Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 169 122
Rank change year-on-year +23 -47 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 699 383 703
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.57% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.69% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 187 348
10th Percentile £200 £197 £158
25th Percentile £325 £306 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +4.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £569
90th Percentile £582 £575 £588
UK median daily rate £438 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 64 218
10th Percentile £13.10 - £11.08
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £11.95
Median hourly rate £17.69 £14.00 £13.48
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% +3.86% -48.15%
75th Percentile £22.63 £23.75 £17.28
90th Percentile £57.25 £30.63 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £15.60 £13.18
% change year-on-year +8.97% +18.35% -49.21%

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 36,975 22,673 34,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.66% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,139 15,121 22,890
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,509 899 2,421
10th Percentile £15.78 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £31.76 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -11.68% -19.25%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £29.25 £35.96
% change year-on-year +47.01% -18.66% -20.09%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -21 181 £425 - 69
North of England -9 159 £429 +19.36% 70
East of England +38 114 £406 -5.52% 38
Midlands -13 92 £439 +32.95% 47
North West -15 89 £408 +14.95% 32
South East -39 85 £350 -9.68% 84
West Midlands -34 65 £438 +32.58% 29
South West -6 64 £525 +11.70% 37
Yorkshire -24 55 £438 -7.89% 23
East Midlands -12 27 £475 +17.21% 18
North East -7 15 £438 +29.63% 15
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 170 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 154 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 133 (19.03%) SC Cleared
4 109 (15.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 92 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (11.02%) SAP
7 69 (9.87%) Linux
8 63 (9.01%) Migration
9 62 (8.87%) Change Management
10 60 (8.58%) Azure
11 55 (7.87%) Active Directory
12 53 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (7.58%) Oracle
13 52 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
14 50 (7.15%) SharePoint
15 45 (6.44%) Windows
16 41 (5.87%) ITIL
16 41 (5.87%) SLA
17 40 (5.72%) SaaS
17 40 (5.72%) Workflow
18 39 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
19 36 (5.15%) Google
20 35 (5.01%) DevOps
20 35 (5.01%) SQL
21 34 (4.86%) DV Cleared
21 34 (4.86%) Python
22 33 (4.72%) High Availability
22 33 (4.72%) JIRA
22 33 (4.72%) Performance Tuning
22 33 (4.72%) ServiceNow

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 50 (7.15%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.15%) Confluence
4 4 (0.57%) CMS
4 4 (0.57%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) Drupal
6 2 (0.29%) Moodle
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 109 (15.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.72%) Spreadsheet
4 19 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Maximo
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.57%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) iTrent
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 60 (8.58%) Azure
2 52 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (5.72%) SaaS
4 29 (4.15%) Entra ID
5 24 (3.43%) AWS
6 23 (3.29%) GCP
7 22 (3.15%) Google Workspace
8 18 (2.58%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.00%) Google Drive
10 12 (1.72%) OpenShift
11 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.43%) Serverless
12 9 (1.29%) GitHub
12 9 (1.29%) IaaS
13 8 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.14%) PaaS
13 8 (1.14%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.29%) DNS
2 16 (2.29%) Firewall
3 14 (2.00%) Network Security
4 13 (1.86%) DHCP
5 10 (1.43%) VPN
6 9 (1.29%) DKIM
6 9 (1.29%) DMARC
6 9 (1.29%) SAN
7 8 (1.14%) LAN
8 5 (0.72%) WebEx
9 4 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.57%) NAS
9 4 (0.57%) WAN
9 4 (0.57%) Wireless
9 4 (0.57%) WLAN
10 3 (0.43%) Intranet
10 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.43%) VoIP
11 2 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.72%) Oracle Database
4 16 (2.29%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.57%) MySQL
5 11 (1.57%) Power BI
5 11 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (0.57%) Tableau
11 3 (0.43%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.43%) Big Data
11 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.43%) Impala
11 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 33 (4.72%) JIRA
2 20 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.58%) GitLab
4 17 (2.43%) Git
5 5 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
5 5 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.29%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 157 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 70 (10.01%) Finance
3 63 (9.01%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.01%) Organisational Skills
5 54 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.29%) Legal
8 21 (3.00%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.86%) Banking
