Administrator Contracts in the Midlands

Administrator
England > Midlands

The median Administrator daily rate in the Midlands is £330, 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 69 62 109
Rank change year-on-year -7 +47 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 42 72 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.19% 2.61% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 2.84% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 38
10th Percentile £150 £156 £136
25th Percentile £175 £263 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £425 £330
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +28.79% +1.54%
75th Percentile £491 £638 £500
90th Percentile £537 - £636
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 31 3
10th Percentile £12.25 £10.90 £12.90
25th Percentile - £11.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile - £16.66 £34.13
90th Percentile £20.90 £51.91 £45.90
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
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the Midlands

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the Midlands

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +8 40 £330 -22.35% 59
East Midlands -14 2 £405 +27.64% 50
Administrator
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
2 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Linux
4 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 7 (16.67%) Unix
6 6 (14.29%) Windows
6 6 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
7 5 (11.90%) VMware
7 5 (11.90%) Degree
8 4 (9.52%) IBM
8 4 (9.52%) AIX
8 4 (9.52%) Oracle
8 4 (9.52%) ITIL
8 4 (9.52%) Order Management
8 4 (9.52%) Data Entry
9 3 (7.14%) Release Management
9 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
9 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (7.14%) Project Management
9 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
10 2 (4.76%) Data Management
10 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 2 (4.76%) Middleware
10 2 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.38%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
2 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
2 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) LAN
1 2 (4.76%) NetScaler
1 2 (4.76%) SAN
1 2 (4.76%) SSL
1 2 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (2.38%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) MySQL
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.38%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Unix
3 6 (14.29%) Windows
4 4 (9.52%) AIX
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (9.52%) Data Entry
1 4 (9.52%) ITIL
1 4 (9.52%) Order Management
2 3 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (7.14%) Project Management
2 3 (7.14%) Release Management
3 2 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (4.76%) Customer Service
3 2 (4.76%) Data Management
3 2 (4.76%) Database Security
3 2 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (4.76%) ITSM
3 2 (4.76%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (4.76%) Project Planning
3 2 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (4.76%) Storage Management
4 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (2.38%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.76%) Perl
2 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) OCP
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Tivoli
1 2 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.38%) SCOM
2 1 (2.38%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) VMware
2 4 (9.52%) IBM
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Dell
3 2 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow