Systems Administrator Contracts in the Midlands

System Administrator (Sysadmin)
England > Midlands

The median System Administrator (Sysadmin) daily rate in the Midlands is £500, 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 104 126 145
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Administrator 7 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.25% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.28% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £425 £469 £202
25th Percentile £444 £498 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +38.46%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £488
90th Percentile £543 £583 £553
England median daily rate £430 £519 £431
% change year-on-year -17.19% +20.41% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.75 £44.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.30% -16.19% +110.00%

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%

Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Administrator in the Midlands

Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Administrator in the Midlands

Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Administrator in the Midlands

Systems 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 Systems 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 - 6 £488 - 11
East Midlands +4 1 £536 +2.98% 13
Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Systems 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 4 (57.14%) AIX
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) SLA
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
4 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) SCOM
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) Process Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management

Systems 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace