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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 184 144
Rank change year-on-year +92 -40 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,535 513 928
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.78% 1.49% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.66% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 952 308 560
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -15.00% -9.63%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £56,533 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% -5.26%

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 80,086 30,882 51,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 89.41% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55,545 17,477 29,269
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 £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 26 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 26 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 +83 331 £35,000 +20.69% 175
North of England +91 324 £36,500 +10.61% 185
Midlands +79 306 £35,000 -16.67% 135
South West -23 213 £30,000 -25.00% 87
East of England +37 187 £35,000 +7.69% 90
North West +81 184 £38,250 +41.67% 90
West Midlands +68 165 £30,000 -36.84% 71
East Midlands +41 141 £40,000 +12.68% 64
Scotland +87 106 £43,500 +59.63% 34
Yorkshire +24 105 £35,250 -14.02% 69
Wales -19 49 £28,196 +16.75% 27
North East -35 35 £39,000 -17.89% 28
Northern Ireland -64 27 £45,000 +73.08% 24
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 389 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 219 (14.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 210 (13.68%) Customer Service
4 194 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
5 181 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
6 139 (9.06%) CRM
7 131 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 118 (7.69%) Linux
10 117 (7.62%) Windows
11 107 (6.97%) SQL
12 99 (6.45%) Azure
13 94 (6.12%) Active Directory
14 88 (5.73%) Logistics
15 85 (5.54%) ERP
16 81 (5.28%) Windows Server
17 80 (5.21%) Salesforce
18 74 (4.82%) Time Management
19 72 (4.69%) SAP
20 67 (4.36%) SharePoint
21 65 (4.23%) Power Platform
21 65 (4.23%) Security Cleared
22 63 (4.10%) Entra ID
23 61 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
23 61 (3.97%) Data Entry
24 60 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
25 58 (3.78%) DevOps
25 58 (3.78%) Spreadsheet
26 55 (3.58%) QA
27 53 (3.45%) Data Quality

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 67 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 60 (3.91%) 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
1 219 (14.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 181 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.78%) Spreadsheet
4 25 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.065%) Elementor
7 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (1.63%) Primavera
2 15 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.59%) Sage 200
4 8 (0.52%) SAP CRM
5 6 (0.39%) Shopify
6 5 (0.33%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.26%) Odoo
7 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Maximo
9 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.065%) Infor CloudSuite
10 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 131 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (6.45%) Azure
3 65 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 63 (4.10%) Entra ID
5 53 (3.45%) SaaS
6 49 (3.19%) AWS
7 25 (1.63%) GitHub
8 23 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 15 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (0.85%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.85%) PaaS
14 10 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
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 (3.39%) Firewall
2 40 (2.61%) DNS
3 31 (2.02%) VPN
4 29 (1.89%) DHCP
5 19 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.91%) Broadband
7 13 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.72%) LAN
8 11 (0.72%) SAN
8 11 (0.72%) WAN
9 8 (0.52%) Internet
9 8 (0.52%) Network Security
10 7 (0.46%) VLAN
10 7 (0.46%) Wireless
11 4 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.26%) VSAN
12 3 (0.20%) NGN
12 3 (0.20%) SSH
13 2 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 47 (3.06%) Power BI
3 22 (1.43%) MySQL
4 15 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 13 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 10 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.59%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.33%) Power Query
10 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.20%) GIS
11 3 (0.20%) MS Access
11 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.13%) Big Data
12 2 (0.13%) KNIME
12 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (1.17%) 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
1 384 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 229 (14.92%) Organisational Skills
3 184 (11.99%) Finance
4 94 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (5.15%) Marketing
6 70 (4.56%) Retail
7 69 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 68 (4.43%) Law
9 55 (3.58%) Legal
10 49 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.82%) Public Sector
12 24 (1.56%) Automotive
12 24 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.30%) Billing
13 20 (1.30%) Military
14 18 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.98%) Advertising
16 13 (0.85%) Legal Technology
17 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.46%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.63%) Terraform
2 6 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.33%) CSS
3 5 (0.33%) HTML
3 5 (0.33%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.20%) 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%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.065%) Middleware
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 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 60 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (2.67%) Replication
5 35 (2.28%) Clustering
6 34 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 22 (1.43%) Social Media
8 17 (1.11%) NHS
9 15 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 14 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.78%) Operational Technology
12 11 (0.72%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.65%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.46%) Data Centre
16 6 (0.39%) Housing Association
16 6 (0.39%) PMI
17 5 (0.33%) Educational Technology
17 5 (0.33%) Virtual Team
18 4 (0.26%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 118 (7.69%) Linux
2 117 (7.62%) Windows
3 81 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.30%) Android
7 15 (0.98%) Unix
8 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.65%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.52%) Debian
12 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.33%) CentOS
14 4 (0.26%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.26%) Solaris
15 3 (0.20%) Rocky
16 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (13.68%) Customer Service
2 194 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
3 139 (9.06%) CRM
4 123 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (5.73%) Logistics
6 85 (5.54%) ERP
7 74 (4.82%) Time Management
8 61 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
8 61 (3.97%) Data Entry
9 58 (3.78%) DevOps
10 50 (3.26%) Project Delivery
11 49 (3.19%) Service Delivery
12 48 (3.13%) High Availability
12 48 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (3.06%) Business Intelligence
14 45 (2.93%) Collaborative Working
14 45 (2.93%) Customer Experience
15 44 (2.87%) AI
15 44 (2.87%) Workflow
16 42 (2.74%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (6.97%) SQL
2 50 (3.26%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.76%) Python
4 26 (1.69%) Bash
5 18 (1.17%) Shell Script
6 9 (0.59%) R
7 8 (0.52%) Go
8 6 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.39%) Ruby
9 5 (0.33%) C
10 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.20%) C++
11 3 (0.20%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.065%) Bicep
13 1 (0.065%) C#
13 1 (0.065%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 45 (2.93%) SC Cleared
3 39 (2.54%) Degree
4 38 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 27 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.52%) CIPD
8 8 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (0.46%) 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 (0.20%) HND
13 2 (0.13%) AAT
13 2 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.065%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.065%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.58%) QA
2 53 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.95%) SLA
4 28 (1.82%) GDPR
5 18 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.26%) PMO
10 3 (0.20%) GMP
10 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.065%) COSHH
12 1 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.065%) GRC
12 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.065%) NIST
12 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.19%) Hyper-V
3 15 (0.98%) Docker
3 15 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.46%) Ceph
4 7 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.33%) iptables
6 4 (0.26%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) Xen
9 1 (0.065%) XenApp
9 1 (0.065%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (2.35%) Ansible
2 25 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 19 (1.24%) Nessus
5 14 (0.91%) Grafana
5 14 (0.91%) Proxmox
6 8 (0.52%) Podman
7 7 (0.46%) Argo
7 7 (0.46%) Check_MK
7 7 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.46%) Istio
7 7 (0.46%) SCCM
8 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.39%) Puppet
9 5 (0.33%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.26%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 389 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.21%) Salesforce
3 72 (4.69%) SAP
4 39 (2.54%) VMware
5 27 (1.76%) Sage
6 25 (1.63%) Oracle
7 23 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.11%) Google
9 17 (1.11%) HubSpot
10 12 (0.78%) HP
10 12 (0.78%) Veeam
11 10 (0.65%) Facebook
12 9 (0.59%) Dell
13 8 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.39%) Citrix
14 6 (0.39%) SonicWALL
14 6 (0.39%) Workday
15 5 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 5 (0.33%) Xero