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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 148 152
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 794 523 579
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.91% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 2.08% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 232 308
10th Percentile £200 £191 £175
25th Percentile £350 £288 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £575
90th Percentile £600 £575 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 123 138
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.00 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.43 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +9.19% -36.20%
75th Percentile £22.67 £22.63 £22.50
90th Percentile £28.75 £28.03 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.27
% change year-on-year +12.90% +8.66% -22.56%

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 41,522 25,105 32,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.81% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,299 16,309 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,983 1,254 2,147
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.51
25th Percentile £22.46 £17.87 £18.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +6 210 £438 +4.98% 68
London -44 180 £438 +6.06% 63
South East -18 143 £500 +25.79% 74
North West -11 123 £438 +21.87% 41
Midlands -30 103 £443 +26.43% 48
East of England +25 98 £300 -22.58% 34
Yorkshire -1 68 £466 -11.33% 20
West Midlands -54 67 £445 +24.48% 25
South West -50 50 £475 - 36
East Midlands +16 36 £319 -8.93% 23
North East -22 19 £438 -2.78% 8
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 180 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.27%) Microsoft
3 130 (16.37%) SC Cleared
4 104 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (12.47%) Migration
6 98 (12.34%) Microsoft Excel
7 85 (10.71%) SharePoint
8 82 (10.33%) Oracle
9 73 (9.19%) SAP
10 64 (8.06%) Windows
11 60 (7.56%) Azure
11 60 (7.56%) SQL
12 58 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (7.30%) Performance Tuning
13 57 (7.18%) Change Management
14 56 (7.05%) Active Directory
15 55 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (6.80%) SQL Server
17 53 (6.68%) ITIL
18 50 (6.30%) Data Quality
19 47 (5.92%) Workflow
20 45 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
21 43 (5.42%) Linux
22 40 (5.04%) Degree
22 40 (5.04%) JIRA
23 39 (4.91%) Data Management
24 37 (4.66%) DV Cleared
24 37 (4.66%) VMware
25 36 (4.53%) DNS
25 36 (4.53%) Validation

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 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.02%) SharePoint 2013
4 15 (1.89%) Confluence
5 9 (1.13%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.50%) WordPress
8 3 (0.38%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Mendix
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (12.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
4 12 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.38%) Windchill
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.76%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
8 1 (0.13%) Maximo
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (7.56%) Azure
2 58 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (4.41%) SaaS
4 24 (3.02%) Google Workspace
5 21 (2.64%) AWS
5 21 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 20 (2.52%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.27%) GCP
8 14 (1.76%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 10 (1.26%) ShareGate
11 9 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.01%) Asana
12 8 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.01%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.76%) GitHub
13 6 (0.76%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.53%) DNS
2 18 (2.27%) SSL
3 15 (1.89%) DHCP
3 15 (1.89%) Firewall
4 11 (1.39%) DKIM
4 11 (1.39%) DMARC
4 11 (1.39%) SAN
5 7 (0.88%) Network Security
6 6 (0.76%) NAS
7 4 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (0.50%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.50%) SNMP
7 4 (0.50%) VPN
8 3 (0.38%) BGP
8 3 (0.38%) Intranet
8 3 (0.38%) Junos
8 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.38%) WebEx
9 2 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.78%) Oracle Database
4 19 (2.39%) MySQL
5 16 (2.02%) Power BI
6 10 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
8 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.76%) GIS
10 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.50%) Metadata
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (0.50%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (5.04%) JIRA
2 9 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.01%) GitLab
4 7 (0.88%) Git
5 5 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.38%) MSI
7 2 (0.25%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 167 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 78 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (9.82%) Finance
3 68 (8.56%) Organisational Skills
3 68 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 29 (3.65%) Legal
5 24 (3.02%) Aerospace
5 24 (3.02%) Manufacturing
6 22 (2.77%) Banking
7 14 (1.76%) Aviation
7 14 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.51%) Marketing
10 11 (1.39%) Military
11 10 (1.26%) Law
12 9 (1.13%) Police
13 8 (1.01%) Retail
14 7 (0.88%) Publishing
15 6 (0.76%) Local Government
16 3 (0.38%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.52%) Middleware
2 14 (1.76%) ISPF
3 10 (1.26%) REST
4 7 (0.88%) OAuth
4 7 (0.88%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.63%) CSS
5 5 (0.63%) HTML
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.63%) Software Packaging
6 4 (0.50%) LDAP
7 3 (0.38%) .NET
7 3 (0.38%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.38%) jQuery
7 3 (0.38%) Kafka
7 3 (0.38%) XML
7 3 (0.38%) XMPP
8 2 (0.25%) JSON
8 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Streams
8 2 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (3.90%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.15%) Clustering
4 24 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.14%) Mainframe
6 16 (2.02%) Replication
7 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.51%) Freedom of Information
9 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.13%) NHS
11 7 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.88%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.63%) CMDB
13 4 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.50%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.50%) PKI
13 4 (0.50%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.50%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.06%) Windows
2 43 (5.42%) Linux
3 29 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.14%) Unix
5 16 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.64%) zOS
7 9 (1.13%) AIX
8 4 (0.50%) CentOS
8 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (12.47%) Migration
3 58 (7.30%) Performance Tuning
4 57 (7.18%) Change Management
5 55 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (6.68%) ITIL
7 47 (5.92%) Workflow
8 39 (4.91%) Data Management
9 36 (4.53%) Validation
10 34 (4.28%) DevOps
11 32 (4.03%) Customer Service
12 31 (3.90%) Data Protection
13 30 (3.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (3.78%) High Availability
14 28 (3.53%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (3.53%) Service Management
15 27 (3.40%) ERP
16 26 (3.27%) Capacity Planning
16 26 (3.27%) Data Entry
16 26 (3.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 60 (7.56%) SQL
2 35 (4.41%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.90%) Python
4 12 (1.51%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.13%) Bash
5 9 (1.13%) C#
5 9 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.76%) Perl
8 5 (0.63%) Java
9 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.38%) Groovy
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.13%) COBOL
12 1 (0.13%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) JCL
12 1 (0.13%) REXX
12 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 180 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 130 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.04%) Degree
4 37 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.01%) OCP
9 5 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.38%) CCA
11 3 (0.38%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.38%) MCSA
11 3 (0.38%) MCSE
11 3 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
13 1 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.02%) GDPR
3 18 (2.27%) SLA
4 17 (2.14%) QA
5 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.76%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.64%) RACF
5 12 (1.51%) Firmware
6 10 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.63%) PowerHA
9 3 (0.38%) Docker
9 3 (0.38%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.25%) XenApp
10 2 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (2.27%) Ansible
1 18 (2.27%) SCCM
2 17 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (1.76%) Data Guard
4 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.64%) OMEGAMON
5 10 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.13%) Terraform
7 7 (0.88%) SCOM
8 6 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.50%) Check_MK
10 4 (0.50%) Podman
10 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.50%) WSUS
11 3 (0.38%) Grafana
11 3 (0.38%) vMotion
11 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 153 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 82 (10.33%) Oracle
3 73 (9.19%) SAP
4 37 (4.66%) VMware
5 35 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.90%) Google
7 29 (3.65%) Avature
8 24 (3.02%) IBM
9 17 (2.14%) Citrix
9 17 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.02%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.39%) Cisco
12 10 (1.26%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.01%) Okta
13 8 (1.01%) Sage
14 7 (0.88%) Juniper
14 7 (0.88%) Qualys
14 7 (0.88%) SolarWinds
15 5 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 4 (0.50%) F5