Administrator Contract Job Trends in the North West

Administrator
England > North West

The median Administrator daily rate in the North West is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 69 93
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 55 45 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.56% 1.89% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 2.01% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 23
10th Percentile £158 £152 £213
25th Percentile £244 £200 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £434 £423 £499
90th Percentile £450 £474 £538
England median daily rate £400 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 6
10th Percentile £13.00 - £14.72
25th Percentile £13.27 £13.49 £16.70
Median hourly rate £20.26 £19.65 £19.19
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% +2.41% +19.94%
75th Percentile £22.55 £27.71 £40.30
90th Percentile £22.63 £34.50 £60.63
England median hourly rate £15.50 £15.87 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.30% -36.54% +69.49%

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 1,986 2,240 2,629
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 94.00% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,286 1,798
10th Percentile £265 £276 £276
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £672
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 164 161
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.54 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.62 £37.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -33.46% +21.15% +30.57%
75th Percentile £47.12 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.68 £71.32 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Administrator 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +22 38 £300 +4.35% 29
Cheshire -20 11 £325 +3.17% 14
Lancashire -3 4 £539 - 25
Merseyside +2 1 £210 +5.00% 10
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 22 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (34.55%) SAP
4 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
5 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 15 (27.27%) Change Management
6 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
6 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.73%) Finance
7 7 (12.73%) CRM
8 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (9.09%) SDLC
9 5 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (9.09%) Data Entry
9 5 (9.09%) Twitter
9 5 (9.09%) Aviation
9 5 (9.09%) Aerospace
9 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
9 5 (9.09%) IT Governance
10 4 (7.27%) Data Validation
10 4 (7.27%) Validation
10 4 (7.27%) Service Delivery
10 4 (7.27%) Windows
10 4 (7.27%) ContrOCC
10 4 (7.27%) Liquidlogic
10 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (5.45%) High Availability

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) ContrOCC
2 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.82%) Azure
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
2 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.82%) Serverless
2 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DHCP
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 5 (9.09%) Aviation
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Games
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) IDoc
1 1 (1.82%) JSON
1 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.82%) Clustering
2 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Change Management
2 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.73%) CRM
4 5 (9.09%) Data Entry
4 5 (9.09%) IT Governance
4 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 5 (9.09%) SDLC
5 4 (7.27%) Data Validation
5 4 (7.27%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.27%) Validation
6 3 (5.45%) High Availability
6 3 (5.45%) ITIL
6 3 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (5.45%) SAP Security
7 2 (3.64%) Application Security
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Patch Management
7 2 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (3.64%) Security Operations
7 2 (3.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (3.64%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (3.64%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (3.64%) SCCM
1 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.64%) vMotion
1 2 (3.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (34.55%) SAP
3 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.09%) Twitter
5 4 (7.27%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (3.64%) McAfee
6 2 (3.64%) Symantec
6 2 (3.64%) VMware
7 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle
7 1 (1.82%) SYSPRO