Administrator Job Trends in Dorset

Administrator
South West > Dorset

The median Administrator salary in Dorset is £33,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +23
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 19 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 4.13% 0.79% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.32% 0.82% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £30,000 - £24,575
25th Percentile £31,250 - £24,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £40,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -0.62% -1.23%
75th Percentile £63,125 - £61,875
90th Percentile £75,000 - £69,750
South West median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +16.28% +14.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 440 368 352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.65% 97.35% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 315 207 300
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £55,875 £58,125 £64,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.19% +1.77%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Administrator job vacancy trend in Dorset

Administrator
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Dorset.

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Dorset

Administrator
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Dorset over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Administrator in Dorset

Administrator
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Poole +5 12 £31,000 - 2
Bournemouth - 7 £35,000 -
Administrator
South West

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) Datto
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.53%) NAS
4 2 (10.53%) PaperCut
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Management
4 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.53%) VLAN
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) NAS
1 2 (10.53%) VLAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Airbyte
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) CMDB
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (5.26%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) Change Management
3 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.26%) Database Security
3 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.26%) High Availability
3 1 (5.26%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
3 1 (5.26%) ITSM
3 1 (5.26%) Observability
3 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
3 1 (5.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.53%) PaperCut
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Datto
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) New Relic
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow