IT Administrator Job Trends in Dorset

IT Administrator
South West > Dorset

The median IT Administrator salary in Dorset is £31,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Administrator 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.65% 0.26% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.27% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% - -
75th Percentile £32,875 - -
90th Percentile £33,400 - -
South West median annual salary £40,000 £28,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.85% +8.33%

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 439 373 352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 97.39% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 316 212 300
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,600 £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 £56,063 £58,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,875 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,702
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.56% +1.40%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

IT Administrator job vacancy trend in Dorset

IT Administrator
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for IT Administrator job vacancies in Dorset.

Salary distribution trend for IT Administrator job vacancies in Dorset

IT 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 IT Administrator within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 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 - 2 £31,000 -
Bournemouth - 1 £32,500 -
IT Administrator
South West

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Datto
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) PaperCut
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL

IT 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Datto
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware