Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 64 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 65 56 57
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.69% 2.38% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 2.55% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 34
10th Percentile £255 £135 £227
25th Percentile £313 £200 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £275 £388
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -29.03% +10.71%
75th Percentile £450 £438 £500
90th Percentile £492 £479 £538
England median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 8
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.49 £11.99
25th Percentile £19.07 £14.99 £15.71
Median hourly rate £21.91 £22.25 £19.19
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +15.95% +30.46%
75th Percentile £23.13 £24.88 £29.43
90th Percentile £34.56 £41.88 £55.13
England median hourly rate £16.35 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -9.17% -20.00% +32.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,204 2,195 2,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.17% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,168 1,779
10th Percentile £214 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £591
90th Percentile £678 £650 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 156 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.56 £15.83
25th Percentile £19.18 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.59% +57.50%
75th Percentile £48.56 £51.22 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +16 44 £338 +22.73% 35
Cheshire -27 10 £450 +18.42% 3
Lancashire -16 6 £539 - 26
Cumbria - 3 £492 - 3
Merseyside -5 1 £210 -52.00% 4
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (35.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (35.38%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (33.85%) Change Management
3 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
4 19 (29.23%) SAP
5 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
6 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (13.85%) SharePoint
9 8 (12.31%) Migration
10 7 (10.77%) ACF2
10 7 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (10.77%) CA Endevor
10 7 (10.77%) CLIST
10 7 (10.77%) COBOL
10 7 (10.77%) ISPF
10 7 (10.77%) JCL
10 7 (10.77%) RACF
10 7 (10.77%) REXX
10 7 (10.77%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (10.77%) Windows
11 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
11 6 (9.23%) Release Management
11 6 (9.23%) Storage Management
11 6 (9.23%) Tivoli
11 6 (9.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
12 5 (7.69%) Application Security

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 9 (13.85%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (35.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.62%) Trello
4 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) ContrOCC
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.15%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.62%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.54%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) ShareGate
5 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) WebEx
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.62%) MySQL
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Aviation
4 3 (4.62%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Legal
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Games
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) ISPF
2 3 (4.62%) XMPP
3 1 (1.54%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Onboarding
2 7 (10.77%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.08%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.08%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.54%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.54%) VMS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (33.85%) Change Management
3 8 (12.31%) Migration
4 6 (9.23%) Release Management
4 6 (9.23%) Storage Management
5 5 (7.69%) Application Security
5 5 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 5 (7.69%) CRM
5 5 (7.69%) IT Governance
5 5 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 5 (7.69%) SDLC
5 5 (7.69%) Security Operations
5 5 (7.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 5 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (6.15%) ERP
6 4 (6.15%) Service Delivery
6 4 (6.15%) Service Management
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (4.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) CLIST
1 7 (10.77%) COBOL
1 7 (10.77%) JCL
1 7 (10.77%) REXX
2 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Bash
3 1 (1.54%) Perl
3 1 (1.54%) Python
3 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) GDPR
1 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) ACF2
1 7 (10.77%) RACF
1 7 (10.77%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) CA Endevor
2 6 (9.23%) Tivoli
2 6 (9.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (7.69%) Norton AntiVirus
3 5 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (29.23%) SAP
3 5 (7.69%) McAfee
3 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.69%) Symantec
4 4 (6.15%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (4.62%) Cisco
5 3 (4.62%) Citrix
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.54%) SYSPRO
6 1 (1.54%) VMware