Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 73 149
Rank change year-on-year -34 +76 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 294 548 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.30% 2.64% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 2.85% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 226 230
10th Percentile £183 £159 £154
25th Percentile £254 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £439 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +9.63% +4.92%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £497
90th Percentile £575 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £449
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.35% +5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 218 38
10th Percentile £12.76 £11.11 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £17.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £29.45
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -55.86% +118.15%
75th Percentile £20.94 £16.80 £53.67
90th Percentile £28.86 £46.00 £64.79
UK median hourly rate £15.25 £13.18 £25.95
% change year-on-year +15.70% -49.21% +78.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +22 85 £359 -4.27% 172
North West +31 64 £355 +11.22% 95
South East -36 60 £400 +5.82% 194
South West -8 43 £470 -14.55% 115
Midlands -9 43 £330 -22.35% 144
West Midlands +10 41 £330 -22.35% 74
Scotland -12 35 £315 -21.25% 52
Yorkshire +2 17 £550 +17.02% 57
East of England -2 17 £430 +14.67% 102
Wales +5 8 £238 -58.70% 24
North East -15 4 £338 -28.95% 20
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 7
East Midlands -10 2 £405 +27.64% 63
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 81 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (23.13%) Security Cleared
4 55 (18.71%) Microsoft
5 47 (15.99%) Finance
6 45 (15.31%) Windows
7 38 (12.93%) Linux
7 38 (12.93%) SC Cleared
8 33 (11.22%) Microsoft Office
8 33 (11.22%) Process Improvement
9 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
9 31 (10.54%) Customer Service
10 30 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
11 28 (9.52%) ITIL
12 27 (9.18%) DV Cleared
13 25 (8.50%) DevOps
13 25 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (8.50%) Migration
14 24 (8.16%) Budget Management
15 23 (7.82%) Change Management
15 23 (7.82%) Azure
15 23 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
15 23 (7.82%) Windows Server
16 22 (7.48%) Oracle
16 22 (7.48%) VMware
17 21 (7.14%) High Availability
17 21 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
18 20 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (6.80%) AWS
18 20 (6.80%) Degree

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (11.22%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (4.08%) iTrent
2 2 (0.68%) Movex
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.82%) Azure
2 20 (6.80%) AWS
2 20 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.70%) OneDrive
4 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
5 4 (1.36%) GCP
5 4 (1.36%) Google Sheets
5 4 (1.36%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.36%) PaaS
5 4 (1.36%) Serverless
6 3 (1.02%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.02%) Google Docs
6 3 (1.02%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.02%) SaaS
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.78%) Firewall
2 16 (5.44%) DNS
3 13 (4.42%) DHCP
4 8 (2.72%) Network Security
4 8 (2.72%) WAN
5 7 (2.38%) LAN
5 7 (2.38%) SAN
6 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.36%) NAS
7 4 (1.36%) SSL
8 3 (1.02%) FTP
8 3 (1.02%) SMTP
8 3 (1.02%) Telnet
8 3 (1.02%) VPN
9 2 (0.68%) Internet
9 2 (0.68%) Intranet
9 2 (0.68%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.68%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.06%) Power BI
4 7 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 7 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.02%) MySQL
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.68%) GIS
8 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.68%) MSDE
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.06%) JIRA
2 7 (2.38%) Git
3 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) Hudson
4 2 (0.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.34%) Ant
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 81 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.99%) Finance
3 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (5.78%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.72%) Marketing
8 4 (1.36%) Back Office
8 4 (1.36%) Legal
8 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.02%) Banking
9 3 (1.02%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.42%) LDAP
2 6 (2.04%) JSON
2 6 (2.04%) XML
3 5 (1.70%) CSS
3 5 (1.70%) HTML
3 5 (1.70%) Web Services
4 4 (1.36%) ADO
4 4 (1.36%) Ajax
4 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.02%) Kafka
5 3 (1.02%) Middleware
5 3 (1.02%) X-Windows
6 2 (0.68%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.68%) REST
6 2 (0.68%) SOAP
6 2 (0.68%) SPFx
7 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.34%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.06%) CMDB
4 7 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.04%) PKI
5 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.36%) Clustering
6 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.36%) Replication
7 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.34%) FMCG
9 1 (0.34%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.31%) Windows
2 38 (12.93%) Linux
3 23 (7.82%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.10%) Unix
5 9 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.38%) AIX
7 7 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.04%) Solaris
8 6 (2.04%) zOS
9 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.02%) CentOS
11 2 (0.68%) HPUX
11 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (11.22%) Process Improvement
3 31 (10.54%) Customer Service
4 28 (9.52%) ITIL
5 25 (8.50%) DevOps
5 25 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (8.50%) Migration
6 24 (8.16%) Budget Management
7 23 (7.82%) Change Management
8 21 (7.14%) High Availability
8 21 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (6.80%) Cloud Security
10 19 (6.46%) Data Entry
11 18 (6.12%) Service Management
12 17 (5.78%) Task Automation
13 16 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (5.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
15 12 (4.08%) Analytics
15 12 (4.08%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.12%) SQL
2 14 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.76%) Python
3 12 (4.08%) Shell Script
4 10 (3.40%) Bash
5 9 (3.06%) Perl
6 5 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.68%) Groovy
8 2 (0.68%) Korn
8 2 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.34%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.80%) Degree
5 19 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.38%) CISSP
6 7 (2.38%) IBM Certification
7 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.68%) HNC
9 2 (0.68%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.68%) OCP
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.44%) SLA
2 12 (4.08%) GDPR
3 9 (3.06%) PMO
4 6 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.36%) QA
6 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) COSHH
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.06%) Docker
4 9 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.38%) RACF
6 5 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.36%) NFS
7 4 (1.36%) Samba
8 3 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.02%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) LXC
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (4.76%) Ansible
2 9 (3.06%) Terraform
3 7 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.38%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.70%) yum
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (1.36%) NetApp OnCommand
5 4 (1.36%) Puppet
5 4 (1.36%) SCCM
5 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.36%) vMotion
5 4 (1.36%) WSUS
6 3 (1.02%) Grafana
6 3 (1.02%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.02%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) SCOM
6 3 (1.02%) SELinux
6 3 (1.02%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 55 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.48%) Oracle
2 22 (7.48%) VMware
3 15 (5.10%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.42%) IBM
4 13 (4.42%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.40%) SAP
6 8 (2.72%) Google
6 8 (2.72%) Juniper
7 7 (2.38%) HP
8 6 (2.04%) Cisco
9 5 (1.70%) Symantec
10 4 (1.36%) Databricks
10 4 (1.36%) NetApp
11 3 (1.02%) Foundry
11 3 (1.02%) McAfee
11 3 (1.02%) Remedy
11 3 (1.02%) Sage
11 3 (1.02%) Xero