Administrator Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Administrator
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Administrator daily rate in South Yorkshire is £432, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -43 +9 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 14 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.81% 2.09% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.41% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £414 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -54.46%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £550 £383
% change year-on-year -23.64% +43.79% +2.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 697 291 402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 86.87% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 175 253
10th Percentile £313 £208 £350
25th Percentile £400 £369 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £612
90th Percentile £621 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £16.01
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.16% +9.53% +0.28%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Administrator job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Sheffield -42 13 £432 - 8
Administrator
Yorkshire

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 19 December 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Bash
2 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Python
3 8 (57.14%) Ansible
4 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (50.00%) Terraform
5 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
5 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (35.71%) Grafana
6 5 (35.71%) Migration
6 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (35.71%) VMware
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
7 4 (28.57%) Server Management
7 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
8 3 (21.43%) DHCP
8 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (21.43%) DNS
8 3 (21.43%) Entra ID

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
5 4 (28.57%) Server Management
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
8 1 (7.14%) High Availability
8 1 (7.14%) Observability
8 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Bash
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) KVM
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 5 (35.71%) Grafana
4 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce