Administrator Jobs in Edinburgh

Administrator
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Administrator salary in Edinburgh is £30,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 99 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 5 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.55% 0.74% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.77% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £24,850 £25,750 £28,100
25th Percentile £26,125 £27,875 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% - -31.71%
75th Percentile £47,000 £40,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,550 - £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £28,250 £34,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.91% -20.00% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 814 1,428 1,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.06% 95.90% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 381 1,007 1,132
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,523
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in Edinburgh

Administrator
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Administrator in Edinburgh

Administrator
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Administrator in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Edinburgh region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) New Relic
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Sentry
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Sentry
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Facilities Management
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) New Relic
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft