Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 177 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 -58 +69
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 598 379 742
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.54% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.66% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 183 370
10th Percentile £213 £184 £160
25th Percentile £313 £313 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -10.11%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £538
90th Percentile £575 £575 £594
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 50 207
10th Percentile £13.13 £12.74 £11.13
25th Percentile £15.00 £13.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.85 £19.00 £13.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +37.48% -32.59%
75th Percentile £22.68 £27.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £33.66 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £17.73 £13.78
% change year-on-year -0.23% +28.71% -25.38%

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 33,895 22,860 35,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.04% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,384 15,072 23,528
10th Percentile £310 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 779 2,277
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -27 151 £418 +1.21% 99
North of England -15 141 £412 +17.71% 85
East of England +28 92 £450 +5.88% 47
North West -19 76 £402 +13.40% 35
Midlands -24 73 £424 -0.35% 61
South West +8 70 £525 +11.70% 25
South East -40 70 £369 -1.67% 110
Yorkshire -10 56 £435 +8.69% 35
West Midlands -50 51 £413 - 42
East Midlands -12 22 £475 -1.12% 19
North East -6 9 £363 +61.11% 18
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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.

1 150 (25.08%) Microsoft
1 150 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 100 (16.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 80 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (12.04%) SAP
6 66 (11.04%) Linux
7 56 (9.36%) Azure
8 51 (8.53%) Windows
9 50 (8.36%) Change Management
9 50 (8.36%) Migration
10 47 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
11 46 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (7.69%) SharePoint
12 40 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
13 38 (6.35%) DevOps
13 38 (6.35%) Oracle
13 38 (6.35%) SLA
14 35 (5.85%) Active Directory
14 35 (5.85%) ServiceNow
15 34 (5.69%) SQL
16 32 (5.35%) Customer Service
16 32 (5.35%) DV Cleared
16 32 (5.35%) ITIL
16 32 (5.35%) Time Management
17 30 (5.02%) Entra ID
17 30 (5.02%) Python
18 29 (4.85%) PowerShell
19 28 (4.68%) Performance Tuning
20 27 (4.52%) Data Protection

