Administrator Contracts in the Thames Valley

Administrator
South East > Thames Valley

The median Administrator daily rate in the Thames Valley 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 65 57 108
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 37 90 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.45% 3.35% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 3.59% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 12
10th Percentile £323 £170 £58
25th Percentile £363 £180 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £267 £331
Median % change year-on-year +49.81% -19.40% +47.22%
75th Percentile £429 £480 £389
90th Percentile £473 £500 £467
South East median daily rate £400 £378 £380
% change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% +16.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 34 10
10th Percentile £17.23 £12.18 £25.52
25th Percentile £23.58 £13.00 £25.96
Median hourly rate £45.75 £26.00 £37.20
Median % change year-on-year +75.97% -30.11% +95.79%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.84 £51.75
90th Percentile - £61.60 £62.70
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £13.05 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% -49.81% +57.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the Thames Valley

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the Thames Valley

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the Thames Valley

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the Thames Valley

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the Thames Valley

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -5 27 £375 +13.64% 33
Buckinghamshire +14 7 £410 -3.53% 22
Oxfordshire -10 3 £488 +170.83% 15
Administrator
South East

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
5 8 (21.62%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (21.62%) Performance Monitoring
5 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
5 8 (21.62%) Linux
5 8 (21.62%) Finance
6 7 (18.92%) SQL
6 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
6 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (16.22%) Azure
7 6 (16.22%) Red Hat
7 6 (16.22%) Ansible
7 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.51%) GDPR
8 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
8 5 (13.51%) HP
8 5 (13.51%) CRM
8 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
8 5 (13.51%) Oracle
8 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (13.51%) yum
8 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
9 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.81%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) Google Sheets
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DHCP
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
1 4 (10.81%) FTP
1 4 (10.81%) SMTP
1 4 (10.81%) Telnet
2 3 (8.11%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) Power BI
3 3 (8.11%) MariaDB
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (2.70%) MS Access
4 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) ADO
2 3 (8.11%) LDAP
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) CMDB
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) AIX
4 2 (5.41%) CentOS
4 2 (5.41%) HPUX
4 2 (5.41%) Solaris
4 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.62%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
5 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (13.51%) CRM
5 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (10.81%) Agile
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (8.11%) High Availability
7 3 (8.11%) Release Management
7 3 (8.11%) Server Migrations
8 2 (5.41%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.41%) Test Management
8 2 (5.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 1 (2.70%) Korn
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) PMO
3 3 (8.11%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) NFS
1 4 (10.81%) Samba
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) yum
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.41%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.51%) HP
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) VMware
4 2 (5.41%) Concur
4 2 (5.41%) Remedy
4 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) BMC
5 1 (2.70%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Twitter