3 29 (2.97%) QA
4 16 (1.64%) SLA
5 10 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.61%) PMO
7 4 (0.41%) 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 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.10%) COSHH
9 1 (0.10%) GRC
9 1 (0.10%) HL7
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.33%) RACF
5 10 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.51%) Docker
7 5 (0.51%) Firmware
8 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.41%) 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 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.84%) SCCM
3 15 (1.54%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.33%) Ansible
4 13 (1.33%) OMEGAMON
5 11 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (0.82%) SCOM
8 6 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.61%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.51%) Check_MK
9 5 (0.51%) Grafana
9 5 (0.51%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.51%) Podman
9 5 (0.51%) Puppet
10 4 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 266 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 105 (10.75%) Oracle
3 90 (9.21%) SAP
4 46 (4.71%) Google
4 46 (4.71%) VMware
5 39 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.15%) IBM
7 15 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.33%) Citrix
9 12 (1.23%) Avature
9 12 (1.23%) Sage
9 12 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.13%) Cisco
11 10 (1.02%) Workday
12 8 (0.82%) Remedy
13 7 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.72%) Qualys
14 6 (0.61%) Juniper
14 6 (0.61%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.61%) Splunk
835 Administrator jobs in England