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 28 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 161 143
Rank change year-on-year +34 -18 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 999 507 567
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 1.83% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 2.00% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 212 243
10th Percentile £162 £175 £177
25th Percentile £313 £272 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £557
90th Percentile £600 £599 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 134 74
10th Percentile £13.03 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.84 £13.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -4.62% -32.63%
75th Percentile £18.73 £21.44 £26.71
90th Percentile £24.19 £24.24 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.05 £15.50 £16.73
% change year-on-year -2.90% -7.34% -23.97%

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 42,532 25,317 30,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 91.27% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,192 16,337 18,640
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,576 1,391 1,390
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.72 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.89% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +46 238 £450 +39.53% 158
London -22 216 £450 +9.42% 155
South East +3 185 £500 +25.79% 152
Midlands +31 171 £450 +25.87% 118
North West +13 142 £450 +38.46% 79
East of England +25 109 £350 -12.50% 77
West Midlands -7 97 £450 +38.46% 59
East Midlands +30 74 £150 -88.46% 59
Yorkshire +11 70 £458 -8.45% 60
South West -39 69 £385 -21.43% 72
North East -15 26 £419 +193.86% 21
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 282 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 207 (20.72%) Security Cleared
3 164 (16.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 160 (16.02%) SC Cleared
5 139 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (12.61%) Microsoft Office
7 117 (11.71%) Migration
8 107 (10.71%) Oracle
9 100 (10.01%) Customer Service
9 100 (10.01%) SAP
10 99 (9.91%) SharePoint
11 84 (8.41%) SQL
12 78 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
13 74 (7.41%) Data Entry
14 72 (7.21%) Data Quality
15 71 (7.11%) SQL Server
16 69 (6.91%) Windows
17 67 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
18 61 (6.11%) Azure
19 59 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
20 58 (5.81%) Active Directory
20 58 (5.81%) Data Management
21 56 (5.61%) ERP
22 55 (5.51%) Validation
23 54 (5.41%) Time Management
24 53 (5.31%) ITIL
24 53 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
24 53 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
25 51 (5.11%) JIRA
26 50 (5.01%) Google

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 99 (9.91%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.60%) SharePoint 2013
4 12 (1.20%) CMS
5 8 (0.80%) Confluence
6 4 (0.40%) JBoss
7 3 (0.30%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.10%) Apache
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) Mendix
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 164 (16.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (12.61%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.80%) 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 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.60%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.50%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.40%) iTrent
4 4 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CS
Cloud Services
1 78 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (6.11%) Azure
3 40 (4.00%) Google Workspace
4 36 (3.60%) AWS
5 31 (3.10%) Power Platform
6 24 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 23 (2.30%) SaaS
8 21 (2.10%) GCP
9 20 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.50%) Google Drive
11 15 (1.50%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.20%) Google Sheets
13 11 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (1.00%) ShareGate
14 10 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.90%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.30%) DNS
2 18 (1.80%) SSL
3 14 (1.40%) DHCP
4 12 (1.20%) Firewall
5 11 (1.10%) DKIM
5 11 (1.10%) DMARC
6 10 (1.00%) SAN
7 6 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.50%) NAS
9 4 (0.40%) Network Security
9 4 (0.40%) SNMP
9 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.40%) VPN
10 3 (0.30%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.30%) Wireless
11 2 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.20%) Junos
11 2 (0.20%) Skype
11 2 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 53 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (3.60%) MySQL
4 33 (3.30%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.70%) Power BI
6 17 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.70%) Redis
11 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.60%) GIS
12 6 (0.60%) Metadata
13 5 (0.50%) Db2
13 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.40%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 51 (5.11%) JIRA
2 9 (0.90%) Git
3 7 (0.70%) GitLab
3 7 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.40%) 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
6 1 (0.10%) ScriptRunner
General
1 327 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 161 (16.12%) Organisational Skills
