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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 159 143
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 1,036 500 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 1.80% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 1.98% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 212 237
10th Percentile £158 £164 £195
25th Percentile £308 £273 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.94% +6.31%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £551
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 343 134 69
10th Percentile £13.10 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.79 £13.50 £13.49
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.60 £16.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.22% -29.73%
75th Percentile £18.71 £21.44 £25.99
90th Percentile £24.18 £24.24 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.04 £15.60 £16.65
% change year-on-year -3.59% -6.31% -24.32%

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 42,656 25,279 29,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 91.06% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,141 16,283 18,289
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.24%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,680 1,407 1,330
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.48 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £52.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%

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 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +40 241 £450 +38.46% 182
London -27 220 £450 +12.50% 196
South East +5 203 £500 +26.58% 183
Midlands +31 172 £450 +28.57% 135
North West +19 141 £450 +38.46% 93
East of England +26 116 £350 -12.50% 83
West Midlands -9 95 £450 +38.46% 76
East Midlands +37 77 £150 -88.46% 59
South West -38 74 £385 -21.03% 86
Yorkshire +15 72 £466 -6.90% 62
North East -12 28 £400 +180.70% 30
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 309 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 211 (20.37%) Security Cleared
3 178 (17.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 162 (15.64%) SC Cleared
5 150 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
7 116 (11.20%) Migration
8 114 (11.00%) Customer Service
8 114 (11.00%) SAP
9 106 (10.23%) Oracle
10 100 (9.65%) SharePoint
11 87 (8.40%) SQL
12 81 (7.82%) Data Entry
13 77 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
14 73 (7.05%) Data Quality
15 72 (6.95%) SQL Server
16 70 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (6.66%) Windows
18 66 (6.37%) Data Management
19 64 (6.18%) ERP
20 60 (5.79%) Azure
20 60 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
21 57 (5.50%) Time Management
21 57 (5.50%) Validation
22 56 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
23 54 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
24 53 (5.12%) Active Directory
24 53 (5.12%) CRM
24 53 (5.12%) Google
24 53 (5.12%) JIRA

