Administrator Contracts in the South East

Administrator
England > South East

The median Administrator daily rate in the South East is £395, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 82 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +80
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Administrator 90 106 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.55% 2.20% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 2.38% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 52 70
10th Percentile £180 £178 £122
25th Percentile £353 £234 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £441 £372
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +18.63% +6.21%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £425
90th Percentile £548 - £528
England median daily rate £400 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -7.99% +8.69% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 22 22
10th Percentile - £10.42 £16.46
25th Percentile £13.00 £11.69 £23.68
Median hourly rate £13.93 £12.18 £25.98
Median % change year-on-year +14.33% -53.11% +70.44%
75th Percentile £15.91 £27.12 £51.81
90th Percentile £17.50 £58.37 £56.05
England median hourly rate £15.50 £15.73 £23.24
% change year-on-year -1.46% -32.31% +60.28%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,194 4,445 5,339
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.26% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,064 2,714 3,663
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £613
90th Percentile £663 £691 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 369 236
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -42.22% +6.95% +63.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies 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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies 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 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the South East

Administrator
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -5 39 £370 +0.68% 55
Berkshire +4 22 £375 -25.00% 28
Buckinghamshire +5 15 £425 +51.79% 15
Hampshire +1 13 £515 -14.17% 24
Surrey +14 9 £180 -2.11% 29
West Sussex +4 6 £400 +207.69% 14
East Sussex +1 3 - - 5
Oxfordshire -16 2 £270 +49.86% 12
Sussex -1 1 - - 8
Kent -5 1 - - 14
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 41 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Customer Service
3 18 (20.00%) Windows
4 17 (18.89%) GDPR
5 16 (17.78%) ITIL
6 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
8 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
9 12 (13.33%) CRM
9 12 (13.33%) Data Protection
10 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Excel
11 10 (11.11%) Linux
11 10 (11.11%) SQL
11 10 (11.11%) HP
11 10 (11.11%) Red Hat
12 9 (10.00%) Veritas
12 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
12 9 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
13 8 (8.89%) 3PAR
13 8 (8.89%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
13 8 (8.89%) Finance
13 8 (8.89%) SAN
14 7 (7.78%) Dell
14 7 (7.78%) NetApp

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 3 (3.33%) Confluence
1 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.11%) AWS
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) SAN
2 5 (5.56%) DHCP
2 5 (5.56%) DNS
3 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 4 (4.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 41 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Billing
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Enterprise Storage
1 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.78%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.44%) HP Storage
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) PKI
5 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) CMDB
6 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Windows
2 10 (11.11%) Linux
3 9 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.44%) Unix
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.11%) Rocky
7 1 (1.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) Customer Service
2 16 (17.78%) ITIL
3 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (13.33%) CRM
4 12 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (7.78%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (7.78%) Migration
7 6 (6.67%) Data Entry
7 6 (6.67%) ERP
7 6 (6.67%) Process Management
7 6 (6.67%) Records Management
7 6 (6.67%) Service Delivery
7 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.56%) Data Management
8 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
9 4 (4.44%) Order Management
9 4 (4.44%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) SQL
2 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.44%) Bash
3 4 (4.44%) Python
4 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) COSHH
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) NFS
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) GPFS
3 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) NetBackup
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (3.33%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) WSUS
4 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.11%) BladeLogic
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.11%) HP
2 10 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.00%) Veritas
4 8 (8.89%) 3PAR
5 7 (7.78%) Dell
5 7 (7.78%) IFS
5 7 (7.78%) NetApp
5 7 (7.78%) Nimble Storage
6 6 (6.67%) Oracle
7 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.33%) VMware
9 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.22%) Concur
9 2 (2.22%) SAP
9 2 (2.22%) Snow
9 2 (2.22%) Workday
10 1 (1.11%) DocuSign
10 1 (1.11%) Mellanox
10 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow