Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 171 117
Rank change year-on-year +4 -54 +70
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 627 371 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.53% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.64% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 188 363
10th Percentile £212 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £313 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £407 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £550
90th Percentile £575 £575 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 53 208
10th Percentile £13.13 £12.83 £11.12
25th Percentile £14.50 £13.85 £11.95
Median hourly rate £17.85 £16.46 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% +19.49% -36.67%
75th Percentile £22.68 £24.50 £17.63
90th Percentile £57.25 £30.63 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £16.25 £13.78
% change year-on-year +8.86% +17.97% -25.54%

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 34,477 22,633 34,981
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,757 15,111 23,374
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 797 2,292
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.51 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.75 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.66 £77.31 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% - -24.42%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -22 159 £425 - 94
North of England -13 149 £415 +15.60% 81
East of England +31 97 £450 +5.88% 37
Midlands -29 81 £436 -3.06% 65
North West -21 80 £405 +12.74% 33
South East -36 74 £350 -6.67% 86
South West +2 66 £525 +11.70% 16
Yorkshire -14 58 £438 +16.67% 30
West Midlands -42 56 £435 -3.33% 40
East Midlands -10 25 £475 -1.12% 25
North East -10 11 £400 +18.52% 19
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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.

1 156 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 155 (24.72%) Microsoft
3 114 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 104 (16.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 82 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (11.48%) SAP
7 69 (11.00%) Linux
8 57 (9.09%) Azure
9 52 (8.29%) Windows
10 51 (8.13%) Change Management
10 51 (8.13%) Migration
11 49 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
14 43 (6.86%) Oracle
14 43 (6.86%) SharePoint
15 40 (6.38%) SLA
16 38 (6.06%) Active Directory
16 38 (6.06%) DevOps
17 37 (5.90%) ServiceNow
18 36 (5.74%) SQL
19 35 (5.58%) Customer Service
20 34 (5.42%) ITIL
21 33 (5.26%) DV Cleared
22 32 (5.10%) Entra ID
23 31 (4.94%) Workflow
24 30 (4.78%) Data Protection
24 30 (4.78%) Performance Tuning
24 30 (4.78%) Python
24 30 (4.78%) Time Management

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 43 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.07%) Confluence
2 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.80%) CMS
4 2 (0.32%) Drupal
4 2 (0.32%) Moodle
4 2 (0.32%) SAS
4 2 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (16.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (3.83%) Spreadsheet
4 22 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.64%) Trello
6 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.64%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.48%) Maximo
3 3 (0.48%) Shopify
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) iTrent
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 57 (9.09%) Azure
2 48 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (5.10%) Entra ID
4 25 (3.99%) AWS
4 25 (3.99%) SaaS
5 22 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 17 (2.71%) GCP
7 14 (2.23%) OpenShift
8 10 (1.59%) GitHub
8 10 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 10 (1.59%) Serverless
9 9 (1.44%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.44%) IaaS
9 9 (1.44%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.44%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (1.28%) PaaS
11 5 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.71%) Network Security
2 16 (2.55%) DNS
2 16 (2.55%) Firewall
3 10 (1.59%) VPN
4 8 (1.28%) DHCP
4 8 (1.28%) LAN
4 8 (1.28%) WebEx
5 7 (1.12%) SAN
6 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.64%) WAN
6 4 (0.64%) Wireless
6 4 (0.64%) WLAN
7 3 (0.48%) Intranet
7 3 (0.48%) VoIP
8 2 (0.32%) BGP
8 2 (0.32%) H.323
8 2 (0.32%) OSPF
8 2 (0.32%) RTP
8 2 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.39%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.23%) Oracle Database
3 14 (2.23%) Power BI
4 10 (1.59%) MySQL
5 9 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.64%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (0.64%) Tableau
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.48%) Big Data
10 3 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 3 (0.48%) Impala
10 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (3.51%) JIRA
2 18 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.71%) GitLab
4 15 (2.39%) Git
5 5 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.32%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.32%) Subversion
7 1 (0.16%) MSI
7 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 158 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.64%) Finance
3 51 (8.13%) Public Sector
4 49 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
5 43 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.15%) Legal
8 20 (3.19%) Banking
9 19 (3.03%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.75%) Marketing
10 11 (1.75%) Publishing
11 10 (1.59%) Aviation
12 9 (1.44%) Local Government
13 8 (1.28%) Retail
13 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.80%) Military
16 4 (0.64%) Fire and Rescue
17 3 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.23%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.75%) ISPF
3 9 (1.44%) JSON
4 8 (1.28%) LDAP
5 7 (1.12%) Middleware
5 7 (1.12%) YAML
6 6 (0.96%) .NET
6 6 (0.96%) REST
6 6 (0.96%) XMPP
7 5 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.80%) XML
8 4 (0.64%) HTML
8 4 (0.64%) Node.js
9 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.48%) CSS
9 3 (0.48%) Kafka
10 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.69%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.23%) Mainframe
3 14 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.07%) Taxonomies
5 11 (1.75%) NHS
5 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.59%) PKI
7 9 (1.44%) Clustering
8 8 (1.28%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.12%) Replication
10 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.80%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.80%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.80%) Thin Client
12 4 (0.64%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.00%) Linux
2 52 (8.29%) Windows
3 23 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.75%) Unix
5 9 (1.44%) CentOS
5 9 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.80%) AIX
7 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) Debian
9 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.16%) MVS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (8.13%) Change Management
2 51 (8.13%) Migration
3 49 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (6.06%) DevOps
5 35 (5.58%) Customer Service
6 34 (5.42%) ITIL
7 31 (4.94%) Workflow
8 30 (4.78%) Data Protection
8 30 (4.78%) Performance Tuning
8 30 (4.78%) Time Management
9 27 (4.31%) High Availability
10 26 (4.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (3.99%) ITSM
11 25 (3.99%) SAP Security
12 24 (3.83%) CI/CD
12 24 (3.83%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (3.83%) Service Delivery
13 23 (3.67%) Data Governance
13 23 (3.67%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.74%) SQL
2 30 (4.78%) Python
3 29 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 17 (2.71%) Shell Script
5 13 (2.07%) Bash
6 12 (1.91%) REXX
7 11 (1.75%) CLIST
7 11 (1.75%) COBOL
7 11 (1.75%) JCL
8 7 (1.12%) C#
8 7 (1.12%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.96%) Perl
10 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.48%) VBA
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 156 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 114 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 27 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.51%) Degree
6 21 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.12%) CCNP
7 7 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.12%) MOS
8 6 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.96%) OCP
8 6 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.64%) CCIE
9 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.38%) SLA
2 26 (4.15%) GDPR
3 16 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.59%) PMO
5 6 (0.96%) QA
6 4 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.64%) NIST
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) GAMP
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.16%) PERC
System Software
1 38 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.75%) ACF2
2 11 (1.75%) RACF
2 11 (1.75%) Time Sharing Option
3 9 (1.44%) Docker
4 8 (1.28%) Firmware
5 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.48%) HDFS
8 3 (0.48%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.32%) KVM
9 2 (0.32%) QEMU
9 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.16%) GPFS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (3.99%) Ansible
2 20 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (2.87%) Terraform
4 15 (2.39%) Kubernetes
5 13 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.91%) Grafana
6 12 (1.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 11 (1.75%) CA Endevor
8 10 (1.59%) Tivoli
9 9 (1.44%) Podman
9 9 (1.44%) SCCM
10 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (1.12%) Check_MK
12 5 (0.80%) Norton AntiVirus
13 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.32%) Data Guard
15 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 155 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.48%) SAP
3 43 (6.86%) Oracle
4 37 (5.90%) ServiceNow
5 27 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.19%) Cisco
7 19 (3.03%) Google
8 17 (2.71%) Avature
8 17 (2.71%) VMware
9 15 (2.39%) Salesforce
10 14 (2.23%) Okta
11 9 (1.44%) Citrix
11 9 (1.44%) Workday
12 8 (1.28%) Sage
13 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.12%) Dell
13 7 (1.12%) HP
13 7 (1.12%) IBM
14 6 (0.96%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.96%) Symantec