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 £150, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 362 399
Rank change year-on-year +7 +37 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Data Administrator 16 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £150 £109
25th Percentile - - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £180 £225
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -20.00% +61.29%
75th Percentile - £200 £348
90th Percentile - - £402
UK median daily rate £250 £180 £260
% change year-on-year +38.89% -30.77% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 4
10th Percentile £12.82 - £16.30
25th Percentile £13.33 - £16.36
Median hourly rate £15.60 £10.42 £16.70
Median % change year-on-year +49.71% -37.60% -0.30%
75th Percentile £17.50 £11.34 £17.44
90th Percentile £20.11 £13.36 £18.23
UK median hourly rate £15.60 £10.42 £17.25
% change year-on-year +49.71% -39.59% +4.55%

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 13,793 16,863 20,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.04% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,447 10,310 14,151
10th Percentile £215 £219 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 1,754 1,137
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +20.00% +78.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 8 August 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
South East +13 6 - - 12
South West +35 3 - - 3
Scotland - 3 - - 1
North of England -10 2 £150 -25.00% 11
Midlands -10 2 - - 7
West Midlands -16 2 - - 4
North East - 1 £150 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Data Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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 11 (68.75%) Data Entry
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) GDPR
5 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Market Research
6 2 (12.50%) Data Management
6 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
7 1 (6.25%) Database Migration
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Optimisation
7 1 (6.25%) Data Encryption
7 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (6.25%) SAP
7 1 (6.25%) SQL
7 1 (6.25%) T-SQL

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:

Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Entry
2 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Data Management
5 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 2 (12.50%) Market Research
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
6 1 (6.25%) Data Encryption
6 1 (6.25%) Database Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Information Governance
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Optimisation
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
1 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Teradata