Administrator Contract Job Trends

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 152 194
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 623 618 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.60% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.72% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 314 400
10th Percentile £183 £181 £175
25th Percentile £263 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £513 £569 £500
90th Percentile £596 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £444 £400
% change year-on-year -10.99% +10.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 95 59
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £13.43 £12.25 £15.45
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -27.27% +51.72%
75th Percentile £21.96 £23.25 £47.64
90th Percentile £26.33 £51.91 £54.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £15.73 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.46% -30.09% +55.17%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,103 35,849 47,782
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 93.04% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 22,683 32,884
10th Percentile £280 £300 £303
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.20%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,568 1,847 1,479
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £14.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.41 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.84% +10.00% +86.05%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +11 529 £400 -11.11% 462
UK excluding London +5 409 £395 -10.99% 421
Work from Home +24 155 £425 -5.56% 151
London -2 148 £416 -2.24% 125
North of England -2 96 £400 -5.88% 123
South East +11 95 £395 -12.22% 141
North West +25 70 £325 +18.18% 74
Midlands -6 69 £350 +7.69% 60
South West +17 68 £485 -7.62% 39
West Midlands +3 56 £325 +8.33% 32
East of England +6 36 £375 +31.58% 37
Scotland +1 30 £338 +73.08% 18
Yorkshire -15 22 £525 +5.00% 39
East Midlands -10 13 £1,300 +232.06% 27
Wales +7 9 £425 +93.18% 6
Northern Ireland -5 5 £350 - 3
North East -6 4 £300 -40.00% 12
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 August 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 featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 204 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 128 (20.55%) Microsoft
3 110 (17.66%) Security Cleared
4 105 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (13.96%) Finance
6 77 (12.36%) Windows
7 74 (11.88%) Linux
8 67 (10.75%) Microsoft Excel
8 67 (10.75%) Change Management
9 59 (9.47%) JIRA
10 58 (9.31%) Customer Service
11 57 (9.15%) AWS
12 54 (8.67%) SC Cleared
12 54 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
12 54 (8.67%) DevOps
13 51 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
13 51 (8.19%) Public Sector
14 50 (8.03%) SAP
14 50 (8.03%) Azure
15 47 (7.54%) Migration
16 46 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 46 (7.38%) ITIL
17 44 (7.06%) Python
17 44 (7.06%) Data Protection
18 43 (6.90%) Data Entry
18 43 (6.90%) Oracle
18 43 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
19 40 (6.42%) SQL
20 39 (6.26%) Performance Tuning
21 38 (6.10%) Active Directory

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (4.82%) Confluence
1 30 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.80%) Apache
3 5 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.64%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (10.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.64%) ContrOCC
2 4 (0.64%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.48%) iTrent
3 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) StreamServe
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (9.15%) AWS
2 50 (8.03%) Azure
3 25 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.57%) SaaS
6 15 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.44%) GCP
9 9 (1.44%) Serverless
10 8 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.12%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.94%) DNS
2 33 (5.30%) Firewall
3 22 (3.53%) SAN
4 21 (3.37%) Network Security
5 18 (2.89%) DHCP
6 11 (1.77%) VPN
7 10 (1.61%) SSL
8 8 (1.28%) BGP
8 8 (1.28%) OSPF
8 8 (1.28%) VLAN
8 8 (1.28%) WAN
9 7 (1.12%) iSCSI
9 7 (1.12%) LAN
10 6 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.64%) Wireless
11 4 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.05%) Oracle Database
3 17 (2.73%) Power BI
4 16 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.77%) MySQL
6 9 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.28%) DB2
7 8 (1.28%) MariaDB
8 7 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.80%) Metadata
10 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.64%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.64%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.48%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 59 (9.47%) JIRA
2 12 (1.93%) Git
3 11 (1.77%) TeamCity
4 9 (1.44%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.44%) GitLab
5 8 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (0.64%) Subversion
7 3 (0.48%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.16%) Log4j
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 204 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 87 (13.96%) Finance
