Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 143 163
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 858 534 511
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 1.94% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.11% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 226 288
10th Percentile £200 £206 £177
25th Percentile £350 £283 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £430
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £551
90th Percentile £600 £588 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.57% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 135 94
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.00 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.50 £12.18
Median hourly rate £16.81 £15.50 £15.87
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.30% -31.91%
75th Percentile £22.63 £22.55 £25.25
90th Percentile £28.75 £27.40 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £16.54 £15.50 £15.87
% change year-on-year +6.68% -2.30% -25.48%

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 42,226 25,298 31,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.69% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,604 16,413 20,392
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,151 1,307 1,820
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.54% -42.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% -

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +2 219 £438 +4.98% 97
London -30 195 £450 +9.76% 94
South East -13 158 £525 +31.25% 133
North West -5 127 £438 +9.38% 50
Midlands -17 122 £445 +18.67% 89
East of England +24 100 £300 -20.00% 46
West Midlands -48 76 £445 +15.58% 49
Yorkshire +6 70 £466 -11.33% 32
South West -45 54 £463 -2.12% 47
East Midlands +22 46 £319 -8.93% 41
North East -23 22 £438 -2.78% 16
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 196 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 182 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 145 (16.90%) SC Cleared
4 120 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (13.17%) Microsoft Excel
6 106 (12.35%) Migration
7 87 (10.14%) Oracle
8 85 (9.91%) SharePoint
9 84 (9.79%) SAP
10 69 (8.04%) SQL
11 65 (7.58%) Windows
12 63 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
13 62 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
14 61 (7.11%) Performance Tuning
14 61 (7.11%) SQL Server
15 59 (6.88%) Active Directory
15 59 (6.88%) Change Management
15 59 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (6.76%) Azure
17 54 (6.29%) Data Quality
17 54 (6.29%) ITIL
18 50 (5.83%) Customer Service
19 46 (5.36%) Workflow
20 42 (4.90%) Validation
21 41 (4.78%) Linux
22 40 (4.66%) Data Entry
22 40 (4.66%) Data Management
22 40 (4.66%) VMware
23 39 (4.55%) Degree
23 39 (4.55%) JIRA

