Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 71 160
Rank change year-on-year -35 +89 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 296 548 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.32% 2.71% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.93% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 228 214
10th Percentile £163 £158 £151
25th Percentile £245 £255 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £426 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +6.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £509
90th Percentile £575 £625 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 225 33
10th Percentile £12.97 £11.12 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £11.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.05 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -49.81% +86.11%
75th Percentile £17.79 £17.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £28.64 £41.60 £56.38
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £13.78 £25.95
% change year-on-year +1.63% -46.92% +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 11,749 18,731 21,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.50% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,490 11,452 15,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 826 2,272 1,106
10th Percentile £13.93 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +9 80 £355 -5.47% 145
North West +23 58 £350 +40.00% 76
South East -36 55 £400 +5.82% 172
Midlands -9 52 £288 -32.35% 122
West Midlands +4 48 £244 -42.65% 61
South West -15 43 £473 -14.09% 110
Scotland -12 31 £338 -3.57% 50
East of England -4 23 £430 +14.67% 80
Yorkshire +2 17 £550 +17.02% 49
Wales +2 8 £238 -58.70% 20
North East -9 5 £225 -52.63% 20
East Midlands -16 4 £313 -34.21% 58
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 92 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (21.96%) Security Cleared
4 58 (19.59%) Microsoft
5 43 (14.53%) Windows
6 38 (12.84%) Linux
6 38 (12.84%) Finance
6 38 (12.84%) Customer Service
7 35 (11.82%) SC Cleared
8 31 (10.47%) Process Improvement
8 31 (10.47%) ITIL
8 31 (10.47%) Public Sector
9 29 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
9 29 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (9.80%) VMware
10 28 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
11 26 (8.78%) Performance Tuning
12 25 (8.45%) AWS
12 25 (8.45%) Change Management
13 24 (8.11%) DV Cleared
14 23 (7.77%) Degree
14 23 (7.77%) DNS
14 23 (7.77%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (7.43%) Budget Management
15 22 (7.43%) Oracle
15 22 (7.43%) Active Directory
15 22 (7.43%) Windows Server
16 21 (7.09%) ServiceNow
16 21 (7.09%) Python
17 20 (6.76%) Service Management

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 15 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.69%) Apache
3 5 (1.69%) IIS
4 4 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
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 29 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) iTrent
2 3 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (8.45%) AWS
2 19 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (5.74%) Azure
4 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.03%) GCP
6 5 (1.69%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.69%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.35%) Google Sheets
7 4 (1.35%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.35%) PaaS
7 4 (1.35%) Serverless
8 3 (1.01%) Google Docs
8 3 (1.01%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.01%) SaaS
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.77%) DNS
2 20 (6.76%) Firewall
3 14 (4.73%) DHCP
4 12 (4.05%) SAN
5 9 (3.04%) Network Security
6 8 (2.70%) WAN
7 7 (2.36%) LAN
8 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.35%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.35%) NAS
9 4 (1.35%) SSL
9 4 (1.35%) VPN
10 3 (1.01%) FTP
10 3 (1.01%) SMTP
10 3 (1.01%) Telnet
11 2 (0.68%) Internet
11 2 (0.68%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
11 2 (0.68%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.36%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.69%) Power BI
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.01%) MySQL
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.01%) Sqoop
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.68%) Big Data
7 2 (0.68%) GIS
7 2 (0.68%) MSDE
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 14 (4.73%) JIRA
2 6 (2.03%) GitLab
3 5 (1.69%) Git
3 5 (1.69%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.68%) Hudson
5 2 (0.68%) Subversion
6 1 (0.34%) Ant
General
1 92 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.84%) Finance
3 31 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.77%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Marketing
9 4 (1.35%) Back Office
9 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Legal
11 2 (0.68%) French Language
11 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.39%) LDAP
2 6 (2.03%) JSON
2 6 (2.03%) XML
3 5 (1.69%) CSS
3 5 (1.69%) HTML
3 5 (1.69%) Web Services
4 4 (1.35%) Ajax
4 4 (1.35%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.35%) REST
5 3 (1.01%) Kafka
5 3 (1.01%) Middleware
5 3 (1.01%) SOAP
5 3 (1.01%) X-Windows
6 2 (0.68%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.68%) SPFx
7 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.34%) JWT
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.72%) CMDB
1 11 (3.72%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (2.36%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.36%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.03%) PKI
4 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.35%) Clustering
6 4 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (0.68%) Replication
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.34%) FMCG
8 1 (0.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.53%) Windows
2 38 (12.84%) Linux
3 22 (7.43%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.39%) Unix
5 10 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.04%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.03%) zOS
9 5 (1.69%) AIX
9 5 (1.69%) CentOS
10 4 (1.35%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.35%) Solaris
11 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (12.84%) Customer Service
3 31 (10.47%) ITIL
3 31 (10.47%) Process Improvement
4 29 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (8.78%) Performance Tuning
6 25 (8.45%) Change Management
7 22 (7.43%) Budget Management
8 20 (6.76%) DevOps
8 20 (6.76%) High Availability
8 20 (6.76%) Migration
8 20 (6.76%) Service Management
9 18 (6.08%) Cloud Security
9 18 (6.08%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (5.74%) Data Entry
11 16 (5.41%) Capacity Planning
11 16 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (5.41%) ITSM
12 15 (5.07%) Task Automation
13 13 (4.39%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.09%) Python
2 17 (5.74%) SQL
3 14 (4.73%) Shell Script
4 11 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.04%) Bash
5 9 (3.04%) Perl
6 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.68%) Groovy
8 2 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.34%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.34%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) Korn
9 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (21.96%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.77%) Degree
5 20 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.36%) CISSP
6 7 (2.36%) IBM Certification
7 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.68%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.68%) OCP
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) HNC
11 1 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.41%) SLA
2 12 (4.05%) GDPR
3 8 (2.70%) QA
4 6 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.69%) PMO
6 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.68%) COSHH
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.07%) Hyper-V
3 14 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.04%) Docker
6 7 (2.36%) RACF
7 6 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.35%) NFS
8 4 (1.35%) Samba
9 3 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.01%) vSphere
10 1 (0.34%) LXC
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.76%) Ansible
2 12 (4.05%) Terraform
3 8 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.70%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.69%) NetApp OnCommand
4 5 (1.69%) vMotion
4 5 (1.69%) WSUS
4 5 (1.69%) yum
5 4 (1.35%) Puppet
5 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.01%) Grafana
6 3 (1.01%) Nagios
6 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) SCOM
6 3 (1.01%) SELinux
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.68%) Salt
7 2 (0.68%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.80%) VMware
3 22 (7.43%) Oracle
4 21 (7.09%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.07%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.39%) IBM
6 13 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.38%) Google
7 10 (3.38%) Juniper
8 8 (2.70%) Cisco
8 8 (2.70%) SAP
9 5 (1.69%) HP
10 4 (1.35%) Databricks
10 4 (1.35%) NetApp
10 4 (1.35%) Sage
10 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.01%) Dell
11 3 (1.01%) Informatica
11 3 (1.01%) Symantec
11 3 (1.01%) Xero