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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 194 151
Rank change year-on-year +96 -43 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,387 536 949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.71% 1.56% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.75% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 903 339 645
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,136 £26,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £56,626 £57,500
UK median annual salary £36,256 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.32% -6.25% -18.12%

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 76,456 30,703 53,516
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.33% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 53,184 17,577 33,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 5 September 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 September 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 +76 311 £36,500 +12.31% 132
Midlands +82 271 £38,750 -7.74% 93
South East +56 268 £35,000 - 191
South West -20 196 £30,000 -25.00% 70
North West +73 177 £40,000 +48.15% 62
East of England +32 173 £36,250 +11.54% 72
West Midlands +67 151 £34,000 -36.67% 43
East Midlands +26 120 £40,000 +3.23% 50
Yorkshire +15 106 £35,000 -16.17% 47
Scotland +77 103 £43,500 +64.15% 32
Wales -29 42 £28,500 -40.00% 13
North East -40 28 £40,750 +45.54% 26
Northern Ireland -60 27 £45,000 +73.08% 12
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 September 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.

1 316 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 146 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 131 (9.44%) Azure
5 129 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 123 (8.87%) Microsoft Office
7 118 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
8 116 (8.36%) CRM
9 112 (8.07%) Linux
10 111 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 111 (8.00%) SQL
11 107 (7.71%) Windows
12 86 (6.20%) Active Directory
13 77 (5.55%) AWS
14 71 (5.12%) ERP
15 70 (5.05%) Salesforce
15 70 (5.05%) Windows Server
16 65 (4.69%) SharePoint
17 63 (4.54%) Security Cleared
18 59 (4.25%) Logistics
18 59 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
18 59 (4.25%) Python
19 58 (4.18%) Entra ID
19 58 (4.18%) Power Platform
20 56 (4.04%) GitHub
21 55 (3.97%) DevOps
22 54 (3.89%) SQL Server
23 53 (3.82%) SaaS
24 52 (3.75%) QA
24 52 (3.75%) SAP

