Administrator Jobs in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 160 228
Rank change year-on-year -99 +68 +107
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 632 1,533 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.20% 1.76% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.86% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 436 1,195 854
10th Percentile £25,480 £22,750 £25,900
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,900 £47,000
% change year-on-year +5.54% -19.36% +4.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 47,386 82,259 68,113
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 94.70% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,447 58,728 47,502
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
London -20 142 £45,000 -10.00% 261
North of England -80 126 £32,750 +0.77% 136
South East -82 124 £40,600 +14.30% 207
South West -9 93 £45,000 +20.00% 77
North West -58 79 £26,750 -12.11% 74
Midlands -54 72 £40,250 +0.63% 105
East of England -4 66 £32,500 -7.14% 96
East Midlands -8 46 £28,000 -25.33% 55
Yorkshire -13 39 £41,000 +25.19% 47
West Midlands -38 26 £53,688 +30.95% 49
North East +8 8 £28,000 +1.82% 17
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 246 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 203 (32.12%) Microsoft
3 144 (22.78%) Windows
4 132 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (20.09%) Linux
5 127 (20.09%) Finance
6 117 (18.51%) Microsoft Excel
7 114 (18.04%) Microsoft 365
8 106 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
9 97 (15.35%) Azure
10 96 (15.19%) Active Directory
11 89 (14.08%) Customer Service
12 75 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
13 73 (11.55%) VMware
14 71 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (10.60%) Windows Server
15 67 (10.60%) Organisational Skills
16 66 (10.44%) SQL
17 65 (10.28%) Security Cleared
18 62 (9.81%) Degree
19 61 (9.65%) PowerShell
19 61 (9.65%) SharePoint
20 60 (9.49%) CRM
21 59 (9.34%) Salesforce
22 58 (9.18%) SAP
23 57 (9.02%) Data Management
24 52 (8.23%) Time Management
25 51 (8.07%) Cisco
26 50 (7.91%) Red Hat
27 49 (7.75%) Agile

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 61 (9.65%) SharePoint
2 34 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.90%) Tomcat
4 11 (1.74%) IIS
5 8 (1.27%) CMS
6 6 (0.95%) Confluence
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) Apache
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 117 (18.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (3.01%) NetSuite
2 18 (2.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 17 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.79%) Exchequer
6 5 (0.79%) Maximo
7 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.32%) Magento
10 1 (0.16%) Changepoint
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.04%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (15.35%) Azure
3 38 (6.01%) AWS
4 25 (3.96%) Entra ID
4 25 (3.96%) OneDrive
5 20 (3.16%) Power Automate
5 20 (3.16%) SaaS
6 19 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.90%) PowerApps
8 11 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.95%) Azure Storage
13 5 (0.79%) Google Sheets
13 5 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.63%) GCP
15 3 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.47%) Google Docs
15 3 (0.47%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.17%) Firewall
2 20 (3.16%) DNS
3 18 (2.85%) LAN
4 17 (2.69%) Wireless
5 14 (2.22%) SAN
6 12 (1.90%) DHCP
6 12 (1.90%) VPN
7 11 (1.74%) SSL
7 11 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.74%) WAN
8 10 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.42%) DMARC
9 9 (1.42%) VLAN
10 8 (1.27%) WebEx
11 7 (1.11%) VoIP
12 6 (0.95%) Multicast
12 6 (0.95%) Wireless Security
13 5 (0.79%) Intranet
13 5 (0.79%) NAS
14 4 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.27%) MySQL
7 8 (1.27%) Power BI
7 8 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.79%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.47%) EDRMS
11 3 (0.47%) Metadata
12 2 (0.32%) DB2
12 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.32%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (3.32%) JIRA
2 8 (1.27%) Git
3 4 (0.63%) GitLab
4 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 246 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 127 (20.09%) Finance
3 75 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.60%) Organisational Skills
5 43 (6.80%) Manufacturing
6 32 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.91%) Legal
8 23 (3.64%) Billing
8 23 (3.64%) Law
8 23 (3.64%) Marketing
8 23 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.06%) Banking
12 12 (1.90%) Retail
13 10 (1.58%) Back Office
14 9 (1.42%) Czech Language
15 8 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.95%) Automotive
17 5 (0.79%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.90%) XML
2 10 (1.58%) JSON
3 9 (1.42%) REST
3 9 (1.42%) SOAP
4 5 (0.79%) LDAP
5 4 (0.63%) HTML
5 4 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.63%) Middleware
6 3 (0.47%) CSS
6 3 (0.47%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (0.47%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (0.47%) Node.js
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (0.47%) XMPP
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.32%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.16%) ISPF
8 1 (0.16%) OAuth
8 1 (0.16%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.44%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 27 (4.27%) e-Learning
4 21 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.69%) Social Media
6 16 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.27%) CMDB
9 8 (1.27%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.11%) NHS
10 7 (1.11%) Replication
11 5 (0.79%) CCTV
11 5 (0.79%) Clustering
11 5 (0.79%) Learning Management System
11 5 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (22.78%) Windows
2 127 (20.09%) Linux
3 67 (10.60%) Windows Server
4 37 (5.85%) Windows 10
5 35 (5.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (4.43%) Unix
7 16 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (2.22%) CentOS
9 13 (2.06%) Android
9 13 (2.06%) Mac OS
10 9 (1.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 8 (1.27%) Solaris
11 8 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.95%) VMS
13 5 (0.79%) SUSE
14 4 (0.63%) Debian
14 4 (0.63%) Rocky
14 4 (0.63%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (14.08%) Customer Service
3 71 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (9.49%) CRM
5 57 (9.02%) Data Management
6 52 (8.23%) Time Management
7 49 (7.75%) Agile
8 46 (7.28%) ITIL
9 43 (6.80%) ERP
9 43 (6.80%) Process Improvement
10 42 (6.65%) Data Protection
11 41 (6.49%) High Availability
12 40 (6.33%) Decision-Making
13 39 (6.17%) DevOps
14 36 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (5.54%) Line Management
16 34 (5.38%) Change Management
17 33 (5.22%) Asset Management
18 32 (5.06%) Collaborative Working
19 28 (4.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.44%) SQL
2 61 (9.65%) PowerShell
3 47 (7.44%) Bash
4 45 (7.12%) Python
5 18 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.37%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.42%) Java
7 9 (1.42%) VBA
8 5 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.47%) Perl
9 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) C#
11 1 (0.16%) Clipper
11 1 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 65 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 62 (9.81%) Degree
3 48 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.49%) DBS Check
5 36 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (5.54%) SC Cleared
7 27 (4.27%) CCNP
8 24 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.48%) RHCSA
10 19 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.69%) ACCA
12 16 (2.53%) CCAB
12 16 (2.53%) CCNA
12 16 (2.53%) CIMA
13 11 (1.74%) MCSE
14 10 (1.58%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (1.11%) RHCE
17 5 (0.79%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.75%) QA
2 28 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.11%) SLA
4 23 (3.64%) GDPR
5 18 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) DICOM
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) PERC
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (15.19%) Active Directory
2 49 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.37%) Docker
4 14 (2.22%) vSphere
5 13 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.95%) NFS
8 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.32%) Postfix
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) Corosync
10 1 (0.16%) Firmware
10 1 (0.16%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.16%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.16%) RHEV
10 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (4.43%) Ansible
3 19 (3.01%) Terraform
4 11 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.74%) Nagios
5 10 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.42%) Puppet
7 8 (1.27%) PaperCut
8 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (0.95%) Grafana
10 5 (0.79%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.47%) SCCM
12 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.16%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 203 (32.12%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.55%) VMware
3 59 (9.34%) Salesforce
4 58 (9.18%) SAP
5 51 (8.07%) Cisco
6 50 (7.91%) Red Hat
7 32 (5.06%) Oracle
8 18 (2.85%) Apple
8 18 (2.85%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 10 (1.58%) HP
11 9 (1.42%) IBM
11 9 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.27%) Google
12 8 (1.27%) Juniper
13 7 (1.11%) Adobe
13 7 (1.11%) Samsung
13 7 (1.11%) Sophos
14 6 (0.95%) Workday
15 5 (0.79%) Xero