IT Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £165, 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 319 349 415
Rank change year-on-year +30 +66 +37
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 20 50 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 21
10th Percentile £150 £125 £115
25th Percentile £151 £222 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £325 £275
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% +18.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £226 £650 £438
90th Percentile £359 £677 £450
UK median daily rate £195 £295 £323
% change year-on-year -33.90% -8.53% +46.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 3
10th Percentile £14.27 £11.83 £32.32
25th Percentile £14.91 £12.00 £33.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £13.00 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -63.69% +146.90%
75th Percentile £17.13 £38.00 -
90th Percentile £17.79 £51.91 -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £13.41 £35.80
% change year-on-year +19.31% -62.54% +123.75%

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%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Administrator in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT 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
South East +31 9 £178 -67.73% 5
West Midlands +17 3 £150 - 3
North of England +16 3 £359 +59.56% 5
Midlands +13 3 £150 +50.00% 7
East of England +28 2 £425 - 8
Yorkshire +6 2 - -
South West +40 1 £250 - 5
Scotland +13 1 £152 -
North West +8 1 £359 +59.56% 5
Wales - 1 - -
IT Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.00%) Order Management
3 3 (15.00%) SLA
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Service Management
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Snow
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server

IT 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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) NAS
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (15.00%) Change Management
2 3 (15.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Order Management
2 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Data Entry
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) ISMS
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (5.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (5.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Snow
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) NetApp
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) SOTI