Administrator Contracts in the South East

Administrator
England > South East

The median Administrator daily rate in the South East is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 58 127
Rank change year-on-year -40 +69 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 62 180 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 3.24% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 3.50% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 63 49
10th Percentile £157 £161 £122
25th Percentile £258 £180 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £378 £380
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% +16.56%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £500
90th Percentile £575 £595 £575
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 67 14
10th Percentile - £11.15 £17.43
25th Percentile £13.00 £12.09 £22.73
Median hourly rate £13.50 £13.05 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -49.81% +57.58%
75th Percentile £21.13 £26.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £59.95 £58.56
England median hourly rate £14.00 £13.48 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.86% -48.15% +79.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -8 37 £400 +49.81% 67
Berkshire -5 27 £375 +13.64% 34
Buckinghamshire +14 7 £410 -3.53% 22
Hampshire -1 7 £490 -9.09% 50
Surrey -3 7 £158 -13.82% 30
West Sussex +12 4 £550 +323.08% 20
Oxfordshire -10 3 £488 +170.83% 15
Kent -2 2 £355 -6.08% 31
East Sussex -6 2 - - 10
Sussex -2 1 - - 9
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
5 12 (19.35%) Azure
6 10 (16.13%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
6 10 (16.13%) Linux
7 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Excel
7 9 (14.52%) Windows
7 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
8 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
8 8 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (12.90%) Finance
8 8 (12.90%) SQL
8 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
8 8 (12.90%) Customer Service
8 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (12.90%) Ansible
9 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (11.29%) GDPR
9 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (11.29%) VMware
10 6 (9.68%) Change Management
10 6 (9.68%) DNS
10 6 (9.68%) CRM
10 6 (9.68%) DHCP
10 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
10 6 (9.68%) Onboarding

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.61%) PaaS
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) DHCP
1 6 (9.68%) DNS
2 5 (8.06%) Network Security
3 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 4 (6.45%) FTP
3 4 (6.45%) SMTP
3 4 (6.45%) Telnet
4 3 (4.84%) tcpdump
5 2 (3.23%) VPN
5 2 (3.23%) WAN
6 1 (1.61%) LAN
6 1 (1.61%) PSTN
6 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) Power BI
3 3 (4.84%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.61%) MS Access
4 1 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Subversion
4 1 (1.61%) MSI
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Aviation
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) ADO
2 3 (4.84%) LDAP
3 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.23%) Replication
3 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Windows
3 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.45%) Solaris
4 4 (6.45%) Unix
5 2 (3.23%) AIX
5 2 (3.23%) CentOS
5 2 (3.23%) HPUX
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.61%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (12.90%) Customer Service
2 8 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
2 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (9.68%) Change Management
3 6 (9.68%) CRM
3 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
4 5 (8.06%) High Availability
4 5 (8.06%) ITIL
4 5 (8.06%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (6.45%) Agile
5 4 (6.45%) DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) Migration
5 4 (6.45%) Process Improvement
5 4 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (6.45%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (4.84%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) SQL
2 4 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (3.23%) Perl
3 2 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) Korn
4 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) PMO
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
3 2 (3.23%) COSHH
3 2 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.45%) NFS
1 4 (6.45%) Samba
2 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Ansible
2 5 (8.06%) yum
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.23%) Puppet
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (3.23%) SELinux
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.61%) SCCM
4 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.29%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) HP
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) Concur
5 2 (3.23%) Remedy
5 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.23%) Symantec
5 2 (3.23%) Veritas
6 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.61%) BMC
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) SOTI
6 1 (1.61%) Twitter