Administrator Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Administrator daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, 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 173 147 164
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +79
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 132 223 401
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.33% 1.45% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.55% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 134 264
10th Percentile £213 £188 £258
25th Percentile £350 £313 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £500
90th Percentile £580 £638 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £447
% change year-on-year -5.88% -4.92% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 44 20
10th Percentile £13.68 £11.47 £12.36
25th Percentile - £13.00 £19.47
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.13 £34.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -58.86% +154.44%
75th Percentile £16.00 £19.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £24.13 £27.25 £56.38
UK median hourly rate £15.25 £13.18 £25.95
% change year-on-year +15.70% -49.21% +78.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Administrator trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Administrator
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Administrator.

Administrator daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Administrator daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Administrator.

Administrator hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Administrator hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
1 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
1 25 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 24 (18.18%) Finance
3 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
4 18 (13.64%) Linux
5 16 (12.12%) Migration
6 15 (11.36%) Salesforce
7 14 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
7 14 (10.61%) Analytics
8 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (9.09%) AWS
9 12 (9.09%) Management Information System
10 11 (8.33%) Telecoms
10 11 (8.33%) Windows
10 11 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (8.33%) Azure
10 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
11 10 (7.58%) Windows Server
12 9 (6.82%) iTrent
12 9 (6.82%) ServiceNow
12 9 (6.82%) DevOps
12 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
12 9 (6.82%) Unix
12 9 (6.82%) Active Directory
12 9 (6.82%) Shell Script
12 9 (6.82%) VMware
13 8 (6.06%) Oracle
13 8 (6.06%) Data Management

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.76%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.76%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (6.82%) iTrent
2 3 (2.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.09%) AWS
2 11 (8.33%) Azure
3 4 (3.03%) Google Workspace
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.03%) SaaS
4 3 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (2.27%) Google Docs
4 3 (2.27%) Google Sheets
4 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.52%) PaaS
5 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.76%) GitHub
6 1 (0.76%) IaaS
6 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.76%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) DHCP
1 7 (5.30%) DNS
2 3 (2.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.52%) FTP
3 2 (1.52%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.52%) SMTP
3 2 (1.52%) SSL
3 2 (1.52%) tcpdump
3 2 (1.52%) Telnet
4 1 (0.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.76%) Intranet
4 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.76%) SAN
4 1 (0.76%) SSH
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database
1 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.76%) MySQL
3 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.76%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.76%) Tableau
3 1 (0.76%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.52%) Hudson
2 2 (1.52%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 25 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.18%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.79%) Banking
5 5 (3.79%) Retail
6 2 (1.52%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.52%) Legal
6 2 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (0.76%) Back Office
7 1 (0.76%) Billing
7 1 (0.76%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Local Government
7 1 (0.76%) Military
7 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.30%) LDAP
2 3 (2.27%) Kafka
2 3 (2.27%) X-Windows
3 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.52%) REST
3 2 (1.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.76%) Ajax
4 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.76%) CSS
4 1 (0.76%) HTML
4 1 (0.76%) JSON
4 1 (0.76%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth
4 1 (0.76%) OpenID
4 1 (0.76%) SAML
4 1 (0.76%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.27%) Replication
4 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.52%) CMDB
5 2 (1.52%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.76%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.64%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Windows
3 10 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.82%) Unix
5 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.03%) AIX
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.03%) zOS
7 3 (2.27%) CentOS
7 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.52%) Solaris
9 1 (0.76%) HPUX
9 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.12%) Migration
3 14 (10.61%) Analytics
4 11 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (6.82%) DevOps
6 8 (6.06%) Data Management
7 7 (5.30%) Data Cleansing
7 7 (5.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (4.55%) Accounts Payable
8 6 (4.55%) Agile
8 6 (4.55%) Incident Response
8 6 (4.55%) ITIL
8 6 (4.55%) Line Management
8 6 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (4.55%) Storage Management
9 5 (3.79%) Customer Service
9 5 (3.79%) Dashboard Development
9 5 (3.79%) Data Entry
9 5 (3.79%) High Availability
9 5 (3.79%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.82%) Shell Script
2 7 (5.30%) SQL
3 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.52%) Groovy
5 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.52%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.76%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.76%) Java
6 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.76%) Korn
6 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) CISSP
4 5 (3.79%) IBM Certification
5 4 (3.03%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.52%) HNC
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.76%) Degree
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.76%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.79%) Docker
3 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) RACF
4 4 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.27%) NFS
5 3 (2.27%) Samba
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) Ansible
2 4 (3.03%) Terraform
2 4 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.52%) Nagios
4 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.52%) Puppet
4 2 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (1.52%) yum
5 1 (0.76%) Avamar
5 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.76%) SCCM
5 1 (0.76%) SELinux
5 1 (0.76%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 9 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.82%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
5 7 (5.30%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.55%) IBM
7 4 (3.03%) Databricks
7 4 (3.03%) DocuSign
8 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.27%) Foundry
8 3 (2.27%) Google
8 3 (2.27%) HP
8 3 (2.27%) Remedy
8 3 (2.27%) Xero
9 2 (1.52%) SAP
10 1 (0.76%) BMC
10 1 (0.76%) Lotus
10 1 (0.76%) NetApp
10 1 (0.76%) Sage