3 51 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (8.19%) Public Sector
4 43 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.25%) Marketing
6 14 (2.25%) Retail
7 13 (2.09%) Aviation
8 11 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.77%) Banking
8 11 (1.77%) French Language
8 11 (1.77%) Law
9 8 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.28%) Electronics
9 8 (1.28%) Legal
10 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.41%) REST
2 9 (1.44%) JSON
3 8 (1.28%) OAuth
3 8 (1.28%) SOAP
3 8 (1.28%) XML
4 5 (0.80%) LDAP
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (0.64%) SAML
5 4 (0.64%) SAP Basis
5 4 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (0.64%) X-Windows
6 3 (0.48%) .NET
6 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.48%) JMS
6 3 (0.48%) LAMP
6 3 (0.48%) Middleware
6 3 (0.48%) Node.js
6 3 (0.48%) OpenID
6 3 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 20 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (2.73%) Replication
4 15 (2.41%) Clustering
5 14 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (2.09%) CMDB
6 13 (2.09%) PKI
7 11 (1.77%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.96%) Learning Management System
11 5 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.80%) SCADA
12 4 (0.64%) HP Storage
12 4 (0.64%) PMI
12 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 77 (12.36%) Windows
2 74 (11.88%) Linux
3 26 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (3.69%) Unix
5 19 (3.05%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.61%) CentOS
7 10 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.12%) Solaris
8 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.96%) zOS
10 5 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.80%) VMS
10 5 (0.80%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.48%) AIX
11 3 (0.48%) Debian
11 3 (0.48%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (10.75%) Change Management
3 58 (9.31%) Customer Service
4 54 (8.67%) DevOps
5 47 (7.54%) Migration
6 46 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 46 (7.38%) ITIL
7 44 (7.06%) Data Protection
8 43 (6.90%) Data Entry
9 39 (6.26%) Performance Tuning
10 36 (5.78%) Agile
11 33 (5.30%) High Availability
12 31 (4.98%) CRM
13 30 (4.82%) CI/CD
14 29 (4.65%) Service Management
15 28 (4.49%) Process Improvement
16 25 (4.01%) Service Delivery
17 24 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (3.53%) Workflow
19 21 (3.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.06%) Python
2 40 (6.42%) SQL
3 31 (4.98%) PowerShell
4 29 (4.65%) Shell Script
5 24 (3.85%) Bash
6 11 (1.77%) Perl
7 7 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.96%) Groovy
9 5 (0.80%) C#
10 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.48%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.32%) AWK
11 2 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.32%) C
11 2 (0.32%) COBOL
11 2 (0.32%) PHP
11 2 (0.32%) sed
12 1 (0.16%) CLIST
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 110 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 54 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.65%) Degree
6 9 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.12%) IBM Certification
9 6 (0.96%) CCNP
9 6 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.96%) CISSP
10 5 (0.80%) CCSA
10 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.64%) HNC
11 4 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.32%) OCP
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.49%) GDPR
2 15 (2.41%) PMO
2 15 (2.41%) QA
3 14 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.28%) SLA
5 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.93%) Docker
3 12 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.61%) Firmware
5 9 (1.44%) NFS
6 8 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (1.12%) RACF
8 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.48%) GPFS
9 3 (0.48%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.32%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.32%) vSphere
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) LXC
11 1 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 35 (5.62%) Ansible
2 29 (4.65%) Terraform
3 16 (2.57%) Progress Chef
4 11 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.61%) Puppet
6 9 (1.44%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.44%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.28%) SCCM
8 7 (1.12%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (0.96%) Salt
10 5 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.80%) WSUS
11 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.48%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 128 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.03%) SAP
3 43 (6.90%) Oracle
4 37 (5.94%) Salesforce
5 33 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 33 (5.30%) VMware
6 26 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.05%) Cisco
8 18 (2.89%) Juniper
9 14 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.09%) IBM
11 12 (1.93%) Dell
12 11 (1.77%) Google
12 11 (1.77%) HP
12 11 (1.77%) Twitter
13 10 (1.61%) Veritas
14 9 (1.44%) 3PAR
15 8 (1.28%) NetApp
15 8 (1.28%) Nimble Storage
15 8 (1.28%) Workday