Administrator Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 197 144
Rank change year-on-year +105 -53 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,541 501 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.79% 1.46% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.63% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 957 301 547
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -17.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £56,533 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% -17.22% -8.63%

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 80,209 30,649 50,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 89.46% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,505 17,128 28,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
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 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 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 29 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
South East +79 333 £33,250 +14.66% 150
North of England +87 326 £36,500 +10.61% 154
Midlands +77 305 £35,000 -16.67% 116
South West -22 215 £30,000 -25.00% 72
East of England +38 187 £35,000 +7.69% 79
North West +82 184 £40,000 +48.15% 76
West Midlands +66 164 £30,000 -36.84% 61
East Midlands +37 141 £40,000 +12.68% 55
Yorkshire +36 107 £35,000 -14.63% 60
Scotland +88 105 £43,500 +59.63% 26
Wales -24 51 £28,000 +15.94% 26
North East -41 35 £39,000 -17.89% 20
Northern Ireland -64 27 £45,000 +73.08% 17
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 388 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 222 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 214 (13.89%) Customer Service
4 193 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
6 136 (8.83%) CRM
7 126 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (7.79%) Linux
10 117 (7.59%) Windows
11 105 (6.81%) SQL
12 97 (6.29%) Azure
13 92 (5.97%) Active Directory
14 88 (5.71%) Logistics
15 83 (5.39%) ERP
16 82 (5.32%) Windows Server
17 81 (5.26%) Salesforce
18 74 (4.80%) SAP
19 73 (4.74%) Time Management
20 66 (4.28%) Security Cleared
21 65 (4.22%) Power Platform
22 64 (4.15%) SharePoint
23 62 (4.02%) Cybersecurity
23 62 (4.02%) Data Entry
24 61 (3.96%) Entra ID
25 60 (3.89%) DevOps
26 58 (3.76%) Spreadsheet
27 56 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
28 55 (3.57%) QA
29 53 (3.44%) SQL Server

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 64 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) WordPress
5 2 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.065%) Apache
6 1 (0.065%) CMS
6 1 (0.065%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.065%) JBoss
6 1 (0.065%) Mendix
6 1 (0.065%) nginx
6 1 (0.065%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 222 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.76%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.58%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.065%) Elementor
7 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (1.62%) Primavera
2 15 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.58%) Sage 200
4 8 (0.52%) SAP CRM
5 6 (0.39%) Shopify
6 5 (0.32%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.26%) Odoo
7 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Maximo
9 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.065%) Infor CloudSuite
10 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 126 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (6.29%) Azure
3 65 (4.22%) Power Platform
4 61 (3.96%) Entra ID
5 52 (3.37%) SaaS
6 50 (3.24%) AWS
7 26 (1.69%) GitHub
8 23 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 15 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 14 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.84%) PaaS
14 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.71%) Mimecast
15 8 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 6 (0.39%) Google Sheets
16 6 (0.39%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.37%) Firewall
2 40 (2.60%) DNS
3 32 (2.08%) VPN
4 29 (1.88%) DHCP
5 19 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.91%) Broadband
7 12 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.71%) LAN
8 11 (0.71%) WAN
9 10 (0.65%) SAN
10 7 (0.45%) Internet
10 7 (0.45%) Network Security
10 7 (0.45%) VLAN
10 7 (0.45%) Wireless
11 4 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.26%) VSAN
12 3 (0.19%) NGN
12 3 (0.19%) SSH
13 2 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 47 (3.05%) Power BI
3 22 (1.43%) MySQL
4 15 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 13 (0.84%) Oracle Database
6 10 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.58%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.32%) Power Query
10 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.19%) Big Data
11 3 (0.19%) GIS
11 3 (0.19%) MS Access
11 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.13%) KNIME
12 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (1.10%) JIRA
2 16 (1.04%) Git
3 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.065%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.065%) Flyway
5 1 (0.065%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.065%) Selenium
5 1 (0.065%) TeamCity
General
1 383 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 228 (14.80%) Organisational Skills
3 188 (12.20%) Finance
4 95 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (5.00%) Marketing
6 71 (4.61%) Retail
7 69 (4.48%) Law
8 68 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 54 (3.50%) Legal
