Administrator Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 195 157
Rank change year-on-year +97 -38 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,320 531 961
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.53% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.71% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 870 340 727
10th Percentile £26,211 £25,125 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,563 £26,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -12.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £56,533 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £37,250 £40,400
% change year-on-year +0.67% -7.80% -14.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 73,974 31,043 56,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.48% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 51,194 17,818 36,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -4.63% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Administrator' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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
North of England +88 319 £35,000 +13.82% 111
Midlands +83 262 £40,000 -4.76% 99
South East +47 246 £36,500 +8.15% 179
North West +68 183 £35,750 +34.91% 56
South West -17 182 £30,000 -29.41% 74
East of England +40 163 £35,000 +7.69% 66
West Midlands +72 145 £36,250 -32.48% 56
East Midlands +37 117 £40,000 +12.68% 44
Yorkshire +25 105 £35,000 -17.65% 34
Scotland +81 96 £43,500 +67.31% 27
Wales -27 35 £30,000 -36.84% 17
North East -29 31 £35,000 +25.00% 24
Northern Ireland -63 22 £45,000 +73.08% 9
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 August 2026, Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 289 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 139 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (9.85%) Azure
4 124 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 119 (9.02%) Customer Service
6 118 (8.94%) CRM
7 114 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
7 114 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
7 114 (8.64%) SQL
8 109 (8.26%) Linux
9 106 (8.03%) Windows
10 105 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (6.44%) Active Directory
12 73 (5.53%) ERP
13 72 (5.45%) AWS
14 67 (5.08%) Windows Server
15 65 (4.92%) Salesforce
15 65 (4.92%) Security Cleared
16 62 (4.70%) SharePoint
17 61 (4.62%) Logistics
18 58 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
19 57 (4.32%) Entra ID
19 57 (4.32%) Python
20 54 (4.09%) Power Platform
20 54 (4.09%) SQL Server
21 53 (4.02%) Cybersecurity
21 53 (4.02%) DevOps
21 53 (4.02%) GitHub
22 52 (3.94%) PowerShell
22 52 (3.94%) QA

Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 62 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 58 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.88%) WordPress
4 8 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.15%) Confluence
7 1 (0.076%) Apache
7 1 (0.076%) CMS
7 1 (0.076%) ExpressionEngine
7 1 (0.076%) JBoss
7 1 (0.076%) Mendix
7 1 (0.076%) nginx
7 1 (0.076%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 124 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.53%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 17 (1.29%) Primavera
3 11 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.45%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) Odoo
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.15%) iTrent
7 2 (0.15%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (9.85%) Azure
2 114 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (5.45%) AWS
4 57 (4.32%) Entra ID
5 54 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 53 (4.02%) GitHub
7 52 (3.94%) SaaS
8 19 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (1.36%) OpenShift
10 14 (1.06%) Mimecast
10 14 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.98%) PaaS
12 10 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.38%) Google Workspace
16 4 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.30%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.41%) Internet
2 43 (3.26%) Firewall
3 36 (2.73%) DNS
4 26 (1.97%) DHCP
5 24 (1.82%) Wireless
6 21 (1.59%) VPN
7 17 (1.29%) Broadband
8 16 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.91%) SAN
11 10 (0.76%) LAN
11 10 (0.76%) WAN
12 8 (0.61%) Network Security
13 7 (0.53%) VLAN
14 4 (0.30%) VSAN
15 3 (0.23%) SSH
16 2 (0.15%) SSL
16 2 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
17 1 (0.076%) DKIM
17 1 (0.076%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.88%) Power BI
3 23 (1.74%) MySQL
4 16 (1.21%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 10 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.68%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.23%) GIS
11 3 (0.23%) MS Access
11 3 (0.23%) Power Query
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) KNIME
12 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (3.86%) Git
2 13 (0.98%) JIRA
3 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.15%) Ant
4 2 (0.15%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.076%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.076%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.076%) Selenium
5 1 (0.076%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (19.24%) Social Skills
2 152 (11.52%) Finance
3 114 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
4 61 (4.62%) Marketing
5 60 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.33%) Law
8 41 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 40 (3.03%) Retail
