Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 164 177
Rank change year-on-year +92 +13 -14
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 545 355 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.69% 1.54% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% 1.64% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 215 236
10th Percentile £158 £151 £163
25th Percentile £250 £264 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £394
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.59% +21.15%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £488
90th Percentile £625 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £435
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 33 48
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.10 £10.50
25th Percentile £11.87 £17.00 £11.88
Median hourly rate £13.05 £26.00 £13.97
Median % change year-on-year -49.81% +86.11% -0.21%
75th Percentile £17.09 £52.50 £18.24
90th Percentile £42.70 £56.38 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £13.64 £25.95 £14.50
% change year-on-year -47.45% +78.97% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +60 174 £378 +0.13% 153
South West +33 98 £550 +29.41% 109
North of England +48 86 £388 +10.71% 183
Midlands +49 81 £425 +20.57% 144
West Midlands +45 56 £425 +30.77% 72
Scotland +54 52 £350 -6.67% 41
East of England +31 51 £375 -11.76% 87
North West +22 46 £225 -46.43% 110
East Midlands +29 25 £475 +43.94% 73
Yorkshire +24 23 £470 +121.18% 51
North East +23 17 £475 +69.64% 23
Wales +20 8 £575 +277.67% 20
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Administrator contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 140 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 121 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 120 (22.02%) Security Cleared
4 111 (20.37%) Windows
5 92 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
6 77 (14.13%) DV Cleared
7 72 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
8 63 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (11.19%) Finance
10 52 (9.54%) Public Sector
11 51 (9.36%) Azure
12 48 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (8.81%) Customer Service
13 46 (8.44%) PKI
13 46 (8.44%) Linux
14 43 (7.89%) SharePoint
15 41 (7.52%) Data Entry
15 41 (7.52%) SAP
16 35 (6.42%) SC Cleared
17 33 (6.06%) PowerShell
17 33 (6.06%) Time Management
18 31 (5.69%) DevOps
18 31 (5.69%) SQL Server
19 29 (5.32%) Active Directory
19 29 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
20 28 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
21 27 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
21 27 (4.95%) Degree
21 27 (4.95%) Manufacturing
22 24 (4.40%) SQL

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 43 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.10%) Confluence
4 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) Moodle
6 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 92 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.28%) iTrent
3 4 (0.73%) Maximo
3 4 (0.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.37%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 51 (9.36%) Azure
2 27 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 11 (2.02%) AWS
5 9 (1.65%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.47%) PaaS
7 7 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (0.73%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.73%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.55%) GCP
9 3 (0.55%) Google Sheets
9 3 (0.55%) OCI
9 3 (0.55%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.55%) SaaS
9 3 (0.55%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.83%) WAN
2 9 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.47%) Firewall
4 7 (1.28%) DNS
4 7 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (1.28%) LAN
4 7 (1.28%) SAN
4 7 (1.28%) VPN
5 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 5 (0.92%) Internet
5 5 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (0.92%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.73%) Intranet
7 3 (0.55%) IPsec
7 3 (0.55%) MPLS
7 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.37%) FTP
8 2 (0.37%) Network Security
8 2 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.39%) Power BI
3 8 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (1.10%) Ingres
4 6 (1.10%) MySQL
5 5 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.73%) Metadata
7 3 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.55%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (3.49%) JIRA
2 4 (0.73%) Fiddler
2 4 (0.73%) GitLab
3 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 121 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (11.19%) Finance
3 52 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.95%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.20%) Retail
8 11 (2.02%) Banking
8 11 (2.02%) Legal
9 10 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.28%) Marketing
10 7 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.10%) Automotive
12 5 (0.92%) Aviation
13 4 (0.73%) Avionics
13 4 (0.73%) Back Office
13 4 (0.73%) Billing
13 4 (0.73%) Law
13 4 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.39%) Itk
2 9 (1.65%) HTML
3 8 (1.47%) CSS
4 5 (0.92%) .NET
4 5 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.92%) Google Maps API
4 5 (0.92%) Middleware
4 5 (0.92%) SAML
5 4 (0.73%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.73%) Node.js
5 4 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.55%) jQuery
6 3 (0.55%) SPFx
7 2 (0.37%) ISPF
7 2 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.37%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.18%) OpenID
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.44%) PKI
2 16 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.83%) Blog
5 10 (1.83%) NHS
6 5 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (0.73%) CCTV
7 4 (0.73%) Clustering
7 4 (0.73%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.73%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.55%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.55%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.55%) Replication
9 2 (0.37%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.37%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.37%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 111 (20.37%) Windows
2 46 (8.44%) Linux
3 23 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.39%) Mac OS
7 11 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.65%) Unix
9 6 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.92%) Solaris
11 4 (0.73%) AIX
11 4 (0.73%) CentOS
12 3 (0.55%) zOS
13 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.18%) HPUX
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (8.81%) Customer Service
3 41 (7.52%) Data Entry
4 33 (6.06%) Time Management
5 31 (5.69%) DevOps
6 23 (4.22%) Data Protection
7 21 (3.85%) Change Management
8 20 (3.67%) Project Management
9 18 (3.30%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (3.12%) Migration
11 15 (2.75%) Asset Management
12 14 (2.57%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (2.57%) PLM
12 14 (2.57%) Validation
13 13 (2.39%) Data Management
13 13 (2.39%) Document Management
13 13 (2.39%) Mathematics
13 13 (2.39%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (2.20%) ERP
14 12 (2.20%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.40%) SQL
3 12 (2.20%) Bash
4 10 (1.83%) C
5 6 (1.10%) C++
5 6 (1.10%) Python
6 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.73%) Perl
8 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.37%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.37%) AWK
9 2 (0.37%) Bourne shell
9 2 (0.37%) Groovy
9 2 (0.37%) JCL
9 2 (0.37%) Korn
9 2 (0.37%) REXX
10 1 (0.18%) SOQL
10 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 77 (14.13%) DV Cleared
3 35 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.95%) Degree
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.73%) RHCSA
7 3 (0.55%) AAT
7 3 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.55%) HNC
7 3 (0.55%) RHCE
8 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.18%) MCITP
9 1 (0.18%) MCTS
9 1 (0.18%) OCP
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.40%) QA
2 13 (2.39%) PMO
3 11 (2.02%) SLA
4 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.47%) GDPR
6 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.92%) VMware Server
4 5 (0.92%) vSphere
5 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.55%) Docker
6 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) ACF2
7 2 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (2.02%) Ansible
1 11 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (1.83%) SCOM
3 8 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 6 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (1.10%) Terraform
5 5 (0.92%) Data Guard
5 5 (0.92%) Grafana
5 5 (0.92%) Nagios
5 5 (0.92%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.55%) Graylog
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.55%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.37%) yum
Vendors
1 140 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.52%) SAP
3 22 (4.04%) VMware
4 14 (2.57%) Oracle
5 13 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.83%) Google
9 9 (1.65%) Apple
10 6 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.10%) Cisco
10 6 (1.10%) EMC
10 6 (1.10%) IBM
10 6 (1.10%) Sage
11 5 (0.92%) F5
11 5 (0.92%) Progress
12 4 (0.73%) Facebook
12 4 (0.73%) Splunk
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) Citrix