Administrator Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 199 146
Rank change year-on-year +114 -53 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,583 505 902
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.83% 1.45% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.62% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 985 303 542
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -17.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £56,500 £56,533 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% -8.16%

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 80,366 31,085 50,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 89.49% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,521 17,305 27,963
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £39,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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
South East +80 345 £32,500 +12.07% 182
North of England +93 331 £35,000 +6.06% 180
Midlands +90 314 £35,000 -16.67% 134
South West -8 227 £30,000 -25.00% 83
North West +75 185 £35,000 +29.63% 92
East of England +42 184 £32,000 -1.54% 82
West Midlands +70 169 £30,000 -36.84% 68
East Midlands +44 145 £40,000 +12.68% 66
Yorkshire +24 109 £35,000 -14.63% 63
Scotland +79 108 £43,500 +59.63% 34
Wales -17 56 £28,000 -19.60% 26
North East -34 37 £33,000 -30.53% 28
Northern Ireland -60 27 £45,000 +73.08% 18
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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.

1 409 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 245 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 225 (14.21%) Customer Service
4 193 (12.19%) Microsoft Office
4 193 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
5 143 (9.03%) CRM
6 126 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
7 123 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (7.77%) Linux
8 114 (7.20%) Windows
9 103 (6.51%) SQL
10 92 (5.81%) Azure
11 91 (5.75%) Logistics
12 90 (5.69%) ERP
13 89 (5.62%) Salesforce
14 88 (5.56%) Active Directory
15 84 (5.31%) SAP
16 80 (5.05%) Windows Server
17 77 (4.86%) Time Management
18 72 (4.55%) Data Entry
19 71 (4.49%) SharePoint
20 67 (4.23%) Security Cleared
21 66 (4.17%) Power Platform
21 66 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
22 64 (4.04%) Cybersecurity
23 60 (3.79%) DevOps
24 59 (3.73%) Entra ID
25 56 (3.54%) QA
26 55 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
27 53 (3.35%) SaaS