10 38 (2.88%) Legal
11 35 (2.65%) Multimedia
12 18 (1.36%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.29%) Military
14 14 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.98%) Billing
15 13 (0.98%) Legal Technology
16 11 (0.83%) Automotive
17 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.61%) Games
19 7 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.80%) CSS
1 37 (2.80%) HTML
2 17 (1.29%) Terraform
3 9 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (0.38%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.15%) OpenID
6 2 (0.15%) REST
7 1 (0.076%) CSS3
7 1 (0.076%) HTML5
7 1 (0.076%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.076%) OAuth
7 1 (0.076%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.076%) ODBC
7 1 (0.076%) OpenTofu
7 1 (0.076%) React
7 1 (0.076%) Redfish
7 1 (0.076%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 42 (3.18%) Replication
3 40 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.80%) Clustering
5 26 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.29%) Driving Licence
7 15 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.14%) Social Media
8 10 (0.76%) NHS
9 7 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.38%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.38%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.38%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.38%) PMI
11 4 (0.30%) PKI
11 4 (0.30%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.26%) Linux
2 106 (8.03%) Windows
3 67 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.59%) Android
7 15 (1.14%) Unix
8 14 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.76%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.61%) Debian
12 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.38%) CentOS
14 4 (0.30%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.30%) Solaris
15 3 (0.23%) Rocky
16 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (9.02%) Customer Service
3 118 (8.94%) CRM
4 105 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (5.53%) ERP
6 61 (4.62%) Logistics
7 53 (4.02%) Cybersecurity
7 53 (4.02%) DevOps
8 48 (3.64%) High Availability
8 48 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (3.11%) Service Delivery
10 40 (3.03%) Project Delivery
10 40 (3.03%) Web Development
11 38 (2.88%) Time Management
12 37 (2.80%) Data Management
13 35 (2.65%) ITIL
14 33 (2.50%) Vulnerability Management
14 33 (2.50%) Workflow
15 31 (2.35%) Business Intelligence
15 31 (2.35%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.64%) SQL
2 57 (4.32%) Python
3 52 (3.94%) PowerShell
4 45 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.33%) R
6 21 (1.59%) Bash
7 18 (1.36%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.53%) C
9 6 (0.45%) Ruby
10 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.23%) C++
10 3 (0.23%) Go
10 3 (0.23%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) VBA
11 2 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.076%) C#
12 1 (0.076%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (4.92%) Security Cleared
2 43 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.11%) AWS Certification
4 41 (3.11%) Azure Certification
5 35 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 31 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.20%) DBS Check
8 23 (1.74%) Degree
9 21 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
10 18 (1.36%) A+ Certification
11 9 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.30%) CIPD
14 3 (0.23%) HND
15 2 (0.15%) Computer Science Degree
15 2 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 1 (0.076%) AAT
16 1 (0.076%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.94%) QA
2 50 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.44%) SLA
4 18 (1.36%) GDPR
4 18 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.30%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.076%) GRC
11 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.076%) NIST
11 1 (0.076%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.076%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.56%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.21%) Docker
4 11 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.53%) Ceph
6 6 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.38%) iptables
8 2 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.076%) NFS
9 1 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.076%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (2.12%) Ansible
2 24 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.52%) Nessus
4 14 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.83%) Proxmox
6 8 (0.61%) Podman
7 7 (0.53%) Argo
7 7 (0.53%) Check_MK
7 7 (0.53%) Grafana
7 7 (0.53%) Istio
7 7 (0.53%) Puppet
8 6 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.45%) SCCM
9 4 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.30%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 289 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 49 (3.71%) SAP
4 26 (1.97%) Red Hat
4 26 (1.97%) Sage
5 25 (1.89%) Oracle
5 25 (1.89%) VMware
6 22 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 20 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 13 (0.98%) Veeam
9 11 (0.83%) Google
9 11 (0.83%) HP
10 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.61%) Dell
11 7 (0.53%) Facebook
11 7 (0.53%) Zoho
12 6 (0.45%) SonicWALL
13 5 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.30%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.30%) Meraki