Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 88
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 80 60 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.36% 3.06% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 3.29% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 17
10th Percentile £246 £262 £147
25th Percentile £375 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £350 £275
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% +27.27% -42.11%
75th Percentile £456 £425 £388
90th Percentile £588 £447 £450
England median daily rate £438 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +4.54% -1.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 31
10th Percentile £13.81 - £11.13
25th Percentile £13.98 - £11.77
Median hourly rate £22.63 £13.00 £13.31
Median % change year-on-year +74.08% -2.34% -76.39%
75th Percentile £22.68 £22.76 £14.40
90th Percentile £74.26 £30.63 £24.19
England median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year +25.00% +2.66% -47.50%

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 3,098 1,822 2,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 92.96% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 1,217 1,624
10th Percentile £300 £263 £269
25th Percentile £400 £378 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £654 £675
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 111 300
10th Percentile £18.46 £13.00 £11.13
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.13 £14.09
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -12.60% +10.94%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £48.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £81.00 £70.96
England median hourly rate £45.56 £29.27 £37.75
% change year-on-year +55.64% -22.46% -16.11%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -13 46 £408 -2.22% 26
Lancashire -17 14 £453 - 15
Cumbria - 9 £461 - 2
Merseyside -8 6 £438 +108.33% 3
Cheshire -17 5 £400 +23.08% 6
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.75%) SAP
3 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
5 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
6 12 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (13.75%) JIRA
7 11 (13.75%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (11.25%) Change Management
9 9 (11.25%) Oracle
9 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (11.25%) Workflow
10 8 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (10.00%) SAP Security
10 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
11 7 (8.75%) Cloud Operations
11 7 (8.75%) DNS
11 7 (8.75%) Google
11 7 (8.75%) Google Drive
11 7 (8.75%) Google Workspace
11 7 (8.75%) SaaS
12 6 (7.50%) Avature
12 6 (7.50%) Data Loss Prevention
12 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
12 6 (7.50%) ERP
12 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
12 6 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (7.50%) PowerShell

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 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Windchill
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.75%) Google Drive
2 7 (8.75%) Google Workspace
2 7 (8.75%) SaaS
3 4 (5.00%) Azure
3 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.75%) Asana
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
4 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) DNS
2 3 (3.75%) DKIM
2 3 (3.75%) DMARC
2 3 (3.75%) WebEx
3 2 (2.50%) SSL
4 1 (1.25%) DHCP
4 1 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.25%) Firewall
4 1 (1.25%) NAS
4 1 (1.25%) Network Security
4 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.25%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Hudson
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.00%) Legal
5 7 (8.75%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.50%) Finance
7 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
7 5 (6.25%) Law
8 4 (5.00%) Aviation
9 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.50%) Banking
10 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) ISPF
2 3 (3.75%) OAuth
2 3 (3.75%) XMPP
3 2 (2.50%) Middleware
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Mainframe
1 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Clustering
2 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Fat Client
3 3 (3.75%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Replication
3 3 (3.75%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) zOS
3 1 (1.25%) AIX
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (13.75%) Migration
3 9 (11.25%) Change Management
3 9 (11.25%) Workflow
4 8 (10.00%) SAP Security
5 7 (8.75%) Cloud Operations
6 6 (7.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (7.50%) ERP
6 6 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (6.25%) ITIL
7 5 (6.25%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.25%) Service Management
8 4 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (5.00%) Data Protection
8 4 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (5.00%) SDLC
8 4 (5.00%) Storage Management
9 3 (3.75%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.75%) CLIST
2 3 (3.75%) COBOL
2 3 (3.75%) JCL
2 3 (3.75%) REXX
2 3 (3.75%) SQL
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) RACF
3 3 (3.75%) ACF2
3 3 (3.75%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.25%) Firmware
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (3.75%) CA Endevor
2 3 (3.75%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.50%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.25%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (1.25%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.25%) vMotion
4 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) SAP
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.25%) Oracle
4 7 (8.75%) Google
5 6 (7.50%) Avature
6 4 (5.00%) Cisco
7 3 (3.75%) Citrix
7 3 (3.75%) IBM
8 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.50%) RedGate
8 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.50%) VMware
9 1 (1.25%) Brocade
9 1 (1.25%) McAfee
9 1 (1.25%) Sage
9 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.25%) Symantec