Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 158 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 -41 +62
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 695 391 705
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.64% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.78% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 189 340
10th Percentile £200 £191 £174
25th Percentile £338 £300 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £575
90th Percentile £600 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £438 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 66 231
10th Percentile £13.00 - £11.11
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +1.63% -47.02%
75th Percentile £22.63 £19.00 £17.69
90th Percentile £56.18 £30.63 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £16.98 £14.00 £13.78
% change year-on-year +21.25% +1.63% -46.92%

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 38,465 21,947 33,912
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,594 22,464
10th Percentile £322 £293 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,684 883 2,505
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -13 178 £425 - 71
North of England -15 144 £438 +23.41% 83
East of England +35 112 £363 -15.70% 44
Midlands -37 96 £440 +39.68% 67
South East -24 95 £470 +17.50% 74
North West -21 78 £424 +21.07% 41
West Midlands -48 65 £443 +40.48% 40
South West -12 60 £525 +11.70% 47
Yorkshire -21 49 £438 -20.45% 32
East Midlands -5 31 £413 +32.00% 27
North East -12 17 £438 +94.44% 10
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 175 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 141 (20.29%) Microsoft
3 132 (18.99%) SC Cleared
4 101 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 86 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (10.94%) SAP
7 65 (9.35%) Linux
7 65 (9.35%) Migration
8 61 (8.78%) Oracle
9 59 (8.49%) Active Directory
10 58 (8.35%) Change Management
11 55 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (7.77%) Azure
13 50 (7.19%) SharePoint
14 49 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
15 44 (6.33%) Workflow
16 42 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
16 42 (6.04%) Windows
17 40 (5.76%) Performance Tuning
17 40 (5.76%) SaaS
18 38 (5.47%) DV Cleared
18 38 (5.47%) Google
19 37 (5.32%) ITIL
20 36 (5.18%) SQL
21 35 (5.04%) High Availability
21 35 (5.04%) SLA
22 34 (4.89%) Degree
23 33 (4.75%) VMware
24 31 (4.46%) Data Quality
24 31 (4.46%) DNS

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 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.73%) Confluence
4 5 (0.72%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) IIS
5 3 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.29%) Drupal
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Moodle
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 101 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.60%) Spreadsheet
4 15 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.58%) Maximo
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.43%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 54 (7.77%) Azure
2 49 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (5.76%) SaaS
4 25 (3.60%) Entra ID
5 24 (3.45%) Google Workspace
6 21 (3.02%) GCP
7 20 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 18 (2.59%) AWS
9 14 (2.01%) Google Drive
10 11 (1.58%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (1.15%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.15%) Asana
13 7 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.01%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.86%) GitHub
14 6 (0.86%) IaaS
14 6 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.46%) DNS
2 14 (2.01%) DHCP
3 13 (1.87%) Network Security
4 11 (1.58%) DKIM
4 11 (1.58%) DMARC
4 11 (1.58%) Firewall
4 11 (1.58%) SAN
5 7 (1.01%) LAN
6 6 (0.86%) NAS
7 4 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (0.58%) SSL
7 4 (0.58%) VPN
8 3 (0.43%) Intranet
8 3 (0.43%) PSTN
8 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.43%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) WebEx
8 3 (0.43%) Wireless
8 3 (0.43%) WLAN
9 2 (0.29%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.46%) Oracle Database
2 26 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.16%) Power BI
5 14 (2.01%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.44%) MySQL
7 9 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.86%) GIS
9 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
10 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (4.46%) JIRA
2 20 (2.88%) GitLab
3 19 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.59%) Git
5 5 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.29%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.29%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.14%) Hudson
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 150 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.64%) Finance
