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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 210 130
Rank change year-on-year +104 -80 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,079 462 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 1.44% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.61% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 756 312 1,226
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,125 £22,044
25th Percentile £29,000 £25,938 £24,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.63%
75th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £36,500 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +11.11% -22.58%

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 66,057 28,677 72,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 89.28% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45,830 16,080 51,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,253 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +84 285 £35,000 +25.00% 87
Midlands +72 221 £37,500 +5.63% 41
South East +40 191 £36,500 -18.89% 84
East of England +57 162 £35,000 +7.69% 38
North West +69 155 £35,000 +32.08% 57
South West -16 139 £31,500 -30.00% 55
East Midlands +40 120 £40,000 +42.86% 18
West Midlands +46 101 £37,500 -11.76% 24
Yorkshire +26 99 £35,000 -20.00% 22
Scotland +64 65 £32,500 +25.00% 21
North East -28 31 £42,500 +51.79% 9
Wales -26 21 £30,000 -36.84% 7
Northern Ireland -42 6 £45,000 +73.08% 7
Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 214 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 131 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 104 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (9.36%) SQL
6 100 (9.27%) CRM
7 99 (9.18%) Azure
8 83 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (7.41%) Customer Service
10 79 (7.32%) Linux
11 76 (7.04%) ERP
12 74 (6.86%) Windows
13 67 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
14 66 (6.12%) Active Directory
15 62 (5.75%) AWS
16 59 (5.47%) Salesforce
17 54 (5.00%) Python
18 52 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
18 52 (4.82%) Data Quality
19 51 (4.73%) Logistics
20 48 (4.45%) SharePoint
21 47 (4.36%) Power Platform
21 47 (4.36%) Security Cleared
22 46 (4.26%) Entra ID
22 46 (4.26%) SAP
23 45 (4.17%) GitHub
23 45 (4.17%) Internet
24 44 (4.08%) Firewall
24 44 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
25 43 (3.99%) AWS 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 48 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.34%) WordPress
4 3 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.093%) Mendix
5 1 (0.093%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 115 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.39%) NetSuite
3 14 (1.30%) iTrent
4 11 (1.02%) Primavera
5 7 (0.65%) Odoo
5 7 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.56%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.19%) Magento
8 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (9.18%) Azure
3 62 (5.75%) AWS
4 47 (4.36%) Power Platform
5 46 (4.26%) Entra ID
6 45 (4.17%) GitHub
7 19 (1.76%) SaaS
8 13 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.20%) Mimecast
9 11 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (1.02%) Power Automate
10 8 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (0.65%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.37%) GCP
13 4 (0.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.28%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.17%) Internet
2 44 (4.08%) Firewall
3 22 (2.04%) Wireless
4 18 (1.67%) DNS
5 17 (1.58%) VPN
6 14 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.11%) DHCP
8 11 (1.02%) Broadband
9 10 (0.93%) SAN
10 9 (0.83%) Network Security
11 5 (0.46%) LAN
11 5 (0.46%) WAN
12 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.28%) SSH
14 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
14 2 (0.19%) VoIP
15 1 (0.093%) DKIM
15 1 (0.093%) DMARC
15 1 (0.093%) Unified Communications
15 1 (0.093%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.52%) Power BI
3 24 (2.22%) MySQL
4 11 (1.02%) SAP HANA
5 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.28%) GIS
9 3 (0.28%) Power Query
9 3 (0.28%) Tableau
10 2 (0.19%) KNIME
10 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.19%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (3.43%) Git
2 8 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 177 (16.40%) Social Skills
2 116 (10.75%) Finance
3 80 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 46 (4.26%) Marketing
5 42 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.89%) Manufacturing
6 40 (3.71%) Retail
7 35 (3.24%) Law
7 35 (3.24%) Multimedia
8 29 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.58%) Legal
9 17 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 15 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.30%) Back Office
11 14 (1.30%) Military
12 10 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.74%) Billing
13 8 (0.74%) Games
14 5 (0.46%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.52%) CSS
1 38 (3.52%) HTML
2 5 (0.46%) SAP Basis
3 4 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (0.28%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.19%) REST
6 1 (0.093%) Middleware
6 1 (0.093%) ODBC
6 1 (0.093%) OpenID
6 1 (0.093%) SAML
6 1 (0.093%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.59%) Replication
2 24 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.04%) Clustering
4 22 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (0.74%) NHS
8 8 (0.74%) Private Cloud
9 6 (0.56%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.46%) Cyberattack
10 5 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.46%) PKI
10 5 (0.46%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.37%) Smart Meter
12 3 (0.28%) CCTV
12 3 (0.28%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.32%) Linux
2 74 (6.86%) Windows
3 40 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.67%) Android
5 18 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.83%) Unix
8 8 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.65%) Debian
10 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.19%) CentOS
11 2 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (9.27%) CRM
3 83 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 80 (7.41%) Customer Service
5 76 (7.04%) ERP
6 52 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (4.73%) Logistics
8 38 (3.52%) Web Development
9 35 (3.24%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (3.15%) DevOps
10 34 (3.15%) Service Delivery
11 33 (3.06%) Data Entry
11 33 (3.06%) Data Management
11 33 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (3.06%) Process Improvement
12 30 (2.78%) High Availability
13 27 (2.50%) Project Delivery
14 25 (2.32%) Analytics
14 25 (2.32%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (2.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (9.36%) SQL
2 54 (5.00%) Python
3 42 (3.89%) JavaScript
3 42 (3.89%) R
4 32 (2.97%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.67%) Bash
6 16 (1.48%) Shell Script
7 8 (0.74%) Go
8 6 (0.56%) C
9 5 (0.46%) VBA
10 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.28%) PHP
11 3 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.093%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.093%) C#
13 1 (0.093%) Java
Qualifications
1 47 (4.36%) Security Cleared
2 43 (3.99%) AWS Certification
3 40 (3.71%) Azure Certification
4 39 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (3.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 29 (2.69%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.04%) Degree
8 20 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.67%) A+ Certification
9 18 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (0.83%) CIPD
11 6 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.19%) AAT
13 2 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.19%) HND
14 1 (0.093%) CCNA
14 1 (0.093%) CCNP
14 1 (0.093%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.71%) QA
3 31 (2.87%) GDPR
4 16 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.20%) SLA
6 11 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.28%) PMO
11 1 (0.093%) GRC
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.093%) NIST
11 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.24%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.65%) Docker
5 5 (0.46%) iptables
6 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.58%) Nessus
3 16 (1.48%) Ansible
3 16 (1.48%) Proxmox
4 15 (1.39%) Terraform
5 14 (1.30%) Kubernetes
6 11 (1.02%) Grafana
6 11 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.28%) SCCM
8 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.093%) Podman
10 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 214 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.47%) Salesforce
3 46 (4.26%) SAP
4 25 (2.32%) VMware
5 19 (1.76%) HubSpot
5 19 (1.76%) Sage
6 16 (1.48%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.20%) Veeam
8 12 (1.11%) HP
8 12 (1.11%) Oracle
9 10 (0.93%) Zoho
10 8 (0.74%) Facebook
10 8 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.65%) SonicWALL
12 6 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.46%) Google
14 4 (0.37%) Cisco
14 4 (0.37%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.37%) Meraki