Administrator Contracts in the West Midlands

Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Administrator daily rate in the West Midlands is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 52 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +52 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 62 58 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.85% 2.89% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 3.17% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 15
10th Percentile £155 £140 £128
25th Percentile £223 £250 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £475 £588 £431
90th Percentile £497 £638 £458
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 2
10th Percentile £12.60 £10.50 £16.38
25th Percentile - £11.25 £22.19
Median hourly rate £14.00 £12.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% -62.29% +150.00%
75th Percentile £25.13 £16.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £26.51 £16.87 £49.63
England median hourly rate £15.25 £14.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +8.93% -37.78% +55.17%

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 1,457 1,829 2,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 91.27% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,247 1,489
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £700 £703
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 115 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -5.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £34.54 £36.25 £27.88
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £48.50
England median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +13 24 £165 -70.00% 14
Warwickshire +6 17 £385 +54.00% 4
Shropshire -3 8 £325 +8.88% 8
Staffordshire +2 4 £150 +30.43% 8
Solihull +9 3 £150 -7.69% 2
Worcestershire 0 3 £575 +109.09% 3
Coventry - 2 - - 5
Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
3 13 (20.97%) Telecoms
3 13 (20.97%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 11 (17.74%) Linux
6 9 (14.52%) Data Entry
7 8 (12.90%) Unix
7 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
9 6 (9.68%) SQL
9 6 (9.68%) Oracle
9 6 (9.68%) ITIL
9 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (9.68%) Workflow
9 6 (9.68%) Azure
9 6 (9.68%) AWS
9 6 (9.68%) Database Security
9 6 (9.68%) Degree
10 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
10 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
10 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
10 5 (8.06%) Windows
10 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
10 5 (8.06%) Order Management
11 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
11 4 (6.45%) Serverless

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 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.68%) AWS
1 6 (9.68%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.45%) SaaS
3 4 (6.45%) Serverless
3 4 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (4.84%) AWS KMS
4 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.84%) IaaS
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.84%) PaaS
5 2 (3.23%) GCP
5 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DHCP
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) SAN
3 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) MPLS
3 1 (1.61%) SDH
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.61%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Organisational Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) ADO
2 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) SCADA
2 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.61%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Unix
3 5 (8.06%) Windows
4 4 (6.45%) AIX
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (14.52%) Data Entry
2 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (9.68%) Database Security
4 6 (9.68%) ITIL
4 6 (9.68%) Workflow
5 5 (8.06%) Order Management
6 4 (6.45%) Data Management
6 4 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (4.84%) Coaching
7 3 (4.84%) Customer Service
7 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (4.84%) Key Management
7 3 (4.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (4.84%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (4.84%) Task Automation
7 3 (4.84%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.68%) SQL
2 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 4 (6.45%) OCP
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) CCNA
6 1 (1.61%) CCNP
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) PMO
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.23%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 4 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco
5 2 (3.23%) FireEye
5 2 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Tanium
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.61%) Sage