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 65 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (2.81%) WordPress
4 8 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.29%) IIS
6 2 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.072%) Apache
7 1 (0.072%) CMS
7 1 (0.072%) ExpressionEngine
7 1 (0.072%) JBoss
7 1 (0.072%) Mendix
7 1 (0.072%) nginx
7 1 (0.072%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
Applications
1 129 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (8.87%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 18 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.65%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.59%) Primavera
2 19 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.43%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.29%) Odoo
6 3 (0.22%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.14%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.072%) iTrent
8 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 131 (9.44%) Azure
2 118 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (5.55%) AWS
4 58 (4.18%) Entra ID
4 58 (4.18%) Power Platform
5 56 (4.04%) GitHub
6 53 (3.82%) SaaS
7 19 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (1.30%) OpenShift
9 17 (1.23%) Power Automate
10 13 (0.94%) Mimecast
10 13 (0.94%) PaaS
11 12 (0.87%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.24%) Firewall
2 44 (3.17%) Internet
3 36 (2.60%) DNS
4 26 (1.87%) DHCP
5 24 (1.73%) VPN
5 24 (1.73%) Wireless
6 16 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.08%) Broadband
8 12 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.79%) SAN
10 10 (0.72%) LAN
10 10 (0.72%) WAN
11 7 (0.50%) Network Security
11 7 (0.50%) VLAN
12 4 (0.29%) VSAN
13 3 (0.22%) SSH
13 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
14 2 (0.14%) SSL
15 1 (0.072%) FTP
15 1 (0.072%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.88%) Power BI
3 23 (1.66%) MySQL
4 16 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 10 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.65%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.22%) GIS
11 3 (0.22%) MS Access
11 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.14%) Big Data
12 2 (0.14%) KNIME
12 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.14%) Power Query
12 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (3.68%) Git
2 13 (0.94%) JIRA
3 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.14%) Ant
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.14%) Maven
5 1 (0.072%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.072%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.072%) Selenium
5 1 (0.072%) TeamCity
General
1 274 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 146 (10.53%) Finance
3 131 (9.44%) Organisational Skills
4 64 (4.61%) Marketing
5 63 (4.54%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (3.97%) Law
7 49 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 47 (3.39%) Retail
9 45 (3.24%) Legal
10 42 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.52%) Multimedia
12 17 (1.23%) Public Sector
13 16 (1.15%) Military
14 15 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.01%) Automotive
16 13 (0.94%) Legal Technology
17 11 (0.79%) Billing
18 9 (0.65%) Advertising
19 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
20 6 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.74%) CSS
1 38 (2.74%) HTML
2 20 (1.44%) Terraform
3 8 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (0.36%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.14%) OpenID
6 2 (0.14%) REST
7 1 (0.072%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.072%) CSS3
7 1 (0.072%) HTML5
7 1 (0.072%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.072%) OAuth
7 1 (0.072%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.072%) OpenTofu
7 1 (0.072%) React
7 1 (0.072%) Redfish
7 1 (0.072%) SOAP
7 1 (0.072%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.39%) Onboarding
2 43 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 42 (3.03%) Replication
4 36 (2.60%) Clustering
5 27 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (1.73%) Driving Licence
7 17 (1.23%) Social Media
8 14 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 12 (0.87%) NHS
10 10 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.58%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.50%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.50%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.36%) PMI
13 5 (0.36%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.36%) Web Conferencing
14 4 (0.29%) PKI
14 4 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 112 (8.07%) Linux
2 107 (7.71%) Windows
3 70 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.80%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.51%) Android
7 15 (1.08%) Unix
8 14 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.87%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.72%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.58%) Debian
12 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.36%) CentOS
14 4 (0.29%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.29%) Solaris
15 3 (0.22%) Rocky
16 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (9.52%) Customer Service
3 116 (8.36%) CRM
4 111 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (5.12%) ERP
6 59 (4.25%) Logistics
7 55 (3.97%) DevOps
8 50 (3.60%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (3.46%) High Availability
9 48 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 45 (3.24%) Project Delivery
11 43 (3.10%) Time Management
12 41 (2.96%) Service Delivery
13 40 (2.88%) Web Development
14 34 (2.45%) Data Management
14 34 (2.45%) Workflow
15 33 (2.38%) AI
15 33 (2.38%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (2.38%) ITIL
15 33 (2.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (8.00%) SQL
2 59 (4.25%) Python
3 51 (3.68%) PowerShell
4 44 (3.17%) R
5 43 (3.10%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.66%) Bash
7 18 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.50%) C
9 6 (0.43%) Ruby
10 5 (0.36%) Go
11 4 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.22%) C++
12 3 (0.22%) PHP
13 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.14%) VBA
14 1 (0.072%) C#
14 1 (0.072%) Java
Qualifications
1 63 (4.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 43 (3.10%) AWS Certification
4 41 (2.96%) Azure Certification
4 41 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 35 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 30 (2.16%) DBS Check
6 30 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.73%) Degree
8 23 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
9 20 (1.44%) A+ Certification
10 8 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.29%) CIPD
13 3 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.22%) HND
13 3 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.072%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.75%) QA
2 50 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.37%) SLA
4 15 (1.08%) GDPR
4 15 (1.08%) ISO 9001
4 15 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.36%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (0.22%) PMO
8 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.072%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.072%) GRC
9 1 (0.072%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.072%) NIST
9 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.08%) Docker
4 10 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.50%) Ceph
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.36%) iptables
8 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.072%) Firmware
9 1 (0.072%) NFS
9 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.072%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (2.24%) Ansible
2 22 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.44%) Nessus
4 17 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.87%) Proxmox
6 10 (0.72%) Grafana
7 8 (0.58%) Podman
8 7 (0.50%) Argo
8 7 (0.50%) Check_MK
8 7 (0.50%) Istio
9 6 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.43%) Puppet
9 6 (0.43%) SCCM
10 4 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.29%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 316 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 52 (3.75%) SAP
4 27 (1.95%) VMware
5 25 (1.80%) Oracle
5 25 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 25 (1.80%) Sage
6 21 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.37%) HubSpot
8 12 (0.87%) Veeam
9 11 (0.79%) Google
10 10 (0.72%) HP
11 8 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.50%) Dell
12 7 (0.50%) Facebook
13 5 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.36%) SonicWALL
14 4 (0.29%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.29%) McAfee
14 4 (0.29%) Zoho