3 65 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 58 (8.35%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 18 (2.59%) Banking
8 18 (2.59%) Legal
9 14 (2.01%) Aviation
10 12 (1.73%) Military
10 12 (1.73%) Publishing
11 10 (1.44%) Law
11 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.15%) Local Government
12 8 (1.15%) Marketing
13 7 (1.01%) Police
13 7 (1.01%) Retail
13 7 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.45%) Middleware
2 15 (2.16%) SAP Basis
3 11 (1.58%) LDAP
4 8 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.01%) OAuth
6 6 (0.86%) .NET
6 6 (0.86%) ISPF
6 6 (0.86%) REST
7 5 (0.72%) JSON
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.72%) XML
8 4 (0.58%) CSS
8 4 (0.58%) HTML
9 3 (0.43%) Kafka
9 3 (0.43%) Node.js
9 3 (0.43%) XMPP
9 3 (0.43%) YAML
10 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.29%) jQuery
10 2 (0.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.04%) Onboarding
2 29 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.60%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.01%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.73%) Freedom of Information
6 10 (1.44%) Clustering
6 10 (1.44%) NHS
7 9 (1.29%) Mainframe
7 9 (1.29%) Replication
7 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.01%) PKI
10 6 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.43%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.35%) Linux
2 42 (6.04%) Windows
3 23 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.87%) Unix
6 12 (1.73%) CentOS
7 7 (1.01%) AIX
8 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.43%) zOS
10 2 (0.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Android
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.14%) MVS
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (9.35%) Migration
3 58 (8.35%) Change Management
4 55 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (6.33%) Workflow
6 40 (5.76%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (5.32%) ITIL
8 35 (5.04%) High Availability
9 30 (4.32%) Data Management
9 30 (4.32%) Data Protection
10 29 (4.17%) Data Entry
10 29 (4.17%) DevOps
10 29 (4.17%) Time Management
11 27 (3.88%) Customer Service
12 25 (3.60%) SAP Security
13 24 (3.45%) ERP
14 23 (3.31%) Data Governance
14 23 (3.31%) Project Delivery
15 20 (2.88%) Roadmaps
15 20 (2.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.18%) SQL
2 28 (4.03%) Python
3 26 (3.74%) PowerShell
4 21 (3.02%) Shell Script
5 13 (1.87%) Bash
6 11 (1.58%) MATLAB
7 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.86%) C#
10 4 (0.58%) REXX
11 3 (0.43%) CLIST
11 3 (0.43%) COBOL
11 3 (0.43%) Groovy
11 3 (0.43%) JCL
11 3 (0.43%) Perl
11 3 (0.43%) VBA
12 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.14%) Go
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 175 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 132 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.47%) DV Cleared
4 34 (4.89%) Degree
5 30 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.86%) CCNP
7 6 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.86%) OCP
7 6 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.43%) CCIE
9 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.04%) SLA
2 31 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.17%) GDPR
4 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.72%) PMO
5 5 (0.72%) QA
6 4 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.43%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.43%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 59 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.29%) Firmware
6 6 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (0.86%) RACF
7 5 (0.72%) Docker
8 3 (0.43%) ACF2
8 3 (0.43%) PowerHA
8 3 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.29%) HDFS
9 2 (0.29%) QEMU
9 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.29%) XenApp
9 2 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 29 (4.17%) Ansible
2 25 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (2.01%) Terraform
4 13 (1.87%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.87%) Podman
5 11 (1.58%) Check_MK
5 11 (1.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 10 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.29%) Grafana
7 9 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (1.29%) SCCM
8 8 (1.15%) Data Guard
9 7 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.58%) WSUS
12 3 (0.43%) CA Endevor
12 3 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.43%) OMEGAMON
12 3 (0.43%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 141 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.94%) SAP
3 61 (8.78%) Oracle
4 38 (5.47%) Google
5 33 (4.75%) VMware
6 29 (4.17%) Avature
6 29 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.88%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.16%) Cisco
9 15 (2.16%) Okta
10 12 (1.73%) IBM
11 8 (1.15%) Citrix
11 8 (1.15%) Sage
12 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.58%) Brocade
13 4 (0.58%) Dell
13 4 (0.58%) F5
13 4 (0.58%) NetApp
13 4 (0.58%) SolarWinds