Administrator Contracts in the North of England

Administrator
England > North of England

The median Administrator daily rate in the North of England is £359, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 100 153
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 -14
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 82 86 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.47% 1.85% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 1.98% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 37
10th Percentile £217 £165 £181
25th Percentile £313 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £489 £525
90th Percentile £575 £500 £573
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 2
10th Percentile - £11.12 -
25th Percentile - £11.77 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £12.25 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -78.27% +369.83%
75th Percentile £23.44 £14.00 -
90th Percentile £30.63 £21.00 -
England median hourly rate £14.00 £13.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year +1.63% -47.02% +79.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,107 4,337 5,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.31% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 2,711 3,742
10th Percentile £230 £263 £276
25th Percentile £365 £390 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £684
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 401 157
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.19 £12.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.77 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% -30.77% +57.89%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £49.40
90th Percentile £77.88 £62.50 £66.28
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the North of England

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the North of England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the North of England

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the North of England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the North of England

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +27 61 £350 +55.56% 71
Yorkshire +11 17 £550 +17.02% 49
North East -18 4 £338 -28.95% 13
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 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 North of England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (26.83%) Budget Management
2 22 (26.83%) Process Improvement
3 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 17 (20.73%) Cloud Security
4 17 (20.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
6 11 (13.41%) Migration
7 9 (10.98%) Windows
7 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
8 8 (9.76%) Customer Service
8 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
8 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
8 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (9.76%) VMware
8 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
8 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
8 8 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (9.76%) Data Entry
9 7 (8.54%) Hyper-V
9 7 (8.54%) High Availability
9 7 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (8.54%) SLA
9 7 (8.54%) DHCP
9 7 (8.54%) DNS
9 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (8.54%) Patch Management
9 7 (8.54%) vCenter Server
9 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) IIS
3 2 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.10%) Azure
3 4 (4.88%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 3 (3.66%) Serverless
5 2 (2.44%) PaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) DHCP
1 7 (8.54%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.22%) SAN
3 1 (1.22%) SSH
3 1 (1.22%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) RDBMS
1 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.44%) GIS
4 2 (2.44%) MSDE
4 2 (2.44%) Power BI
4 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.22%) DTS
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Hudson
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Marketing
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Back Office
6 1 (1.22%) Front Office
6 1 (1.22%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) JSON
1 5 (6.10%) XML
2 3 (3.66%) Kafka
3 2 (2.44%) .NET
3 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.44%) REST
3 2 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Security Posture
2 2 (2.44%) Clustering
2 2 (2.44%) CMDB
2 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.22%) Replication
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Windows
1 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
2 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.44%) Linux
5 1 (1.22%) AIX
5 1 (1.22%) Solaris
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (26.83%) Budget Management
2 22 (26.83%) Process Improvement
3 17 (20.73%) Cloud Security
4 11 (13.41%) Migration
5 8 (9.76%) Customer Service
5 8 (9.76%) Data Entry
6 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.54%) DevOps
6 7 (8.54%) High Availability
6 7 (8.54%) Patch Management
6 7 (8.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (7.32%) ITIL
8 5 (6.10%) CRM
8 5 (6.10%) Database Security
8 5 (6.10%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (6.10%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (4.88%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.10%) SQL
2 2 (2.44%) Python
2 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.22%) ActionScript
3 1 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (1.22%) Bash
3 1 (1.22%) Korn
3 1 (1.22%) Perl
3 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.22%) Scala
3 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) SLA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
1 8 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.54%) Hyper-V
2 7 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) vCenter Server
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (4.88%) NetApp OnCommand
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
2 4 (4.88%) vMotion
2 4 (4.88%) WSUS
3 1 (1.22%) Ansible
3 1 (1.22%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Nagios
3 1 (1.22%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.22%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) SCOM
3 1 (1.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) VMware
3 6 (7.32%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.66%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Google
5 2 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Snow
6 1 (1.22%) Brocade
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco
6 1 (1.22%) EMC
6 1 (1.22%) HP
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Splunk