Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £436, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 173 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 -52 +58
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 687 387 697
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.58% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.71% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 192 342
10th Percentile £200 £193 £160
25th Percentile £339 £300 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £575
90th Percentile £600 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £438 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 63 225
10th Percentile £13.13 - £11.11
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +1.63% -47.02%
75th Percentile £22.63 £20.25 £17.38
90th Percentile £56.18 £30.63 £41.60
UK median hourly rate £16.95 £14.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year +21.07% +2.66% -47.45%

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 37,948 22,606 33,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.41% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 15,046 22,372
10th Percentile £318 £296 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,610 912 2,431
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.17 £36.58
% change year-on-year +51.55% -22.99% -18.72%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -11 173 £425 - 88
North of England -19 146 £427 +18.94% 77
East of England +39 116 £363 -15.70% 41
Midlands -23 97 £443 +53.91% 64
South East -28 86 £445 +11.25% 100
North West -22 79 £408 +16.43% 41
West Midlands -41 67 £443 +47.50% 39
South West -16 59 £525 +11.11% 45
Yorkshire -25 50 £438 -20.45% 27
East Midlands +3 30 £444 +61.36% 25
North East -7 17 £438 +29.63% 9
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 172 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 140 (20.38%) Microsoft
3 131 (19.07%) SC Cleared
4 102 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 78 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (11.21%) SAP
7 66 (9.61%) Linux
8 60 (8.73%) Migration
8 60 (8.73%) Oracle
9 56 (8.15%) Change Management
10 55 (8.01%) Active Directory
11 54 (7.86%) Azure
12 51 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (6.70%) SharePoint
15 43 (6.26%) Workflow
16 40 (5.82%) SaaS
16 40 (5.82%) Windows
17 39 (5.68%) Google
17 39 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
17 39 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
17 39 (5.68%) SLA
18 38 (5.53%) ITIL
19 37 (5.39%) SQL
20 35 (5.09%) DV Cleared
21 34 (4.95%) High Availability
22 31 (4.51%) Ansible
22 31 (4.51%) Data Protection
22 31 (4.51%) DevOps
23 30 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance

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 46 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.60%) Confluence
4 5 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.58%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Drupal
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 102 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.78%) Spreadsheet
4 16 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.58%) Maximo
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.44%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.15%) iTrent
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 54 (7.86%) Azure
2 49 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (5.82%) SaaS
4 24 (3.49%) Entra ID
4 24 (3.49%) Google Workspace
5 23 (3.35%) GCP
6 22 (3.20%) AWS
7 19 (2.77%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.18%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.31%) Serverless
11 8 (1.16%) Asana
11 8 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.16%) GitHub
12 7 (1.02%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (0.87%) IaaS
13 6 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.08%) DNS
2 12 (1.75%) Firewall
2 12 (1.75%) Network Security
3 11 (1.60%) DHCP
3 11 (1.60%) DKIM
3 11 (1.60%) DMARC
3 11 (1.60%) SAN
4 8 (1.16%) LAN
5 6 (0.87%) NAS
5 6 (0.87%) VPN
6 4 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 4 (0.58%) WLAN
7 3 (0.44%) Intranet
7 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.44%) WebEx
7 3 (0.44%) Wireless
8 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.08%) Oracle Database
2 26 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.62%) MongoDB
5 13 (1.89%) Power BI
6 12 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.31%) MySQL
9 8 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
11 5 (0.73%) GIS
11 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
12 4 (0.58%) Tableau
13 3 (0.44%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.44%) Impala
13 3 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.22%) JIRA
2 21 (3.06%) GitLab
2 21 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.77%) Git
4 5 (0.73%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.15%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.15%) Hudson
6 1 (0.15%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.15%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 146 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 73 (10.63%) Finance
