IT Administrator Job Trends in the East of England

IT Administrator
England > East of England

The median IT Administrator salary in the East of England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 158 171
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Administrator 25 16 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.40% 0.54% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.59% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 12
10th Percentile £34,100 - £25,450
25th Percentile £35,375 £19,500 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £23,000 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -20.69% +1.75%
75th Percentile £51,250 £28,750 £30,125
90th Percentile £60,000 £32,750 £31,625
England median annual salary £35,000 £27,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,839 2,701 5,742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.58% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 1,493 4,382
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,206 £63,284
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% -11.18%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 the East of England.

IT Administrator job vacancy trend in the East of England

IT Administrator
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for IT Administrator job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for IT Administrator job vacancies in the East of England

IT Administrator
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Administrator in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Administrator in the East of England

IT Administrator
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Administrator within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Suffolk - 8 £35,000 -
Bedfordshire - 6 £40,000 -
Cambridgeshire -26 4 £60,000 +118.18% 1
Essex - 4 £35,000 - 3
Norfolk -23 2 £45,000 +114.29%
Hertfordshire -16 1 - -
IT Administrator
England

IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 East of England region featuring IT Administrator in the job title.

1 10 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (28.00%) Budgeting
3 7 (28.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 7 (28.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (24.00%) Firewall
5 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Windows
6 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (16.00%) Azure
6 4 (16.00%) LAN
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (16.00%) WAN
7 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
8 2 (8.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (8.00%) GDPR
8 2 (8.00%) ITSM
8 2 (8.00%) JIRA
8 2 (8.00%) Service Management
8 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (8.00%) VoIP
8 2 (8.00%) VPN
8 2 (8.00%) Wireless
9 1 (4.00%) AWS

IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) LAN
2 4 (16.00%) WAN
3 2 (8.00%) VoIP
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 2 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (28.00%) Budgeting
3 7 (28.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 7 (28.00%) Process Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) ERP
6 2 (8.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.00%) ITSM
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
7 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.00%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (4.00%) Data Governance
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (4.00%) Logistics
7 1 (4.00%) Order Management
7 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Bash
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) CCNA
1 1 (4.00%) CCNP
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.00%) MCSE
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) VMware