Administrator Contracts in Scotland

Administrator
UK > Scotland

The median Administrator daily rate in Scotland is £280, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 68 125
Rank change year-on-year -15 +57 +20
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 36 60 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.23% 2.70% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 2.85% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 24
10th Percentile £168 £180 £352
25th Percentile £193 £200 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £414 £377
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +9.83% -5.88%
75th Percentile £397 £500 £478
90th Percentile £515 £610 £546
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £447
% change year-on-year -5.88% -4.92% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 3
10th Percentile - £11.50 £18.76
25th Percentile £15.60 £11.55 £19.52
Median hourly rate £18.27 £12.30 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +48.54% -48.45% +94.78%
75th Percentile £20.94 £16.13 £40.34
90th Percentile - £19.75 £48.39
UK median hourly rate £15.60 £13.05 £25.95
% change year-on-year +19.54% -49.71% +78.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,519 2,102 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,283 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £201 £238
25th Percentile £370 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 114 44
10th Percentile £15.94 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.94 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Scotland

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in Scotland

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in Scotland

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in Scotland

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +2 13 £350 -15.15% 9
Edinburgh -4 10 £210 -50.82% 8
Argyll and Bute -2 3 £181 -6.39%
Renfrewshire +13 2 - - 9
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 - -
Fife 0 1 - -
Highlands -2 1 £375 - 5
Stirling - 1 £350 - 2
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 Scotland region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
4 10 (27.78%) iTrent
4 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.00%) Management Information System
6 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (16.67%) Windows
7 6 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
7 6 (16.67%) Line Management
7 6 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (13.89%) Performance Management
8 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
8 5 (13.89%) High Availability
8 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
8 5 (13.89%) Oracle
8 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
9 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
9 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
9 4 (11.11%) Linux
9 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (11.11%) Migration
9 4 (11.11%) Degree
9 4 (11.11%) Process Improvement
9 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 4 (11.11%) Mac OS
9 4 (11.11%) Task Automation

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.78%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.78%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (27.78%) iTrent
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
2 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
2 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) Fivetran
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.78%) DB2
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) LDAP
1 3 (8.33%) X-Windows
2 2 (5.56%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) FMCG
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (16.67%) Line Management
2 6 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 5 (13.89%) High Availability
3 5 (13.89%) Performance Management
3 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
4 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 3 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.33%) Information Security
5 3 (8.33%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (8.33%) Mathematics
5 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.56%) Groovy
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) HNC
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (5.56%) PMO
3 2 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Sage
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Lotus
5 1 (2.78%) Sun
5 1 (2.78%) Sybase
5 1 (2.78%) Teradata