Administrator Contracts in London

Administrator
England > London

The median Administrator daily rate in London is £425, 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 223 194 191
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 +103
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 130 208 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.17% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.25% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 137 248
10th Percentile £225 £181 £219
25th Percentile £313 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £513 £494 £545
90th Percentile £606 £597 £638
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 10
10th Percentile £20.35 - £11.25
25th Percentile £21.38 £11.95 £11.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £16.66 £14.58
Median % change year-on-year +38.06% +14.25% -35.19%
75th Percentile £27.77 £18.80 £18.56
90th Percentile £29.82 £24.10 £41.38
England median hourly rate £14.00 £13.48 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.86% -48.15% +79.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in London

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in London

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +6 32 £359 -2.97% 17
West London +15 8 £388 -27.91% 13
South London +6 1 £450 +116.87% 5
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.92%) Finance
3 21 (16.15%) Linux
3 21 (16.15%) Python
3 21 (16.15%) Microsoft
3 21 (16.15%) Azure
3 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (16.15%) DevOps
4 19 (14.62%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (13.85%) Migration
5 18 (13.85%) AWS
6 15 (11.54%) Active Directory
6 15 (11.54%) Windows
6 15 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (11.54%) High Availability
7 14 (10.77%) SQL
7 14 (10.77%) Oracle
7 14 (10.77%) DNS
7 14 (10.77%) Salesforce
8 13 (10.00%) VMware
8 13 (10.00%) Agile
9 11 (8.46%) Bash
9 11 (8.46%) PowerShell
9 11 (8.46%) REST
9 11 (8.46%) Ansible
9 11 (8.46%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
10 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
10 10 (7.69%) Replication
10 10 (7.69%) Clustering

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.62%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.77%) nginx
3 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.54%) ProjectWise
3 2 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.77%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.77%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.77%) iTrent
3 1 (0.77%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.15%) Azure
2 18 (13.85%) AWS
3 9 (6.92%) GitHub
4 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.62%) Nutanix
5 6 (4.62%) SaaS
6 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.85%) OCI
7 4 (3.08%) GCP
7 4 (3.08%) PaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.31%) IaaS
9 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.54%) Serverless
10 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.77%) Slack
10 1 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) DNS
2 8 (6.15%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.38%) Firewall
3 7 (5.38%) VPN
4 5 (3.85%) DHCP
5 4 (3.08%) BGP
5 4 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (3.08%) OSPF
5 4 (3.08%) SAN
5 4 (3.08%) VLAN
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.31%) LAN
6 3 (2.31%) Network Security
6 3 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.31%) SSL
6 3 (2.31%) WAN
6 3 (2.31%) WLAN
7 2 (1.54%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.54%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.54%) Power BI
3 2 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.77%) DB2
4 1 (0.77%) EDMS
4 1 (0.77%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.77%) MySQL
4 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.77%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Git
1 7 (5.38%) JIRA
1 7 (5.38%) Subversion
1 7 (5.38%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.54%) Hudson
2 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.54%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (0.77%) ChangeMan
3 1 (0.77%) Eclipse
General
1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.92%) Finance
3 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.38%) Banking
5 5 (3.85%) Retail
6 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.31%) Local Government
7 3 (2.31%) Marketing
8 2 (1.54%) Billing
8 2 (1.54%) Games
8 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) French Language
9 1 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.46%) REST
2 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.54%) JSON
2 2 (1.54%) Kafka
2 2 (1.54%) LDAP
2 2 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (1.54%) OAuth
2 2 (1.54%) OpenID
2 2 (1.54%) SAML
3 1 (0.77%) ADO
3 1 (0.77%) Akka
3 1 (0.77%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.77%) Node.js
3 1 (0.77%) Play Framework
3 1 (0.77%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.77%) SOAP
3 1 (0.77%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.77%) Web Services
3 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Clustering
1 10 (7.69%) Replication
2 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.08%) PMI
3 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.31%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) Eurex
5 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) iSeries
5 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.77%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Linux
2 15 (11.54%) Windows
3 8 (6.15%) Solaris
3 8 (6.15%) Unix
4 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.08%) VMS
5 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.31%) OpenVMS
6 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.54%) CentOS
7 2 (1.54%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (16.15%) DevOps
1 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (14.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (13.85%) Migration
4 15 (11.54%) High Availability
4 15 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (10.00%) Agile
6 11 (8.46%) CI/CD
7 8 (6.15%) API Integration
7 8 (6.15%) Problem Management
8 7 (5.38%) Analytics
8 7 (5.38%) Kernel Tuning
8 7 (5.38%) Storage Management
9 6 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (4.62%) Data Management
9 6 (4.62%) ITIL
10 5 (3.85%) Configuration Management
10 5 (3.85%) Data Protection
10 5 (3.85%) Incident Management
10 5 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.15%) Python
2 14 (10.77%) SQL
3 11 (8.46%) Bash
3 11 (8.46%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.92%) Perl
5 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.31%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.54%) C
7 2 (1.54%) C#
7 2 (1.54%) COBOL
7 2 (1.54%) Groovy
7 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.77%) Go
8 1 (0.77%) Korn
8 1 (0.77%) REXX
8 1 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) Degree
4 4 (3.08%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.31%) CCNP
5 3 (2.31%) CCSA
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) MCSA
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) GDPR
2 6 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) PMO
5 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.77%) QA
5 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.08%) NFS
5 3 (2.31%) Docker
5 3 (2.31%) Firmware
5 3 (2.31%) Veritas File System
5 3 (2.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.54%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (8.46%) Ansible
2 8 (6.15%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (5.38%) QRadar
3 7 (5.38%) Terraform
4 5 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.85%) Tivoli
5 4 (3.08%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (2.31%) Control-M
7 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.77%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.77%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.77%) Netcool
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.77%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.77%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Oracle
2 14 (10.77%) Salesforce
3 13 (10.00%) VMware
4 10 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.15%) CyberArk
5 8 (6.15%) Splunk
6 7 (5.38%) Qualys
6 7 (5.38%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.85%) IBM
8 4 (3.08%) Cisco
8 4 (3.08%) DocuSign
8 4 (3.08%) EMC
8 4 (3.08%) F5
8 4 (3.08%) Google
8 4 (3.08%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.31%) Databricks
9 3 (2.31%) Meraki
9 3 (2.31%) SAP