Administrator Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £31,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 197 150
Rank change year-on-year +112 -47 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,613 498 864
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.87% 1.43% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.60% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 999 299 517
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,125 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £33,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -20.48% -7.78%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £56,533 £60,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -17.78% -9.09%

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 80,060 31,196 48,798
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.60% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 55,304 17,435 27,014
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +94 356 £32,000 +8.47% 179
North of England +86 337 £35,000 +6.06% 166
Midlands +94 317 £35,000 -16.67% 124
South West -11 231 £30,000 -25.00% 83
North West +90 190 £35,000 +19.66% 79
East of England +37 189 £30,000 -7.69% 69
West Midlands +70 167 £30,000 -36.84% 62
East Midlands +47 150 £40,000 +28.51% 61
Yorkshire +31 112 £35,500 -13.41% 60
Scotland +84 108 £43,500 +58.18% 28
Wales -23 57 £27,750 -20.32% 20
North East -39 35 £31,000 -34.74% 29
Northern Ireland -58 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 9 October 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.

1 426 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 254 (15.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 234 (14.51%) Customer Service
4 204 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
5 197 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (8.99%) CRM
7 129 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 129 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 123 (7.63%) Linux
9 119 (7.38%) Windows
10 101 (6.26%) SQL
11 96 (5.95%) Logistics
12 94 (5.83%) ERP
13 93 (5.77%) Azure
13 93 (5.77%) Salesforce
14 89 (5.52%) SAP
15 88 (5.46%) Active Directory
16 84 (5.21%) Windows Server
17 83 (5.15%) Time Management
18 77 (4.77%) Data Entry
19 75 (4.65%) SharePoint
20 71 (4.40%) Spreadsheet
21 68 (4.22%) Security Cleared
22 67 (4.15%) Power Platform
23 64 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
24 60 (3.72%) DevOps
25 59 (3.66%) Entra ID
26 56 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
27 55 (3.41%) QA
28 53 (3.29%) Collaborative Working

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 75 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.25%) IIS
4 4 (0.25%) WordPress
5 2 (0.12%) Confluence
5 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.062%) Apache
6 1 (0.062%) CMS
6 1 (0.062%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (0.062%) JBoss
6 1 (0.062%) Mendix
6 1 (0.062%) nginx
6 1 (0.062%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 254 (15.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.40%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.56%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.12%) Notion
7 1 (0.062%) Elementor
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (1.55%) Primavera
2 16 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.50%) SAP CRM
4 7 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.43%) Sage 200
4 7 (0.43%) Shopify
5 5 (0.31%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.25%) Odoo
6 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.19%) Maximo
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.062%) Sage CRM
9 1 (0.062%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 129 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 93 (5.77%) Azure
3 67 (4.15%) Power Platform
4 59 (3.66%) Entra ID
5 53 (3.29%) SaaS
6 48 (2.98%) AWS
7 26 (1.61%) GitHub
8 23 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.43%) Power Automate
9 18 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 16 (0.99%) PowerApps
11 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.81%) PaaS
13 12 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.68%) Mimecast
15 10 (0.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 8 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (0.43%) Google Sheets
18 6 (0.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.16%) Firewall
2 41 (2.54%) DNS
3 32 (1.98%) VPN
4 30 (1.86%) DHCP
5 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.93%) Broadband
7 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.62%) LAN
8 10 (0.62%) SAN
8 10 (0.62%) WAN
9 8 (0.50%) Wireless
10 7 (0.43%) Internet
10 7 (0.43%) Network Security
10 7 (0.43%) VLAN
11 4 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.25%) VSAN
12 3 (0.19%) NGN
13 2 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.12%) SSL
13 2 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 48 (2.98%) Power BI
3 21 (1.30%) MySQL
4 15 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 8 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.43%) Power Query
8 5 (0.31%) Big Data
9 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.19%) GIS
10 3 (0.19%) MS Access
10 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.12%) KNIME
11 2 (0.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (1.05%) JIRA
2 16 (0.99%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.12%) Ant
4 2 (0.12%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.12%) Maven
5 1 (0.062%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.062%) Flyway
5 1 (0.062%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.062%) Selenium
5 1 (0.062%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.062%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 411 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 250 (15.50%) Organisational Skills
3 197 (12.21%) Finance
4 94 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 76 (4.71%) Retail
7 75 (4.65%) Marketing
8 72 (4.46%) Law
9 54 (3.35%) Legal
10 51 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.74%) Public Sector
12 24 (1.49%) Automotive
13 20 (1.24%) Billing
13 20 (1.24%) Military
14 19 (1.18%) Advertising
14 19 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.81%) Legal Technology
16 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.43%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.49%) Terraform
2 6 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.31%) CSS
3 5 (0.31%) HTML
3 5 (0.31%) SAP Basis
4 3 (0.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.19%) REST
5 2 (0.12%) Middleware
5 2 (0.12%) OpenID
5 2 (0.12%) WF
6 1 (0.062%) CSS3
6 1 (0.062%) HTML5
6 1 (0.062%) OAuth
6 1 (0.062%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.062%) React
6 1 (0.062%) SAML
6 1 (0.062%) SOAP
6 1 (0.062%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 105 (6.51%) Management Information System
2 62 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 55 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.36%) Replication
5 37 (2.29%) Driving Licence
6 32 (1.98%) Clustering
7 23 (1.43%) Social Media
8 17 (1.05%) NHS
9 15 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.74%) Operational Technology
11 12 (0.74%) Private Cloud
12 10 (0.62%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.56%) PMI
14 7 (0.43%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.37%) Educational Technology
15 6 (0.37%) Housing Association
16 5 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.31%) Renewable Energy
16 5 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.63%) Linux
2 119 (7.38%) Windows
3 84 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.55%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.30%) Android
7 15 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.93%) Unix
8 10 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.62%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.50%) Debian
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.31%) CentOS
11 5 (0.31%) Solaris
12 4 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 4 (0.25%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (14.51%) Customer Service
2 197 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
3 145 (8.99%) CRM
4 129 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 96 (5.95%) Logistics
6 94 (5.83%) ERP
7 83 (5.15%) Time Management
8 77 (4.77%) Data Entry
9 64 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (3.72%) DevOps
11 53 (3.29%) Collaborative Working
12 52 (3.22%) AI
13 50 (3.10%) Project Delivery
14 49 (3.04%) Customer Experience
15 48 (2.98%) Process Improvement
16 47 (2.91%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (2.85%) High Availability
17 46 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 46 (2.85%) Order Management
18 44 (2.73%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 101 (6.26%) SQL
2 47 (2.91%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.67%) Python
4 25 (1.55%) Bash
5 19 (1.18%) Shell Script
6 8 (0.50%) Go
6 8 (0.50%) R
7 6 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.37%) Ruby
8 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.19%) C
9 3 (0.19%) C++
9 3 (0.19%) PHP
10 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.062%) Bicep
11 1 (0.062%) C#
11 1 (0.062%) Java
11 1 (0.062%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (4.22%) Security Cleared
2 45 (2.79%) SC Cleared
3 44 (2.73%) Degree
4 35 (2.17%) DBS Check
5 27 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.50%) CIPD
9 8 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.25%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.19%) AAT
14 3 (0.19%) HND
15 2 (0.12%) Computer Science Degree
15 2 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.12%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.062%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.41%) QA
2 52 (3.22%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.11%) GDPR
4 30 (1.86%) SLA
5 17 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.87%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.43%) ISO 14001
9 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.25%) GMP
11 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.19%) PMO
12 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.062%) COSHH
13 1 (0.062%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.062%) GRC
13 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.062%) NIST
13 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.85%) Hyper-V
3 17 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.87%) Docker
5 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.43%) Ceph
7 5 (0.31%) vSphere
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.19%) iptables
10 2 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.062%) NFS
11 1 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.062%) Xen
11 1 (0.062%) XenApp
11 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.36%) Ansible
2 25 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.24%) Nessus
3 20 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.81%) Grafana
5 13 (0.81%) Proxmox
6 8 (0.50%) Podman
6 8 (0.50%) SCCM
7 7 (0.43%) Argo
7 7 (0.43%) Check_MK
7 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.43%) Istio
8 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.37%) Puppet
8 6 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 426 (26.41%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.77%) Salesforce
3 89 (5.52%) SAP
4 43 (2.67%) VMware
5 28 (1.74%) Oracle
6 25 (1.55%) Sage
7 21 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.12%) Google
9 17 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 14 (0.87%) HubSpot
11 13 (0.81%) HP
12 11 (0.68%) Veeam
13 10 (0.62%) Facebook
14 9 (0.56%) Dell
15 7 (0.43%) Citrix
15 7 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
16 6 (0.37%) Workday
17 5 (0.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 5 (0.31%) Thycotic
17 5 (0.31%) Xero