Administrator
UK

The median Administrator salary in the UK is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 254 276
Rank change year-on-year +89 +22 -30
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,776 1,521 2,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.45% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.58% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,018 1,245
10th Percentile £22,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,813 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,995 £42,321 £41,000
% change year-on-year -17.31% +3.22% +2.50%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 17 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 25 April 2024. 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 +99 1,591 £35,000 -26.32% 629
UK excluding London +75 1,450 £34,995 -17.31% 566
Work from Home +29 507 £46,500 -7.00% 183
South East +55 419 £35,000 -22.22% 158
North of England +50 281 £30,147 -31.42% 138
London +20 261 £45,000 -25.00% 110
South West +19 249 £33,000 -19.12% 75
Midlands +73 234 £40,000 - 108
North West +56 146 £30,000 -33.33% 86
East of England +89 137 £29,750 -30.00% 68
West Midlands +40 126 £40,000 -1.60% 59
East Midlands +53 108 £37,500 +41.51% 49
Scotland -16 106 £34,000 -19.05% 35
Yorkshire +81 100 £35,000 -13.58% 37
North East -19 35 £30,250 -36.55% 17
Wales -5 22 £44,000 +14.29% 15
Northern Ireland +21 2 - - 6

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 617 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 613 (34.52%) Microsoft
3 313 (17.62%) Windows
4 310 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
5 309 (17.40%) Customer Service
6 305 (17.17%) Azure
7 299 (16.84%) SQL
8 278 (15.65%) Finance
9 236 (13.29%) Linux
10 218 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
11 199 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
12 188 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
12 188 (10.59%) Active Directory
13 179 (10.08%) SharePoint
14 171 (9.63%) SQL Server
15 166 (9.35%) Security Cleared
16 156 (8.78%) PowerShell
17 151 (8.50%) VMware
18 141 (7.94%) Degree
19 140 (7.88%) Windows Server
20 130 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
21 129 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
22 122 (6.87%) Project Management
23 119 (6.70%) Retail
24 117 (6.59%) Agile
24 117 (6.59%) Time Management
25 116 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
26 112 (6.31%) Oracle
27 100 (5.63%) CRM
27 100 (5.63%) Business Intelligence

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
1 179 (10.08%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.52%) CMS
4 9 (0.51%) SAS
5 8 (0.45%) Confluence
5 8 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.34%) IIS
6 6 (0.34%) WordPress
7 5 (0.28%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) Site Server
8 4 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.17%) Drupal
9 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.17%) Moodle
9 3 (0.17%) WildFly
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
Applications
1 199 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 188 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
4 33 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.056%) 1Password
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.056%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 16 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle HRMS
4 7 (0.39%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.28%) Magento
7 4 (0.23%) BASE24
7 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 4 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.17%) iTrent
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Shopify
10 1 (0.056%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.056%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.056%) MetaTrader
10 1 (0.056%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 305 (17.17%) Azure
2 218 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (5.07%) Power Platform
4 78 (4.39%) AWS
5 63 (3.55%) Entra ID
6 30 (1.69%) SaaS
7 25 (1.41%) GCP
7 25 (1.41%) OneDrive
7 25 (1.41%) Power Automate
8 20 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (0.90%) WhatsApp
11 14 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (0.79%) PowerApps
12 12 (0.68%) OCI
12 12 (0.68%) OpenShift
13 10 (0.56%) IaaS
13 10 (0.56%) PaaS
14 9 (0.51%) Google Analytics
15 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.24%) Intranet
2 85 (4.79%) Firewall
3 80 (4.50%) DNS
4 54 (3.04%) LAN
5 53 (2.98%) DHCP
5 53 (2.98%) WAN
6 52 (2.93%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.48%) SAN
8 29 (1.63%) VPN
9 25 (1.41%) NAS
10 20 (1.13%) VLAN
11 14 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (0.79%) SSL
11 14 (0.79%) VSAN
12 12 (0.68%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.56%) Internet
13 10 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.51%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.45%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.79%) Power BI
3 66 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 60 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 45 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 41 (2.31%) MySQL
7 38 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 33 (1.86%) Oracle Database
10 27 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.62%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.39%) Ingres
16 7 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
16 7 (0.39%) OLTP
16 7 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
17 5 (0.28%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 29 (1.63%) Git
2 23 (1.30%) JIRA
3 8 (0.45%) Vagrant
4 7 (0.39%) Mercurial
4 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.23%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.11%) Subversion
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.056%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.056%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.056%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.056%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.056%) Visual Studio
General
1 617 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 278 (15.65%) Finance
3 129 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (6.70%) Retail
5 116 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (5.07%) Marketing
7 56 (3.15%) Legal
8 55 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 49 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 35 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.91%) Law
12 29 (1.63%) Public Sector
13 26 (1.46%) Banking
14 20 (1.13%) Billing
15 18 (1.01%) Local Government
16 17 (0.96%) Back Office
17 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.68%) Police
19 10 (0.56%) Advertising
20 9 (0.51%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.03%) HTML
2 25 (1.41%) CSS
3 15 (0.84%) XML
4 11 (0.62%) .NET
4 11 (0.62%) EDI
4 11 (0.62%) REST
5 8 (0.45%) 802.1X
6 7 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (0.34%) Software Packaging
8 5 (0.28%) JSON
8 5 (0.28%) Middleware
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (0.17%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.17%) SAML
10 3 (0.17%) Web Services
11 2 (0.11%) Itk
11 2 (0.11%) LDAP
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 76 (4.28%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 52 (2.93%) Replication
5 39 (2.20%) Driving Licence
6 30 (1.69%) Clustering
6 30 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.07%) PKI
8 18 (1.01%) Social Media
9 17 (0.96%) Learning Management System
10 15 (0.84%) Blog
10 15 (0.84%) PMI
11 13 (0.73%) Digital Signage
11 13 (0.73%) Wiki
12 11 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.62%) NHS
13 9 (0.51%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.51%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.45%) Cyberattack
14 8 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 313 (17.62%) Windows
2 236 (13.29%) Linux
3 140 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 73 (4.11%) CentOS
5 66 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 66 (3.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (3.10%) Windows 10
7 52 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 48 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 41 (2.31%) Unix
10 23 (1.30%) Ubuntu
11 21 (1.18%) Android
12 17 (0.96%) Windows 7
13 16 (0.90%) Apple iOS
14 15 (0.84%) Debian
15 14 (0.79%) Mac OS
16 13 (0.73%) SUSE
16 13 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.56%) CoreOS
18 7 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
2 309 (17.40%) Customer Service
3 122 (6.87%) Project Management
4 117 (6.59%) Agile
4 117 (6.59%) Time Management
5 100 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
5 100 (5.63%) CRM
6 98 (5.52%) Migration
7 95 (5.35%) ITIL
8 74 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
9 71 (4.00%) Agile Project Management
10 68 (3.83%) Cybersecurity
10 68 (3.83%) DevOps
11 64 (3.60%) Performance Monitoring
12 63 (3.55%) Mentoring
13 62 (3.49%) User Experience
14 59 (3.32%) Disaster Recovery
14 59 (3.32%) ERP
15 54 (3.04%) Logistics
16 53 (2.98%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 299 (16.84%) SQL
2 156 (8.78%) PowerShell
3 82 (4.62%) Bash
4 68 (3.83%) Python
5 64 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 27 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.30%) Perl
8 20 (1.13%) Shell Script
9 12 (0.68%) C#
10 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.28%) PHP
11 5 (0.28%) SAS Macro
12 4 (0.23%) AWK
12 4 (0.23%) Java
12 4 (0.23%) RPG
13 3 (0.17%) CQL
13 3 (0.17%) sed
13 3 (0.17%) VBA
14 2 (0.11%) Korn
15 1 (0.056%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 166 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 141 (7.94%) Degree
3 82 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 69 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
9 18 (1.01%) OCP
10 15 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.79%) CCNA
11 14 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.62%) HNC
14 10 (0.56%) CCNP
14 10 (0.56%) OCA
15 8 (0.45%) MCSA
16 7 (0.39%) MCSE
17 6 (0.34%) HND
17 6 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.10%) QA
2 34 (1.91%) SLA
3 28 (1.58%) GDPR
4 24 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.84%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.62%) PMO
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 14001
11 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.34%) GMP
12 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.11%) COSHH
13 2 (0.11%) NEBOSH
14 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 188 (10.59%) Active Directory
2 76 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (1.63%) vSphere
5 25 (1.41%) Docker
6 20 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (0.68%) Firmware
7 12 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.39%) XenApp
11 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.23%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.11%) Postfix
15 1 (0.056%) Lustre
15 1 (0.056%) NFS
15 1 (0.056%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 42 (2.36%) Ansible
2 35 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (1.24%) SCCM
3 22 (1.24%) SCOM
4 18 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.96%) Puppet
6 12 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
7 11 (0.62%) Kubernetes
7 11 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
8 9 (0.51%) Terraform
9 8 (0.45%) Data Guard
9 8 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
10 7 (0.39%) Nagios
10 7 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.39%) WSUS
11 6 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
11 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.34%) SCVMM
12 5 (0.28%) Foglight
Vendors
1 613 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 151 (8.50%) VMware
3 112 (6.31%) Oracle
4 71 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 41 (2.31%) Citrix
6 38 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.14%) SAP
7 37 (2.08%) Veeam
8 36 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.63%) NetApp
10 26 (1.46%) Dell
11 23 (1.30%) HP
12 21 (1.18%) Google
13 20 (1.13%) Cisco
14 13 (0.73%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.73%) F5
14 13 (0.73%) Riverbed
15 12 (0.68%) Apple
16 10 (0.56%) Epicor
17 9 (0.51%) NEC