Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 79 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +25
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 134 57 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.36% 2.61% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.71% 2.83% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 11 14
10th Percentile £272 £210 £152
25th Percentile £416 £283 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £275
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £530 £439 £423
90th Percentile £600 £450 £474
England median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 12
10th Percentile £13.21 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £13.27 £13.49
Median hourly rate £14.76 £20.26 £19.65
Median % change year-on-year -27.15% +3.07% +2.41%
75th Percentile £24.17 £22.59 £27.71
90th Percentile £24.19 £22.64 £34.50
England median hourly rate £15.70 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +1.29% -3.13% -36.00%

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 3,609 2,011 2,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 92.21% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,083 1,309 1,301
10th Percentile £300 £268 £275
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £680 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 158 167
10th Percentile £15.95 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.15% -32.03% +21.15%
75th Percentile £73.25 £49.28 £54.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.72 £71.66
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

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 11 September 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
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 11 September 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 84 £435 +45.00% 22
Cheshire -2 15 £450 +16.13% 13
Lancashire -8 15 £125 -76.91% 16
Cumbria - 13 £520 - 2
Merseyside -7 6 £438 +108.33% 10
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 33 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.39%) Microsoft
3 29 (21.64%) Oracle
4 28 (20.90%) SQL Server
5 27 (20.15%) SQL
6 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
7 22 (16.42%) SAP
8 18 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (11.19%) Data Protection
10 14 (10.45%) MySQL
10 14 (10.45%) SharePoint
11 13 (9.70%) Active Directory
12 12 (8.96%) Azure
12 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
12 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (8.96%) Migration
13 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.21%) JIRA
13 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (7.46%) Document Management
14 10 (7.46%) Google
14 10 (7.46%) Google Workspace
14 10 (7.46%) ITIL
15 9 (6.72%) Degree
15 9 (6.72%) ERP
15 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
15 9 (6.72%) Root Cause Analysis
15 9 (6.72%) Solaris

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 14 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.99%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.24%) Windchill
5 2 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.24%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.75%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.96%) Azure
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (7.46%) Google Workspace
3 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.22%) Google Drive
4 7 (5.22%) SaaS
5 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.73%) GCP
6 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.24%) Asana
7 3 (2.24%) GitHub
7 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.24%) ShareGate
8 2 (1.49%) AWS
8 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) SSL
2 4 (2.99%) DNS
3 3 (2.24%) DKIM
3 3 (2.24%) DMARC
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.75%) NAS
4 1 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.90%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.45%) MySQL
4 7 (5.22%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.22%) Power BI
5 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.49%) EDMS
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.49%) Toad
3 1 (0.75%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) Hudson
3 1 (0.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 36 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.45%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.70%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.72%) Finance
6 6 (4.48%) Legal
7 5 (3.73%) Law
8 4 (2.99%) Banking
8 4 (2.99%) Local Government
9 2 (1.49%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) ISPF
1 4 (2.99%) Middleware
2 3 (2.24%) Kafka
2 3 (2.24%) OAuth
2 3 (2.24%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Streams
3 2 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (0.75%) JSON
4 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.48%) Clustering
2 6 (4.48%) Replication
3 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.99%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Solaris
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) zOS
3 3 (2.24%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Windows
4 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) AIX
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
1 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (11.19%) Data Protection
3 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
3 12 (8.96%) Migration
4 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (7.46%) Document Management
5 10 (7.46%) ITIL
6 9 (6.72%) ERP
6 9 (6.72%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (5.22%) Cloud Operations
8 7 (5.22%) DevOps
9 6 (4.48%) Data Management
9 6 (4.48%) Project Management
9 6 (4.48%) Validation
9 6 (4.48%) Workflow
10 5 (3.73%) Change Management
10 5 (3.73%) Data Loss Prevention
10 5 (3.73%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.15%) SQL
2 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.24%) Python
3 2 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.75%) Bash
4 1 (0.75%) C#
4 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.72%) Degree
5 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.49%) OCP
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CIPD
6 1 (0.75%) HNC
6 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.99%) QA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) PMO
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.22%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.99%) RACF
4 2 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.99%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.49%) Ansible
4 2 (1.49%) Argo
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.49%) Grafana
4 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.49%) Nagios
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.75%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.75%) SCOM
5 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.75%) vMotion
5 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.64%) Oracle
3 22 (16.42%) SAP
4 10 (7.46%) Google
5 5 (3.73%) IBM
6 4 (2.99%) Avature
7 3 (2.24%) Sage
7 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.49%) Confluent
8 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.49%) VMware
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) Brocade
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco
9 1 (0.75%) Planview
9 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.75%) Workday