Administrator Contracts in Manchester

Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Administrator daily rate in Manchester is £417, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 75 78
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 21 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.35% 1.48% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.54% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 23
10th Percentile £291 £146 £213
25th Percentile £359 £150 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £225 £415
Median % change year-on-year +85.22% -45.78% -3.49%
75th Percentile £442 £319 £525
90th Percentile £448 £578 £578
North West median daily rate £350 £225 £420
% change year-on-year +55.56% -46.43% +1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 0
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.78 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% - -
North West median hourly rate £13.00 £13.16 £56.38
% change year-on-year -1.19% -76.67% +400.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 836 1,363 1,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.78% 96.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 950 1,284
10th Percentile £290 £313 £313
25th Percentile £398 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £554 £583 £594
90th Percentile £669 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 83 42
10th Percentile - £12.05 £14.76
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £17.07
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -2.17% +52.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.25 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.99 £27.75 £30.54
% change year-on-year +4.47% -9.14% +22.16%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Manchester

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in Manchester

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in Manchester

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Manchester region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) XML
2 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
2 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) JSON
2 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 5 (23.81%) Database Security
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Kafka
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) Decarbonisation
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) NetSuite

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Serverless
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
1 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Hudson
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) JSON
1 5 (23.81%) XML
2 3 (14.29%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Database Security
2 3 (14.29%) Agile
2 3 (14.29%) DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (9.52%) Decarbonisation
3 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.76%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (4.76%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (4.76%) Information Security
4 1 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (4.76%) Migration
4 1 (4.76%) RBAC
4 1 (4.76%) Records Management
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft