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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 142 169
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +77
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 521 555 596
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.78% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.92% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 223 357
10th Percentile £163 £190 £185
25th Percentile £281 £300 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £523 £539 £500
90th Percentile £588 £625 £594
UK median daily rate £400 £423 £400
% change year-on-year -5.33% +5.63% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 61 53
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.25 £13.52 £16.40
Median hourly rate £15.91 £18.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -22.55% +47.18%
75th Percentile £22.47 £26.95 £48.40
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.25 £60.21
UK median hourly rate £15.91 £18.57 £21.82
% change year-on-year -14.32% -14.89% +43.18%

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 26,862 28,918 36,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.00% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,264 17,647 25,665
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,582 1,089 1,403
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.44 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -7 153 £400 -3.32% 154
North of England -31 90 £400 +17.65% 111
South East -23 89 £395 -1.25% 177
South West +13 76 £483 -8.10% 47
Midlands -22 64 £350 -8.62% 75
North West -19 56 £448 +62.73% 60
West Midlands -13 51 £325 - 43
East of England -13 41 £445 +74.51% 70
Yorkshire -26 27 £388 -40.38% 36
East Midlands -21 13 £1,300 +232.06% 31
North East -10 7 £143 -71.50% 17
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 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.

1 138 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 112 (21.50%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.36%) Windows
4 76 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 65 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (12.48%) SC Cleared
6 64 (12.28%) Linux
7 54 (10.36%) Change Management
8 53 (10.17%) SAP
9 52 (9.98%) JIRA
10 47 (9.02%) Azure
11 46 (8.83%) Microsoft Office
12 45 (8.64%) Customer Service
12 45 (8.64%) Migration
13 44 (8.45%) DevOps
13 44 (8.45%) ITIL
14 42 (8.06%) SharePoint
15 40 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (7.49%) Python
17 38 (7.29%) Active Directory
17 38 (7.29%) Agile
18 33 (6.33%) AWS
18 33 (6.33%) Data Entry
18 33 (6.33%) DNS
18 33 (6.33%) PowerShell
18 33 (6.33%) SQL
19 32 (6.14%) Data Protection
19 32 (6.14%) DV Cleared
20 31 (5.95%) Disaster Recovery
20 31 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 42 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.18%) Confluence
3 12 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.58%) Apache
4 3 (0.58%) CMS
4 3 (0.58%) NetWeaver
4 3 (0.58%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.58%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (8.83%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.38%) Trello
8 1 (0.19%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.77%) ContrOCC
3 3 (0.58%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.38%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.19%) StreamServe
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (9.02%) Azure
2 40 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (6.33%) AWS
4 24 (4.61%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.45%) SaaS
7 11 (2.11%) GitHub
8 10 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.92%) GCP
8 10 (1.92%) Power Automate
8 10 (1.92%) PowerApps
8 10 (1.92%) Serverless
9 8 (1.54%) Slack
10 7 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.34%) IaaS
11 6 (1.15%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.33%) DNS
2 23 (4.41%) Firewall
3 19 (3.65%) Network Security
4 16 (3.07%) DHCP
5 15 (2.88%) SAN
6 9 (1.73%) VPN
7 7 (1.34%) VLAN
8 6 (1.15%) Wireless
9 5 (0.96%) BGP
9 5 (0.96%) OSPF
9 5 (0.96%) SSL
9 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.96%) WAN
10 4 (0.77%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.77%) LAN
10 4 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.77%) SMTP
10 4 (0.77%) WebEx
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.07%) Power BI
2 15 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.73%) Oracle Database
3 9 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.34%) MySQL
5 5 (0.96%) DB2
5 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.77%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.77%) Metadata
6 4 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (0.58%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.58%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.58%) Sqoop
8 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.38%) Big Data
8 2 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (9.98%) JIRA
2 13 (2.50%) Git
3 9 (1.73%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.34%) GitLab
5 5 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.96%) Subversion
6 3 (0.58%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.19%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.19%) Log4j
General
1 163 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 61 (11.71%) Finance
