IT Administrator Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 454 596
Rank change year-on-year +115 +142 -107
Contract jobs requiring an IT Administrator 7 11 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.046% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.048% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £183 £132 £150
25th Percentile £188 £148 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £275 £200
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £632 £288 £225
90th Percentile £680 £384 £306
UK median daily rate £340 £300 £205
% change year-on-year +13.33% +46.34% +24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.89 -
25th Percentile - £32.54 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £34.35 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -27.68% +280.00%
75th Percentile - £35.44 £48.75
90th Percentile - £35.66 -
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £34.35 £14.50
% change year-on-year -62.15% +136.90% +16.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

IT Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Administrator.

IT Administrator daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Administrator over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

IT Administrator daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Administrator.

IT Administrator hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, IT 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (14.29%) logstash
4 1 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet

IT Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 2 (28.57%) Software Deployment
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) HP