Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 172 254
Rank change year-on-year +47 +82 -34
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 804 901 993
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.51% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.60% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 568 600
10th Percentile £162 £202 £182
25th Percentile £275 £325 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £449 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +5.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £610 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £400 £381
% change year-on-year +9.63% +4.92% +22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 47 60
10th Percentile £11.12 £11.50 £10.50
25th Percentile £11.95 £14.94 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.18 £25.95 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.21% +78.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £17.47 £52.97 £23.19
90th Percentile £46.72 £58.08 £38.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £29.45 £13.50
% change year-on-year -55.86% +118.15% -3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +58 696 £425 -5.56% 689
UK excluding London +76 548 £439 +9.63% 612
Work from Home +16 219 £450 - 189
London -16 205 £400 -11.11% 121
South East +66 180 £378 -0.53% 169
South West +36 99 £550 +29.41% 92
North of England +49 84 £375 +18.58% 146
Midlands +42 72 £425 +28.79% 112
Scotland +61 61 £400 +6.52% 31
East of England +20 48 £375 -11.76% 81
West Midlands +34 46 £425 +47.83% 54
North West +28 45 £319 -23.19% 90
East Midlands +36 26 £318 +0.79% 57
Yorkshire +34 22 £470 +121.18% 40
North East +33 17 £475 +69.64% 17
Wales +16 7 £575 +259.38% 17
Northern Ireland +3 1 £350 -17.65% 6

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 198 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 184 (22.89%) Microsoft
3 173 (21.52%) Windows
4 149 (18.53%) Security Cleared
5 97 (12.06%) Microsoft Excel
6 93 (11.57%) Microsoft Office
7 91 (11.32%) Linux
7 91 (11.32%) Finance
7 91 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (10.57%) DV Cleared
8 85 (10.57%) Azure
9 69 (8.58%) SharePoint
10 68 (8.46%) Active Directory
11 65 (8.08%) Public Sector
12 64 (7.96%) Customer Service
13 63 (7.84%) Windows Server
14 57 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
15 56 (6.97%) SQL
16 53 (6.59%) Degree
16 53 (6.59%) VMware
17 50 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
18 48 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
18 48 (5.97%) SAP
18 48 (5.97%) SC Cleared
19 47 (5.85%) DevOps
20 45 (5.60%) PowerShell
20 45 (5.60%) PKI
20 45 (5.60%) SQL Server
21 42 (5.22%) Data Entry
22 40 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange

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 69 (8.58%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.99%) Exchange Server 2013
4 15 (1.87%) Confluence
4 15 (1.87%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (1.24%) Apache
6 9 (1.12%) SAS
7 7 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.75%) IIS
9 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.12%) Appian
11 1 (0.12%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 97 (12.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (11.57%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.87%) iTrent
3 4 (0.50%) Maximo
3 4 (0.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 85 (10.57%) Azure
2 50 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (4.60%) AWS
4 16 (1.99%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.49%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 9 (1.12%) PaaS
7 8 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (0.75%) GCP
8 6 (0.75%) GitHub
8 6 (0.75%) SaaS
9 5 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.50%) Google Sheets
10 4 (0.50%) OCI
10 4 (0.50%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.61%) DNS
2 18 (2.24%) Intranet
3 12 (1.49%) Firewall
4 11 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.00%) VPN
6 7 (0.87%) SSL
6 7 (0.87%) WAN
7 6 (0.75%) Internet
8 5 (0.62%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.50%) DHCP
9 4 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.50%) LAN
9 4 (0.50%) Network Security
9 4 (0.50%) Skype
9 4 (0.50%) SMTP
9 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.37%) HTTP
10 3 (0.37%) IPsec
10 3 (0.37%) MPLS
10 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.36%) MySQL
3 13 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.62%) Power BI
3 13 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.00%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.87%) DB2
10 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.75%) Ingres
11 5 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.62%) Metadata
11 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 34 (4.23%) JIRA
2 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.62%) GitLab
3 4 (0.50%) Fiddler
4 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 198 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.32%) Finance
3 65 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (3.98%) Manufacturing
7 24 (2.99%) Banking
8 20 (2.49%) Legal
9 19 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.24%) Marketing
11 14 (1.74%) Law
11 14 (1.74%) Retail
12 12 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.24%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.12%) Police
15 6 (0.75%) Automotive
15 6 (0.75%) Electronics
15 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.62%) Back Office
16 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.62%) Itk
2 10 (1.24%) CSS
2 10 (1.24%) HTML
3 7 (0.87%) Middleware
4 6 (0.75%) .NET
4 6 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (0.62%) Google Maps API
5 5 (0.62%) Kafka
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.62%) SAML
6 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.50%) LDAP
6 4 (0.50%) Node.js
7 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (0.37%) jQuery
7 3 (0.37%) SPFx
8 2 (0.25%) ISPF
8 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.60%) PKI
2 28 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 23 (2.86%) NHS
4 19 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.49%) Blog
6 11 (1.37%) Clustering
6 11 (1.37%) Replication
7 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.62%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.62%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.50%) CCTV
12 4 (0.50%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 173 (21.52%) Windows
2 91 (11.32%) Linux
3 63 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.99%) Unix
5 16 (1.99%) Windows 7
5 16 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (1.62%) Mac OS
8 12 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.00%) VMS
10 6 (0.75%) AIX
10 6 (0.75%) Solaris
10 6 (0.75%) zOS
11 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.25%) CentOS
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (7.96%) Customer Service
3 47 (5.85%) DevOps
4 42 (5.22%) Data Entry
5 37 (4.60%) Change Management
6 36 (4.48%) ITIL
6 36 (4.48%) Migration
7 32 (3.98%) Time Management
8 31 (3.86%) Data Protection
9 30 (3.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 29 (3.61%) Project Management
11 28 (3.48%) High Availability
12 27 (3.36%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (2.86%) Asset Management
14 22 (2.74%) Agile
15 19 (2.36%) Data Management
15 19 (2.36%) Problem Management
15 19 (2.36%) Workflow
16 18 (2.24%) Document Management
17 16 (1.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.97%) SQL
2 45 (5.60%) PowerShell
3 20 (2.49%) Python
4 19 (2.36%) Bash
5 11 (1.37%) C
5 11 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 8 (1.00%) Perl
8 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.75%) C++
9 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.62%) Groovy
11 4 (0.50%) Korn
12 3 (0.37%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.25%) AWK
13 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.25%) JCL
13 2 (0.25%) REXX
13 2 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 149 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 85 (10.57%) DV Cleared
3 53 (6.59%) Degree
4 48 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.50%) MCSE
9 4 (0.50%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.37%) AAT
10 3 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.37%) HNC
10 3 (0.37%) MCITP
10 3 (0.37%) MCTS
10 3 (0.37%) RHCE
11 2 (0.25%) CCNA
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.61%) QA
2 13 (1.62%) GDPR
3 12 (1.49%) SLA
4 11 (1.37%) PMO
5 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.62%) GRC
7 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.62%) NIST
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 68 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.00%) Docker
3 8 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.75%) Firmware
5 6 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) ACF2
7 2 (0.25%) NFS
7 2 (0.25%) RACF
7 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
8 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.49%) Ansible
2 14 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.62%) SCOM
4 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.24%) Data Guard
6 9 (1.12%) Terraform
7 8 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.00%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (0.87%) Control-M
8 7 (0.87%) Grafana
8 7 (0.87%) Nagios
9 6 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (0.75%) SCCM
10 5 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.62%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 184 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.59%) VMware
3 48 (5.97%) SAP
4 33 (4.10%) Oracle
4 33 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.24%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.62%) Google
9 11 (1.37%) IBM
10 9 (1.12%) Apple
10 9 (1.12%) Veeam
11 8 (1.00%) EMC
11 8 (1.00%) F5
11 8 (1.00%) Splunk
12 7 (0.87%) Cisco
13 6 (0.75%) Sage
14 5 (0.62%) Citrix
14 5 (0.62%) Progress
14 5 (0.62%) Veritas