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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 209 125
Rank change year-on-year +101 -84 +68
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,033 445 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 1.48% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.66% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 731 302 1,286
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,125 £22,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,813 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.81%
75th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,125 £60,000
UK median annual salary £36,256 £40,000 £35,404
% change year-on-year -9.36% +12.98% -25.47%

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 64,143 26,818 75,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.95% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44,495 14,592 54,171
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +94 288 £35,000 +27.27% 59
Midlands +76 212 £37,500 +1.35% 45
South East +32 177 £35,000 -23.08% 80
North West +84 157 £35,000 +32.08% 40
East of England +49 157 £35,000 +7.69% 37
South West -22 125 £31,500 -37.00% 42
East Midlands +31 116 £37,720 +11.76% 19
Yorkshire +22 100 £35,000 -30.00% 14
West Midlands +45 96 £37,500 -11.76% 27
Scotland +46 60 £31,000 +19.23% 12
North East -26 31 £42,500 +51.79% 5
Wales -35 21 £30,000 -36.84% 6
Northern Ireland -28 6 £45,000 +73.08% 6
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 207 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 129 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 100 (9.68%) CRM
5 96 (9.29%) Azure
5 96 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
6 95 (9.20%) SQL
7 79 (7.65%) Linux
8 78 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (7.26%) Customer Service
9 75 (7.26%) ERP
10 67 (6.49%) Windows
11 64 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
12 59 (5.71%) Active Directory
12 59 (5.71%) AWS
13 57 (5.52%) Salesforce
14 54 (5.23%) Python
15 51 (4.94%) Data Quality
16 49 (4.74%) Cybersecurity
16 49 (4.74%) Logistics
17 46 (4.45%) Power Platform
18 45 (4.36%) GitHub
18 45 (4.36%) Internet
19 44 (4.26%) SAP
19 44 (4.26%) SharePoint
20 43 (4.16%) AWS Certification
20 43 (4.16%) Entra ID
21 42 (4.07%) Firewall
21 42 (4.07%) JavaScript
22 40 (3.87%) Azure Certification

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 44 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.48%) WordPress
4 3 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.097%) Mendix
5 1 (0.097%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 114 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.65%) iTrent
3 11 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.97%) Primavera
5 8 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.68%) Odoo
7 6 (0.58%) Sage 200
8 4 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.19%) Magento
9 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (9.29%) Azure
1 96 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (5.71%) AWS
3 46 (4.45%) Power Platform
4 45 (4.36%) GitHub
5 43 (4.16%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (1.45%) SaaS
8 11 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (0.97%) Mimecast
10 9 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.68%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.39%) GCP
14 4 (0.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 3 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.29%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.36%) Internet
2 42 (4.07%) Firewall
3 21 (2.03%) Wireless
4 15 (1.45%) VPN
5 14 (1.36%) DNS
6 13 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (1.06%) Broadband
8 9 (0.87%) Network Security
8 9 (0.87%) SAN
9 8 (0.77%) DHCP
10 5 (0.48%) LAN
10 5 (0.48%) WAN
11 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.29%) SSH
13 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.19%) VoIP
14 1 (0.097%) DKIM
14 1 (0.097%) DMARC
14 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.097%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.39%) Power BI
3 23 (2.23%) MySQL
4 11 (1.06%) SAP HANA
5 6 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.29%) GIS
8 3 (0.29%) Power Query
8 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.29%) Tableau
9 2 (0.19%) KNIME
9 2 (0.19%) MS Access
9 2 (0.19%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (3.58%) Git
2 6 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 173 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 113 (10.94%) Finance
3 76 (7.36%) Organisational Skills
4 45 (4.36%) Marketing
5 43 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.78%) Retail
8 35 (3.39%) Law
8 35 (3.39%) Multimedia
9 27 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 16 (1.55%) Back Office
12 15 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.36%) Legal
13 14 (1.36%) Military
14 10 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.77%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.77%) Games
16 6 (0.58%) Billing
17 5 (0.48%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.68%) CSS
1 38 (3.68%) HTML
2 5 (0.48%) SAP Basis
3 4 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (0.29%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.19%) REST
6 1 (0.097%) Middleware
6 1 (0.097%) ODBC
6 1 (0.097%) OpenID
6 1 (0.097%) SAML
6 1 (0.097%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.71%) Replication
2 23 (2.23%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.03%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (1.65%) Clustering
5 14 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (0.77%) NHS
8 8 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 6 (0.58%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.48%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.48%) PKI
10 5 (0.48%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.39%) Smart Meter
12 3 (0.29%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.29%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.65%) Linux
2 67 (6.49%) Windows
3 33 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.84%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.74%) Android
5 18 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.68%) Debian
7 7 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.58%) Unix
9 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.19%) CentOS
10 2 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (9.68%) CRM
3 78 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (7.26%) Customer Service
4 75 (7.26%) ERP
5 49 (4.74%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (4.74%) Logistics
6 38 (3.68%) Web Development
7 35 (3.39%) DevOps
7 35 (3.39%) Process Improvement
8 33 (3.19%) Data Entry
9 32 (3.10%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (3.10%) Data Management
10 30 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (2.81%) High Availability
11 29 (2.81%) Service Delivery
12 26 (2.52%) Project Delivery
13 25 (2.42%) Analytics
13 25 (2.42%) Vulnerability Management
14 24 (2.32%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (9.20%) SQL
2 54 (5.23%) Python
3 42 (4.07%) JavaScript
4 40 (3.87%) R
5 32 (3.10%) PowerShell
6 18 (1.74%) Bash
7 16 (1.55%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.77%) Go
9 6 (0.58%) C
10 5 (0.48%) VBA
11 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.29%) PHP
12 3 (0.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.097%) C#
14 1 (0.097%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (4.16%) AWS Certification
2 40 (3.87%) Azure Certification
3 39 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 38 (3.68%) Security Cleared
5 35 (3.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 21 (2.03%) Degree
6 21 (2.03%) SC Cleared
7 20 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 18 (1.74%) A+ Certification
8 18 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.97%) CIPD
11 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.19%) AAT
13 2 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.19%) HND
14 1 (0.097%) CCNA
14 1 (0.097%) CCNP
14 1 (0.097%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.29%) QA
3 31 (3.00%) GDPR
4 14 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.06%) ISO 9001
5 11 (1.06%) SLA
6 8 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.29%) PMO
10 1 (0.097%) GRC
10 1 (0.097%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.097%) NIST
10 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.90%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.68%) Docker
5 5 (0.48%) iptables
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.65%) Nessus
3 16 (1.55%) Ansible
3 16 (1.55%) Proxmox
4 15 (1.45%) Terraform
5 14 (1.36%) Kubernetes
6 11 (1.06%) Grafana
6 11 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.29%) SCCM
8 3 (0.29%) systemd
9 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.097%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.097%) Podman
10 1 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.52%) Salesforce
3 44 (4.26%) SAP
4 22 (2.13%) VMware
5 19 (1.84%) Sage
6 17 (1.65%) HubSpot
7 16 (1.55%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.16%) HP
9 12 (1.16%) Veeam
10 11 (1.06%) Oracle
11 10 (0.97%) Zoho
12 8 (0.77%) Facebook
12 8 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.68%) SonicWALL
14 4 (0.39%) Cisco
14 4 (0.39%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.39%) Google
14 4 (0.39%) Meraki
14 4 (0.39%) SYSPRO