Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 174 249
Rank change year-on-year +52 +75 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 787 875 996
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 1.51% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.59% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 549 601
10th Percentile £165 £202 £185
25th Percentile £294 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +1.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.50% - +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 46 63
10th Percentile £11.12 £11.98 £10.53
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.41 £12.15
Median hourly rate £13.18 £25.98 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.26% +79.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £17.84 £53.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £58.50 £46.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £32.90 £14.36
% change year-on-year -60.49% +129.11% +2.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 17 Contract 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 7 May 2024. 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 +51 685 £406 -9.89% 795
UK excluding London +94 538 £426 +6.50% 700
Work from Home +19 211 £450 - 227
London -15 200 £400 -11.11% 140
South East +64 172 £378 +0.13% 181
South West +39 98 £550 +33.33% 94
North of England +48 86 £375 +15.38% 167
Midlands +48 76 £425 +13.33% 136
Scotland +62 55 £400 +6.52% 36
West Midlands +34 50 £425 +30.77% 72
East of England +14 47 £375 -11.76% 99
North West +24 46 £313 -18.30% 100
East Midlands +38 26 £443 +34.24% 64
Yorkshire +37 23 £470 +121.18% 49
North East +26 17 £475 +69.64% 20
Wales +19 8 £575 +96.58% 18
Northern Ireland 0 1 £350 -17.65% 7

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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.

1 192 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 187 (23.76%) Microsoft
3 169 (21.47%) Windows
4 145 (18.42%) Security Cleared
5 98 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
6 92 (11.69%) Finance
7 91 (11.56%) Microsoft Office
8 88 (11.18%) Linux
8 88 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (10.67%) DV Cleared
10 79 (10.04%) Azure
11 69 (8.77%) SharePoint
12 66 (8.39%) Active Directory
13 63 (8.01%) Public Sector
13 63 (8.01%) Customer Service
14 60 (7.62%) Windows Server
15 58 (7.37%) SQL
16 55 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
17 52 (6.61%) VMware
18 51 (6.48%) Degree
19 50 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
20 49 (6.23%) SAP
21 48 (6.10%) PKI
21 48 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
22 47 (5.97%) SQL Server
23 46 (5.84%) PowerShell
23 46 (5.84%) DevOps
24 45 (5.72%) SC Cleared
25 42 (5.34%) Data Entry
26 36 (4.57%) AWS

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 69 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.91%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (1.65%) Confluence
6 9 (1.14%) SAS
7 8 (1.02%) Apache
8 6 (0.76%) IIS
9 5 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.13%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.13%) Moodle
12 1 (0.13%) nginx
12 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (11.56%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.80%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.02%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.89%) iTrent
3 4 (0.51%) Maximo
3 4 (0.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (10.04%) Azure
2 48 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (4.57%) AWS
4 16 (2.03%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.52%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.02%) PaaS
7 7 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (0.76%) GCP
8 6 (0.76%) GitHub
9 5 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (0.64%) SaaS
10 4 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.51%) Google Sheets
10 4 (0.51%) OCI
10 4 (0.51%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.81%) DNS
2 18 (2.29%) Intranet
3 12 (1.52%) Firewall
4 11 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.27%) WAN
6 8 (1.02%) VPN
7 7 (0.89%) DHCP
7 7 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (0.89%) LAN
7 7 (0.89%) SAN
8 6 (0.76%) Internet
8 6 (0.76%) SSL
9 5 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.64%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.38%) HTTP
10 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.38%) MPLS
10 3 (0.38%) Network Security
10 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.41%) MySQL
3 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.65%) Power BI
3 13 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.89%) DB2
9 6 (0.76%) Ingres
10 5 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.64%) Metadata
10 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 5 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 32 (4.07%) JIRA
2 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.64%) GitLab
3 4 (0.51%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.13%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 192 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 92 (11.69%) Finance
3 63 (8.01%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (4.07%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.05%) Banking
8 19 (2.41%) Legal
8 19 (2.41%) Marketing
8 19 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.78%) Retail
10 13 (1.65%) Law
11 12 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.14%) Police
14 7 (0.89%) Electronics
15 6 (0.76%) Automotive
16 5 (0.64%) Back Office
16 5 (0.64%) Mandarin Language
16 5 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.65%) Itk
2 10 (1.27%) CSS
2 10 (1.27%) HTML
3 6 (0.76%) .NET
3 6 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 5 (0.64%) Google Maps API
4 5 (0.64%) Kafka
4 5 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.64%) SAML
5 4 (0.51%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.51%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.51%) Node.js
6 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.38%) jQuery
6 3 (0.38%) LDAP
6 3 (0.38%) SPFx
7 2 (0.25%) ISPF
7 2 (0.25%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.10%) PKI
2 29 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 22 (2.80%) NHS
4 20 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.52%) Blog
7 11 (1.40%) Clustering
7 11 (1.40%) Replication
8 9 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
10 7 (0.89%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.76%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.64%) Freedom of Information Act
12 5 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.64%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.51%) CCTV
13 4 (0.51%) Housing Association
13 4 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 169 (21.47%) Windows
2 88 (11.18%) Linux
3 60 (7.62%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.91%) Unix
5 15 (1.91%) Windows 7
5 15 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.02%) VMS
9 7 (0.89%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.76%) zOS
11 5 (0.64%) AIX
11 5 (0.64%) CentOS
11 5 (0.64%) Solaris
12 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (8.01%) Customer Service
3 46 (5.84%) DevOps
4 42 (5.34%) Data Entry
5 36 (4.57%) Change Management
6 35 (4.45%) ITIL
6 35 (4.45%) Migration
7 32 (4.07%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (3.94%) Data Protection
8 31 (3.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (3.94%) Time Management
9 29 (3.68%) Project Management
10 28 (3.56%) High Availability
11 21 (2.67%) Agile
11 21 (2.67%) Asset Management
12 19 (2.41%) Problem Management
12 19 (2.41%) Workflow
13 18 (2.29%) Data Management
13 18 (2.29%) Document Management
13 18 (2.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.37%) SQL
2 46 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.41%) Bash
4 16 (2.03%) Python
5 11 (1.40%) C
5 11 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.14%) Shell Script
7 8 (1.02%) Perl
8 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.76%) C++
9 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.64%) Groovy
11 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.25%) AWK
12 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.25%) JCL
12 2 (0.25%) REXX
12 2 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 145 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.67%) DV Cleared
3 51 (6.48%) Degree
4 45 (5.72%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.51%) MCITP
9 4 (0.51%) MCSE
9 4 (0.51%) MCTS
9 4 (0.51%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.38%) AAT
10 3 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.38%) HNC
10 3 (0.38%) RHCE
11 2 (0.25%) CCNA
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.68%) QA
2 13 (1.65%) GDPR
3 12 (1.52%) SLA
4 11 (1.40%) PMO
5 9 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.64%) GRC
7 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.64%) NIST
8 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 66 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.76%) Docker
4 6 (0.76%) Firmware
4 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.64%) VMware Server
5 5 (0.64%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) ACF2
6 2 (0.25%) NFS
6 2 (0.25%) RACF
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Postfix
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (2.41%) Ansible
2 14 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.40%) SCOM
5 10 (1.27%) Data Guard
6 9 (1.14%) Terraform
7 8 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.02%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.89%) Control-M
8 7 (0.89%) Grafana
8 7 (0.89%) Nagios
9 6 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.64%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.51%) Kubernetes
11 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.51%) Puppet
11 4 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 187 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.61%) VMware
3 49 (6.23%) SAP
4 32 (4.07%) Oracle
5 25 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.65%) Google
9 12 (1.52%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.40%) IBM
11 9 (1.14%) Apple
11 9 (1.14%) Veeam
12 8 (1.02%) F5
12 8 (1.02%) Splunk
13 6 (0.76%) Cisco
13 6 (0.76%) EMC
13 6 (0.76%) Sage
14 5 (0.64%) Progress
14 5 (0.64%) Veritas
15 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg