Administrator Contracts in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 122 181
Rank change year-on-year -42 +59 +78
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 451 682 667
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.75% 1.83% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.97% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 323 413
10th Percentile £191 £175 £201
25th Percentile £281 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £525
90th Percentile £575 £625 £616
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £443
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.64% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 225 44
10th Percentile - £11.11 £12.95
25th Percentile £13.00 £12.00 £16.36
Median hourly rate £14.90 £13.86 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -39.48% +57.93%
75th Percentile £22.55 £18.26 £39.99
90th Percentile £26.51 £47.44 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £15.25 £13.86 £18.55
% change year-on-year +10.03% -25.28% +27.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in England.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in England.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 -8 137 £425 +6.25% 935
North of England +5 86 £387 +3.20% 469
North West +22 63 £359 +30.55% 274
South East -24 63 £400 -11.11% 457
Midlands -15 60 £350 -12.50% 328
South West +11 58 £475 -13.64% 232
West Midlands +4 53 £358 -1.38% 180
East of England -2 29 £400 +10.34% 224
Yorkshire -5 19 £525 +11.70% 157
East Midlands -17 7 £313 -29.46% 146
North East -13 4 £338 -28.95% 41
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 138 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.29%) Security Cleared
3 74 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (16.19%) Microsoft
5 56 (12.42%) Finance
6 55 (12.20%) Linux
7 54 (11.97%) AWS
8 53 (11.75%) Customer Service
9 48 (10.64%) Windows
10 43 (9.53%) Change Management
10 43 (9.53%) Azure
11 42 (9.31%) Python
12 39 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
12 39 (8.65%) JIRA
13 38 (8.43%) DNS
13 38 (8.43%) Public Sector
14 37 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 37 (8.20%) SC Cleared
14 37 (8.20%) ServiceNow
14 37 (8.20%) DevOps
15 36 (7.98%) Ansible
16 35 (7.76%) Salesforce
17 34 (7.54%) VMware
18 33 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
19 32 (7.10%) Firewall
19 32 (7.10%) ITIL
20 31 (6.87%) SQL
20 31 (6.87%) Oracle
20 31 (6.87%) Agile
21 29 (6.43%) Service Management

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.88%) Confluence
2 19 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.89%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.44%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.44%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.97%) AWS
2 43 (9.53%) Azure
3 21 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.88%) GCP
5 11 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.22%) SaaS
7 9 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.00%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.55%) GitHub
9 6 (1.33%) Slack
10 5 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.11%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.11%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.11%) Serverless
11 4 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (0.67%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.43%) DNS
2 32 (7.10%) Firewall
3 15 (3.33%) DHCP
3 15 (3.33%) Network Security
4 13 (2.88%) SAN
5 12 (2.66%) VPN
6 11 (2.44%) WAN
7 10 (2.22%) LAN
8 8 (1.77%) BGP
8 8 (1.77%) iSCSI
8 8 (1.77%) OSPF
8 8 (1.77%) VLAN
9 7 (1.55%) SSL
9 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.89%) Wireless
11 4 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.88%) Oracle Database
2 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.77%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.77%) RDBMS
5 7 (1.55%) Power BI
6 6 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.11%) MySQL
8 4 (0.89%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.67%) DB2
9 3 (0.67%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.67%) Sqoop
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.44%) Big Data
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.44%) Redis
10 2 (0.44%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (8.65%) JIRA
2 13 (2.88%) TeamCity
3 10 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.00%) Git
4 9 (2.00%) GitLab
5 7 (1.55%) Subversion
6 4 (0.89%) Hudson
7 3 (0.67%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.22%) Ant
9 1 (0.22%) Log4j
General
1 138 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 56 (12.42%) Finance
3 38 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.66%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.66%) Retail
8 11 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.44%) Marketing
9 7 (1.55%) French Language
10 6 (1.33%) Banking
10 6 (1.33%) Law
11 5 (1.11%) Aviation
11 5 (1.11%) Electronics
12 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Billing
13 3 (0.67%) Legal
13 3 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.10%) REST
2 10 (2.22%) LDAP
3 7 (1.55%) JSON
3 7 (1.55%) XML
4 6 (1.33%) Kafka
5 5 (1.11%) CSS
5 5 (1.11%) HTML
5 5 (1.11%) SOAP
5 5 (1.11%) Web Services
6 4 (0.89%) Ajax
6 4 (0.89%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.67%) LAMP
7 3 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.44%) Middleware
8 2 (0.44%) OAuth
8 2 (0.44%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.44%) Zend Framework
9 1 (0.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.88%) CMDB
4 11 (2.44%) Clustering
5 10 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 10 (2.22%) Replication
6 9 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.55%) PKI
9 6 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.89%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.89%) PMI
12 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.67%) IBM Mainframe
13 2 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.44%) Life Science
13 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.20%) Linux
2 48 (10.64%) Windows
3 25 (5.54%) Unix
4 13 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.22%) Solaris
7 9 (2.00%) CentOS
8 7 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.33%) zOS
10 5 (1.11%) AIX
11 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.67%) Debian
12 3 (0.67%) OpenVMS
12 3 (0.67%) VMS
12 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.22%) Android
13 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (11.75%) Customer Service
3 43 (9.53%) Change Management
4 37 (8.20%) DevOps
4 37 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 33 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
6 32 (7.10%) ITIL
7 31 (6.87%) Agile
8 29 (6.43%) Service Management
9 28 (6.21%) High Availability
10 27 (5.99%) Data Entry
11 26 (5.76%) Process Improvement
12 25 (5.54%) CI/CD
13 24 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (5.32%) Migration
14 23 (5.10%) ITSM
15 22 (4.88%) Budget Management
16 20 (4.43%) CRM
16 20 (4.43%) Data Protection
16 20 (4.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (9.31%) Python
2 31 (6.87%) SQL
3 20 (4.43%) Bash
4 16 (3.55%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.33%) Perl
6 13 (2.88%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.89%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.44%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.44%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.44%) AWK
10 2 (0.44%) C
10 2 (0.44%) C#
10 2 (0.44%) COBOL
10 2 (0.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.44%) PHP
10 2 (0.44%) Scala
10 2 (0.44%) sed
11 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.66%) Degree
6 8 (1.77%) IBM Certification
7 7 (1.55%) CISSP
7 7 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.33%) CCNP
8 6 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.11%) CCSA
10 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.89%) OCP
10 4 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.66%) GDPR
2 10 (2.22%) QA
3 9 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.77%) SLA
5 7 (1.55%) PMO
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) COSHH
9 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 29 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.66%) Docker
3 12 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.00%) NFS
5 8 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.55%) RACF
7 6 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (1.11%) Firmware
9 3 (0.67%) GPFS
9 3 (0.67%) vSphere
10 2 (0.44%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.44%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.22%) Samba
11 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (7.98%) Ansible
2 24 (5.32%) Terraform
3 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 10 (2.22%) Puppet
5 9 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (1.55%) Tivoli
7 6 (1.33%) Data Guard
7 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.33%) Salt
7 6 (1.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (1.11%) Nagios
8 5 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (1.11%) QRadar
8 5 (1.11%) WSUS
9 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.67%) Grafana
10 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 35 (7.76%) Salesforce
4 34 (7.54%) VMware
5 31 (6.87%) Oracle
6 24 (5.32%) SAP
7 19 (4.21%) IBM
8 18 (3.99%) Juniper
8 18 (3.99%) Red Hat
9 16 (3.55%) Cisco
10 11 (2.44%) Google
11 10 (2.22%) Splunk
12 8 (1.77%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.55%) CyberArk
13 7 (1.55%) Databricks
14 6 (1.33%) F5
15 5 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 5 (1.11%) Meraki
15 5 (1.11%) Qualys
15 5 (1.11%) SaltStack