Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 141 161
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +34
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 814 541 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.96% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.14% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 230 289
10th Percentile £200 £206 £177
25th Percentile £350 £288 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -10.00% +12.15%
75th Percentile £525 £509 £563
90th Percentile £600 £588 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 138 97
10th Percentile £13.11 £13.00 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.98 £13.50 £12.18
Median hourly rate £17.20 £15.50 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +10.97% -1.46% -37.08%
75th Percentile £22.63 £22.47 £24.19
90th Percentile £28.75 £26.96 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £15.50 £15.73
% change year-on-year +9.68% -1.46% -28.50%

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 41,773 25,317 31,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.70% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,362 16,429 20,502
10th Percentile £329 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,095 1,308 1,828
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +3 207 £438 +5.42% 96
London -32 186 £438 +6.06% 100
South East -19 148 £525 +31.25% 138
North West -15 120 £438 +20.69% 51
Midlands -21 113 £445 +18.67% 92
East of England +28 98 £288 -23.33% 52
West Midlands -51 69 £445 +15.58% 46
Yorkshire +1 67 £466 -11.33% 33
South West -53 52 £463 -2.63% 46
East Midlands +24 44 £319 -8.93% 46
North East -23 20 £438 -2.78% 13
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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.

1 190 (23.34%) Security Cleared
2 162 (19.90%) Microsoft
3 139 (17.08%) SC Cleared
4 113 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (12.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 101 (12.41%) Migration
7 86 (10.57%) Oracle
8 85 (10.44%) SharePoint
9 80 (9.83%) SAP
10 66 (8.11%) Windows
11 65 (7.99%) SQL
12 61 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
13 60 (7.37%) SQL Server
14 59 (7.25%) Active Directory
14 59 (7.25%) Change Management
14 59 (7.25%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (7.13%) Azure
16 56 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (6.63%) ITIL
18 51 (6.27%) Data Quality
19 50 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
20 46 (5.65%) Workflow
21 40 (4.91%) Customer Service
21 40 (4.91%) Linux
21 40 (4.91%) Validation
21 40 (4.91%) VMware
22 39 (4.79%) Data Management
22 39 (4.79%) JIRA
23 38 (4.67%) Degree
23 38 (4.67%) PowerShell

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 85 (10.44%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.97%) Confluence
3 16 (1.97%) SharePoint 2013
4 10 (1.23%) CMS
5 5 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.49%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Mendix
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 102 (12.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) Windchill
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.98%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.74%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.49%) iTrent
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (7.13%) Azure
3 34 (4.18%) SaaS
4 25 (3.07%) Google Workspace
5 22 (2.70%) AWS
6 21 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 19 (2.33%) GCP
8 14 (1.72%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 11 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.23%) ShareGate
12 8 (0.98%) Asana
13 7 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.74%) GitHub
14 6 (0.74%) Google Sheets
14 6 (0.74%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.55%) DNS
2 18 (2.21%) SSL
3 15 (1.84%) DHCP
3 15 (1.84%) Firewall
4 11 (1.35%) DKIM
4 11 (1.35%) DMARC
4 11 (1.35%) SAN
5 6 (0.74%) NAS
5 6 (0.74%) Network Security
6 4 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (0.49%) SNMP
6 4 (0.49%) VPN
7 3 (0.37%) BGP
7 3 (0.37%) Intranet
7 3 (0.37%) NetScaler
7 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.37%) WebEx
8 2 (0.25%) Junos
8 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.69%) Oracle Database
4 21 (2.58%) MySQL
5 18 (2.21%) Power BI
6 10 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
9 6 (0.74%) GIS
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
11 4 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.37%) Metadata
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (4.79%) JIRA
2 8 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.86%) Git
3 7 (0.86%) GitLab
4 4 (0.49%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.37%) MSI
6 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.25%) Toad
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Hudson
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 186 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.20%) Finance
3 80 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.58%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.19%) Legal
8 22 (2.70%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.58%) Banking
10 14 (1.72%) Aviation
10 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.60%) Marketing
12 12 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.47%) Military
13 10 (1.23%) Law
13 10 (1.23%) Police
14 8 (0.98%) Local Government
14 8 (0.98%) Retail
15 6 (0.74%) Publishing
16 4 (0.49%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.46%) Middleware
2 14 (1.72%) ISPF
3 10 (1.23%) REST
4 7 (0.86%) OAuth
5 6 (0.74%) SAP Basis
6 5 (0.61%) CSS
6 5 (0.61%) HTML
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.61%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.49%) LDAP
8 3 (0.37%) .NET
8 3 (0.37%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.37%) jQuery
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) XML
8 3 (0.37%) XMPP
9 2 (0.25%) JSON
9 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Streams
9 2 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.56%) Clustering
3 27 (3.32%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.09%) Mainframe
5 17 (2.09%) Replication
6 13 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
8 8 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.86%) NHS
10 6 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.74%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.61%) CMDB
11 5 (0.61%) PKI
12 4 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.49%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.49%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.37%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.11%) Windows
2 40 (4.91%) Linux
3 29 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.97%) Unix
5 15 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.60%) zOS
7 9 (1.11%) AIX
8 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.49%) CentOS
9 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.37%) Solaris
11 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (12.41%) Migration
3 59 (7.25%) Change Management
3 59 (7.25%) Performance Tuning
4 56 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (6.63%) ITIL
6 46 (5.65%) Workflow
7 40 (4.91%) Customer Service
7 40 (4.91%) Validation
8 39 (4.79%) Data Management
9 35 (4.30%) Disaster Recovery
10 34 (4.18%) DevOps
10 34 (4.18%) High Availability
11 31 (3.81%) Data Entry
12 30 (3.69%) ERP
13 29 (3.56%) CRM
13 29 (3.56%) Data Protection
14 27 (3.32%) Root Cause Analysis
14 27 (3.32%) Service Management
15 26 (3.19%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.99%) SQL
2 38 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.69%) Python
4 10 (1.23%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.11%) Bash
5 9 (1.11%) C#
5 9 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.74%) Perl
8 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.61%) Java
9 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.37%) Groovy
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.12%) Bicep
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) JCL
12 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 190 (23.34%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.67%) Degree
4 37 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.23%) OCP
9 5 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.37%) CCA
11 3 (0.37%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.37%) MCSA
11 3 (0.37%) MCSE
11 3 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.12%) CISSP
13 1 (0.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.83%) QA
3 21 (2.58%) GDPR
4 17 (2.09%) SLA
5 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.49%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.12%) HL7
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.60%) RACF
5 11 (1.35%) Firmware
6 10 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.61%) PowerHA
9 3 (0.37%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.25%) Docker
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.25%) XenApp
10 2 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (2.21%) SCCM
2 17 (2.09%) Ansible
3 16 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.72%) Data Guard
5 13 (1.60%) OMEGAMON
6 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (0.98%) Terraform
9 7 (0.86%) SCOM
10 6 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.61%) WSUS
12 4 (0.49%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.49%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.49%) Podman
13 3 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.37%) vMotion
Vendors
1 162 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.57%) Oracle
3 80 (9.83%) SAP
4 40 (4.91%) VMware
5 35 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.05%) Google
7 29 (3.56%) Avature
8 24 (2.95%) IBM
9 16 (1.97%) Citrix
10 14 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.60%) Cisco
11 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.86%) Juniper
14 7 (0.86%) Okta
14 7 (0.86%) Qualys
14 7 (0.86%) Remedy
14 7 (0.86%) Sage
15 5 (0.61%) Workday