IT Administrator Contracts in London

IT Administrator
England > London

The median IT Administrator daily rate in London is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 479 578
Rank change year-on-year +102 +99 -113
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 12 21 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.067% 0.077% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.081% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 13
10th Percentile £130 £184 £133
25th Percentile £188 £225 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £582 £180
Median % change year-on-year -41.53% +223.06% -28.00%
75th Percentile £380 £638 £275
90th Percentile £400 - £325
England median daily rate £295 £330 £220
% change year-on-year -10.61% +50.00% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.45
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £34.50
England median hourly rate £13.82 £35.80 £16.00
% change year-on-year -61.40% +123.75% +23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in London

IT Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Administrator in London

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Administrator in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Administrator in London

IT Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Administrator in London

IT 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 IT Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +46 4 £240 +70.82% 2
South London +13 1 £225 +87.50%
West London - 1 £245 -
IT Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) GRC
3 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) Intranet
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security

IT 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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
3 1 (8.33%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Intranet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (16.67%) Change Control
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (16.67%) SDLC
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) ERP
3 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
3 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Server Building
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Google Apps Script
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GRC
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) VMware