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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 186 142
Rank change year-on-year +89 -44 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,429 527 948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.72% 1.53% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.71% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 913 326 615
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £23,700
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £56,533 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £38,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.23% -12.63%

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 77,965 30,790 52,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 89.32% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,160 17,488 31,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,536
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 £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 14 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 14 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 +84 312 £39,500 +19.70% 144
South East +67 291 £35,000 - 160
Midlands +75 280 £37,500 -11.76% 95
South West -24 197 £30,000 -25.00% 80
North West +82 184 £40,000 +48.15% 62
East of England +35 178 £35,000 +7.69% 75
West Midlands +70 154 £28,750 -39.47% 44
East Midlands +32 126 £40,000 +3.23% 51
Scotland +78 103 £45,000 +66.67% 25
Yorkshire +31 99 £35,000 -14.63% 57
Wales -30 47 £28,392 -20.75% 17
North East -38 29 £39,000 -1.27% 28
Northern Ireland -60 27 £45,000 +73.08% 10
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 324 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 169 (11.83%) Customer Service
2 169 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 169 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
3 151 (10.57%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (8.68%) CRM
4 124 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (8.12%) Linux
6 111 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (7.70%) Windows
8 109 (7.63%) SQL
9 97 (6.79%) Azure
10 86 (6.02%) Active Directory
11 77 (5.39%) Logistics
12 74 (5.18%) ERP
13 72 (5.04%) Windows Server
14 69 (4.83%) Salesforce
15 65 (4.55%) SharePoint
16 64 (4.48%) Power Platform
16 64 (4.48%) Security Cleared
17 59 (4.13%) Entra ID
17 59 (4.13%) SAP
18 58 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
19 56 (3.92%) Time Management
20 55 (3.85%) DevOps
21 54 (3.78%) Data Quality
21 54 (3.78%) SQL Server
22 53 (3.71%) Cybersecurity
22 53 (3.71%) SaaS
23 52 (3.64%) QA

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 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 58 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.28%) IIS
4 4 (0.28%) WordPress
5 2 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.070%) Apache
6 1 (0.070%) CMS
6 1 (0.070%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.070%) JBoss
6 1 (0.070%) Mendix
6 1 (0.070%) nginx
6 1 (0.070%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 169 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (10.57%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.59%) Spreadsheet
4 21 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.63%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.070%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (1.61%) Primavera
2 17 (1.19%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.49%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Odoo
4 4 (0.28%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.28%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.070%) Maximo
7 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (6.79%) Azure
3 64 (4.48%) Power Platform
4 59 (4.13%) Entra ID
5 53 (3.71%) SaaS
6 43 (3.01%) AWS
7 22 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.54%) GitHub
8 21 (1.47%) Power Automate
9 18 (1.26%) OpenShift
10 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (0.98%) PowerApps
11 13 (0.91%) Mimecast
11 13 (0.91%) PaaS
12 10 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.42%) MailChimp
14 6 (0.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (0.35%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.15%) Firewall
2 36 (2.52%) DNS
3 26 (1.82%) DHCP
4 25 (1.75%) VPN
5 16 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.91%) Broadband
7 12 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.77%) SAN
9 10 (0.70%) LAN
9 10 (0.70%) WAN
10 8 (0.56%) Internet
11 7 (0.49%) Network Security
11 7 (0.49%) VLAN
12 5 (0.35%) Wireless
13 4 (0.28%) VSAN
14 3 (0.21%) NGN
14 3 (0.21%) SSH
14 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
15 2 (0.14%) SSL
16 1 (0.070%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 46 (3.22%) Power BI
3 23 (1.61%) MySQL
4 15 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 10 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.63%) SAP HANA
7 8 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.28%) Power Query
11 3 (0.21%) GIS
11 3 (0.21%) MS Access
11 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.14%) Big Data
12 2 (0.14%) KNIME
12 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (1.12%) Git
2 15 (1.05%) JIRA
3 4 (0.28%) 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 (0.070%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.070%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.070%) Selenium
5 1 (0.070%) TeamCity
General
1 328 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 179 (12.53%) Organisational Skills
3 161 (11.27%) Finance
4 77 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (4.83%) Marketing
