Windows Administrator Contracts in England

Windows Administrator
UK > England

The median Windows Administrator daily rate in England is £530, 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 480 528 640
Rank change year-on-year +48 +112 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 5 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.038% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.041% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 7
10th Percentile £438 £76 £302
25th Percentile £494 £98 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £380 £430
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -11.63% +2.81%
75th Percentile £567 £425 £488
90th Percentile £624 - £512
UK median daily rate £525 £380 £400
% change year-on-year +38.16% -5.00% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £81.37
Median % change year-on-year - -77.88% -
UK median hourly rate - £18.00 £81.37
% change year-on-year - -77.88% -

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%

Windows Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Administrator in England

Windows Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Administrator in England

Windows 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 Windows 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 +46 2 £525 +1.25% 1
London +29 2 £513 +34.87%
East Midlands - 1 £536 -
Midlands - 1 £536 -
Windows Administrator
UK

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) SCOM
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Netskope
4 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering

Windows 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Rocky
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Netskope
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds