Administrator Contracts in the West Midlands

Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Administrator daily rate in the West Midlands is £330, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 99
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 40 46 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.97% 2.36% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 2.59% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 22
10th Percentile £150 £208 £146
25th Percentile £158 £391 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £425 £288
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +47.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £484 £638 £488
90th Percentile £526 - £521
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 3
10th Percentile £12.25 £10.50 £12.90
25th Percentile - £11.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £12.11 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -16.47% +23.40%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £34.13
90th Percentile £20.90 £16.66 £45.90
England median hourly rate £14.00 £13.48 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.86% -48.15% +79.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +12 14 £320 -48.80% 15
Warwickshire +12 14 £390 +89.09% 12
Staffordshire +2 5 £150 -50.00% 18
Shropshire -1 3 £552 - 5
Solihull +13 1 £150 -7.69% 1
Coventry +8 1 - - 7
Worcestershire -3 1 - - 5
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Linux
4 7 (17.50%) Unix
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Degree
6 5 (12.50%) Windows
6 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (10.00%) Oracle
7 4 (10.00%) ITIL
7 4 (10.00%) AIX
7 4 (10.00%) IBM
7 4 (10.00%) VMware
7 4 (10.00%) Order Management
7 4 (10.00%) Data Entry
8 3 (7.50%) Release Management
8 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
8 3 (7.50%) Project Management
8 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
8 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 2 (5.00%) Perl
9 2 (5.00%) MySQL
9 2 (5.00%) Middleware
9 2 (5.00%) SSL

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
2 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (5.00%) SAN
1 2 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) PPP
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) MySQL
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Unix
3 5 (12.50%) Windows
4 4 (10.00%) AIX
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (10.00%) Data Entry
1 4 (10.00%) ITIL
1 4 (10.00%) Order Management
2 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (7.50%) Project Management
2 3 (7.50%) Release Management
3 2 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (5.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (5.00%) Data Management
3 2 (5.00%) Database Security
3 2 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (5.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (5.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (5.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.50%) ITSM
4 1 (2.50%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.00%) Perl
2 2 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.00%) OCP
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.50%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) IBM
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Dell
3 2 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow