Administrator Jobs in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 197 253
Rank change year-on-year +44 +56 -27
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 825 604 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.52% 1.77% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.85% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 489 466 644
10th Percentile £24,200 £23,750 £25,332
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 51,365 32,680 65,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 96.01% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25,610 22,460 39,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,871 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK excluding London

Administrator
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Administrator 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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 -3 206 £45,000 -3.23% 79
South West +57 180 £50,000 -1.48% 46
North of England +26 150 £35,000 -20.93% 72
Midlands -2 143 £45,000 - 38
East of England -32 90 £43,500 +45.00% 49
West Midlands -6 75 £45,000 +5.88% 26
North West -23 72 £40,000 -9.63% 50
East Midlands -27 68 £34,848 -22.56% 12
Yorkshire +33 45 £32,500 -12.16% 20
Scotland 0 35 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -9 33 £28,482 -45.75% 2
Wales +23 15 £43,000 +32.31% 11
Northern Ireland +21 6 £27,250 -0.91% 3
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 218 (26.42%) Windows
2 197 (23.88%) Microsoft
3 187 (22.67%) Social Skills
4 131 (15.88%) Security Cleared
5 126 (15.27%) Azure
6 120 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (13.58%) Active Directory
8 108 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
9 105 (12.73%) Linux
10 99 (12.00%) VMware
11 96 (11.64%) Customer Service
12 92 (11.15%) SQL
13 86 (10.42%) Windows Server
14 84 (10.18%) SQL Server
15 80 (9.70%) Finance
16 79 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
17 76 (9.21%) Degree
18 75 (9.09%) DV Cleared
19 73 (8.85%) SharePoint
20 71 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
21 64 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
22 60 (7.27%) Oracle
23 56 (6.79%) Firewall
24 55 (6.67%) ITIL
25 52 (6.30%) DNS
26 51 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
26 51 (6.18%) PKI
27 50 (6.06%) DHCP
28 48 (5.82%) PowerShell
29 45 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (8.85%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.21%) CMS
4 9 (1.09%) Confluence
5 5 (0.61%) IIS
5 5 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.36%) Apache
6 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.24%) Documentum
7 2 (0.24%) Drupal
7 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.12%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.06%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.09%) Shopify
4 8 (0.97%) iTrent
5 6 (0.73%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.48%) Maximo
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.24%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) Cognos Controller
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (15.27%) Azure
2 108 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (4.73%) AWS
4 38 (4.61%) Power Platform
5 36 (4.36%) Entra ID
6 14 (1.70%) SaaS
7 12 (1.45%) Power Automate
7 12 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 11 (1.33%) GCP
9 9 (1.09%) OCI
9 9 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.73%) DigitalOcean
11 6 (0.73%) IaaS
11 6 (0.73%) PaaS
11 6 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.48%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.48%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.48%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.79%) Firewall
2 52 (6.30%) DNS
3 50 (6.06%) DHCP
4 37 (4.48%) VPN
5 29 (3.52%) LAN
5 29 (3.52%) VLAN
6 22 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.67%) WAN
7 20 (2.42%) NAS
7 20 (2.42%) SAN
8 19 (2.30%) Internet
9 14 (1.70%) Wireless
10 13 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (1.45%) Intranet
12 11 (1.33%) SSL
13 9 (1.09%) Network Security
14 7 (0.85%) VoIP
14 7 (0.85%) VSAN
15 6 (0.73%) IPsec
15 6 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.42%) Power BI
3 18 (2.18%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (0.73%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.61%) Tableau
10 4 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.48%) Looker
11 3 (0.36%) Big Data
12 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.70%) JIRA
2 11 (1.33%) Git
3 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
General
1 187 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 80 (9.70%) Finance
3 64 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.00%) Retail
5 29 (3.52%) Manufacturing
5 29 (3.52%) Marketing
5 29 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.79%) Legal
8 14 (1.70%) Public Sector
8 14 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (1.33%) Law
10 11 (1.33%) Local Government
11 9 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.97%) Advertising
