Administrator Contracts in the West Midlands

Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Administrator daily rate in the West Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 -23
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 56 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.96% 1.53% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.22% 1.62% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 35
10th Percentile £141 £128 £163
25th Percentile £287 £155 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £265 £375
Median % change year-on-year +60.38% -29.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £638 £434 £496
90th Percentile - £506 £575
England median daily rate £425 £450 £436
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.15% +17.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 3
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.90 £10.97
25th Percentile £11.25 £13.50 £11.36
Median hourly rate £14.05 £14.50 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £16.50 £34.13 £14.38
90th Percentile £16.87 £45.90 £15.80
England median hourly rate £13.78 £25.98 £14.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +79.14% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,737 2,099 3,421
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 94.51% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,435 2,487
10th Percentile £255 £260 £225
25th Percentile £360 £388 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £711 £700 £665
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 63 76
10th Percentile £12.11 £12.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +10.97%
75th Percentile £40.50 £29.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.50 £56.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +5.80%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Birmingham +24 21 £625 +66.67% 14
Shropshire +11 9 £299 - 9
Solihull - 7 £163 - 3
Staffordshire - 6 £208 - 19
Worcestershire +10 4 - - 4
Warwickshire +3 4 £250 +72.41% 10
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 3
Dudley - 1 £425 - 1
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 22 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 West Midlands region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.79%) SQL Server
3 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (17.86%) SharePoint
4 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 10 (17.86%) Azure
4 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (17.86%) Proactive Management
4 10 (17.86%) Web SSO
5 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
6 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (14.29%) VMware
7 7 (12.50%) WAN
7 7 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (10.71%) DHCP
8 6 (10.71%) DNS
8 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
8 6 (10.71%) Windows
8 6 (10.71%) SAP
8 6 (10.71%) Sage
8 6 (10.71%) Identity Management
8 6 (10.71%) Load Balancing
9 5 (8.93%) VMware Server
9 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
9 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (8.93%) PKI
9 5 (8.93%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (8.93%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (8.93%) vSphere

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.79%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.93%) PaaS
2 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) WAN
2 6 (10.71%) DHCP
2 6 (10.71%) DNS
3 5 (8.93%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (8.93%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (8.93%) SAN
4 4 (7.14%) LAN
5 3 (5.36%) Intranet
5 3 (5.36%) MPLS
5 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) Power BI
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
1 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Avionics
3 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Automotive
4 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) PKI
2 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.79%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) CentOS
3 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.79%) HPUX
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.86%) Proactive Management
1 10 (17.86%) Web SSO
2 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (10.71%) Identity Management
3 6 (10.71%) Load Balancing
4 5 (8.93%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (8.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (7.14%) Change Control
5 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (7.14%) High Availability
5 4 (7.14%) Patch Management
5 4 (7.14%) Process Management
5 4 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 4 (7.14%) Project Management
5 4 (7.14%) Task Automation
6 3 (5.36%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (5.36%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (5.36%) Statistics
6 3 (5.36%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) SQL
3 4 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.79%) Perl
4 1 (1.79%) SOQL
4 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.79%) OCP
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.93%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (8.93%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.93%) VMware Server
3 5 (8.93%) vSphere
4 3 (5.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.93%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) VMware
3 6 (10.71%) Sage
3 6 (10.71%) SAP
4 5 (8.93%) Progress
5 4 (7.14%) Oracle
6 3 (5.36%) Cisco
6 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) HP
7 1 (1.79%) QAD
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow