Administrator
UK

The median Administrator salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 231 306 274
Rank change year-on-year +75 -32 -28
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 802 1,478 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 1.19% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.25% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 640 1,116 1,288
10th Percentile £25,615 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,688 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,328 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +5.06% +2.22%
75th Percentile £60,688 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 50,985 118,425 121,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 37,346 74,222 83,417
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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
England +64 720 £47,500 -1.36% 682
UK excluding London +39 532 £45,000 +5.88% 597
Work from Home +33 290 £50,000 - 233
London +89 235 £52,808 -3.99% 147
South East +28 140 £46,500 -2.11% 171
Midlands +85 101 £45,000 +12.50% 88
South West +19 95 £47,500 +14.46% 84
North of England +54 77 £44,263 -1.64% 153
East of England +121 63 £22,500 -46.11% 67
East Midlands +66 55 £46,250 +15.63% 36
West Midlands +60 48 £42,500 +6.25% 52
North West +74 40 £44,263 +4.15% 97
Yorkshire +59 32 £37,000 -35.65% 41
Wales +34 24 £24,000 -59.32% 17
Scotland +23 20 £50,000 +42.86% 47
Isle of Man - 10 £60,000 -
North East +37 5 £52,500 +75.00% 21
Northern Ireland +31 1 £25,000 -47.64% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £55,000 -

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 December 2023, 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 featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 277 (34.54%) Microsoft
2 256 (31.92%) SQL
3 252 (31.42%) Windows
4 208 (25.94%) Social Skills
5 190 (23.69%) Azure
6 173 (21.57%) Finance
7 162 (20.20%) Linux
8 153 (19.08%) PowerShell
9 151 (18.83%) SQL Server
10 146 (18.20%) Active Directory
11 144 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
13 128 (15.96%) Oracle
14 117 (14.59%) Security Cleared
15 114 (14.21%) Degree
16 106 (13.22%) AWS
16 106 (13.22%) VMware
17 103 (12.84%) Windows Server
18 95 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
19 90 (11.22%) DNS
20 89 (11.10%) Disaster Recovery
21 79 (9.85%) Python
22 78 (9.73%) High Availability
22 78 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
23 72 (8.98%) DHCP
23 72 (8.98%) Migration
24 68 (8.48%) Oracle Database
25 67 (8.35%) Bash
26 66 (8.23%) Firewall
27 61 (7.61%) Unix

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.62%) Confluence
3 18 (2.24%) MS Exchange
4 14 (1.75%) Apache
4 14 (1.75%) IIS
5 8 (1.00%) IBM Domino
5 8 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.00%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.87%) IBM Notes
6 7 (0.87%) Site Server
7 4 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 54 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.75%) Trello
6 4 (0.50%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 31 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) ResourceLink
3 5 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.25%) iTrent
4 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.12%) Northgate Housing
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 190 (23.69%) Azure
2 136 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
3 106 (13.22%) AWS
4 52 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 47 (5.86%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.74%) GCP
6 30 (3.74%) SaaS
7 22 (2.74%) Power Automate
8 21 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (2.24%) PowerApps
10 14 (1.75%) IaaS
11 13 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 11 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (1.37%) PaaS
13 8 (1.00%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 90 (11.22%) DNS
2 72 (8.98%) DHCP
3 66 (8.23%) Firewall
4 50 (6.23%) TCP/IP
5 47 (5.86%) VPN
6 39 (4.86%) LAN
7 31 (3.87%) WAN
8 27 (3.37%) VLAN
9 16 (2.00%) SAN
10 15 (1.87%) Internet
11 13 (1.62%) NAS
12 12 (1.50%) iSCSI
13 10 (1.25%) VoIP
13 10 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (1.25%) Wireless
14 8 (1.00%) HTTP
14 8 (1.00%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.87%) SMTP
16 6 (0.75%) VSAN
17 5 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (18.83%) SQL Server
2 68 (8.48%) Oracle Database
3 40 (4.99%) MySQL
4 39 (4.86%) Power BI
5 30 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 27 (3.37%) Oracle Database 10g
7 26 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 26 (3.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (2.87%) Oracle Database 12c
10 21 (2.62%) Oracle Database 11g
10 21 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.37%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.25%) Metadata
14 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (3.87%) JIRA
2 16 (2.00%) Git
3 10 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 10 (1.25%) MSI
4 8 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
4 8 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.62%) GitLab
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.37%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.37%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.12%) ClearQuest
9 1 (0.12%) Maven
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 208 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 173 (21.57%) Finance
3 42 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.37%) Marketing
6 27 (3.37%) Retail
7 23 (2.87%) Social Housing
8 19 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.12%) Law
10 15 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.50%) Banking
11 12 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.37%) Legal
13 9 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.00%) Automotive
15 6 (0.75%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.74%) Middleware
2 15 (1.87%) .NET
3 12 (1.50%) HTML
3 12 (1.50%) XML
4 9 (1.12%) JSON
4 9 (1.12%) LDAP
4 9 (1.12%) Web Services
5 5 (0.62%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.62%) CSS
5 5 (0.62%) LAMP
6 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.50%) EDI
7 3 (0.37%) Kafka
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.37%) SAML
7 3 (0.37%) WSH
8 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.25%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.11%) Replication
2 33 (4.11%) Clustering
3 28 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.25%) Life Science
9 10 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.00%) CMDB
11 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.75%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.75%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.62%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 252 (31.42%) Windows
2 162 (20.20%) Linux
3 103 (12.84%) Windows Server
4 61 (7.61%) Unix
5 48 (5.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 47 (5.86%) CentOS
6 47 (5.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 35 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (2.62%) Windows 10
10 20 (2.49%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.75%) Debian
12 12 (1.50%) Solaris
13 10 (1.25%) Apple iOS
13 10 (1.25%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.75%) Android
15 4 (0.50%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.37%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.37%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.25%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
3 89 (11.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 78 (9.73%) High Availability
5 72 (8.98%) Migration
6 60 (7.48%) DevOps
7 56 (6.98%) CRM
8 55 (6.86%) Customer Service
9 54 (6.73%) ITIL
10 47 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (5.36%) Performance Monitoring
11 43 (5.36%) Time Management
12 38 (4.74%) Change Management
13 37 (4.61%) Patch Management
14 36 (4.49%) Capacity Management
14 36 (4.49%) Computer Science
15 35 (4.36%) Asset Management
16 34 (4.24%) Database Migration
17 32 (3.99%) Configuration Management
17 32 (3.99%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 256 (31.92%) SQL
2 153 (19.08%) PowerShell
3 79 (9.85%) Python
4 67 (8.35%) Bash
5 53 (6.61%) T-SQL
6 23 (2.87%) Shell Script
7 17 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 17 (2.12%) Perl
8 15 (1.87%) C#
9 13 (1.62%) PHP
10 11 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.62%) Java
12 4 (0.50%) VBScript
13 3 (0.37%) C++
13 3 (0.37%) Go
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.25%) AWK
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) DataFlex
Qualifications
1 117 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.21%) Degree
3 55 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 12 (1.50%) OCA
8 12 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.25%) OCP
11 8 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.87%) MCSE
13 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.75%) MCSA
14 5 (0.62%) CCNA
14 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.50%) HNC
16 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.49%) SLA
2 18 (2.24%) QA
3 12 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.25%) GDPR
5 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.37%) PMO
9 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) GAAP
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 146 (18.20%) Active Directory
2 78 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (3.87%) Hyper-V
4 18 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.00%) Docker
6 14 (1.75%) Firmware
7 11 (1.37%) vSphere
8 10 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.00%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.62%) NFS
13 3 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.37%) IAG
13 3 (0.37%) LXC
14 2 (0.25%) HDFS
14 2 (0.25%) KVM
14 2 (0.25%) Shibboleth
14 2 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 42 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (4.86%) SCCM
3 30 (3.74%) Ansible
4 19 (2.37%) Puppet
4 19 (2.37%) Terraform
5 13 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.25%) Data Guard
7 10 (1.25%) Kubernetes
7 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.12%) SCOM
9 7 (0.87%) Nagios
10 6 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.75%) Oracle Statspack
10 6 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.62%) Demisto
11 5 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 277 (34.54%) Microsoft
2 128 (15.96%) Oracle
3 106 (13.22%) VMware
4 56 (6.98%) Red Hat
5 42 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 19 (2.37%) Cisco
8 17 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.75%) Apple
9 14 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 14 (1.75%) Google
10 10 (1.25%) Aruba
10 10 (1.25%) HubSpot
10 10 (1.25%) Splunk
11 9 (1.12%) HP
11 9 (1.12%) Juniper
12 8 (1.00%) Citrix
12 8 (1.00%) Dell
12 8 (1.00%) Lotus
12 8 (1.00%) Sage