Administrator Job Trends in Manchester

Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Administrator salary in Manchester is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +70
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 37 27 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.95% 1.20% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.27% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 27 11 52
10th Percentile £30,000 - £22,525
25th Percentile £30,625 £25,480 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -12.75%
75th Percentile £57,000 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £52,500 £60,375
North West median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +35.59% -29.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 3,494 2,121 4,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.48% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,241 3,390
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,500 £29,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,084
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.32% -5.94%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,101
North West median annual salary £50,000 £53,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -8.90%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Administrator job vacancy trend in Manchester

Administrator
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in Manchester

Administrator
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Administrator in Manchester

Administrator
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Bolton +11 2 £31,500 +23.63% 4
Stockport - 2 £46,250 -
Wigan 0 1 £47,500 +18.75% 1
Administrator
North West

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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 Manchester region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 6 (16.22%) Chemistry
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
3 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.81%) Azure
4 4 (10.81%) ETL
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.11%) ERP
5 3 (8.11%) Linux
5 3 (8.11%) Logistics
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (8.11%) Order Management
5 3 (8.11%) SAP
5 3 (8.11%) Time Management
5 3 (8.11%) VMware
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.41%) Broadband
6 2 (5.41%) CSS
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
6 2 (5.41%) Data Entry
6 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
6 2 (5.41%) Git
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) Internet

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (5.41%) WordPress
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Broadband
1 2 (5.41%) Internet
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Multimedia
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) CSS
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) CentOS
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) Chemistry
2 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
3 4 (10.81%) ETL
4 3 (8.11%) ERP
4 3 (8.11%) Logistics
4 3 (8.11%) Order Management
4 3 (8.11%) Time Management
5 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (5.41%) Data Entry
5 2 (5.41%) Invoice Processing
5 2 (5.41%) ITIL
5 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (5.41%) Software Testing
5 2 (5.41%) Web Development
6 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.70%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.70%) Facilities Management
6 1 (2.70%) ITSM
6 1 (2.70%) Migration
6 1 (2.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.41%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) R
3 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Grafana
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) Nagios
1 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.70%) Proxmox
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Meraki
4 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow