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 8 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 178 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 -57 +66
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 681 378 718
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.55% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.67% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 185 355
10th Percentile £208 £188 £160
25th Percentile £320 £313 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +4.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £556
90th Percentile £575 £575 £598
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 57 215
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.92 £11.04
25th Percentile £14.10 £13.50 £11.95
Median hourly rate £17.69 £16.13 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% +17.06% -44.06%
75th Percentile £22.68 £24.50 £17.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £30.63 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £16.13 £13.48
% change year-on-year +8.53% +19.62% -27.14%

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 36,106 22,607 34,632
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.83% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,727 15,140 23,115
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 £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 846 2,325
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.28 £20.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.59 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -1.24% -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.97 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +25.94% -7.16% -23.98%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -22 176 £425 - 97
North of England -6 163 £425 +6.25% 83
East of England +41 112 £411 -3.80% 39
North West -6 88 £408 +13.51% 34
Midlands -17 88 £438 +32.58% 65
South East -29 79 £350 -6.67% 88
Yorkshire -8 61 £438 -7.89% 30
West Midlands -41 61 £438 +32.58% 40
South West -9 58 £525 +14.13% 17
East Midlands -6 27 £475 +17.21% 25
North East -7 14 £438 +29.63% 20
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 160 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 156 (22.91%) Microsoft
3 122 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 106 (15.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 88 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (10.72%) Linux
6 73 (10.72%) SAP
7 59 (8.66%) Azure
8 56 (8.22%) Change Management
9 55 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (7.49%) Migration
11 50 (7.34%) Oracle
12 49 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
12 49 (7.20%) Windows
13 46 (6.75%) SharePoint
14 42 (6.17%) Active Directory
14 42 (6.17%) SLA
15 41 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
16 39 (5.73%) ITIL
16 39 (5.73%) Workflow
17 38 (5.58%) DevOps
18 37 (5.43%) ServiceNow
18 37 (5.43%) SQL
19 35 (5.14%) Customer Service
20 33 (4.85%) DV Cleared
20 33 (4.85%) Python
21 32 (4.70%) Data Protection
21 32 (4.70%) Time Management
22 31 (4.55%) Entra ID
23 30 (4.41%) High Availability

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 46 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.50%) Confluence
2 17 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.73%) CMS
4 4 (0.59%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.29%) Drupal
5 2 (0.29%) Moodle
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 106 (15.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.82%) Spreadsheet
4 20 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.59%) Trello
6 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.59%) Maximo
2 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.59%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.44%) Shopify
4 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 59 (8.66%) Azure
2 49 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 29 (4.26%) SaaS
5 25 (3.67%) AWS
6 21 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.64%) GCP
8 12 (1.76%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.47%) GitHub
9 10 (1.47%) Serverless
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.32%) IaaS
10 9 (1.32%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.17%) PaaS
11 8 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.03%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.03%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.94%) DNS
2 16 (2.35%) Firewall
3 15 (2.20%) Network Security
4 10 (1.47%) VPN
5 9 (1.32%) DHCP
5 9 (1.32%) SAN
6 8 (1.17%) LAN
7 7 (1.03%) WebEx
8 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.59%) NAS
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
8 4 (0.59%) Wireless
8 4 (0.59%) WLAN
9 3 (0.44%) Intranet
9 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.44%) VoIP
10 2 (0.29%) BGP
10 2 (0.29%) H.323
10 2 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 15 (2.20%) Oracle Database
5 13 (1.91%) Power BI
6 11 (1.62%) MySQL
7 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.03%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.59%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.44%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.44%) Big Data
12 3 (0.44%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 3 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (3.96%) JIRA
2 20 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.79%) GitLab
4 17 (2.50%) Git
5 5 (0.73%) ScriptRunner