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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.84%) Confluence
4 5 (0.84%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) Drupal
5 2 (0.33%) Moodle
5 2 (0.33%) SAS
5 2 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (16.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.68%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.67%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 14 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.50%) Maximo
3 3 (0.50%) Shopify
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.17%) iTrent
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 56 (9.36%) Azure
2 47 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (5.02%) Entra ID
4 24 (4.01%) AWS
5 23 (3.85%) SaaS
6 22 (3.68%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.84%) GCP
8 14 (2.34%) OpenShift
9 11 (1.84%) Serverless
10 10 (1.67%) GitHub
10 10 (1.67%) OneDrive
10 10 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.51%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.51%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.34%) IaaS
13 7 (1.17%) PaaS
14 6 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) Network Security
2 15 (2.51%) Firewall
3 14 (2.34%) DNS
4 10 (1.67%) VPN
5 8 (1.34%) DHCP
5 8 (1.34%) WebEx
6 7 (1.17%) LAN
6 7 (1.17%) SAN
7 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.67%) Wireless
7 4 (0.67%) WLAN
8 3 (0.50%) Intranet
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) BGP
9 2 (0.33%) H.323
9 2 (0.33%) OSPF
9 2 (0.33%) RTP
9 2 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.51%) Power BI
4 14 (2.34%) Oracle Database
5 13 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.51%) MySQL
6 9 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
9 4 (0.67%) Tableau
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.50%) Big Data
10 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 3 (0.50%) Impala
10 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.85%) JIRA
2 18 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.84%) GitLab
4 15 (2.51%) Git
5 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.33%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
7 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 150 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.37%) Finance
3 48 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.01%) Legal
8 20 (3.34%) Aerospace
9 19 (3.18%) Banking
10 11 (1.84%) Marketing
11 10 (1.67%) Aviation
11 10 (1.67%) Publishing
12 8 (1.34%) Local Government
12 8 (1.34%) Retail
12 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.84%) Military
15 4 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
15 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.17%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.84%) ISPF
3 9 (1.51%) JSON
4 8 (1.34%) LDAP
5 7 (1.17%) .NET
5 7 (1.17%) Middleware
5 7 (1.17%) YAML
6 6 (1.00%) REST
6 6 (1.00%) XMPP
7 5 (0.84%) XML
8 4 (0.67%) Node.js
8 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.50%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.50%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.50%) HTML
9 3 (0.50%) Kafka
10 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.33%) CSS
10 2 (0.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.70%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.34%) Mainframe
4 13 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.01%) Taxonomies
6 11 (1.84%) NHS
6 11 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.67%) PKI
8 9 (1.51%) Clustering
9 8 (1.34%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.84%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.84%) Replication
11 5 (0.84%) Thin Client
12 4 (0.67%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.04%) Linux
2 51 (8.53%) Windows
3 23 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.67%) Unix
5 9 (1.51%) CentOS
5 9 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.84%) AIX
7 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Debian
9 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (8.36%) Change Management
2 50 (8.36%) Migration
3 46 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (6.35%) DevOps
5 32 (5.35%) Customer Service
5 32 (5.35%) ITIL
5 32 (5.35%) Time Management
6 28 (4.68%) Performance Tuning
7 27 (4.52%) Data Protection
8 25 (4.18%) CI/CD
8 25 (4.18%) High Availability
8 25 (4.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (4.01%) Agile
9 24 (4.01%) ITSM
9 24 (4.01%) SAP Security
9 24 (4.01%) Workflow
10 23 (3.85%) Data Management
10 23 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (3.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.69%) SQL
2 30 (5.02%) Python
3 29 (4.85%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.68%) Shell Script
5 13 (2.17%) Bash
6 12 (2.01%) REXX
7 11 (1.84%) CLIST
7 11 (1.84%) COBOL
7 11 (1.84%) JCL
8 7 (1.17%) C#
8 7 (1.17%) MATLAB
9 6 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.00%) Perl
10 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.50%) VBA
12 2 (0.33%) C++
12 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) Go
13 1 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 150 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.35%) DV Cleared
4 26 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.01%) Degree
7 7 (1.17%) CCNP
7 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.17%) MOS
8 6 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.00%) OCP
8 6 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.67%) CCIE
10 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.35%) SLA
2 26 (4.35%) GDPR
3 16 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.01%) PMO
5 6 (1.00%) QA
6 4 (0.67%) NIST
7 3 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAMP
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 35 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.84%) ACF2
2 11 (1.84%) RACF
2 11 (1.84%) Time Sharing Option
3 9 (1.51%) Docker
4 8 (1.34%) Firmware
5 7 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.50%) HDFS
8 3 (0.50%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.33%) KVM
9 2 (0.33%) QEMU
9 2 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (3.85%) Ansible
2 18 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (3.01%) Terraform
3 15 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.01%) Grafana
5 12 (2.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 11 (1.84%) CA Endevor
7 10 (1.67%) Tivoli
8 9 (1.51%) Podman
8 9 (1.51%) SCCM
9 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (1.17%) Check_MK
11 5 (0.84%) Norton AntiVirus
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.33%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 150 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.04%) SAP
3 38 (6.35%) Oracle
4 35 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 27 (4.52%) Red Hat
6 19 (3.18%) Cisco
7 18 (3.01%) Google
8 17 (2.84%) VMware
9 13 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 12 (2.01%) Okta
11 11 (1.84%) Avature
12 9 (1.51%) Citrix
12 9 (1.51%) Workday
13 8 (1.34%) Sage
14 7 (1.17%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.17%) Dell
14 7 (1.17%) HP
14 7 (1.17%) IBM
15 6 (1.00%) McAfee
15 6 (1.00%) Symantec