12 8 (0.97%) Police
13 7 (0.85%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.73%) Back Office
14 6 (0.73%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.33%) Middleware
2 9 (1.09%) LDAP
2 9 (1.09%) Web Services
3 8 (0.97%) EDI
3 8 (0.97%) HTML
3 8 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (0.97%) XML
4 6 (0.73%) CSS
5 5 (0.61%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.48%) .NET
6 4 (0.48%) Ajax
7 3 (0.36%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.36%) OpenACC
7 3 (0.36%) OpenMP
7 3 (0.36%) React
7 3 (0.36%) Visualforce
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 2 (0.24%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.24%) XML Messaging
9 1 (0.12%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.18%) PKI
2 40 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.67%) Replication
5 19 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.70%) AS400
8 12 (1.45%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.45%) Life Science
9 10 (1.21%) Clustering
9 10 (1.21%) iSeries
10 8 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.61%) Biopharmaceutical
13 5 (0.61%) CMDB
13 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 218 (26.42%) Windows
2 105 (12.73%) Linux
3 86 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (2.18%) Windows 10
7 17 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.94%) CentOS
8 16 (1.94%) Unix
8 16 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (1.82%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.33%) Apple iOS
10 11 (1.33%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.97%) VMS
12 7 (0.85%) Debian
13 6 (0.73%) Android
13 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (11.64%) Customer Service
3 55 (6.67%) ITIL
4 39 (4.73%) Change Management
5 38 (4.61%) Performance Tuning
6 37 (4.48%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (4.24%) ERP
8 34 (4.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (4.00%) Analytics
10 31 (3.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (3.64%) Logistics
11 30 (3.64%) Storage Management
12 27 (3.27%) High Availability
12 27 (3.27%) Project Management
13 25 (3.03%) Data Management
13 25 (3.03%) Mentoring
13 25 (3.03%) Migration
14 24 (2.91%) CRM
15 23 (2.79%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (2.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 92 (11.15%) SQL
2 48 (5.82%) PowerShell
3 28 (3.39%) Python
4 20 (2.42%) Bash
5 14 (1.70%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.70%) T-SQL
6 11 (1.33%) C#
7 9 (1.09%) Java
8 8 (0.97%) PHP
9 7 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.73%) C++
11 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.61%) R
12 3 (0.36%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.36%) C
12 3 (0.36%) C-shell
12 3 (0.36%) Fortran
12 3 (0.36%) Perl
12 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 76 (9.21%) Degree
3 75 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 27 (3.27%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.61%) CIPD
11 5 (0.61%) RHCE
11 5 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.48%) PMP
13 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.15%) SLA
3 21 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.06%) QA
5 12 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.09%) GDPR
8 8 (0.97%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 7 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.85%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.73%) NIST
11 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) COSHH
13 1 (0.12%) NEBOSH
13 1 (0.12%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 79 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.94%) Docker
6 14 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.70%) vSphere
7 13 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.36%) Ceph
10 3 (0.36%) GPFS
10 3 (0.36%) KVM
10 3 (0.36%) Lustre
10 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.24%) Firmware
11 2 (0.24%) NFS
11 2 (0.24%) Samba
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (2.67%) Ansible
2 21 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.82%) SCCM
4 11 (1.33%) EMC VPLEX
4 11 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.33%) SCOM
4 11 (1.33%) vCenter Server
4 11 (1.33%) WSUS
5 9 (1.09%) Terraform
6 6 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (0.73%) VxRail
7 5 (0.61%) Puppet
7 5 (0.61%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 3 (0.36%) Podman
8 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 197 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.00%) VMware
3 60 (7.27%) Oracle
4 28 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.15%) IBM
6 24 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 23 (2.79%) Veeam
8 19 (2.30%) EMC
9 16 (1.94%) Apple
10 15 (1.82%) Dell
11 12 (1.45%) Cisco
11 12 (1.45%) Citrix
11 12 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.33%) SAP
13 10 (1.21%) Google
14 8 (0.97%) Remedy
15 7 (0.85%) NetApp
16 6 (0.73%) Juniper
16 6 (0.73%) NEC
17 5 (0.61%) Epicor