Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 141 187
Rank change year-on-year -13 +46 +63
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 513 565 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.86% 1.74% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.87% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 251 336
10th Percentile £178 £188 £175
25th Percentile £272 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £499
90th Percentile £595 £625 £597
UK median daily rate £400 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 78 50
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.44 £14.51
25th Percentile £13.39 £12.25 £16.70
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.87 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -36.54% +69.49%
75th Percentile £21.44 £25.49 £48.40
90th Percentile £24.24 £51.91 £56.01
UK median hourly rate £15.50 £16.58 £22.25
% change year-on-year -6.49% -25.51% +50.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,142 30,231 40,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.98% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,215 18,878 28,055
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,487 1,370
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.61 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Administrator 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +8 145 £416 +3.88% 149
South East +9 98 £395 -15.05% 162
North of England -16 79 £363 -4.61% 129
South West +10 70 £490 -10.91% 42
Midlands -7 68 £358 +14.40% 64
West Midlands +2 54 £325 +8.51% 36
North West -4 54 £325 +18.18% 74
East of England +2 39 £400 +56.86% 59
Yorkshire -20 21 £525 -8.70% 43
East Midlands -15 14 £1,300 +232.06% 26
North East -7 4 £300 -40.00% 13
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 159 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 110 (21.44%) Microsoft
3 98 (19.10%) Security Cleared
4 70 (13.65%) Finance
4 70 (13.65%) Windows
5 66 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
7 60 (11.70%) Change Management
8 58 (11.31%) Linux
9 52 (10.14%) Customer Service
10 50 (9.75%) SC Cleared
11 48 (9.36%) Azure
11 48 (9.36%) JIRA
12 47 (9.16%) SAP
13 44 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
13 44 (8.58%) AWS
14 43 (8.38%) DevOps
14 43 (8.38%) ITIL
15 41 (7.99%) Python
15 41 (7.99%) Data Entry
16 40 (7.80%) Migration
17 39 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
17 39 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
18 38 (7.41%) Public Sector
19 36 (7.02%) SQL
19 36 (7.02%) Active Directory
20 35 (6.82%) DNS
20 35 (6.82%) Ansible
21 33 (6.43%) Salesforce
21 33 (6.43%) VMware

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.87%) Confluence
2 23 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.78%) Apache
5 4 (0.78%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) CICS
7 1 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) ContrOCC
2 4 (0.78%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) StreamServe
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (9.36%) Azure
2 44 (8.58%) AWS
3 23 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.12%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.12%) SaaS
6 9 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (1.75%) GCP
6 9 (1.75%) Serverless
7 8 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.56%) GitHub
8 7 (1.36%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.36%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.36%) Slack
9 6 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.17%) IaaS
9 6 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.82%) DNS
2 28 (5.46%) Firewall
3 20 (3.90%) Network Security
4 17 (3.31%) SAN
5 15 (2.92%) DHCP
6 8 (1.56%) VLAN
6 8 (1.56%) VPN
7 7 (1.36%) iSCSI
8 6 (1.17%) BGP
8 6 (1.17%) OSPF
8 6 (1.17%) WAN
9 5 (0.97%) LAN
9 5 (0.97%) SSL
9 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.97%) Wireless
10 4 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.58%) SMTP
12 2 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.73%) Power BI
2 13 (2.53%) Oracle Database
3 12 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.97%) DB2
7 4 (0.78%) Metadata
7 4 (0.78%) MySQL
7 4 (0.78%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.58%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.58%) Sqoop
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 48 (9.36%) JIRA
2 13 (2.53%) Git
3 12 (2.34%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.75%) GitLab
5 8 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.78%) Subversion
8 3 (0.58%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.39%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.19%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.19%) Log4j
General
1 159 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.65%) Finance
3 39 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
4 38 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 15 (2.92%) Retail
6 14 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.53%) Aviation
7 13 (2.53%) Marketing
