Windows Systems Administrator Contracts in England

Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin)
UK > England

The median Windows System Administrator (Windows Sysadmin) 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 480 540 644
Rank change year-on-year +60 +104 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Systems Administrator 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.005% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £438 - £337
25th Percentile £494 £509 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +9.16% +14.46%
75th Percentile £567 £528 £488
90th Percentile £624 - £524
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £400
% change year-on-year +1.25% +29.63% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £81.37
UK median hourly rate - - £81.37

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 Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Systems Administrator in England

Windows Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Systems Administrator in England

Windows Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Systems Administrator in England

Windows Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Systems Administrator in England

Windows Systems 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 Systems 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 - 2 £513 -
East Midlands - 1 £536 -
Midlands - 1 £536 -
Windows Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Systems 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 Systems 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%) Disaster Recovery
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%) SCOM
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
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
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Rocky
4 1 (20.00%) GCP

Windows Systems 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