Windows Administrator Contracts

Windows Administrator
UK

The median Windows Administrator daily rate in the UK is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 672 811
Rank change year-on-year +98 +139 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Administrator 16 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.047% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.049% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 20
10th Percentile £76 £305 £322
25th Percentile £98 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £400 £418
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.19% -1.76%
75th Percentile £425 £488 £446
90th Percentile - £500 £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +38.27% -9.64% +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £81.37 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.88% - -
75th Percentile £19.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £81.37 -
% change year-on-year -77.88% - -

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
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 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Windows Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Administrator over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Administrator in the UK

Windows Administrator
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +108 14 £380 -20.00% 4
London +100 11 £380 -20.00% 1
UK excluding London +51 3 £519 +38.27% 3
Work from Home +102 2 - - 4
South East +19 2 £519 - 1
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Windows Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Windows 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 Windows Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (43.75%) Veeam
5 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (37.50%) VMS
6 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 5 (31.25%) Firmware
6 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (31.25%) Performance Improvement
6 5 (31.25%) Server Management
7 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (18.75%) SCOM
9 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
9 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
9 2 (12.50%) Release Management
9 2 (12.50%) SCCM
9 2 (12.50%) Azure
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (12.50%) Line Management
9 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
9 2 (12.50%) Information Security
9 2 (12.50%) HP
9 2 (12.50%) Dell
9 2 (12.50%) LAN
9 2 (12.50%) WAN
9 2 (12.50%) Customer Service

Windows 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) French Language
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (31.25%) Performance Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Server Management
2 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
4 2 (12.50%) Line Management
4 2 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCOM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 7 (43.75%) Veeam
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 2 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft