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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 217 204
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +81
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 135 193 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.06% 1.10% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.17% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 125 193
10th Percentile £250 £200 £231
25th Percentile £325 £300 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £550
90th Percentile £615 £588 £644
England median daily rate £419 £430 £443
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.88% +4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 10
10th Percentile - - £11.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £11.95 £11.31
Median hourly rate £17.08 £16.08 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -4.00% -25.56%
75th Percentile £22.00 £19.40 £21.14
90th Percentile £27.40 £24.63 £52.63
England median hourly rate £14.25 £13.84 £23.30
% change year-on-year +2.96% -40.60% +60.69%

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 11,910 16,481 23,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,060 11,827 17,380
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 314 273
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.10
25th Percentile £23.53 £20.22 £22.63
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -25.68% +5.71%
75th Percentile £50.50 £44.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.45
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +23 29 £475 +111.11% 51
West London +16 9 £363 -13.43% 18
South London +1 1 £450 +100.00% 6
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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 48 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.30%) Linux
3 22 (16.30%) Finance
3 22 (16.30%) Salesforce
4 21 (15.56%) Azure
5 19 (14.07%) Python
6 18 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (13.33%) AWS
6 18 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (13.33%) DevOps
7 17 (12.59%) JIRA
7 17 (12.59%) SQL
8 16 (11.85%) Agile
8 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (11.11%) High Availability
10 14 (10.37%) Oracle
10 14 (10.37%) Windows
10 14 (10.37%) Active Directory
10 14 (10.37%) Confluence
11 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
11 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
11 11 (8.15%) DNS
11 11 (8.15%) Replication
11 11 (8.15%) VMware
12 10 (7.41%) Migration
12 10 (7.41%) Data Protection
13 9 (6.67%) Bash
13 9 (6.67%) Clustering
13 9 (6.67%) SharePoint

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 14 (10.37%) Confluence
2 9 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.74%) CICS
4 1 (0.74%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.48%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.74%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.56%) Azure
2 18 (13.33%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
3 7 (5.19%) GitHub
4 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.44%) Slack
5 5 (3.70%) Nutanix
6 4 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.96%) SaaS
7 3 (2.22%) GCP
8 2 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.48%) OCI
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.74%) Sentry
9 1 (0.74%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.19%) VPN
3 6 (4.44%) Firewall
4 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.96%) BGP
5 4 (2.96%) DHCP
5 4 (2.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (2.96%) OSPF
5 4 (2.96%) SSL
5 4 (2.96%) VLAN
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.22%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.22%) LAN
6 3 (2.22%) Network Security
6 3 (2.22%) SAN
6 3 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.22%) WAN
6 3 (2.22%) WLAN
7 2 (1.48%) FTP
7 2 (1.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) Oracle Database
1 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.22%) Power BI
5 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.48%) DB2
5 2 (1.48%) Metadata
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.48%) Redis
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) JIRA
2 5 (3.70%) Git
2 5 (3.70%) Subversion
2 5 (3.70%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) Hudson
4 2 (1.48%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Finance
3 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Banking
6 5 (3.70%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Local Government
7 3 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Electronics
8 2 (1.48%) Law
8 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Aviation
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) REST
2 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.48%) JSON
2 2 (1.48%) Kafka
2 2 (1.48%) LDAP
2 2 (1.48%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (1.48%) Middleware
3 1 (0.74%) Akka
3 1 (0.74%) LAMP
3 1 (0.74%) Play Framework
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.74%) SOAP
3 1 (0.74%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.74%) Web Services
3 1 (0.74%) XML
3 1 (0.74%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.15%) Replication
2 9 (6.67%) Clustering
3 7 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.96%) PMI
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) AS400
8 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) iSeries
8 1 (0.74%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.30%) Linux
2 14 (10.37%) Windows
3 8 (5.93%) Unix
4 6 (4.44%) Solaris
5 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.22%) OpenVMS
6 3 (2.22%) VMS
6 3 (2.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.48%) CentOS
7 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.74%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.33%) DevOps
1 18 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 18 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (11.85%) Agile
2 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (11.11%) High Availability
4 10 (7.41%) Data Protection
4 10 (7.41%) Migration
5 8 (5.93%) CI/CD
5 8 (5.93%) Data Governance
6 7 (5.19%) Analytics
6 7 (5.19%) Problem Management
6 7 (5.19%) Validation
7 6 (4.44%) API Integration
7 6 (4.44%) Change Management
7 6 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (4.44%) CRM
7 6 (4.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (4.44%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (4.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.07%) Python
2 17 (12.59%) SQL
3 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.67%) Bash
5 7 (5.19%) Perl
6 3 (2.22%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.48%) AWK
7 2 (1.48%) C
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) COBOL
7 2 (1.48%) Groovy
7 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.48%) sed
8 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.74%) CLIST
8 1 (0.74%) Go
8 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.70%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.22%) CCNP
5 3 (2.22%) CCSA
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.44%) GDPR
2 4 (2.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) PMO
3 1 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.96%) Docker
4 4 (2.96%) NFS
5 3 (2.22%) Firmware
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.48%) GPFS
7 1 (0.74%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.74%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.74%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Ansible
2 7 (5.19%) Terraform
3 5 (3.70%) QRadar
3 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (3.70%) Tivoli
4 4 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.48%) Control-M
6 2 (1.48%) Puppet
6 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.74%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.74%) Icinga
7 1 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.30%) Salesforce
3 14 (10.37%) Oracle
4 11 (8.15%) VMware
5 9 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.19%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.44%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.44%) IBM
7 6 (4.44%) Splunk
8 5 (3.70%) Apple
8 5 (3.70%) Qualys
8 5 (3.70%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.96%) Cisco
9 4 (2.96%) Databricks
9 4 (2.96%) EMC
9 4 (2.96%) F5
9 4 (2.96%) Google
10 3 (2.22%) Meraki
10 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.48%) Atlassian