3 64 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.30%) Organisational Skills
5 54 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.35%) Aerospace
8 19 (2.77%) Banking
9 18 (2.62%) Legal
10 13 (1.89%) Military
11 12 (1.75%) Aviation
11 12 (1.75%) Publishing
12 10 (1.46%) Law
13 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.31%) Marketing
14 8 (1.16%) Local Government
15 7 (1.02%) Police
15 7 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.87%) Retail
17 5 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.18%) Middleware
1 15 (2.18%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.60%) LDAP
3 9 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (1.31%) JSON
4 7 (1.02%) .NET
4 7 (1.02%) OAuth
4 7 (1.02%) XML
5 6 (0.87%) REST
6 5 (0.73%) HTML
6 5 (0.73%) ISPF
6 5 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.58%) CSS
7 4 (0.58%) Kafka
7 4 (0.58%) Node.js
7 4 (0.58%) YAML
8 3 (0.44%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.44%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.44%) XMPP
9 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.04%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
6 10 (1.46%) NHS
7 9 (1.31%) Clustering
7 9 (1.31%) Replication
8 8 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.02%) PKI
10 6 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.58%) Life Science
12 3 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.44%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.61%) Linux
2 40 (5.82%) Windows
3 23 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.04%) Unix
6 12 (1.75%) CentOS
7 7 (1.02%) AIX
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) MVS
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (8.73%) Migration
3 56 (8.15%) Change Management
4 51 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (6.26%) Workflow
6 39 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
7 38 (5.53%) ITIL
8 34 (4.95%) High Availability
9 31 (4.51%) Data Protection
9 31 (4.51%) DevOps
10 30 (4.37%) Time Management
11 29 (4.22%) Customer Service
12 28 (4.08%) Data Management
13 26 (3.78%) Data Entry
14 25 (3.64%) SAP Security
15 24 (3.49%) Project Delivery
16 23 (3.35%) Data Governance
16 23 (3.35%) ERP
16 23 (3.35%) Service Delivery
17 22 (3.20%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.39%) SQL
2 30 (4.37%) Python
3 24 (3.49%) PowerShell
4 20 (2.91%) Shell Script
5 13 (1.89%) Bash
6 11 (1.60%) MATLAB
7 10 (1.46%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.02%) C#
10 5 (0.73%) REXX
11 4 (0.58%) CLIST
11 4 (0.58%) COBOL
11 4 (0.58%) JCL
11 4 (0.58%) Perl
12 3 (0.44%) Groovy
12 3 (0.44%) VBA
13 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.29%) C++
13 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 172 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 131 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.09%) DV Cleared
4 30 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (4.08%) Degree
6 14 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.02%) CCNP
7 7 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.87%) OCP
8 6 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.58%) CCIE
10 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.68%) SLA
2 28 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.06%) GDPR
4 8 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.73%) PMO
6 4 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.58%) QA
7 3 (0.44%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 55 (8.01%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.31%) Firmware
5 7 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.87%) Docker
6 6 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.73%) RACF
8 4 (0.58%) ACF2
8 4 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.44%) HDFS
9 3 (0.44%) PowerHA
9 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.29%) QEMU
10 2 (0.29%) XenApp
10 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 31 (4.51%) Ansible
2 24 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (2.33%) Terraform
4 14 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.89%) Podman
6 11 (1.60%) Check_MK
6 11 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (1.46%) Grafana
8 9 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
8 9 (1.31%) SCCM
9 8 (1.16%) Data Guard
9 8 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.58%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.58%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.58%) WSUS
12 3 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.44%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 140 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.21%) SAP
3 60 (8.73%) Oracle
4 39 (5.68%) Google
5 30 (4.37%) VMware
6 29 (4.22%) Avature
7 28 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 26 (3.78%) Salesforce
9 24 (3.49%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.33%) Cisco
11 15 (2.18%) Okta
12 11 (1.60%) IBM
13 8 (1.16%) Citrix
13 8 (1.16%) Sage
14 7 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.02%) Dell
15 6 (0.87%) HP
16 4 (0.58%) Brocade
16 4 (0.58%) Juniper
16 4 (0.58%) NetApp