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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 196 153
Rank change year-on-year +96 -43 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,317 532 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.53% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.71% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 870 343 731
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £56,533 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £40,400
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.89% -14.95%

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 73,779 31,098 56,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.47% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51,014 17,850 37,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.55% - -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 18 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 18 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 +89 317 £35,000 +13.82% 107
Midlands +88 263 £40,000 -4.76% 100
South East +52 244 £36,500 +12.31% 168
South West -18 183 £30,000 -25.00% 65
North West +84 182 £35,000 +32.08% 53
East of England +38 163 £35,000 +7.69% 65
West Midlands +73 144 £35,000 -27.23% 48
East Midlands +35 119 £40,000 +12.68% 52
Yorkshire +31 104 £35,000 -14.63% 34
Scotland +70 95 £43,500 +67.31% 26
Wales -34 36 £30,000 -36.84% 18
North East -35 31 £35,000 +25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -63 22 £45,000 +73.08% 11
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 288 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 140 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
3 131 (9.95%) Azure
4 126 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 120 (9.11%) CRM
6 119 (9.04%) Customer Service
7 115 (8.73%) SQL
8 114 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
8 114 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
9 109 (8.28%) Linux
10 105 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (7.90%) Windows
12 85 (6.45%) Active Directory
13 73 (5.54%) AWS
14 72 (5.47%) ERP
15 66 (5.01%) Windows Server
16 64 (4.86%) Salesforce
16 64 (4.86%) Security Cleared
17 62 (4.71%) SharePoint
18 61 (4.63%) Logistics
19 59 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
20 58 (4.40%) Entra ID
21 57 (4.33%) Python
22 56 (4.25%) Cybersecurity
23 54 (4.10%) Power Platform
23 54 (4.10%) SQL Server
24 53 (4.02%) DevOps
24 53 (4.02%) GitHub
24 53 (4.02%) QA
25 52 (3.95%) 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 62 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.89%) 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
1 126 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.46%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 16 (1.21%) Primavera
3 12 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.30%) Odoo
6 3 (0.23%) iTrent
6 3 (0.23%) SAP CRM
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
1 131 (9.95%) Azure
2 114 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (5.54%) AWS
4 58 (4.40%) Entra ID
5 54 (4.10%) Power Platform
6 53 (4.02%) GitHub
7 52 (3.95%) SaaS
8 19 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (1.37%) OpenShift
10 15 (1.14%) Mimecast
11 14 (1.06%) Power Automate
12 13 (0.99%) PaaS
13 10 (0.76%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (0.38%) GCP
16 5 (0.38%) Google Workspace
17 4 (0.30%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.57%) Internet
2 46 (3.49%) Firewall
3 36 (2.73%) DNS
4 26 (1.97%) DHCP
5 24 (1.82%) Wireless
6 21 (1.59%) VPN
7 18 (1.37%) Broadband
8 16 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.99%) SAN
11 10 (0.76%) LAN
11 10 (0.76%) Network Security
11 10 (0.76%) WAN
12 7 (0.53%) VLAN
13 4 (0.30%) VSAN
14 3 (0.23%) SSH
15 2 (0.15%) SSL
16 1 (0.076%) FTP
16 1 (0.076%) iSCSI
16 1 (0.076%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 39 (2.96%) Power BI
3 23 (1.75%) MySQL
4 15 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.99%) 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 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.46%) 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%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (3.87%) Git
2 13 (0.99%) 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 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 152 (11.54%) Finance
3 112 (8.50%) Organisational Skills
4 62 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.56%) Marketing
6 48 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.34%) Law
8 40 (3.04%) Retail
8 40 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 37 (2.81%) Legal
10 35 (2.66%) Multimedia
11 19 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.37%) Military
13 15 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.06%) Billing
15 13 (0.99%) Legal Technology
16 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.68%) Automotive
17 8 (0.61%) Games
18 7 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.81%) CSS
1 37 (2.81%) HTML
2 9 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.38%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.23%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.15%) OpenID
5 2 (0.15%) REST
6 1 (0.076%) CSS3
6 1 (0.076%) HTML5
6 1 (0.076%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.076%) Middleware
6 1 (0.076%) OAuth
6 1 (0.076%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.076%) ODBC
6 1 (0.076%) React
6 1 (0.076%) Redfish
6 1 (0.076%) SAML
6 1 (0.076%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (3.26%) Onboarding
2 42 (3.19%) Replication
3 41 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.89%) Clustering
5 27 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.21%) 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%) PMI
11 4 (0.30%) PKI
11 4 (0.30%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.30%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.28%) Linux
2 104 (7.90%) Windows
3 66 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.52%) 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 (0.46%) CentOS
12 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.30%) Solaris
14 3 (0.23%) Rocky
15 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (9.11%) CRM
3 119 (9.04%) Customer Service
4 105 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (5.47%) ERP
6 61 (4.63%) Logistics
7 56 (4.25%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (4.02%) DevOps
9 49 (3.72%) High Availability
10 48 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 42 (3.19%) Service Delivery
12 40 (3.04%) Web Development
13 39 (2.96%) Project Delivery
14 38 (2.89%) Data Management
14 38 (2.89%) Time Management
15 36 (2.73%) ITIL
16 33 (2.51%) Workflow
17 32 (2.43%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (2.43%) Customer Experience
17 32 (2.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (8.73%) SQL
2 57 (4.33%) Python
3 51 (3.87%) PowerShell
4 45 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.34%) R
6 21 (1.59%) Bash
7 19 (1.44%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.53%) C
9 6 (0.46%) Ruby
10 3 (0.23%) C++
10 3 (0.23%) Go
10 3 (0.23%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) VBA
11 2 (0.15%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.076%) C#
12 1 (0.076%) Java
Qualifications
1 64 (4.86%) Security Cleared
2 43 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (3.11%) AWS Certification
3 41 (3.11%) Azure Certification
3 41 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 30 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.20%) DBS Check
7 24 (1.82%) Degree
8 21 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
9 18 (1.37%) A+ Certification
10 9 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.38%) CIPD
11 5 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.23%) HND
13 2 (0.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.076%) AAT
14 1 (0.076%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.02%) QA
2 51 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.52%) GDPR
4 19 (1.44%) SLA
5 18 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.23%) PMO
12 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.076%) GRC
12 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.076%) NIST
12 1 (0.076%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.076%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 17 (1.29%) Docker
4 11 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.53%) Ceph
6 6 (0.46%) 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 29 (2.20%) Ansible
2 24 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.44%) Nessus
5 18 (1.37%) Terraform
6 14 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.84%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.61%) Podman
8 8 (0.61%) Puppet
9 7 (0.53%) Argo
9 7 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.53%) Grafana
9 7 (0.53%) Istio
10 6 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.46%) SCCM
11 5 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.30%) SCVMM
12 4 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 288 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.86%) Salesforce
3 48 (3.64%) SAP
4 27 (2.05%) Red Hat
5 26 (1.97%) Sage
6 25 (1.90%) VMware
7 24 (1.82%) Oracle
8 22 (1.67%) HubSpot
9 20 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.06%) Veeam
11 12 (0.91%) HP
12 11 (0.84%) Google
13 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.61%) Dell
14 7 (0.53%) Facebook
14 7 (0.53%) SonicWALL
14 7 (0.53%) Zoho
15 5 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 4 (0.30%) Meraki
16 4 (0.30%) SYSPRO