Administrator Contract Job Trends in London

Administrator
England > London

The median Administrator daily rate in London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 232 208
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 183 124 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.08% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 79 131
10th Percentile £202 £245 £188
25th Percentile £325 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £490 £496 £497
90th Percentile £593 £600 £588
England median daily rate £438 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +4.54% -1.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 17
10th Percentile £16.11 £20.20 -
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £11.95
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +50.06% +14.25%
75th Percentile - £28.00 £18.80
90th Percentile £23.00 £29.80 £24.10
England median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.70% -47.98%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 17,520 11,482 16,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.52% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,780 11,924
10th Percentile £358 £342 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.63 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.69 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Administrator job vacancy trend in London

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in London

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Central London -13 32 £450 +7.53% 13
West London -25 8 £190 -50.97% 3
South London -1 7 £300 -33.33% 1
East London - 3 £750 - 4
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 42 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.58%) Migration
3 33 (18.03%) Microsoft
4 30 (16.39%) SC Cleared
5 25 (13.66%) SharePoint
6 23 (12.57%) Salesforce
7 21 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (10.38%) DevOps
8 19 (10.38%) SQL
9 18 (9.84%) Azure
9 18 (9.84%) Change Management
9 18 (9.84%) Data Quality
9 18 (9.84%) Oracle
10 15 (8.20%) Agile
10 15 (8.20%) Google
10 15 (8.20%) High Availability
10 15 (8.20%) JIRA
11 14 (7.65%) Service Delivery
12 13 (7.10%) Data Management
12 13 (7.10%) Google Workspace
13 12 (6.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 12 (6.56%) Windows
14 11 (6.01%) ITIL
14 11 (6.01%) Linux
14 11 (6.01%) SaaS
14 11 (6.01%) SharePoint 2013
14 11 (6.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (6.01%) Validation

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 25 (13.66%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.01%) SharePoint 2013
3 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.28%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.55%) Maximo
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.55%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (9.84%) Azure
3 13 (7.10%) Google Workspace
4 12 (6.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 11 (6.01%) SaaS
6 9 (4.92%) AWS
7 8 (4.37%) GCP
8 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.28%) ShareGate
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.73%) Google Drive
10 5 (2.73%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.19%) Asana
11 4 (2.19%) IaaS
11 4 (2.19%) OCI
11 4 (2.19%) PaaS
12 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.64%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.64%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.64%) Social Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.46%) DNS
2 8 (4.37%) DKIM
2 8 (4.37%) DMARC
2 8 (4.37%) Network Security
3 2 (1.09%) BGP
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 2 (1.09%) OSPF
3 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.55%) GLBP
4 1 (0.55%) HSRP
4 1 (0.55%) IPsec
4 1 (0.55%) Junos
4 1 (0.55%) Multicast
4 1 (0.55%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.55%) Skype
4 1 (0.55%) Telepresence
4 1 (0.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.92%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.28%) Power BI
4 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.09%) Metadata
7 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.09%) MySQL
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.55%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.20%) JIRA
2 3 (1.64%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Git
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.66%) Finance
3 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.01%) Banking
5 10 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Marketing
8 4 (2.19%) Aviation
8 4 (2.19%) Local Government
8 4 (2.19%) Retail
9 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.64%) Legal
9 3 (1.64%) Military
9 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) German Language
11 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.73%) CSS
1 5 (2.73%) HTML
2 4 (2.19%) .NET
2 4 (2.19%) OAuth
2 4 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.19%) REST
3 3 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.64%) jQuery
4 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.55%) ADO
4 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.55%) EDI
4 1 (0.55%) JSON
4 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.55%) Middleware
4 1 (0.55%) Node.js
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.55%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.73%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.19%) PKI
5 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.55%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.55%) BYOD
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.55%) IoT
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Replication
7 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.56%) Windows
2 11 (6.01%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.58%) Migration
2 21 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (10.38%) DevOps
4 18 (9.84%) Change Management
5 15 (8.20%) Agile
5 15 (8.20%) High Availability
6 14 (7.65%) Service Delivery
7 13 (7.10%) Data Management
8 11 (6.01%) ITIL
8 11 (6.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (6.01%) Validation
9 10 (5.46%) Case Management
9 10 (5.46%) Workflow
10 9 (4.92%) Analytics
10 9 (4.92%) CRM
11 8 (4.37%) Data Migration
11 8 (4.37%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (4.37%) Project Management
12 7 (3.83%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.38%) SQL
2 10 (5.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.83%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.28%) Python
5 5 (2.73%) C#
6 4 (2.19%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.64%) Groovy
8 2 (1.09%) VBA
9 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.73%) Degree
4 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) CCNP
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.84%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.92%) GDPR
3 4 (2.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 4 (2.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.64%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.28%) Terraform
2 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.55%) Foglight
5 1 (0.55%) Iperf
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) QRadar
5 1 (0.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.57%) Salesforce
3 18 (9.84%) Oracle
4 15 (8.20%) Google
5 6 (3.28%) Avature
6 3 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.64%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.09%) Arista
7 2 (1.09%) Braze
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco
7 2 (1.09%) Citrix
7 2 (1.09%) F5
7 2 (1.09%) Juniper
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) accuRx
8 1 (0.55%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.55%) dotdigital
8 1 (0.55%) Okta
8 1 (0.55%) Splunk