IT Administrator Contracts in England

IT Administrator
UK > England

The median IT Administrator daily rate in England is £195, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 481 601
Rank change year-on-year +22 +120 +99
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 26 61 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 39
10th Percentile £145 £130 £121
25th Percentile £150 £189 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £340 £330
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% +3.03% +50.00%
75th Percentile £359 £575 £494
90th Percentile £425 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £195 £295 £323
% change year-on-year -33.90% -8.53% +46.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 23 3
10th Percentile - £11.83 £32.32
25th Percentile - £12.00 £33.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.82 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -61.40% +123.75%
75th Percentile - £38.00 -
90th Percentile - £51.91 -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £13.41 £35.80
% change year-on-year +19.31% -62.54% +123.75%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in England

IT Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Administrator in England

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Administrator in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Administrator in England

IT Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Administrator in England

IT 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 IT Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +31 9 £178 -67.73% 24
London +35 8 £325 -4.41% 12
Midlands +16 3 £150 +50.00% 20
West Midlands +16 3 £150 - 10
North of England +12 3 £359 +59.56% 20
East of England +29 2 £425 - 20
Yorkshire +7 2 - - 7
South West +43 1 £250 - 14
North West +11 1 £359 +59.56% 11
IT Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 3 (11.54%) Order Management
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (11.54%) Linux
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) SLA
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Firewall
5 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 3 (11.54%) Application Packaging
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.69%) Logistics
6 2 (7.69%) JIRA

IT 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 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) LAN
3 1 (3.85%) NAS
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
1 4 (15.38%) DevOps
1 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (11.54%) Application Packaging
2 3 (11.54%) Change Management
2 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Order Management
2 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
3 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (7.69%) Inventory Management
3 2 (7.69%) Logistics
3 2 (7.69%) Service Management
4 1 (3.85%) Budgeting
4 1 (3.85%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (3.85%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (3.85%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (3.85%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.69%) Snow
4 1 (3.85%) Ariba
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) SOTI