5 5 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.29%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.29%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 163 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 73 (10.72%) Finance
3 56 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.96%) Legal
7 21 (3.08%) Aerospace
8 20 (2.94%) Banking
9 14 (2.06%) Marketing
10 12 (1.76%) Publishing
11 10 (1.47%) Aviation
12 9 (1.32%) Local Government
13 8 (1.17%) Military
13 8 (1.17%) Retail
13 8 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.59%) Fire and Rescue
16 4 (0.59%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.20%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.62%) ISPF
3 10 (1.47%) JSON
3 10 (1.47%) LDAP
3 10 (1.47%) Middleware
3 10 (1.47%) REST
4 9 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.03%) .NET
5 7 (1.03%) YAML
6 6 (0.88%) XMPP
7 5 (0.73%) HTML
7 5 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.73%) XML
8 4 (0.59%) CSS
8 4 (0.59%) Node.js
9 3 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.44%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.44%) Kafka
10 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.06%) Mainframe
4 14 (2.06%) NHS
4 14 (2.06%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.32%) Clustering
8 8 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.17%) PKI
9 7 (1.03%) Replication
10 6 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.73%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.73%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.73%) Thin Client
12 4 (0.59%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.72%) Linux
2 49 (7.20%) Windows
3 27 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.76%) Unix
4 12 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.62%) CentOS
6 5 (0.73%) AIX
7 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.29%) Debian
8 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.15%) MVS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (8.22%) Change Management
3 55 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (7.49%) Migration
5 39 (5.73%) ITIL
5 39 (5.73%) Workflow
6 38 (5.58%) DevOps
7 35 (5.14%) Customer Service
8 32 (4.70%) Data Protection
8 32 (4.70%) Time Management
9 30 (4.41%) High Availability
10 29 (4.26%) ITSM
10 29 (4.26%) Performance Tuning
10 29 (4.26%) Service Delivery
11 27 (3.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (3.82%) Service Management
13 25 (3.67%) Agile
13 25 (3.67%) Data Governance
13 25 (3.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (3.67%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.43%) SQL
2 33 (4.85%) Python
3 29 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 18 (2.64%) Shell Script
5 12 (1.76%) Bash
5 12 (1.76%) REXX
6 11 (1.62%) CLIST
6 11 (1.62%) COBOL
6 11 (1.62%) JCL
7 10 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.32%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.17%) C#
10 6 (0.88%) Perl
11 5 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.44%) Groovy
12 3 (0.44%) VBA
13 2 (0.29%) C++
13 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 160 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 122 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.85%) DV Cleared
4 27 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.52%) Degree
6 23 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.03%) CCNP
7 7 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.88%) MOS
8 6 (0.88%) OCP
8 6 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.59%) CCIE
9 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.59%) 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 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.17%) SLA
2 26 (3.82%) GDPR
3 20 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.17%) PMO
5 7 (1.03%) QA
6 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.59%) NIST
8 3 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 42 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.62%) ACF2
2 11 (1.62%) RACF
2 11 (1.62%) Time Sharing Option
2 11 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.17%) Firmware
4 7 (1.03%) Docker
5 6 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.44%) HDFS
7 3 (0.44%) PowerHA
7 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.29%) QEMU
8 2 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.15%) GPFS
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (4.26%) Ansible
2 20 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (2.64%) Terraform
4 13 (1.91%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 11 (1.62%) CA Endevor
6 11 (1.62%) Podman
6 11 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.47%) Grafana
7 10 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (1.47%) Tivoli
8 9 (1.32%) Check_MK
9 7 (1.03%) SCCM
10 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.44%) Norton AntiVirus
13 2 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 156 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.72%) SAP
3 50 (7.34%) Oracle
4 37 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 30 (4.41%) Red Hat
6 26 (3.82%) Avature
7 22 (3.23%) Google
7 22 (3.23%) VMware
8 21 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.79%) Cisco
10 15 (2.20%) Okta
11 11 (1.62%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.32%) Citrix
12 9 (1.32%) Sage
13 8 (1.17%) IBM
13 8 (1.17%) Workday
14 7 (1.03%) Dell
14 7 (1.03%) HP
15 6 (0.88%) SolarWinds
16 4 (0.59%) Cloudera
345 Administrator jobs in England