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 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 145 182
Rank change year-on-year -16 +37 +72
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 502 563 588
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.76% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.90% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 235 348
10th Percentile £163 £193 £179
25th Percentile £265 £299 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £500
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £420 £400
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 64 52
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.49 £16.68
Median hourly rate £15.91 £17.15 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -29.43% +59.48%
75th Percentile £21.44 £27.09 £52.50
90th Percentile £23.80 £57.51 £60.73
UK median hourly rate £15.83 £18.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year -12.08% -19.10% +47.16%

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 25,740 29,700 38,774
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 93.05% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,552 18,117 27,033
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,470 1,227 1,425
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%
75th Percentile £50.94 £67.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% -10.39% +68.48%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +4 145 £410 +2.50% 137
South East -14 90 £395 -12.22% 148
North of England -38 77 £325 +8.33% 102
South West +14 74 £473 -10.00% 60
Midlands -13 64 £350 +7.69% 62
North West -15 52 £363 +31.82% 63
West Midlands -8 51 £325 +8.33% 37
East of England -8 42 £423 +65.69% 54
Yorkshire -31 20 £363 -44.23% 33
East Midlands -16 13 £1,300 +220.59% 24
North East -4 5 £143 -71.50% 7
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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.

1 128 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 99 (19.72%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.94%) Windows
4 69 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
5 61 (12.15%) Linux
5 61 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (10.96%) Change Management
6 55 (10.96%) SC Cleared
7 52 (10.36%) JIRA
7 52 (10.36%) SAP
8 46 (9.16%) Azure
8 46 (9.16%) Customer Service
9 44 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
10 43 (8.57%) Migration
11 42 (8.37%) DevOps
12 39 (7.77%) ITIL
12 39 (7.77%) Python
13 37 (7.37%) SQL
14 36 (7.17%) Active Directory
14 36 (7.17%) Data Entry
15 35 (6.97%) Agile
15 35 (6.97%) AWS
16 34 (6.77%) SharePoint
17 33 (6.57%) Ansible
17 33 (6.57%) DNS
18 32 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (6.18%) Data Protection
19 31 (6.18%) Disaster Recovery
19 31 (6.18%) DV Cleared
19 31 (6.18%) Performance Tuning

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 34 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.98%) Confluence
3 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 3 (0.60%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) CICS
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 69 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.99%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.40%) Trello
8 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) ContrOCC
3 3 (0.60%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) StreamServe
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (9.16%) Azure
2 35 (6.97%) AWS
3 32 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 18 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 16 (3.19%) SaaS
7 10 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (1.99%) GCP
7 10 (1.99%) Serverless
8 9 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.79%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.59%) GitHub
9 8 (1.59%) Slack
10 7 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.20%) IaaS
11 6 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.57%) DNS
2 22 (4.38%) Firewall
3 20 (3.98%) Network Security
4 17 (3.39%) SAN
5 13 (2.59%) DHCP
6 7 (1.39%) VLAN
7 6 (1.20%) iSCSI
7 6 (1.20%) VPN
8 5 (1.00%) BGP
8 5 (1.00%) OSPF
8 5 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.00%) WAN
8 5 (1.00%) Wireless
9 4 (0.80%) LAN
9 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.80%) SMTP
9 4 (0.80%) SSL
10 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.99%) Power BI
2 13 (2.59%) Oracle Database
3 12 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.00%) DB2
4 5 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.80%) Metadata
5 4 (0.80%) MySQL
5 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.60%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.60%) Sqoop
6 3 (0.60%) Tableau
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 52 (10.36%) JIRA
2 13 (2.59%) Git
3 12 (2.39%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.79%) GitLab
5 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.80%) Subversion
8 3 (0.60%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.20%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.20%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.20%) Log4j
General
1 160 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.15%) Finance
3 43 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
4 37 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.19%) Retail
7 13 (2.59%) Aviation
8 12 (2.39%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.19%) Banking
9 11 (2.19%) French Language
9 11 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.79%) Marketing
10 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.59%) Electronics
11 8 (1.59%) Law
12 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.20%) Legal
14 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.60%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.19%) REST
2 5 (1.00%) .NET
2 5 (1.00%) OAuth
3 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.80%) ASP.NET
3 4 (0.80%) Node.js
3 4 (0.80%) SAML
4 3 (0.60%) LAMP
4 3 (0.60%) OpenID
4 3 (0.60%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (0.60%) YAML
5 2 (0.40%) CSS
5 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.40%) HTML
5 2 (0.40%) LDAP
5 2 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.40%) Middleware
5 2 (0.40%) SOAP
5 2 (0.40%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.38%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.78%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.99%) PKI
4 14 (2.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.39%) Replication
6 10 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.79%) Clustering
8 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.00%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.00%) SCADA
11 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.80%) HP Storage
12 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.94%) Windows
2 61 (12.15%) Linux
3 26 (5.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.99%) Unix
5 14 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.39%) CentOS
7 10 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.20%) Solaris
9 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.60%) AIX
11 3 (0.60%) Debian
11 3 (0.60%) VMS
12 1 (0.20%) Android
12 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (10.96%) Change Management
3 46 (9.16%) Customer Service
4 43 (8.57%) Migration
5 42 (8.37%) DevOps
6 39 (7.77%) ITIL
7 36 (7.17%) Data Entry
8 35 (6.97%) Agile
9 31 (6.18%) Data Protection
9 31 (6.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (6.18%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (5.18%) CI/CD
11 24 (4.78%) CRM
12 23 (4.58%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (4.58%) Network Management
13 21 (4.18%) Data Management
13 21 (4.18%) Service Delivery
14 20 (3.98%) ERP
14 20 (3.98%) Workflow
15 19 (3.78%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.77%) Python
2 37 (7.37%) SQL
3 29 (5.78%) Shell Script
4 26 (5.18%) PowerShell
5 24 (4.78%) Bash
6 7 (1.39%) Perl
7 5 (1.00%) C#
8 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.40%) AWK
10 2 (0.40%) Bicep
10 2 (0.40%) Groovy
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) sed
11 1 (0.20%) CLIST
11 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.20%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.20%) R
11 1 (0.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 99 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 20 (3.98%) Degree
5 12 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.80%) CCNP
8 4 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.80%) MOS
9 3 (0.60%) HNC
10 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CCSA
10 2 (0.40%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.40%) OCP
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.40%) RHCE
10 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.98%) GDPR
2 12 (2.39%) QA
3 10 (1.99%) PMO
4 9 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.79%) SLA
5 7 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.80%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAMP
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.79%) Firmware
3 9 (1.79%) NFS
4 8 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.20%) Docker
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.80%) KVM
6 4 (0.80%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.80%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (0.60%) GPFS
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.40%) RACF
8 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.20%) Samba
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (6.57%) Ansible
2 15 (2.99%) Terraform
3 12 (2.39%) SCCM
4 10 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.79%) NetBackup
5 9 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.79%) Puppet
6 6 (1.20%) Data Guard
6 6 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (1.20%) Salt
7 5 (1.00%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.00%) Norton AntiVirus
8 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.80%) QRadar
8 4 (0.80%) WSUS
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.60%) Nagios
9 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.36%) SAP
3 31 (6.18%) VMware
4 25 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 24 (4.78%) Red Hat
6 23 (4.58%) Oracle
6 23 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.79%) Cisco
8 12 (2.39%) Dell
8 12 (2.39%) Google
8 12 (2.39%) HP
9 11 (2.19%) Atlassian
9 11 (2.19%) Twitter
10 9 (1.79%) 3PAR
10 9 (1.79%) Juniper
10 9 (1.79%) Veritas
11 8 (1.59%) NetApp
11 8 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (1.59%) Workday
12 7 (1.39%) IFS