Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 173 120
Rank change year-on-year +9 -53 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 647 373 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.54% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.65% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 186 364
10th Percentile £213 £188 £160
25th Percentile £313 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £417 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% +4.19% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £556
90th Percentile £575 £575 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 56 214
10th Percentile £13.01 £12.90 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.50 £13.76 £11.95
Median hourly rate £17.85 £16.36 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% +18.73% -40.88%
75th Percentile £22.68 £24.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £30.63 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £16.25 £13.78
% change year-on-year +8.86% +17.97% -36.67%

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 35,066 22,560 34,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.94% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,087 15,093 23,351
10th Percentile £313 £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 £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 837 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -19 168 £425 - 97
North of England -8 155 £424 +18.04% 83
East of England +29 105 £450 +5.26% 39
North West -14 83 £408 +13.51% 34
Midlands -23 82 £438 +15.86% 65
South East -40 75 £350 -6.67% 88
Yorkshire -7 61 £438 +9.38% 30
South West -4 59 £525 +11.70% 17
West Midlands -37 56 £438 +32.58% 40
East Midlands -15 26 £475 +11.70% 25
North East -5 11 £438 +29.63% 20
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 155 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 151 (23.34%) Microsoft
3 116 (17.93%) SC Cleared
4 104 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
5 84 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (11.28%) Linux
6 73 (11.28%) SAP
7 58 (8.96%) Azure
8 54 (8.35%) Change Management
9 50 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (7.73%) Windows
10 48 (7.42%) Migration
11 46 (7.11%) Oracle
12 45 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (6.49%) SharePoint
13 42 (6.49%) SLA
14 41 (6.34%) DevOps
14 41 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
15 38 (5.87%) Active Directory
15 38 (5.87%) ITIL
16 37 (5.72%) ServiceNow
17 36 (5.56%) SQL
18 34 (5.26%) Customer Service
18 34 (5.26%) Python
19 33 (5.10%) Workflow
20 32 (4.95%) DV Cleared
21 31 (4.79%) Entra ID
21 31 (4.79%) Performance Tuning
22 30 (4.64%) Data Protection
22 30 (4.64%) 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 42 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.47%) Confluence
3 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.77%) CMS
5 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.31%) Drupal
6 2 (0.31%) Moodle
6 2 (0.31%) SAS
6 2 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.86%) Spreadsheet
4 21 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.62%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.62%) Maximo
2 4 (0.62%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.46%) Shopify
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 58 (8.96%) Azure
2 45 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (4.79%) Entra ID
4 26 (4.02%) SaaS
5 25 (3.86%) AWS
6 21 (3.25%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.63%) GCP
8 14 (2.16%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.55%) GitHub
9 10 (1.55%) Serverless
10 9 (1.39%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.39%) IaaS
10 9 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.24%) PaaS
11 8 (1.24%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.08%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.63%) DNS
2 16 (2.47%) Firewall
2 16 (2.47%) Network Security
3 10 (1.55%) VPN
4 9 (1.39%) DHCP
5 8 (1.24%) LAN
6 7 (1.08%) SAN
6 7 (1.08%) WebEx
7 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.62%) WAN
7 4 (0.62%) Wireless
7 4 (0.62%) WLAN
8 3 (0.46%) Intranet
8 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.46%) VoIP
9 2 (0.31%) BGP
9 2 (0.31%) OSPF
9 2 (0.31%) RTP
9 2 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 15 (2.32%) Oracle Database
5 13 (2.01%) Power BI
6 10 (1.55%) MySQL
7 9 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.62%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.62%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.62%) Tableau
12 3 (0.46%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.46%) Big Data
12 3 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.71%) JIRA
2 20 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.94%) GitLab
4 17 (2.63%) Git
5 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.31%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 160 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.28%) Finance
3 52 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
5 46 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.02%) Legal
8 21 (3.25%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.09%) Banking
10 12 (1.85%) Marketing
10 12 (1.85%) Publishing
11 10 (1.55%) Aviation
12 9 (1.39%) Local Government
13 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.08%) Retail
