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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 219 135
Rank change year-on-year +98 -84 +71
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 948 401 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.46% 1.40% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.57% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 668 283 1,100
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £22,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £34,748
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +29.51% -18.24%
75th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -23.29%

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 60,914 25,484 64,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.06% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40,092 14,344 47,359
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +81 257 £35,000 +27.27% 75
Midlands +64 196 £32,500 -12.16% 66
South East +63 185 £35,000 -23.91% 101
North West +66 145 £31,500 +16.67% 39
East of England +48 137 £35,000 -22.22% 39
South West -12 111 £34,000 -32.00% 41
East Midlands +32 102 £32,500 -29.73% 24
West Midlands +39 94 £31,500 -1.72% 42
Yorkshire +1 88 £35,000 -30.00% 26
Scotland +29 48 £31,000 +9.73% 19
North East -22 24 £35,000 +40.00% 10
Wales -19 18 £30,000 -36.84% 11
Northern Ireland -30 10 £45,000 +73.08% 3
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 192 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 123 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (11.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 104 (10.97%) CRM
5 96 (10.13%) Azure
6 81 (8.54%) SQL
7 73 (7.70%) Customer Service
8 72 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
9 71 (7.49%) ERP
10 67 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.86%) Linux
12 63 (6.65%) AWS
13 56 (5.91%) Python
14 55 (5.80%) Process Improvement
15 54 (5.70%) Internet
16 53 (5.59%) AWS Certification
16 53 (5.59%) GitHub
17 52 (5.49%) Salesforce
18 51 (5.38%) JavaScript
19 50 (5.27%) CSS
19 50 (5.27%) HTML
19 50 (5.27%) Microsoft Certification
20 48 (5.06%) Azure Certification
20 48 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
20 48 (5.06%) Windows
21 46 (4.85%) R
21 46 (4.85%) WordPress
22 45 (4.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
22 45 (4.75%) Data Quality
22 45 (4.75%) Git

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 46 (4.85%) WordPress
2 36 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.42%) Confluence
5 2 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 105 (11.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.64%) iTrent
2 19 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.37%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.74%) Odoo
6 6 (0.63%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.42%) Primavera
8 3 (0.32%) Magento
9 2 (0.21%) Shopify
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (10.13%) Azure
2 72 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (6.65%) AWS
4 53 (5.59%) GitHub
5 41 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 28 (2.95%) Entra ID
7 16 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (0.95%) SaaS
10 8 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (0.74%) Mimecast
12 6 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.53%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.42%) GCP
14 4 (0.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 3 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.32%) Veeva
15 3 (0.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.70%) Internet
2 31 (3.27%) Firewall
3 20 (2.11%) Wireless
4 13 (1.37%) VPN
5 10 (1.05%) Broadband
5 10 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.84%) Network Security
7 7 (0.74%) DNS
8 6 (0.63%) SAN
9 4 (0.42%) LAN
9 4 (0.42%) WAN
10 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.32%) SSH
11 2 (0.21%) VoIP
12 1 (0.11%) DHCP
12 1 (0.11%) DKIM
12 1 (0.11%) DMARC
12 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.11%) VLAN
12 1 (0.11%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.27%) Power BI
3 20 (2.11%) MySQL
4 7 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.74%) Tableau
5 6 (0.63%) SAP HANA
6 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.32%) Power Query
8 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.21%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.21%) GIS
9 2 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (4.75%) Git
2 5 (0.53%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 169 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 106 (11.18%) Finance
3 70 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
4 49 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.75%) Multimedia
6 43 (4.54%) Marketing
7 40 (4.22%) Retail
8 36 (3.80%) Law
9 29 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.00%) Public Sector
11 18 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.79%) Back Office
12 17 (1.79%) Military
13 12 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Legal
15 7 (0.74%) Automotive
16 6 (0.63%) Games
17 4 (0.42%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.27%) CSS
1 50 (5.27%) HTML
2 4 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (0.32%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.21%) .NET
4 2 (0.21%) jQuery
4 2 (0.21%) ODBC
5 1 (0.11%) Laravel
5 1 (0.11%) OpenID
5 1 (0.11%) SAML
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 26 (2.74%) Replication
2 19 (2.00%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.37%) Clustering
5 13 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.16%) Private Cloud
7 9 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.74%) FMCG
9 5 (0.53%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.42%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.42%) NHS
10 4 (0.42%) Smart Meter
11 3 (0.32%) Blog
11 3 (0.32%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.86%) Linux
2 48 (5.06%) Windows
3 21 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.58%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.48%) Android
5 14 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Unix
7 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (10.97%) CRM
3 73 (7.70%) Customer Service
4 71 (7.49%) ERP
5 67 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (5.80%) Process Improvement
7 45 (4.75%) Web Development
8 42 (4.43%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (4.43%) Logistics
9 33 (3.48%) Data Management
10 31 (3.27%) Data Entry
11 29 (3.06%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (2.85%) Service Delivery
13 26 (2.74%) Analytics
13 26 (2.74%) High Availability
14 25 (2.64%) DevOps
15 24 (2.53%) Decision-Making
16 23 (2.43%) Project Management
16 23 (2.43%) Time Management
17 22 (2.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (8.54%) SQL
2 56 (5.91%) Python
3 51 (5.38%) JavaScript
4 46 (4.85%) R
5 16 (1.69%) Bash
5 16 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.58%) Shell Script
7 8 (0.84%) Go
8 7 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.53%) VBA
10 4 (0.42%) C
11 2 (0.21%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (5.59%) AWS Certification
2 50 (5.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 48 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 45 (4.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 33 (3.48%) Security Cleared
6 18 (1.90%) A+ Certification
6 18 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
6 18 (1.90%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.58%) CIPD
9 12 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.16%) Degree
11 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.21%) AAT
14 1 (0.11%) CCNA
14 1 (0.11%) CCNP
14 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.59%) GDPR
3 24 (2.53%) QA
4 11 (1.16%) ISO 9001
4 11 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.74%) SLA
6 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.42%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.32%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
10 1 (0.11%) COSHH
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (4.54%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.74%) Docker
3 7 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.32%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (1.69%) Nessus
3 15 (1.58%) Terraform
4 14 (1.48%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.27%) Grafana
5 12 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.16%) Ansible
6 11 (1.16%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.53%) Puppet
8 3 (0.32%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.32%) systemd
8 3 (0.32%) WSUS
9 2 (0.21%) Nagios
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.21%) SCCM
10 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 192 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.49%) Salesforce
3 41 (4.32%) SAP
4 19 (2.00%) HubSpot
5 18 (1.90%) Sage
5 18 (1.90%) VMware
6 14 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.05%) Oracle
8 10 (1.05%) Zoho
9 8 (0.84%) Facebook
9 8 (0.84%) HP
10 7 (0.74%) Veeam
11 6 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.63%) SonicWALL
12 4 (0.42%) ConnectWise
12 4 (0.42%) SYSPRO
13 3 (0.32%) Google
13 3 (0.32%) Meraki
13 3 (0.32%) Palo Alto