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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 72
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 140 53 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.58% 2.44% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.96% 2.64% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 12 14
10th Percentile £170 £158 £137
25th Percentile £410 £244 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £263
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +23.81% -38.24%
75th Percentile £530 £450 £360
90th Percentile £645 £458 £442
England median daily rate £450 £400 £430
% change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 12
10th Percentile £13.22 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £14.50 £13.49
Median hourly rate £14.51 £20.26 £19.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% +3.07% +2.41%
75th Percentile £24.16 £22.63 £27.71
90th Percentile £24.19 £22.66 £34.50
England median hourly rate £15.72 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +1.42% -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 3,536 2,005 2,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 92.40% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,993 1,328 1,234
10th Percentile £300 £268 £271
25th Percentile £408 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £670
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 160 162
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.49
25th Percentile £25.49 £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 £71.91 £45.37 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.02 £74.37
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

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 25 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 25 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 +6 84 £435 +45.00% 37
Lancashire -4 19 £125 -76.91% 25
Cumbria - 16 £520 - 6
Cheshire +3 15 £450 +38.46% 22
Merseyside -14 5 £544 +158.93% 14
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
3 30 (21.43%) Oracle
3 30 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 29 (20.71%) SQL
5 28 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 21 (15.00%) SAP
7 20 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (12.86%) Customer Service
9 18 (12.86%) Data Protection
9 18 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (11.43%) MySQL
11 15 (10.71%) SharePoint
12 13 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.29%) Degree
12 13 (9.29%) Google
12 13 (9.29%) Google Workspace
12 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
13 12 (8.57%) Active Directory
13 12 (8.57%) Migration
14 11 (7.86%) Azure
14 11 (7.86%) Document Management
14 11 (7.86%) JIRA
14 11 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (7.86%) Solaris
15 10 (7.14%) Data Management
15 10 (7.14%) ITIL
16 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel

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 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.14%) Windchill
5 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.14%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.29%) Google Workspace
2 11 (7.86%) Azure
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.00%) Google Drive
4 7 (5.00%) SaaS
5 5 (3.57%) GCP
6 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) Asana
7 3 (2.14%) GitHub
7 3 (2.14%) ShareGate
8 2 (1.43%) AWS
8 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) SSL
2 4 (2.86%) DNS
3 3 (2.14%) DKIM
3 3 (2.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.71%) DHCP
4 1 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.71%) NAS
4 1 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.43%) MySQL
4 7 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.00%) Power BI
5 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.43%) EDMS
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) Toad
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) Hudson
3 1 (0.71%) ScriptRunner
General
1 38 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.86%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.43%) Finance
6 7 (5.00%) Local Government
7 6 (4.29%) Legal
8 4 (2.86%) Banking
8 4 (2.86%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) ISPF
1 4 (2.86%) Middleware
2 3 (2.14%) Kafka
2 3 (2.14%) OAuth
2 3 (2.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Streams
3 2 (1.43%) REST
4 1 (0.71%) JSON
4 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.29%) Clustering
3 6 (4.29%) Replication
4 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.86%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.14%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Solaris
2 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Unix
2 4 (2.86%) zOS
3 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (12.86%) Customer Service
2 18 (12.86%) Data Protection
2 18 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (8.57%) Migration
5 11 (7.86%) Document Management
6 10 (7.14%) Data Management
6 10 (7.14%) ITIL
7 9 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.71%) ERP
9 7 (5.00%) Cloud Operations
9 7 (5.00%) DevOps
9 7 (5.00%) Project Management
10 6 (4.29%) Validation
11 5 (3.57%) Change Management
11 5 (3.57%) Data Analysis
11 5 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (3.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.71%) SQL
2 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.14%) Python
3 2 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.71%) Bash
4 1 (0.71%) C#
4 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.29%) Degree
3 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.43%) OCP
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CIPD
6 1 (0.71%) HNC
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.29%) GDPR
2 4 (2.86%) QA
3 2 (1.43%) PMO
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.86%) RACF
4 2 (1.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Firmware
5 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.86%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.43%) Ansible
4 2 (1.43%) Argo
4 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.43%) Grafana
4 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.43%) Nagios
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.71%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (0.71%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.71%) SCOM
5 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.71%) vMotion
5 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (21.43%) Oracle
3 21 (15.00%) SAP
4 13 (9.29%) Google
5 5 (3.57%) IBM
6 3 (2.14%) Sage
6 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.43%) Avature
7 2 (1.43%) Confluent
7 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.43%) Splunk
7 2 (1.43%) VMware
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.71%) Brocade
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Planview
8 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.71%) Workday