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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 81 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 143 51 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.60% 2.32% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.98% 2.54% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 13 15
10th Percentile £114 £164 £138
25th Percentile £384 £255 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £250
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +30.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £530 £450 £340
90th Percentile £600 £457 £441
England median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.19 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £18.39 £13.49
Median hourly rate £14.50 £20.68 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.88% -8.10% +9.33%
75th Percentile £24.04 £22.63 £31.25
90th Percentile £24.19 £22.90 £47.38
England median hourly rate £15.50 £15.74 £16.50
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.61% -30.11%

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 3,594 2,010 2,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 91.41% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,010 1,326 1,214
10th Percentile £300 £255 £263
25th Percentile £406 £365 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £686 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 166 160
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.47
25th Percentile £26.25 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.83% -28.15% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73.25 £47.12 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.08 £73.64
England median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -6 81 £435 +45.00% 35
Lancashire -4 21 £125 -76.91% 20
Cheshire +7 19 £450 +16.13% 16
Cumbria - 18 £520 - 5
Merseyside -6 3 - - 12
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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 39 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.48%) Microsoft
3 31 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 31 (21.68%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) SQL Server
4 30 (20.98%) Oracle
5 23 (16.08%) Customer Service
6 22 (15.38%) SAP
7 20 (13.99%) Data Protection
7 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (11.89%) MySQL
10 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
11 15 (10.49%) Degree
11 15 (10.49%) Google
11 15 (10.49%) Google Workspace
11 15 (10.49%) SharePoint
12 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (9.09%) Migration
13 13 (9.09%) Solaris
14 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
14 12 (8.39%) Azure
14 12 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (8.39%) Data Management
15 11 (7.69%) Document Management
15 11 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
16 10 (6.99%) ITIL
17 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence

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 15 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.80%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.10%) Windchill
5 2 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.10%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.70%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.49%) Google Workspace
2 12 (8.39%) Azure
3 11 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.29%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.90%) Google Drive
5 7 (4.90%) SaaS
6 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.50%) GCP
7 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.10%) Asana
8 3 (2.10%) GitHub
8 3 (2.10%) ShareGate
9 2 (1.40%) AWS
9 2 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) SSL
2 4 (2.80%) DNS
3 3 (2.10%) DKIM
3 3 (2.10%) DMARC
4 1 (0.70%) DHCP
4 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.70%) NAS
4 1 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (11.89%) MySQL
4 8 (5.59%) Power BI
5 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.40%) EDMS
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.40%) Toad
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Hudson
General
1 40 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.29%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Finance
5 10 (6.99%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.29%) Local Government
7 6 (4.20%) Legal
8 4 (2.80%) Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Law
9 2 (1.40%) Police
10 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Back Office
10 1 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.80%) ISPF
1 4 (2.80%) Middleware
2 3 (2.10%) Kafka
2 3 (2.10%) OAuth
2 3 (2.10%) Terraform
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.70%) EDI
4 1 (0.70%) JSON
4 1 (0.70%) REST
4 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.20%) Clustering
3 6 (4.20%) Replication
4 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.80%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.70%) FMCG
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.09%) Solaris
2 5 (3.50%) Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Unix
3 4 (2.80%) zOS
4 3 (2.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) AIX
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.08%) Customer Service
2 20 (13.99%) Data Protection
2 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (9.09%) Migration
5 12 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (8.39%) Data Management
6 11 (7.69%) Document Management
7 10 (6.99%) ITIL
8 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (5.59%) ERP
10 7 (4.90%) Cloud Operations
10 7 (4.90%) DevOps
10 7 (4.90%) Project Management
10 7 (4.90%) Validation
11 5 (3.50%) Data Entry
11 5 (3.50%) Generative AI
11 5 (3.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (3.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.68%) SQL
2 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.10%) Python
3 2 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.70%) Bash
4 1 (0.70%) C#
4 1 (0.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 39 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.40%) OCP
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CIPD
7 1 (0.70%) HNC
7 1 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) GDPR
2 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.80%) QA
4 2 (1.40%) PMO
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.90%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.80%) RACF
4 2 (1.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.70%) Firmware
5 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.90%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.80%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.40%) Argo
4 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.40%) Nagios
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (0.70%) SCOM
5 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.70%) vMotion
5 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (24.48%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.98%) Oracle
3 22 (15.38%) SAP
4 15 (10.49%) Google
5 6 (4.20%) IBM
6 3 (2.10%) Sage
6 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.40%) Confluent
7 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.40%) Splunk
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Brocade
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco
8 1 (0.70%) Infor
8 1 (0.70%) Planon
8 1 (0.70%) Planview
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.70%) Workday