3 48 (9.21%) Organisational Skills
4 44 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.84%) Retail
7 13 (2.50%) Aviation
8 12 (2.30%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.30%) Legal
9 11 (2.11%) French Language
9 11 (2.11%) Marketing
10 10 (1.92%) Banking
10 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.54%) Electronics
12 8 (1.54%) Law
13 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.58%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.69%) REST
2 6 (1.15%) YAML
3 5 (0.96%) .NET
3 5 (0.96%) OAuth
4 4 (0.77%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.77%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.77%) Node.js
4 4 (0.77%) SAML
5 3 (0.58%) LAMP
5 3 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.58%) OpenID
5 3 (0.58%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.38%) ADO
6 2 (0.38%) CSS
6 2 (0.38%) HTML
6 2 (0.38%) LDAP
6 2 (0.38%) Middleware
6 2 (0.38%) SOAP
6 2 (0.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.53%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.69%) PKI
4 12 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (2.30%) Replication
5 11 (2.11%) Clustering
5 11 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.96%) NHS
9 5 (0.96%) SCADA
10 4 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.77%) HP Storage
10 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.77%) LIMS
10 4 (0.77%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.36%) Windows
2 64 (12.28%) Linux
3 31 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.45%) Unix
5 14 (2.69%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.92%) CentOS
7 8 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.34%) Solaris
8 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.58%) AIX
11 3 (0.58%) Debian
11 3 (0.58%) VMS
12 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.19%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (10.36%) Change Management
3 45 (8.64%) Customer Service
3 45 (8.64%) Migration
4 44 (8.45%) DevOps
4 44 (8.45%) ITIL
5 38 (7.29%) Agile
6 33 (6.33%) Data Entry
7 32 (6.14%) Data Protection
8 31 (5.95%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (4.99%) CI/CD
9 26 (4.99%) Performance Tuning
10 24 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (4.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (4.61%) Service Delivery
11 23 (4.41%) Time Management
12 22 (4.22%) CRM
12 22 (4.22%) Network Management
12 22 (4.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (4.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.49%) Python
2 33 (6.33%) PowerShell
2 33 (6.33%) SQL
3 27 (5.18%) Bash
4 25 (4.80%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.73%) Perl
6 5 (0.96%) C#
7 4 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.58%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.38%) AWK
9 2 (0.38%) Bicep
9 2 (0.38%) CLIST
9 2 (0.38%) PHP
9 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.38%) REXX
9 2 (0.38%) sed
10 1 (0.19%) COBOL
10 1 (0.19%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.19%) JCL
10 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.14%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.26%) Degree
5 14 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.15%) MOS
8 4 (0.77%) CCNP
8 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.58%) HNC
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) CCSA
10 2 (0.38%) OCP
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.38%) RHCE
10 2 (0.38%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.61%) GDPR
2 15 (2.88%) QA
3 12 (2.30%) SLA
4 10 (1.92%) PMO
5 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.77%) NIST
7 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) GAMP
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.73%) Firmware
3 9 (1.73%) NFS
3 9 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.34%) Docker
5 6 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.77%) KVM
6 4 (0.77%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.77%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (0.58%) GPFS
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.38%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.38%) vSphere
9 1 (0.19%) ACF2
9 1 (0.19%) RACF
9 1 (0.19%) Samba
9 1 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 28 (5.37%) Ansible
2 14 (2.69%) Terraform
3 13 (2.50%) SCCM
3 13 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.73%) NetBackup
5 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.34%) Puppet
5 7 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (1.15%) Norton AntiVirus
6 6 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.77%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.77%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.77%) Nagios
7 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.77%) QRadar
7 4 (0.77%) Salt
7 4 (0.77%) WSUS
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 138 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.17%) SAP
3 31 (5.95%) VMware
4 29 (5.57%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.22%) ServiceNow
7 21 (4.03%) Oracle
8 15 (2.88%) Cisco
9 13 (2.50%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.30%) Dell
10 12 (2.30%) HP
11 11 (2.11%) Google
12 10 (1.92%) Veritas
12 10 (1.92%) Workday
13 9 (1.73%) 3PAR
14 8 (1.54%) NetApp
14 8 (1.54%) Nimble Storage
14 8 (1.54%) Splunk
15 7 (1.34%) IFS
15 7 (1.34%) Symantec