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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 197 159
Rank change year-on-year +95 -38 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,267 524 960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.52% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.70% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 849 346 740
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,125 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,063 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -12.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -15.79%

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 72,153 30,862 56,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 89.57% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49,865 17,782 37,476
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 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 8 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 +84 309 £35,000 +16.67% 104
Midlands +95 254 £40,000 -4.76% 93
South East +43 237 £37,500 +7.14% 138
South West -14 177 £30,000 -33.33% 57
North West +82 176 £35,000 +32.08% 52
East of England +37 158 £35,000 +7.69% 56
West Midlands +65 128 £37,500 -31.00% 52
East Midlands +40 126 £40,000 +12.68% 42
Yorkshire +25 102 £35,000 -14.63% 34
Scotland +77 91 £43,500 +67.31% 25
North East -26 31 £35,000 +25.00% 19
Wales -37 29 £30,000 -36.84% 19
Northern Ireland -60 17 £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 8 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.

1 263 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 140 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (9.87%) Azure
4 124 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 117 (9.23%) CRM
6 115 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (8.68%) Customer Service
7 110 (8.68%) SQL
8 109 (8.60%) Linux
9 103 (8.13%) Windows
10 101 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
12 83 (6.55%) Active Directory
13 73 (5.76%) AWS
13 73 (5.76%) ERP
14 66 (5.21%) Salesforce
15 64 (5.05%) Security Cleared
15 64 (5.05%) Windows Server
16 59 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
17 58 (4.58%) SharePoint
18 57 (4.50%) Python
19 56 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
19 56 (4.42%) Entra ID
19 56 (4.42%) Logistics
20 54 (4.26%) Data Quality
20 54 (4.26%) Power Platform
21 51 (4.03%) Git
22 50 (3.95%) DevOps
23 49 (3.87%) GitHub
23 49 (3.87%) Hyper-V

