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 27 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 159 149
Rank change year-on-year +32 -10 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 997 510 568
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 1.83% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 2.00% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 215 243
10th Percentile £161 £175 £177
25th Percentile £313 £269 £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 £596 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 132 74
10th Percentile £13.02 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.74 £13.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -4.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £18.67 £21.44 £26.71
90th Percentile £24.19 £24.41 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £15.04 £15.50 £16.73
% change year-on-year -2.97% -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 42,739 25,487 30,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.27% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,336 16,425 18,705
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% -3.67%
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 3,574 1,402 1,402
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +39 237 £450 +38.46% 185
London -22 217 £450 +9.09% 179
South East -3 186 £513 +29.75% 169
Midlands +31 170 £450 +25.87% 128
North West +15 141 £450 +38.46% 88
East of England +27 106 £325 -18.75% 86
West Midlands -8 96 £450 +38.46% 65
East Midlands +29 74 £150 -88.46% 63
Yorkshire +4 70 £458 -16.77% 69
South West -32 69 £385 -21.43% 86
North East -14 26 £419 +193.86% 30
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 283 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 206 (20.66%) Security Cleared
3 163 (16.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 159 (15.95%) SC Cleared
5 136 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (12.54%) Microsoft Office
7 117 (11.74%) Migration
8 108 (10.83%) Oracle
9 100 (10.03%) SharePoint
10 99 (9.93%) Customer Service
11 95 (9.53%) SAP
12 85 (8.53%) SQL
13 79 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
14 74 (7.42%) Data Entry
15 72 (7.22%) Data Quality
16 71 (7.12%) SQL Server
17 70 (7.02%) Windows
18 68 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
19 62 (6.22%) Azure
20 59 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
21 58 (5.82%) Active Directory
22 57 (5.72%) Data Management
23 55 (5.52%) ITIL
23 55 (5.52%) Validation
24 53 (5.32%) ERP
24 53 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
24 53 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
24 53 (5.32%) Time Management
25 50 (5.02%) Google
26 48 (4.81%) 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 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.11%) 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%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.30%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
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
1 163 (16.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (12.54%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (2.11%) 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%) Oracle ERP
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%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CS
Cloud Services
1 79 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (6.22%) Azure
3 40 (4.01%) Google Workspace
4 36 (3.61%) AWS
5 31 (3.11%) Power Platform
6 24 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 23 (2.31%) SaaS
8 21 (2.11%) GCP
9 20 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (1.81%) 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%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.41%) DNS
2 18 (1.81%) SSL
3 15 (1.50%) 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
8 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.40%) Network Security
9 4 (0.40%) SNMP
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%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.20%) Junos
11 2 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 53 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (3.61%) MySQL
4 34 (3.41%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.71%) Power BI
6 17 (1.71%) 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 8 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.70%) Redis
12 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.60%) GIS
13 6 (0.60%) Metadata
14 5 (0.50%) Db2
14 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.40%) Big Data
15 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (4.81%) 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
1 325 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 159 (15.95%) Organisational Skills
3 95 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.23%) Finance
5 69 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 60 (6.02%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.11%) Legal
8 29 (2.91%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.91%) Banking
11 17 (1.71%) Marketing
11 17 (1.71%) 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%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.01%) Middleware
2 17 (1.71%) 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%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.52%) Management Information System
2 48 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.91%) Clustering
4 24 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.31%) Replication
6 22 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.71%) Mainframe
8 12 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
9 10 (1.00%) NHS
10 9 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.70%) BYOD
12 6 (0.60%) Blog
12 6 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.60%) Housing Association
13 5 (0.50%) CMDB
13 5 (0.50%) PKI
14 4 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.40%) EPoS
14 4 (0.40%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.02%) Windows
2 44 (4.41%) Linux
3 34 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (1.81%) Unix
5 16 (1.60%) zOS
6 13 (1.30%) Solaris
7 5 (0.50%) AIX
7 5 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.40%) CentOS
8 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.10%) Android
10 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (11.74%) Migration
3 99 (9.93%) Customer Service
4 74 (7.42%) Data Entry
5 68 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
6 59 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (5.72%) Data Management
8 55 (5.52%) ITIL
8 55 (5.52%) Validation
9 53 (5.32%) ERP
9 53 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (5.32%) Time Management
10 47 (4.71%) CRM
11 44 (4.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 44 (4.41%) Logistics
12 41 (4.11%) Change Management
13 40 (4.01%) Data Protection
13 40 (4.01%) High Availability
14 37 (3.71%) Root Cause Analysis
15 35 (3.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 85 (8.53%) SQL
2 32 (3.21%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.31%) Python
4 9 (0.90%) C#
4 9 (0.90%) Shell Script
5 8 (0.80%) 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
1 206 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 159 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.31%) Degree
4 38 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.50%) 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 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.01%) GDPR
3 29 (2.91%) QA
4 16 (1.60%) 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 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.30%) RACF
5 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.50%) Docker
7 5 (0.50%) Firmware
8 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.40%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.20%) XenApp
9 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.81%) SCCM
3 15 (1.50%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.30%) Ansible
4 13 (1.30%) OMEGAMON
5 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.00%) 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
1 283 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 108 (10.83%) Oracle
3 95 (9.53%) SAP
4 50 (5.02%) Google
5 46 (4.61%) VMware
6 39 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.01%) 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
825 Administrator jobs in England