7 13 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.14%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.14%) Banking
8 11 (2.14%) French Language
9 8 (1.56%) Electronics
9 8 (1.56%) Law
10 5 (0.97%) Legal
10 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.73%) REST
2 5 (0.97%) OAuth
3 4 (0.78%) .NET
3 4 (0.78%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET
3 4 (0.78%) Node.js
3 4 (0.78%) SAML
3 4 (0.78%) SAP Basis
3 4 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (0.78%) SOAP
4 3 (0.58%) LAMP
4 3 (0.58%) OpenID
4 3 (0.58%) YAML
5 2 (0.39%) CSS
5 2 (0.39%) JSON
5 2 (0.39%) LDAP
5 2 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.39%) Middleware
5 2 (0.39%) XML
5 2 (0.39%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.29%) Management Information System
2 14 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
3 13 (2.53%) PKI
4 12 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.34%) Replication
5 10 (1.95%) Mainframe
6 9 (1.75%) CMDB
6 9 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.56%) Clustering
7 8 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.97%) SCADA
11 4 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.78%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.78%) HP Storage
11 4 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.65%) Windows
2 58 (11.31%) Linux
3 23 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.31%) Unix
5 14 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.14%) CentOS
7 10 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.17%) Solaris
9 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.17%) zOS
10 5 (0.97%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.58%) AIX
11 3 (0.58%) Debian
11 3 (0.58%) VMS
12 1 (0.19%) Android
12 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.19%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (11.70%) Change Management
3 52 (10.14%) Customer Service
4 43 (8.38%) DevOps
4 43 (8.38%) ITIL
5 41 (7.99%) Data Entry
6 40 (7.80%) Migration
7 33 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (6.24%) Data Protection
9 31 (6.04%) Agile
9 31 (6.04%) CRM
10 29 (5.65%) Performance Tuning
11 26 (5.07%) CI/CD
12 22 (4.29%) Data Management
12 22 (4.29%) Service Delivery
13 21 (4.09%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (4.09%) Network Management
13 21 (4.09%) Service Management
14 20 (3.90%) High Availability
14 20 (3.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.99%) Python
2 36 (7.02%) SQL
3 25 (4.87%) Bash
3 25 (4.87%) Shell Script
4 24 (4.68%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.75%) Perl
6 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.78%) C#
8 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.39%) AWK
9 2 (0.39%) Bicep
9 2 (0.39%) Groovy
9 2 (0.39%) PHP
9 2 (0.39%) sed
10 1 (0.19%) CLIST
10 1 (0.19%) Go
10 1 (0.19%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.19%) R
10 1 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 98 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.04%) DV Cleared
4 24 (4.68%) Degree
5 13 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.36%) IBM Certification
7 6 (1.17%) CISSP
7 6 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.97%) CCNP
8 5 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.78%) CCSA
9 4 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.58%) HNC
11 2 (0.39%) OCP
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.39%) RHCE
11 2 (0.39%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.29%) GDPR
2 11 (2.14%) QA
3 9 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.36%) PMO
5 6 (1.17%) SLA
6 5 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.39%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.95%) NFS
3 10 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (1.75%) Firmware
4 9 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.36%) RACF
6 6 (1.17%) Docker
6 6 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.78%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.58%) GPFS
8 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.39%) KVM
9 2 (0.39%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.19%) Samba
10 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (6.82%) Ansible
2 22 (4.29%) Terraform
3 11 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (1.95%) Progress Chef
4 10 (1.95%) SCCM
5 9 (1.75%) NetBackup
5 9 (1.75%) Puppet
6 6 (1.17%) Data Guard
6 6 (1.17%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (1.17%) Salt
7 5 (0.97%) WSUS
8 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.78%) QRadar
9 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.58%) Nagios
9 3 (0.58%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 110 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.16%) SAP
3 33 (6.43%) Salesforce
3 33 (6.43%) VMware
4 28 (5.46%) Oracle
5 27 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.92%) Cisco
8 13 (2.53%) Juniper
9 11 (2.14%) Atlassian
9 11 (2.14%) Dell
9 11 (2.14%) HP
9 11 (2.14%) IBM
9 11 (2.14%) Twitter
10 9 (1.75%) 3PAR
10 9 (1.75%) Google
10 9 (1.75%) Veritas
11 8 (1.56%) NetApp
11 8 (1.56%) Nimble Storage
12 7 (1.36%) Splunk