IT Administrator
UK

The median IT Administrator salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 607 832 1029
Rank change year-on-year +225 +197 -331
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Administrator 299 138 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 196 111 186
10th Percentile £22,000 £23,250 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,260
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -
75th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £46,500 £48,000 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,750 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year +7.63% -1.67% -7.69%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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%

IT Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Administrator over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Administrator in the UK

IT Administrator
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +249 278 £33,233 -2.26% 45
UK excluding London +163 254 £31,750 +7.63% 43
South East +81 76 £35,000 +32.08% 5
Work from Home +119 60 £37,500 - 10
East of England +55 54 £29,000 -14.71% 7
North of England +78 42 £30,000 -1.64% 16
London +131 38 £38,500 -3.75% 8
Midlands +36 37 £34,995 +12.89% 10
South West +1 31 £28,750 -10.16% 2
North West +32 26 £30,000 +7.14% 9
West Midlands +43 24 £34,995 -0.01% 6
Yorkshire +100 15 £31,500 -3.08% 7
East Midlands -3 13 £33,966 +16.12% 4
Scotland -54 13 £35,000 +50.54% 4
North East -2 1 £32,500 +18.18%
Wales - 1 - -

IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, IT 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 IT Administrator in the job title.

1 194 (64.88%) Microsoft
2 148 (49.50%) Social Skills
3 108 (36.12%) Windows
4 104 (34.78%) Customer Service
5 99 (33.11%) SharePoint
6 86 (28.76%) Active Directory
7 80 (26.76%) Project Management
8 78 (26.09%) Intranet
8 78 (26.09%) Retail
9 76 (25.42%) Agile
10 71 (23.75%) Agile Project Management
11 68 (22.74%) Windows Server
12 67 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
13 56 (18.73%) Azure
14 52 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (13.71%) PowerShell
16 37 (12.37%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (11.71%) Data Centre
18 34 (11.37%) VMware
19 33 (11.04%) Firewall
20 32 (10.70%) Windows 10
21 29 (9.70%) SAN
21 29 (9.70%) Linux
21 29 (9.70%) Server Management
22 28 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
22 28 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
22 28 (9.36%) Citrix
22 28 (9.36%) Entra ID
23 27 (9.03%) Finance
24 24 (8.03%) LAN

IT 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 99 (33.11%) SharePoint
2 28 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 5 (1.67%) Site Server
Applications
1 28 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.33%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 67 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (18.73%) Azure
3 28 (9.36%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.69%) OneDrive
5 14 (4.68%) AWS
6 13 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.34%) SaaS
8 6 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.01%) Mimecast
9 5 (1.67%) GCP
9 5 (1.67%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.67%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.34%) Slack
11 1 (0.33%) IaaS
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (26.09%) Intranet
2 33 (11.04%) Firewall
3 29 (9.70%) SAN
4 24 (8.03%) LAN
4 24 (8.03%) WAN
5 15 (5.02%) NAS
6 12 (4.01%) DNS
7 11 (3.68%) VPN
8 10 (3.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (3.34%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.01%) VLAN
9 9 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.68%) Unified Communications
11 7 (2.34%) VoIP
12 5 (1.67%) DHCP
12 5 (1.67%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.33%) MPLS
13 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.35%) Power BI
1 13 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.67%) MySQL
3 2 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (0.67%) MS Access
3 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 148 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 78 (26.09%) Retail
3 27 (9.03%) Finance
4 12 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.68%) Automotive
6 7 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.01%) Aviation
7 6 (2.01%) Legal
8 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.34%) Law
9 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.00%) Local Government
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.37%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (11.71%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.01%) Wiki
5 10 (3.34%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.68%) Replication
7 6 (2.01%) Handset
7 6 (2.01%) Xbox
8 5 (1.67%) PMI
9 4 (1.34%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.34%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.34%) Life Science
9 4 (1.34%) PKI
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.00%) VAX
11 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.67%) Photography
12 1 (0.33%) FMCG
12 1 (0.33%) iPhone
12 1 (0.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (36.12%) Windows
2 68 (22.74%) Windows Server
3 32 (10.70%) Windows 10
4 29 (9.70%) Linux
5 18 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (5.35%) Android
7 15 (5.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (3.34%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.34%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.34%) VMS
11 3 (1.00%) Unix
11 3 (1.00%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (34.78%) Customer Service
2 80 (26.76%) Project Management
3 76 (25.42%) Agile
4 71 (23.75%) Agile Project Management
5 52 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (9.70%) Server Management
7 22 (7.36%) Data Centre Operations
7 22 (7.36%) Service Management
8 21 (7.02%) Benchmarking
8 21 (7.02%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 21 (7.02%) Performance Monitoring
8 21 (7.02%) Vulnerability Management
9 19 (6.35%) ERP
10 16 (5.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (5.02%) Patch Management
12 14 (4.68%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (4.35%) Asset Management
13 13 (4.35%) CRM
14 12 (4.01%) Data Analysis
15 11 (3.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.71%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.36%) SQL
3 10 (3.34%) Perl
3 10 (3.34%) Python
4 2 (0.67%) C#
4 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.02%) Degree
4 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.01%) MCSA
6 6 (2.01%) MCSE
7 5 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.33%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.01%) GDPR
1 6 (2.01%) SLA
2 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 86 (28.76%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.34%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.68%) Firmware
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.34%) vSphere
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.34%) SCCM
3 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.34%) WSUS
5 3 (1.00%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (1.00%) Nagios
5 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 194 (64.88%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.37%) VMware
3 28 (9.36%) Citrix
4 21 (7.02%) NetApp
5 12 (4.01%) Dell
6 11 (3.68%) Veeam
7 9 (3.01%) Apple
8 6 (2.01%) Freshdesk
8 6 (2.01%) Mitel
9 5 (1.67%) BT
9 5 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.67%) HP
9 5 (1.67%) Juniper
10 3 (1.00%) Centreon
10 3 (1.00%) EMC
10 3 (1.00%) Epicor
10 3 (1.00%) Google
10 3 (1.00%) SAP
10 3 (1.00%) Sybase
11 2 (0.67%) Red Hat