Administrator Jobs in Cambridge

Administrator
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Administrator salary in Cambridge is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 45 77
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 9 43 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.57% 4.19% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.81% 4.31% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 6
10th Percentile - £43,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +20.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £53,750 £54,375
90th Percentile - £58,750 £60,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £32,500 £52,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -38.10% +20.00% -7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 236 997 761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 97.08% 84.18%
Number of salaries quoted 152 770 379
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,625 £85,000 £89,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Cambridge

Administrator
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Administrator in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Administrator in Cambridge

Administrator
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Administrator in Cambridge

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Administrator 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 permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 6 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 6 (66.67%) DMARC
2 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (66.67%) REST
2 6 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (66.67%) JSON
2 6 (66.67%) Czech Language
2 6 (66.67%) Agile

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (66.67%) IIS
1 6 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 3 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DMARC
1 6 (66.67%) SSL
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Czech Language
1 6 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) JSON
1 6 (66.67%) REST
1 6 (66.67%) SOAP
1 6 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Unix
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) CRM
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 6 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
2 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 3 (33.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
1 6 (66.67%) VBA
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Graylog
2 3 (33.33%) Nagios
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 3 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) NetApp
2 3 (33.33%) PagerDuty
2 3 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 3 (33.33%) VMware