15 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.77%) Military
17 4 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
18 3 (0.46%) Japanese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.32%) SAP Basis
2 11 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.70%) ISPF
3 10 (1.55%) JSON
3 10 (1.55%) LDAP
3 10 (1.55%) Middleware
3 10 (1.55%) REST
4 7 (1.08%) .NET
4 7 (1.08%) YAML
5 6 (0.93%) XMPP
6 5 (0.77%) HTML
6 5 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.77%) XML
7 4 (0.62%) CSS
7 4 (0.62%) Node.js
8 3 (0.46%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.46%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.46%) Kafka
9 2 (0.31%) jQuery
9 2 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.05%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.25%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.32%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.16%) Mainframe
4 14 (2.16%) Taxonomies
5 13 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.01%) NHS
6 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.39%) Clustering
7 9 (1.39%) PKI
8 8 (1.24%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.08%) Replication
10 6 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.93%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.77%) Fat Client
11 5 (0.77%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.77%) Thin Client
12 4 (0.62%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 73 (11.28%) Linux
2 50 (7.73%) Windows
3 25 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.85%) Unix
5 11 (1.70%) CentOS
6 10 (1.55%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.77%) AIX
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Debian
9 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.15%) MVS
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (8.35%) Change Management
3 50 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (7.42%) Migration
5 41 (6.34%) DevOps
6 38 (5.87%) ITIL
7 34 (5.26%) Customer Service
8 33 (5.10%) Workflow
9 31 (4.79%) Performance Tuning
10 30 (4.64%) Data Protection
10 30 (4.64%) High Availability
11 29 (4.48%) Time Management
12 28 (4.33%) ITSM
13 27 (4.17%) Service Delivery
13 27 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (4.02%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (4.02%) Service Management
15 25 (3.86%) Agile
15 25 (3.86%) SAP Security
16 24 (3.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.56%) SQL
2 34 (5.26%) Python
3 29 (4.48%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.09%) Shell Script
5 13 (2.01%) Bash
6 12 (1.85%) REXX
7 11 (1.70%) CLIST
7 11 (1.70%) COBOL
7 11 (1.70%) JCL
8 10 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 8 (1.24%) C#
11 6 (0.93%) Perl
12 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.46%) Groovy
13 3 (0.46%) VBA
14 2 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 155 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 116 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.95%) DV Cleared
4 27 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.55%) Degree
6 21 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.08%) CCNP
7 7 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.08%) MOS
8 6 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.93%) OCP
8 6 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.62%) CCIE
9 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.49%) SLA
2 26 (4.02%) GDPR
3 18 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.39%) PMO
5 6 (0.93%) QA
6 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.46%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) GAMP
8 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 38 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.70%) ACF2
2 11 (1.70%) RACF
2 11 (1.70%) Time Sharing Option
3 9 (1.39%) Docker
3 9 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.24%) Firmware
5 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.46%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) PowerHA
7 2 (0.31%) KVM
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.31%) QEMU
7 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.15%) GPFS
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.17%) Ansible
2 20 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (2.78%) Terraform
4 15 (2.32%) Kubernetes
5 13 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.85%) Grafana
6 12 (1.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 11 (1.70%) CA Endevor
7 11 (1.70%) Podman
8 10 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (1.55%) Tivoli
9 9 (1.39%) Check_MK
10 7 (1.08%) SCCM
11 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.46%) Norton AntiVirus
14 2 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 1 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 151 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.28%) SAP
3 46 (7.11%) Oracle
4 37 (5.72%) ServiceNow
5 30 (4.64%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.09%) Avature
6 20 (3.09%) VMware
7 19 (2.94%) Cisco
7 19 (2.94%) Google
8 18 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.32%) Okta
10 10 (1.55%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.39%) Citrix
11 9 (1.39%) Sage
11 9 (1.39%) Workday
12 8 (1.24%) IBM
13 7 (1.08%) Dell
13 7 (1.08%) HP
14 6 (0.93%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.62%) Juniper