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
1 100 (9.65%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.54%) SharePoint 2013
4 13 (1.25%) CMS
5 8 (0.77%) Confluence
6 4 (0.39%) JBoss
7 3 (0.29%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) WordPress
8 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.097%) Apache
9 1 (0.097%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.097%) CICS
9 1 (0.097%) Mendix
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 178 (17.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.77%) Windchill
6 1 (0.097%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.097%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.48%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.39%) iTrent
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) SAP CS
7 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.097%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.097%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (5.79%) Azure
3 40 (3.86%) Google Workspace
4 39 (3.76%) AWS
5 35 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
8 20 (1.93%) GCP
9 19 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (1.83%) SaaS
10 16 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.45%) Google Drive
12 14 (1.35%) Google Sheets
13 12 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (0.97%) AWS KMS
14 10 (0.97%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.97%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.99%) DNS
2 18 (1.74%) SSL
3 14 (1.35%) DHCP
4 12 (1.16%) Firewall
5 10 (0.97%) DKIM
5 10 (0.97%) DMARC
5 10 (0.97%) SAN
6 6 (0.58%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.48%) NAS
7 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.39%) Network Security
8 4 (0.39%) SNMP
8 4 (0.39%) VPN
8 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.29%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.29%) Wireless
10 2 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.19%) Junos
10 2 (0.19%) Skype
10 2 (0.19%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 54 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (3.76%) MySQL
4 33 (3.19%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.80%) Power BI
6 20 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.97%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.77%) Redis
9 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.68%) GIS
10 7 (0.68%) Metadata
10 7 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.58%) MS Access
12 5 (0.48%) Db2
12 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 53 (5.12%) JIRA
2 7 (0.68%) Git
3 5 (0.48%) GitLab
3 5 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.19%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.19%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.19%) MSI
5 2 (0.19%) Toad
6 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.097%) Hudson
6 1 (0.097%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.097%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.097%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.097%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.097%) TestRail
General
1 360 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 177 (17.08%) Organisational Skills
3 101 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.46%) Finance
5 76 (7.34%) Manufacturing
6 67 (6.47%) Public Sector
7 32 (3.09%) Aerospace
7 32 (3.09%) Legal
8 28 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.93%) Retail
10 19 (1.83%) Banking
11 16 (1.54%) Local Government
12 15 (1.45%) Marketing
13 12 (1.16%) Aviation
14 11 (1.06%) Billing
14 11 (1.06%) Military
14 11 (1.06%) Police
15 10 (0.97%) Law
16 8 (0.77%) Advertising
17 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.93%) Terraform
2 17 (1.64%) Middleware
3 14 (1.35%) ISPF
4 12 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.77%) OAuth
6 7 (0.68%) REST
6 7 (0.68%) XML
7 6 (0.58%) Kafka
8 5 (0.48%) HTML
8 5 (0.48%) JDBC
9 4 (0.39%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.39%) CSS
9 4 (0.39%) jQuery
9 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.29%) .NET
10 3 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.19%) JMX
11 2 (0.19%) LDAP
11 2 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.19%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.72%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.80%) Clustering
4 26 (2.51%) Replication
5 23 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 11 (1.06%) NHS
9 10 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.68%) BYOD
11 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.58%) Blog
12 6 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.58%) Housing Association
13 5 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.48%) CMDB
13 5 (0.48%) FMCG
13 5 (0.48%) PKI
14 4 (0.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.66%) Windows
2 42 (4.05%) Linux
3 32 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.64%) Unix
5 16 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.54%) zOS
6 14 (1.35%) Solaris
7 6 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.48%) AIX
8 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.19%) CentOS
12 1 (0.097%) Android
12 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.097%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (11.20%) Migration
3 114 (11.00%) Customer Service
4 81 (7.82%) Data Entry
5 70 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
6 66 (6.37%) Data Management
7 64 (6.18%) ERP
8 60 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (5.50%) Time Management
9 57 (5.50%) Validation
10 56 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (5.12%) CRM
12 52 (5.02%) ITIL
12 52 (5.02%) Logistics
13 45 (4.34%) Data Protection
13 45 (4.34%) Disaster Recovery
14 39 (3.76%) Change Management
14 39 (3.76%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (3.57%) High Availability
16 36 (3.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (8.40%) SQL
2 32 (3.09%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.12%) Python
4 8 (0.77%) C#
5 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
5 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 6 (0.58%) Bash
7 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.48%) Java
8 4 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.39%) Perl
8 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.29%) JCL
10 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.097%) Bicep
11 1 (0.097%) COBOL
11 1 (0.097%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.097%) SOQL
11 1 (0.097%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 162 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.34%) Degree
4 39 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (1.06%) OCP
9 8 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.58%) CIPD
11 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.29%) CCA
12 3 (0.29%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.29%) MCSA
12 3 (0.29%) MCSE
12 3 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.05%) GDPR
3 30 (2.90%) QA
4 14 (1.35%) SLA
5 11 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.77%) PMO
7 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.19%) GMP
8 2 (0.19%) GxP
8 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.097%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.097%) COSHH
9 1 (0.097%) GRC
9 1 (0.097%) HL7
9 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.097%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.25%) RACF
5 10 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.48%) Docker
7 5 (0.48%) Firmware
8 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.39%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.19%) XenApp
9 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.097%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.097%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.097%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.097%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.74%) SCCM
3 14 (1.35%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.25%) OMEGAMON
5 10 (0.97%) Ansible
5 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (0.77%) SCOM
8 6 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.48%) Grafana
9 5 (0.48%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.48%) Puppet
9 5 (0.48%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.39%) WSUS
11 3 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 309 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 114 (11.00%) SAP
3 106 (10.23%) Oracle
4 53 (5.12%) Google
5 43 (4.15%) VMware
6 35 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.93%) IBM
8 14 (1.35%) Sage
9 13 (1.25%) Citrix
9 13 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.06%) Cisco
11 11 (1.06%) Workday
12 8 (0.77%) Remedy
13 7 (0.68%) Qualys
14 6 (0.58%) Ariba
14 6 (0.58%) Juniper
14 6 (0.58%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.58%) Splunk
15 5 (0.48%) BMC