Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £433, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 100 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.86% 2.92% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 3.14% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 15 17
10th Percentile £272 £251 £142
25th Percentile £400 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £359 £275
Median % change year-on-year +20.68% +30.55% -33.73%
75th Percentile £480 £428 £388
90th Percentile £586 £447 £450
England median daily rate £438 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +4.54% -1.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 31
10th Percentile £13.88 - £11.13
25th Percentile £13.99 £13.00 £11.77
Median hourly rate £22.63 £13.14 £13.31
Median % change year-on-year +72.29% -1.33% -64.11%
75th Percentile £23.06 £18.83 £14.24
90th Percentile £74.26 £30.63 £24.19
England median hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.74% -45.20%

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 3,192 1,848 2,678
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.91% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,240 1,650
10th Percentile £300 £275 £268
25th Percentile £400 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £476
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.51% -4.75%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £662 £666
England median daily rate £521 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 121 315
10th Percentile £18.00 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -12.60% +16.07%
75th Percentile £74.01 £60.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £71.87
England median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -2 62 £408 -2.22% 22
Lancashire -17 15 £453 - 9
Cumbria - 12 £478 - 4
Merseyside -6 6 £438 +108.33% 1
Cheshire -9 5 £400 +23.08% 5
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
4 20 (20.00%) SAP
5 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
6 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (14.00%) Active Directory
7 14 (14.00%) Migration
8 12 (12.00%) Oracle
8 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (12.00%) SharePoint
9 11 (11.00%) JIRA
9 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
10 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (9.00%) Change Management
11 9 (9.00%) Workflow
12 8 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (8.00%) SAP Security
13 7 (7.00%) Cloud Operations
13 7 (7.00%) Data Loss Prevention
13 7 (7.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 7 (7.00%) DNS
13 7 (7.00%) Google
13 7 (7.00%) Google Drive
13 7 (7.00%) Google Workspace
13 7 (7.00%) MySQL
13 7 (7.00%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (7.00%) SaaS
13 7 (7.00%) SQL

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 12 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.00%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (7.00%) Google Drive
2 7 (7.00%) Google Workspace
2 7 (7.00%) SaaS
3 6 (6.00%) Azure
3 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.00%) Asana
5 3 (3.00%) GCP
5 3 (3.00%) ShareGate
6 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) DNS
2 3 (3.00%) DKIM
2 3 (3.00%) DMARC
2 3 (3.00%) SSL
2 3 (3.00%) WebEx
3 1 (1.00%) DHCP
3 1 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) NAS
3 1 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (1.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.00%) MySQL
4 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Power BI
5 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.00%) Hudson
General
1 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Legal
5 9 (9.00%) Manufacturing
6 8 (8.00%) Finance
7 5 (5.00%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.00%) Law
8 4 (4.00%) Aviation
8 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) ISPF
2 3 (3.00%) Middleware
2 3 (3.00%) OAuth
2 3 (3.00%) XMPP
3 2 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (1.00%) JSON
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (5.00%) Clustering
3 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.00%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.00%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Replication
4 3 (3.00%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) zOS
3 2 (2.00%) Solaris
4 1 (1.00%) AIX
4 1 (1.00%) Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (14.00%) Migration
3 9 (9.00%) Change Management
3 9 (9.00%) Workflow
4 8 (8.00%) SAP Security
5 7 (7.00%) Cloud Operations
5 7 (7.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 7 (7.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (7.00%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (6.00%) ERP
6 6 (6.00%) ITIL
7 5 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (5.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (5.00%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.00%) Service Management
8 4 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (4.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) SQL
2 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.00%) CLIST
3 3 (3.00%) COBOL
3 3 (3.00%) JCL
3 3 (3.00%) REXX
4 2 (2.00%) Python
5 1 (1.00%) Bash
5 1 (1.00%) C#
5 1 (1.00%) Java
5 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.00%) RACF
3 3 (3.00%) ACF2
3 3 (3.00%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.00%) Firmware
4 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (3.00%) CA Endevor
2 3 (3.00%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (1.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.00%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.00%) SCCM
3 1 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.00%) vMotion
3 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.00%) SAP
3 12 (12.00%) Oracle
4 7 (7.00%) Google
5 6 (6.00%) Avature
6 4 (4.00%) Cisco
6 4 (4.00%) IBM
7 3 (3.00%) Citrix
7 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.00%) RedGate
8 2 (2.00%) VMware
9 1 (1.00%) Brocade
9 1 (1.00%) McAfee
9 1 (1.00%) Sage
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.00%) Symantec