3 98 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.21%) Finance
5 69 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 63 (6.31%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.10%) Legal
8 30 (3.00%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.90%) Banking
11 17 (1.70%) Marketing
11 17 (1.70%) Retail
12 15 (1.50%) Local Government
13 14 (1.40%) Military
14 10 (1.00%) Aviation
14 10 (1.00%) Law
14 10 (1.00%) Police
15 9 (0.90%) Billing
16 6 (0.60%) Advertising
16 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.00%) Middleware
2 17 (1.70%) Terraform
3 14 (1.40%) ISPF
4 12 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.80%) OAuth
5 8 (0.80%) REST
6 6 (0.60%) HTML
6 6 (0.60%) Kafka
7 5 (0.50%) CSS
7 5 (0.50%) JDBC
7 5 (0.50%) XML
8 4 (0.40%) .NET
8 4 (0.40%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.40%) jQuery
8 4 (0.40%) LDAP
8 4 (0.40%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.30%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.20%) PCRE
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.61%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.90%) Clustering
4 24 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.30%) Replication
6 22 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.70%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
9 9 (0.90%) Driving Licence
9 9 (0.90%) NHS
10 7 (0.70%) BYOD
11 6 (0.60%) Blog
11 6 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.60%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.50%) CMDB
12 5 (0.50%) PKI
13 4 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.40%) EPoS
13 4 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.91%) Windows
2 42 (4.20%) Linux
3 33 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.70%) Unix
6 16 (1.60%) zOS
7 13 (1.30%) Solaris
8 5 (0.50%) AIX
8 5 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.40%) CentOS
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.10%) Android
11 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (11.71%) Migration
3 100 (10.01%) Customer Service
4 74 (7.41%) Data Entry
5 67 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
6 59 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (5.81%) Data Management
8 56 (5.61%) ERP
9 55 (5.51%) Validation
10 54 (5.41%) Time Management
11 53 (5.31%) ITIL
11 53 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (4.80%) CRM
13 44 (4.40%) Logistics
14 42 (4.20%) Disaster Recovery
15 40 (4.00%) Change Management
15 40 (4.00%) Data Protection
16 38 (3.80%) High Availability
17 37 (3.70%) Root Cause Analysis
18 35 (3.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 84 (8.41%) SQL
2 32 (3.20%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.20%) Python
4 9 (0.90%) C#
4 9 (0.90%) Shell Script
5 7 (0.70%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.60%) Bash
7 5 (0.50%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.50%) Java
7 5 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.40%) MATLAB
8 4 (0.40%) Perl
8 4 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.30%) JCL
10 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.10%) Bicep
11 1 (0.10%) COBOL
11 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.10%) SOQL
11 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 207 (20.72%) Security Cleared
2 160 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.30%) Degree
4 37 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.10%) OCP
10 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.60%) CIPD
12 5 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.30%) CCA
14 3 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (0.30%) MCSA
14 3 (0.30%) MCSE
14 3 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.00%) GDPR
3 29 (2.90%) QA
4 17 (1.70%) SLA
5 10 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.70%) PMO
7 4 (0.40%) 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 58 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.30%) RACF
5 12 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.50%) Docker
8 5 (0.50%) Firmware
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) vSphere
10 2 (0.20%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.20%) XenApp
10 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.10%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.80%) SCCM
3 14 (1.40%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.30%) Ansible
4 13 (1.30%) OMEGAMON
5 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (0.80%) SCOM
8 6 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.60%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.50%) Check_MK
9 5 (0.50%) Grafana
9 5 (0.50%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.50%) Podman
9 5 (0.50%) Puppet
10 4 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 282 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 107 (10.71%) Oracle
3 100 (10.01%) SAP
4 50 (5.01%) Google
5 45 (4.50%) VMware
6 39 (3.90%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.00%) IBM
8 14 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.30%) Citrix
10 12 (1.20%) Sage
10 12 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.10%) Cisco
11 11 (1.10%) Workday
12 10 (1.00%) Avature
13 8 (0.80%) Remedy
14 7 (0.70%) Qualys
15 6 (0.60%) Juniper
15 6 (0.60%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.60%) Splunk
16 5 (0.50%) BMC
734 Administrator jobs in England