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 71 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 55 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.51%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.25%) IIS
4 4 (0.25%) WordPress
5 2 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.063%) Apache
6 1 (0.063%) CMS
6 1 (0.063%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.063%) JBoss
6 1 (0.063%) Mendix
6 1 (0.063%) nginx
6 1 (0.063%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 245 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (12.19%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
4 26 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.063%) Elementor
7 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.063%) Notion
Business Applications
1 25 (1.58%) Primavera
2 16 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.51%) Sage 200
3 8 (0.51%) SAP CRM
4 7 (0.44%) Shopify
5 5 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.32%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.25%) Odoo
6 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.19%) Maximo
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.063%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.063%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 126 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
2 92 (5.81%) Azure
3 66 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 59 (3.73%) Entra ID
5 53 (3.35%) SaaS
6 49 (3.10%) AWS
7 26 (1.64%) GitHub
8 22 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (1.39%) Power Automate
9 18 (1.14%) OpenShift
10 15 (0.95%) PowerApps
11 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (0.82%) PaaS
13 11 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.69%) Mimecast
14 9 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.44%) Google Sheets
17 6 (0.38%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.22%) Firewall
2 40 (2.53%) DNS
3 32 (2.02%) VPN
4 29 (1.83%) DHCP
5 19 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.88%) Broadband
7 12 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.63%) LAN
8 10 (0.63%) SAN
8 10 (0.63%) WAN
9 7 (0.44%) Internet
9 7 (0.44%) Network Security
9 7 (0.44%) VLAN
9 7 (0.44%) Wireless
10 4 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
10 4 (0.25%) VSAN
11 3 (0.19%) NGN
12 2 (0.13%) SSH
12 2 (0.13%) SSL
12 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 48 (3.03%) Power BI
3 22 (1.39%) MySQL
4 15 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
6 9 (0.57%) SAP HANA
7 8 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.38%) Power Query
10 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.32%) Big Data
11 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.19%) GIS
12 3 (0.19%) MS Access
12 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.13%) KNIME
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (1.07%) JIRA
2 16 (1.01%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.13%) Ant
4 2 (0.13%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.13%) Maven
5 1 (0.063%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.063%) Flyway
5 1 (0.063%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.063%) Selenium
5 1 (0.063%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 395 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 238 (15.03%) Organisational Skills
3 192 (12.13%) Finance
4 96 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (4.80%) Marketing
6 75 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 74 (4.67%) Retail
8 70 (4.42%) Law
9 54 (3.41%) Legal
10 51 (3.22%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 27 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.64%) Automotive
14 21 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.26%) Billing
15 20 (1.26%) Military
16 19 (1.20%) Advertising
17 13 (0.82%) Legal Technology
18 8 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.58%) Terraform
2 6 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.32%) CSS
3 5 (0.32%) HTML
3 5 (0.32%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.13%) OpenID
5 2 (0.13%) REST
6 1 (0.063%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.063%) CSS3
6 1 (0.063%) HTML5
6 1 (0.063%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.063%) OAuth
6 1 (0.063%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.063%) OpenTofu
6 1 (0.063%) React
6 1 (0.063%) Redfish
6 1 (0.063%) TAPI
6 1 (0.063%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.19%) Management Information System
2 59 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (2.46%) Replication
5 35 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 33 (2.08%) Clustering
7 23 (1.45%) Social Media
8 17 (1.07%) NHS
9 15 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.76%) Operational Technology
11 12 (0.76%) Private Cloud
12 10 (0.63%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.44%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.44%) PMI
14 6 (0.38%) Educational Technology
14 6 (0.38%) Housing Association
15 5 (0.32%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.77%) Linux
2 114 (7.20%) Windows
3 80 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.26%) Android
7 15 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.95%) Unix
8 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.63%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.51%) Debian
11 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.32%) CentOS
13 4 (0.25%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.25%) Rocky
13 4 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (14.21%) Customer Service
2 193 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (9.03%) CRM
4 123 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (5.75%) Logistics
6 90 (5.69%) ERP
7 77 (4.86%) Time Management
8 72 (4.55%) Data Entry
9 64 (4.04%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (3.79%) DevOps
11 52 (3.28%) Collaborative Working
12 49 (3.10%) Customer Experience
13 48 (3.03%) AI
14 47 (2.97%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (2.97%) High Availability
14 47 (2.97%) Project Delivery
15 46 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 46 (2.91%) Order Management
16 45 (2.84%) Process Improvement
16 45 (2.84%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 103 (6.51%) SQL
2 47 (2.97%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.71%) Python
4 26 (1.64%) Bash
5 19 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 8 (0.51%) Go
6 8 (0.51%) R
7 6 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.38%) Ruby
8 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.25%) C
9 3 (0.19%) C++
9 3 (0.19%) PHP
10 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.063%) Bicep
11 1 (0.063%) C#
11 1 (0.063%) Java
11 1 (0.063%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 45 (2.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (2.65%) Degree
4 35 (2.21%) DBS Check
5 28 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.51%) CIPD
8 8 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.25%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.19%) AAT
13 3 (0.19%) HND
14 2 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.063%) CCNA
15 1 (0.063%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.54%) QA
2 49 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 31 (1.96%) GDPR
3 31 (1.96%) SLA
4 16 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.82%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.38%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.25%) GMP
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.19%) PMO
10 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.063%) COSHH
11 1 (0.063%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.063%) GRC
11 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.063%) NIST
11 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.88%) Docker
5 8 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.44%) Ceph
7 5 (0.32%) vSphere
8 4 (0.25%) iptables
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.063%) NFS
10 1 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.063%) Xen
10 1 (0.063%) XenApp
10 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.40%) Ansible
2 25 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 19 (1.20%) Nessus
5 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.88%) Grafana
7 13 (0.82%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.51%) Podman
9 7 (0.44%) Argo
9 7 (0.44%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.44%) Istio
9 7 (0.44%) SCCM
10 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.38%) Puppet
11 5 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.25%) SCVMM
13 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 409 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 84 (5.31%) SAP
4 39 (2.46%) VMware
5 27 (1.71%) Sage
6 25 (1.58%) Oracle
7 22 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.14%) Google
8 18 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 14 (0.88%) HubSpot
10 13 (0.82%) HP
11 11 (0.69%) Veeam
12 10 (0.63%) Facebook
13 9 (0.57%) Dell
14 7 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.38%) Citrix
15 6 (0.38%) Workday
16 5 (0.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 5 (0.32%) SonicWALL
16 5 (0.32%) Xero