10 49 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 25 (1.62%) Automotive
13 24 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.30%) Billing
14 20 (1.30%) Military
15 18 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.97%) Advertising
17 13 (0.84%) Legal Technology
18 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
18 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.69%) Terraform
2 6 (0.39%) 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 (0.065%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.065%) CSS3
6 1 (0.065%) HTML5
6 1 (0.065%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.065%) OAuth
6 1 (0.065%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.065%) React
6 1 (0.065%) Redfish
6 1 (0.065%) SAML
6 1 (0.065%) SOAP
6 1 (0.065%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 57 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 48 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.66%) Replication
5 34 (2.21%) Clustering
5 34 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 22 (1.43%) Social Media
7 17 (1.10%) NHS
8 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 15 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (0.78%) Operational Technology
9 12 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 10 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 8 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.45%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.39%) Housing Association
13 6 (0.39%) PMI
14 5 (0.32%) Educational Technology
14 5 (0.32%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 120 (7.79%) Linux
2 117 (7.59%) Windows
3 82 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.30%) Android
7 15 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.97%) Unix
8 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.65%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.52%) Debian
11 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.32%) CentOS
13 4 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.26%) Rocky
13 4 (0.26%) Solaris
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (13.89%) Customer Service
2 193 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
3 136 (8.83%) CRM
4 123 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (5.71%) Logistics
6 83 (5.39%) ERP
7 73 (4.74%) Time Management
8 62 (4.02%) Cybersecurity
8 62 (4.02%) Data Entry
9 60 (3.89%) DevOps
10 49 (3.18%) Service Delivery
11 48 (3.11%) High Availability
11 48 (3.11%) Project Delivery
12 47 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 46 (2.99%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (2.99%) Collaborative Working
14 45 (2.92%) AI
14 45 (2.92%) Customer Experience
15 43 (2.79%) Workflow
16 42 (2.73%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (6.81%) SQL
2 48 (3.11%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.75%) Bash
3 27 (1.75%) Python
4 19 (1.23%) Shell Script
5 8 (0.52%) Go
5 8 (0.52%) R
6 6 (0.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.39%) Ruby
7 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.26%) C
8 3 (0.19%) C++
8 3 (0.19%) PHP
9 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.065%) Bicep
10 1 (0.065%) C#
10 1 (0.065%) Java
Qualifications
1 66 (4.28%) Security Cleared
2 45 (2.92%) SC Cleared
3 40 (2.60%) Degree
4 37 (2.40%) DBS Check
5 28 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.52%) CIPD
8 8 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.26%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.19%) HND
13 2 (0.13%) AAT
13 2 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.065%) CCNA
14 1 (0.065%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.57%) QA
2 51 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 31 (2.01%) SLA
4 28 (1.82%) GDPR
5 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.97%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.19%) GMP
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.19%) PMO
10 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.065%) COSHH
11 1 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.065%) GRC
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.065%) NIST
11 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.91%) Docker
5 8 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.45%) Ceph
7 5 (0.32%) iptables
7 5 (0.32%) vSphere
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) NFS
10 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.065%) Xen
10 1 (0.065%) XenApp
10 1 (0.065%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.47%) Ansible
2 25 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 19 (1.23%) Nessus
5 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.97%) Grafana
7 14 (0.91%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.52%) Podman
9 7 (0.45%) Argo
9 7 (0.45%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.45%) Istio
9 7 (0.45%) SCCM
10 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.39%) Puppet
11 5 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.26%) SCVMM
13 3 (0.19%) systemd
Vendors
1 388 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.80%) SAP
4 40 (2.60%) VMware
5 26 (1.69%) Sage
6 25 (1.62%) Oracle
7 23 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.10%) Google
10 16 (1.04%) HubSpot
11 13 (0.84%) HP
12 11 (0.71%) Veeam
13 10 (0.65%) Facebook
14 9 (0.58%) Dell
15 7 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
16 6 (0.39%) Citrix
16 6 (0.39%) Workday
17 5 (0.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 5 (0.32%) SonicWALL
17 5 (0.32%) Xero