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 (9.91%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.86%) Confluence
3 16 (1.86%) SharePoint 2013
4 11 (1.28%) CMS
5 5 (0.58%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.47%) WordPress
7 3 (0.35%) 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
1 113 (13.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Windchill
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.47%) iTrent
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.35%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (6.76%) Azure
3 35 (4.08%) SaaS
4 25 (2.91%) Google Workspace
5 24 (2.80%) AWS
6 21 (2.45%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 19 (2.21%) GCP
8 14 (1.63%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 10 (1.17%) ShareGate
12 8 (0.93%) Asana
13 7 (0.82%) Google Sheets
13 7 (0.82%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.70%) GitHub
14 6 (0.70%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.31%) DNS
2 19 (2.21%) SSL
3 15 (1.75%) DHCP
4 14 (1.63%) Firewall
5 11 (1.28%) DKIM
5 11 (1.28%) DMARC
5 11 (1.28%) SAN
6 6 (0.70%) NAS
6 6 (0.70%) Network Security
7 4 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (0.47%) SNMP
7 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.47%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) BGP
8 3 (0.35%) Intranet
8 3 (0.35%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.35%) WAN
8 3 (0.35%) WebEx
9 2 (0.23%) Junos
9 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.50%) Oracle Database
4 23 (2.68%) MySQL
5 18 (2.10%) Power BI
6 12 (1.40%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
10 6 (0.70%) GIS
11 5 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.47%) Metadata
12 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
12 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (4.55%) JIRA
2 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.82%) Git
3 7 (0.82%) GitLab
4 4 (0.47%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.35%) MSI
6 2 (0.23%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.23%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.23%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 204 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
3 87 (10.14%) Finance
4 84 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.03%) Legal
8 23 (2.68%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.45%) Banking
10 15 (1.75%) Marketing
11 14 (1.63%) Aviation
11 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.40%) Military
13 11 (1.28%) Law
13 11 (1.28%) Police
14 10 (1.17%) Retail
15 8 (0.93%) Local Government
16 6 (0.70%) Back Office
16 6 (0.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.33%) Middleware
2 14 (1.63%) ISPF
3 10 (1.17%) REST
4 7 (0.82%) OAuth
5 6 (0.70%) HTML
5 6 (0.70%) SAP Basis
6 5 (0.58%) CSS
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.58%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.47%) LDAP
8 3 (0.35%) .NET
8 3 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.35%) jQuery
8 3 (0.35%) Kafka
8 3 (0.35%) XML
8 3 (0.35%) XMPP
9 2 (0.23%) JSON
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Streams
9 2 (0.23%) PCRE
9 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 31 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.38%) Clustering
4 24 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.21%) Replication
6 18 (2.10%) Mainframe
7 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
9 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.70%) NHS
11 6 (0.70%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.58%) CMDB
12 5 (0.58%) PKI
13 4 (0.47%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.47%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.35%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.58%) Windows
2 41 (4.78%) Linux
3 27 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.98%) Unix
5 15 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.63%) zOS
7 9 (1.05%) AIX
8 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.47%) CentOS
9 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.35%) Solaris
11 2 (0.23%) 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
1 120 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (12.35%) Migration
3 61 (7.11%) Performance Tuning
4 59 (6.88%) Change Management
4 59 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (6.29%) ITIL
6 50 (5.83%) Customer Service
7 46 (5.36%) Workflow
8 42 (4.90%) Validation
9 40 (4.66%) Data Entry
9 40 (4.66%) Data Management
10 37 (4.31%) CRM
10 37 (4.31%) Disaster Recovery
11 36 (4.20%) High Availability
12 35 (4.08%) DevOps
13 34 (3.96%) ERP
14 33 (3.85%) Data Protection
15 29 (3.38%) Time Management
16 28 (3.26%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (3.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (8.04%) SQL
2 39 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.61%) Python
4 10 (1.17%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.05%) Bash
5 9 (1.05%) C#
5 9 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.82%) Perl
6 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.58%) Java
8 4 (0.47%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.35%) Groovy
10 2 (0.23%) C++
10 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.12%) Bicep
11 1 (0.12%) COBOL
11 1 (0.12%) JCL
11 1 (0.12%) REXX
11 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 145 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.55%) Degree
4 37 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.17%) OCP
9 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.35%) CCA
11 3 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.35%) MCSA
11 3 (0.35%) MCSE
11 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.91%) QA
3 23 (2.68%) GDPR
4 18 (2.10%) SLA
5 9 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.47%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) 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 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.52%) RACF
5 11 (1.28%) Firmware
6 10 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.58%) PowerHA
9 3 (0.35%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.23%) Docker
10 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.23%) XenApp
10 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (2.10%) SCCM
2 17 (1.98%) Ansible
3 16 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.63%) Data Guard
5 13 (1.52%) OMEGAMON
6 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (1.17%) Terraform
8 7 (0.82%) SCOM
9 6 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.58%) WSUS
11 4 (0.47%) Check_MK
11 4 (0.47%) Kubernetes
11 4 (0.47%) Podman
12 3 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.35%) vMotion
Vendors
1 182 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.14%) Oracle
3 84 (9.79%) SAP
4 40 (4.66%) VMware
5 37 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.96%) Google
7 29 (3.38%) Avature
8 25 (2.91%) IBM
9 16 (1.86%) Citrix
10 13 (1.52%) Cisco
10 13 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.93%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.82%) Juniper
13 7 (0.82%) Okta
13 7 (0.82%) Qualys
13 7 (0.82%) Remedy
13 7 (0.82%) Sage
14 6 (0.70%) Splunk