Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 62 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 80 63 56
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.61% 3.19% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 3.43% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 23
10th Percentile £313 £260 £163
25th Percentile £357 £316 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £359 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% +2.57% -16.67%
75th Percentile £450 £438 £394
90th Percentile £491 £460 £475
England median daily rate £425 £407 £400
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 30
10th Percentile £13.96 £13.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £13.38 £11.77
Median hourly rate £22.63 £16.19 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +39.80% +23.04% -73.62%
75th Percentile £48.76 £30.63 £17.85
90th Percentile £74.26 - £24.11
England median hourly rate £17.85 £16.46 £13.78
% change year-on-year +8.41% +19.49% -36.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,816 1,839 2,647
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.11% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,210 1,763
10th Percentile £224 £250 £285
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -6.65% -
75th Percentile £575 £570 £582
90th Percentile £651 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 106 273
10th Percentile £18.57 £14.95 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.96 £20.39 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.51 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +42.81% +19.40% -14.19%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.68 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.67 £61.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -23.53%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Administrator job vacancy trend in the North West

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the North West

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the North West over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the North West

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the North West

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the North West over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the North West

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 March 2026. 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
Manchester -5 42 £400 -3.61% 16
Lancashire -20 16 £580 - 9
Cumbria +16 11 £481 +6.89% 1
Cheshire -25 7 £425 +21.43% 4
Merseyside -10 4 £438 - 2
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 24 March 2026, Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 31 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
5 14 (17.50%) Change Management
6 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (16.25%) Oracle
6 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (13.75%) ACF2
7 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
7 11 (13.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (13.75%) CA Endevor
7 11 (13.75%) CLIST
7 11 (13.75%) COBOL
7 11 (13.75%) ISPF
7 11 (13.75%) JCL
7 11 (13.75%) RACF
7 11 (13.75%) REXX
7 11 (13.75%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (12.50%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 10 (12.50%) Service Management
8 10 (12.50%) Storage Management
8 10 (12.50%) Tivoli
8 10 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
9 9 (11.25%) Release Management
9 9 (11.25%) SAP
9 9 (11.25%) SharePoint

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) WebEx
2 5 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) ScriptRunner
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Legal
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.00%) Aviation
8 3 (3.75%) Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Military
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) ISPF
2 6 (7.50%) XMPP
3 5 (6.25%) JSON
3 5 (6.25%) XML
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Onboarding
2 11 (13.75%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.25%) Fat Client
4 5 (6.25%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.50%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (17.50%) Change Management
3 10 (12.50%) Migration
3 10 (12.50%) Service Management
3 10 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 9 (11.25%) Release Management
5 8 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (10.00%) SAP Security
6 7 (8.75%) Database Security
6 7 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (7.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
7 6 (7.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (7.50%) Product Requirements
7 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
7 6 (7.50%) User Stories
8 5 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) CLIST
1 11 (13.75%) COBOL
1 11 (13.75%) JCL
1 11 (13.75%) REXX
2 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) Perl
5 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.75%) GDPR
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) ACF2
1 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
1 11 (13.75%) RACF
1 11 (13.75%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) CA Endevor
2 10 (12.50%) Tivoli
2 10 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (5.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 4 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) Oracle
3 9 (11.25%) SAP
4 6 (7.50%) Cisco
4 6 (7.50%) Citrix
5 4 (5.00%) Avature
5 4 (5.00%) McAfee
5 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.00%) Symantec
6 2 (2.50%) RedGate
6 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) VMware