10 13 (1.86%) Marketing
11 12 (1.72%) Military
11 12 (1.72%) Publishing
12 10 (1.43%) Aviation
13 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.14%) Law
14 8 (1.14%) Local Government
14 8 (1.14%) Retail
15 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.72%) Police
17 4 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.15%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.57%) ISPF
2 11 (1.57%) Middleware
3 10 (1.43%) JSON
3 10 (1.43%) REST
4 9 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.29%) LDAP
5 7 (1.00%) .NET
6 5 (0.72%) HTML
6 5 (0.72%) OAuth
6 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.72%) XML
6 5 (0.72%) XMPP
6 5 (0.72%) YAML
7 4 (0.57%) CSS
7 4 (0.57%) Node.js
8 3 (0.43%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.43%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.43%) Kafka
9 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.15%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 14 (2.00%) Taxonomies
5 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.57%) NHS
6 10 (1.43%) Clustering
6 10 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
7 8 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.14%) PKI
7 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.00%) Replication
9 6 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.72%) Fat Client
10 5 (0.72%) Life Science
10 5 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.87%) Linux
2 45 (6.44%) Windows
3 23 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.72%) Unix
6 10 (1.43%) CentOS
7 5 (0.72%) AIX
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.29%) Debian
9 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.14%) MVS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (9.01%) Migration
3 62 (8.87%) Change Management
4 53 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (5.87%) ITIL
6 40 (5.72%) Workflow
7 35 (5.01%) DevOps
8 33 (4.72%) High Availability
8 33 (4.72%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (4.58%) Time Management
10 31 (4.43%) Customer Service
11 29 (4.15%) Data Protection
12 28 (4.01%) ITSM
13 27 (3.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (3.86%) Service Delivery
14 26 (3.72%) Project Delivery
15 25 (3.58%) SAP Security
16 24 (3.43%) Data Entry
16 24 (3.43%) Service Management
17 22 (3.15%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.01%) SQL
2 34 (4.86%) Python
3 29 (4.15%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.29%) Shell Script
5 12 (1.72%) Bash
5 12 (1.72%) REXX
6 11 (1.57%) CLIST
6 11 (1.57%) COBOL
6 11 (1.57%) JCL
7 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.29%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.00%) C#
9 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.72%) Perl
11 3 (0.43%) Groovy
11 3 (0.43%) VBA
12 2 (0.29%) C++
12 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.14%) Bicep
13 1 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 170 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 133 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.86%) DV Cleared
4 29 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (3.86%) Degree
6 20 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.00%) CCNP
7 7 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.86%) OCP
8 6 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CCIE
9 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.43%) MOS
11 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.87%) SLA
2 24 (3.43%) GDPR
3 19 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.00%) PMO
6 5 (0.72%) QA
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.43%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.43%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 55 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.57%) ACF2
3 11 (1.57%) RACF
3 11 (1.57%) Time Sharing Option
4 9 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.00%) Docker
5 7 (1.00%) Firmware
6 6 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.43%) HDFS
8 3 (0.43%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.29%) QEMU
9 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.29%) XenApp
9 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.14%) GPFS
10 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (4.15%) Ansible
2 24 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (2.72%) Terraform
4 14 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 11 (1.57%) CA Endevor
6 11 (1.57%) Podman
6 11 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.43%) Grafana
7 10 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (1.43%) Tivoli
8 9 (1.29%) Check_MK
9 8 (1.14%) SCCM
10 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.72%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.57%) WSUS
13 3 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.43%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 154 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.02%) SAP
3 53 (7.58%) Oracle
4 36 (5.15%) Google
5 33 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 29 (4.15%) Avature
7 27 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 24 (3.43%) VMware
9 22 (3.15%) Salesforce
10 16 (2.29%) Cisco
11 15 (2.15%) Okta
12 11 (1.57%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.43%) Citrix
14 9 (1.29%) Sage
15 8 (1.14%) IBM
16 6 (0.86%) Dell
16 6 (0.86%) HP
16 6 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 5 (0.72%) Workday
18 4 (0.57%) F5
306 Administrator jobs in England