Data Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £188, 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 325 351 437
Rank change year-on-year +26 +86 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Data Administrator 11 48 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 13
10th Percentile - £117 £127
25th Percentile £184 £155 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £180 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -44.62% +113.11%
75th Percentile £191 £200 £525
90th Percentile - £438 -
UK median daily rate £250 £180 £450
% change year-on-year +38.89% -60.00% +125.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 2
10th Percentile £14.35 £10.42 £12.95
25th Percentile £15.60 £10.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £16.19 £12.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -35.53% +53.01%
75th Percentile £22.44 £14.00 £22.63
90th Percentile £23.23 £20.00 £24.65
UK median hourly rate £16.19 £12.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% -30.00% +28.87%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
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 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Administrator in the UK excluding London

Data Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Administrator in the UK excluding London

Data Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Administrator in the UK excluding London

Data 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 Data Administrator within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +14 3 £188 -36.17% 21
Scotland +14 3 - - 4
West Midlands +12 3 £188 -55.88% 11
North of England +7 3 - - 33
East of England +31 2 - - 14
North West +13 2 - - 18
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 9
Data Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data 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 Data Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Data Entry
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Law
4 2 (18.18%) Intranet
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) e-Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Records Management
4 2 (18.18%) GDPR
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) iTrent
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Market Research
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Database Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (9.09%) Facilities Management

Data 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 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Entry
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) Market Research
3 2 (18.18%) Records Management
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Facilities Management
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
1 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) Teradata