6 61 (4.27%) Law
7 59 (4.13%) Retail
8 56 (3.92%) Manufacturing
9 48 (3.36%) Legal
10 45 (3.15%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.47%) Automotive
13 19 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.26%) Military
15 13 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.84%) Advertising
16 12 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.84%) Billing
17 7 (0.49%) Police
18 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.47%) Terraform
2 7 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.35%) CSS
3 5 (0.35%) HTML
3 5 (0.35%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.14%) OpenID
5 2 (0.14%) REST
6 1 (0.070%) CSS3
6 1 (0.070%) HTML5
6 1 (0.070%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.070%) OAuth
6 1 (0.070%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.070%) ODBC
6 1 (0.070%) OpenTofu
6 1 (0.070%) React
6 1 (0.070%) Redfish
6 1 (0.070%) SOAP
6 1 (0.070%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 41 (2.87%) Replication
4 38 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.38%) Clustering
6 30 (2.10%) Driving Licence
7 21 (1.47%) Social Media
8 14 (0.98%) NHS
9 13 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 11 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (0.70%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.63%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.56%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.35%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.35%) Housing Association
14 5 (0.35%) PMI
14 5 (0.35%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.28%) PKI
15 4 (0.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 116 (8.12%) Linux
2 110 (7.70%) Windows
3 72 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.47%) Android
7 15 (1.05%) Unix
8 14 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.70%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.56%) Debian
12 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.35%) CentOS
14 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.28%) Solaris
15 3 (0.21%) Rocky
16 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (11.83%) Customer Service
1 169 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (8.68%) CRM
3 111 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (5.39%) Logistics
5 74 (5.18%) ERP
6 56 (3.92%) Time Management
7 55 (3.85%) DevOps
8 53 (3.71%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 47 (3.29%) High Availability
11 46 (3.22%) Project Delivery
11 46 (3.22%) Service Delivery
12 40 (2.80%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (2.73%) Workflow
14 38 (2.66%) AI
14 38 (2.66%) Customer Experience
14 38 (2.66%) Data Entry
15 34 (2.38%) Facilities Management
16 33 (2.31%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (7.63%) SQL
2 50 (3.50%) PowerShell
3 25 (1.75%) Python
4 24 (1.68%) Bash
5 18 (1.26%) Shell Script
6 9 (0.63%) R
7 6 (0.42%) C
7 6 (0.42%) Go
7 6 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.42%) Ruby
8 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.21%) C++
9 3 (0.21%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.070%) C#
11 1 (0.070%) Java
11 1 (0.070%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (4.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 33 (2.31%) DBS Check
4 29 (2.03%) Degree
4 29 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (0.35%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.21%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.21%) CIPD
10 3 (0.21%) HND
11 2 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.070%) CCNA
12 1 (0.070%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 52 (3.64%) QA
3 25 (1.75%) SLA
4 19 (1.33%) GDPR
5 15 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 14 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.35%) ISO 14001
8 5 (0.35%) PMO
9 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.070%) COSHH
10 1 (0.070%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.070%) GMP
10 1 (0.070%) GRC
10 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.070%) NIST
10 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.22%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.05%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.49%) Ceph
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.35%) iptables
8 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.070%) Firmware
9 1 (0.070%) NFS
9 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (2.24%) Ansible
2 23 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.40%) Nessus
5 18 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.91%) Proxmox
7 11 (0.77%) Grafana
8 8 (0.56%) Podman
9 7 (0.49%) Argo
9 7 (0.49%) Check_MK
9 7 (0.49%) Istio
10 6 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.42%) Puppet
10 6 (0.42%) SCCM
11 4 (0.28%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.28%) SCVMM
11 4 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.21%) systemd
Vendors
1 324 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.83%) Salesforce
3 59 (4.13%) SAP
4 31 (2.17%) VMware
5 25 (1.75%) Oracle
5 25 (1.75%) Sage
6 24 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 20 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 12 (0.84%) Google
9 12 (0.84%) Veeam
10 11 (0.77%) HP
11 8 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (0.56%) Facebook
12 7 (0.49%) Dell
13 5 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.35%) SonicWALL
13 5 (0.35%) Workday
14 4 (0.28%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.28%) Zoho