Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 144 168
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 869 542 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.95% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 2.13% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £191 £180
25th Percentile £356 £281 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £438
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -6.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £557
90th Percentile £600 £588 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 138 87
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.00 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.93 £13.50 £12.18
Median hourly rate £16.50 £15.50 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -1.46% -32.31%
75th Percentile £22.55 £22.47 £23.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £26.51 £51.91
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £15.50 £15.73
% change year-on-year +6.45% -1.46% -26.12%

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 42,264 25,460 30,800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.59% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,561 16,436 20,203
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,351 1,763
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.15
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.87%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +4 214 £438 +4.54% 104
London -22 209 £450 +9.76% 104
South East -14 159 £525 +31.25% 162
Midlands -4 129 £445 +18.67% 100
North West -6 123 £438 +9.38% 50
East of England +27 99 £300 -20.00% 62
West Midlands -35 80 £446 +18.93% 52
Yorkshire +12 69 £466 -15.36% 35
East Midlands +19 49 £319 -61.36% 48
South West -54 49 £463 -2.63% 59
North East -23 22 £438 -2.78% 22
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 199 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.09%) Microsoft
3 152 (17.49%) SC Cleared
4 116 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (13.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 105 (12.08%) Migration
7 87 (10.01%) Oracle
8 84 (9.67%) SharePoint
9 80 (9.21%) SAP
10 77 (8.86%) SQL
11 73 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
12 71 (8.17%) Performance Tuning
13 66 (7.59%) SQL Server
14 65 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
14 65 (7.48%) Windows
15 59 (6.79%) Azure
16 58 (6.67%) Active Directory
16 58 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (6.67%) Data Quality
17 56 (6.44%) ITIL
18 54 (6.21%) Change Management
18 54 (6.21%) Customer Service
19 50 (5.75%) Validation
20 48 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
21 46 (5.29%) Workflow
22 45 (5.18%) Disaster Recovery
23 44 (5.06%) Data Entry
23 44 (5.06%) Linux
23 44 (5.06%) VMware
24 41 (4.72%) High Availability

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 84 (9.67%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.84%) Confluence
3 16 (1.84%) SharePoint 2013
4 12 (1.38%) CMS
5 5 (0.58%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
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
1 114 (13.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.38%) 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 (0.92%) NetSuite
1 8 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.46%) iTrent
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.35%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (6.79%) Azure
3 35 (4.03%) SaaS
4 34 (3.91%) AWS
5 25 (2.88%) Google Workspace
6 22 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 20 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 20 (2.30%) GCP
8 14 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (1.61%) Google Drive
9 12 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 10 (1.15%) ShareGate
12 9 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (0.92%) Asana
13 8 (0.92%) AWS KMS
14 7 (0.81%) Google Sheets
14 7 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.14%) DNS
2 18 (2.07%) SSL
3 15 (1.73%) DHCP
4 14 (1.61%) Firewall
5 12 (1.38%) SAN
6 11 (1.27%) DKIM
6 11 (1.27%) DMARC
7 6 (0.69%) NAS
8 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (0.46%) Network Security
9 4 (0.46%) SNMP
9 4 (0.46%) VPN
10 3 (0.35%) Intranet
10 3 (0.35%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.35%) WAN
10 3 (0.35%) WebEx
11 2 (0.23%) LAN
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 28 (3.22%) MySQL
5 19 (2.19%) Power BI
6 16 (1.84%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (0.81%) Redis
13 6 (0.69%) GIS
14 5 (0.58%) Metadata
14 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.46%) Big Data
15 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 40 (4.60%) JIRA
2 8 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.81%) Git
3 7 (0.81%) GitLab
4 4 (0.46%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.23%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.23%) InstallShield
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.23%) MSI
5 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.23%) Toad
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Hudson
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.12%) Selenium
6 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 221 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
3 86 (9.90%) Finance
4 84 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 25 (2.88%) Legal
8 21 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.42%) Banking
9 15 (1.73%) Marketing
10 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.38%) Aviation
11 12 (1.38%) Military
12 11 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.27%) Law
12 11 (1.27%) Police
13 10 (1.15%) Retail
14 8 (0.92%) Local Government
15 6 (0.69%) Publishing
16 5 (0.58%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.30%) Middleware
2 14 (1.61%) ISPF
3 11 (1.27%) REST
4 8 (0.92%) OAuth
5 6 (0.69%) HTML
5 6 (0.69%) SAP Basis
6 5 (0.58%) CSS
6 5 (0.58%) Kafka
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.46%) LDAP
7 4 (0.46%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.35%) .NET
8 3 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.35%) jQuery
8 3 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.35%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Streams
9 2 (0.23%) PCRE
9 2 (0.23%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.57%) Clustering
4 25 (2.88%) Replication
5 24 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.07%) Mainframe
7 12 (1.38%) Freedom of Information
8 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.69%) NHS
10 6 (0.69%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.58%) CMDB
11 5 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.58%) PKI
12 4 (0.46%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.35%) Blog
13 3 (0.35%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.48%) Windows
2 44 (5.06%) Linux
3 27 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.96%) Unix
6 14 (1.61%) zOS
7 9 (1.04%) AIX
8 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.46%) CentOS
9 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.46%) Solaris
9 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (12.08%) Migration
3 71 (8.17%) Performance Tuning
4 58 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (6.44%) ITIL
6 54 (6.21%) Change Management
6 54 (6.21%) Customer Service
7 50 (5.75%) Validation
8 46 (5.29%) Workflow
9 45 (5.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 44 (5.06%) Data Entry
11 41 (4.72%) High Availability
12 39 (4.49%) Data Management
13 37 (4.26%) CRM
13 37 (4.26%) DevOps
13 37 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (3.91%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (3.80%) ERP
16 32 (3.68%) Data Protection
17 28 (3.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (8.86%) SQL
2 35 (4.03%) PowerShell
3 31 (3.57%) Python
4 10 (1.15%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.04%) Bash
5 9 (1.04%) C#
5 9 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.81%) Perl
6 7 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.58%) Java
8 4 (0.46%) 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
1 199 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 152 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.49%) Degree
4 35 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 26 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.15%) OCP
9 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.35%) CCA
12 3 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.35%) MCSA
12 3 (0.35%) MCSE
12 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.34%) QA
3 25 (2.88%) GDPR
4 18 (2.07%) SLA
5 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.46%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.35%) PMO
8 2 (0.23%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.12%) GMP
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
9 1 (0.12%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
4 13 (1.50%) RACF
5 11 (1.27%) Firmware
6 10 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.58%) PowerHA
10 3 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.35%) Docker
10 3 (0.35%) vSphere
11 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.23%) XenApp
11 2 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (2.07%) SCCM
2 17 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (1.84%) Ansible
3 16 (1.84%) Terraform
4 14 (1.61%) Data Guard
5 13 (1.50%) OMEGAMON
6 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (0.81%) SCOM
10 6 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.58%) Kubernetes
11 5 (0.58%) WSUS
12 4 (0.46%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.46%) Podman
12 4 (0.46%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 192 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.01%) Oracle
3 80 (9.21%) SAP
4 44 (5.06%) VMware
5 39 (4.49%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.91%) Google
7 29 (3.34%) Avature
8 25 (2.88%) IBM
9 16 (1.84%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.73%) Citrix
11 14 (1.61%) Cisco
12 13 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.92%) Remedy
15 7 (0.81%) Okta
15 7 (0.81%) Qualys
16 6 (0.69%) Juniper
16 6 (0.69%) Sage
16 6 (0.69%) SolarWinds
17 5 (0.58%) BMC