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 59 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.00%) WordPress
4 8 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.079%) Apache
7 1 (0.079%) CMS
7 1 (0.079%) ExpressionEngine
7 1 (0.079%) JBoss
7 1 (0.079%) Mendix
7 1 (0.079%) nginx
7 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 124 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.32%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.10%) Primavera
3 6 (0.47%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.39%) iTrent
5 4 (0.32%) Odoo
6 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.24%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.16%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.16%) Shopify
8 1 (0.079%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (9.87%) Azure
2 115 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (5.76%) AWS
4 56 (4.42%) Entra ID
5 54 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 49 (3.87%) GitHub
7 46 (3.63%) SaaS
8 18 (1.42%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (1.18%) Mimecast
10 13 (1.03%) PaaS
10 13 (1.03%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.71%) PowerApps
12 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.39%) GCP
14 5 (0.39%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.71%) Internet
2 45 (3.55%) Firewall
3 33 (2.60%) DNS
4 23 (1.82%) DHCP
4 23 (1.82%) Wireless
5 20 (1.58%) VPN
6 18 (1.42%) Broadband
7 14 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.03%) SAN
8 13 (1.03%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.71%) LAN
9 9 (0.71%) Network Security
9 9 (0.71%) WAN
10 6 (0.47%) VLAN
11 4 (0.32%) VSAN
12 3 (0.24%) SSH
13 2 (0.16%) SSL
14 1 (0.079%) FTP
14 1 (0.079%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.079%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.87%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.24%) Power BI
3 23 (1.82%) MySQL
4 13 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 10 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.71%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.39%) Power Query
11 4 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.24%) GIS
12 3 (0.24%) MS Access
12 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.24%) Tableau
13 2 (0.16%) KNIME
13 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (4.03%) Git
2 13 (1.03%) JIRA
3 4 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.16%) Ant
4 2 (0.16%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.079%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.079%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.079%) Selenium
5 1 (0.079%) TeamCity
General
1 238 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 143 (11.29%) Finance
3 104 (8.21%) Organisational Skills
4 63 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (4.58%) Marketing
6 44 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.16%) Law
8 38 (3.00%) Retail
9 36 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.76%) Multimedia
11 29 (2.29%) Legal
12 19 (1.50%) Public Sector
13 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.26%) Military
15 14 (1.10%) Billing
16 9 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.71%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.63%) Games
18 7 (0.55%) Back Office
18 7 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.92%) CSS
1 37 (2.92%) HTML
2 9 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.39%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.24%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.24%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.16%) OpenID
5 2 (0.16%) REST
6 1 (0.079%) CSS3
6 1 (0.079%) HTML5
6 1 (0.079%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.079%) Middleware
6 1 (0.079%) OAuth
6 1 (0.079%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.079%) ODBC
6 1 (0.079%) React
6 1 (0.079%) Redfish
6 1 (0.079%) SAML
6 1 (0.079%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.00%) Replication
2 37 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 35 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.68%) Clustering
5 27 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 15 (1.18%) Social Media
7 11 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.71%) NHS
9 7 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.39%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.32%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.32%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.32%) PKI
11 4 (0.32%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.32%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.32%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.60%) Linux
2 103 (8.13%) Windows
3 64 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.58%) Android
7 15 (1.18%) Unix
8 14 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.87%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.63%) Debian
12 6 (0.47%) CentOS
12 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.32%) Solaris
14 3 (0.24%) Rocky
15 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (9.23%) CRM
3 110 (8.68%) Customer Service
4 101 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (5.76%) ERP
6 56 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (4.42%) Logistics
7 50 (3.95%) DevOps
8 48 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 45 (3.55%) High Availability
10 44 (3.47%) Service Delivery
11 42 (3.31%) Time Management
12 40 (3.16%) Data Management
12 40 (3.16%) Web Development
13 36 (2.84%) ITIL
14 34 (2.68%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (2.68%) Project Delivery
15 32 (2.53%) Customer Experience
15 32 (2.53%) Workflow
16 31 (2.45%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (8.68%) SQL
2 57 (4.50%) Python
3 47 (3.71%) PowerShell
4 45 (3.55%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.47%) R
6 21 (1.66%) Bash
7 19 (1.50%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.55%) C
9 6 (0.47%) Ruby
10 5 (0.39%) VBA
11 3 (0.24%) C++
11 3 (0.24%) Go
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.079%) C#
13 1 (0.079%) Java
Qualifications
1 64 (5.05%) Security Cleared
2 42 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (3.31%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.24%) AWS Certification
3 41 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 35 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 31 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 26 (2.05%) Degree
8 20 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
9 18 (1.42%) A+ Certification
10 9 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.55%) CIPD
12 5 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.24%) HND
13 3 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.079%) AAT
15 1 (0.079%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 49 (3.87%) QA
3 27 (2.13%) GDPR
4 19 (1.50%) SLA
5 18 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.95%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.24%) PMO
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.079%) GRC
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.079%) NIST
12 1 (0.079%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.87%) Hyper-V
3 17 (1.34%) Docker
4 12 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.55%) Ceph
6 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.39%) iptables
8 4 (0.32%) Firmware
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
10 1 (0.079%) NFS
10 1 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.079%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (2.29%) Ansible
2 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.66%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.50%) Nessus
5 18 (1.42%) Terraform
6 14 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.87%) Proxmox
8 10 (0.79%) Puppet
9 8 (0.63%) Podman
10 7 (0.55%) Argo
10 7 (0.55%) Check_MK
10 7 (0.55%) Grafana
10 7 (0.55%) Istio
11 6 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.47%) SCCM
12 5 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.32%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.32%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 263 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.21%) Salesforce
3 44 (3.47%) SAP
4 29 (2.29%) Red Hat
5 27 (2.13%) VMware
6 26 (2.05%) Sage
7 23 (1.82%) HubSpot
8 22 (1.74%) Oracle
9 18 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.10%) Veeam
11 13 (1.03%) HP
12 11 (0.87%) Google
13 10 (0.79%) Dell
14 8 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.63%) Zoho
15 7 (0.55%) SonicWALL
16 6 (0.47%) Facebook
17 5 (0.39%) Cisco
17 5 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 4 (0.32%) McAfee