Administrator Jobs in the West Midlands

Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Administrator salary in the West Midlands is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 169 185
Rank change year-on-year +43 +16 -23
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 133 101 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.80% 1.61% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.78% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 104 71 61
10th Percentile £22,575 £26,375 £22,750
25th Percentile £28,313 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £58,250
England median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,957 5,666 6,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.09% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,213 3,238 4,748
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the West Midlands

Administrator
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
Birmingham -13 56 £57,500 +35.29% 13
Staffordshire -7 24 £32,000 -2.79% 16
Warwickshire +54 18 £23,750 -36.67% 12
Shropshire +5 12 £32,000 -45.76% 7
Worcestershire -21 8 £24,500 -36.77% 8
Dudley - 3 £40,000 - 1
Coventry +27 1 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 1 £55,000 -
Administrator
England

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 50 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.82%) Microsoft
3 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (22.56%) Customer Service
5 29 (21.80%) Azure
5 29 (21.80%) SQL Server
6 27 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (18.80%) SQL
8 23 (17.29%) Windows
8 23 (17.29%) SharePoint
9 21 (15.79%) LAN
9 21 (15.79%) WAN
9 21 (15.79%) Patch Management
10 19 (14.29%) T-SQL
11 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
12 16 (12.03%) Linux
12 16 (12.03%) CRM
12 16 (12.03%) Finance
13 15 (11.28%) Active Directory
13 15 (11.28%) Logistics
13 15 (11.28%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (10.53%) Load Balancing
14 14 (10.53%) Law
14 14 (10.53%) Migration
15 13 (9.77%) Problem Management
15 13 (9.77%) Local Government
16 12 (9.02%) Wiki
16 12 (9.02%) Firewall
16 12 (9.02%) DNS

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (17.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) NEC Housing
2 6 (4.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.75%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.80%) Azure
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.79%) LAN
1 21 (15.79%) WAN
2 12 (9.02%) DHCP
2 12 (9.02%) DNS
2 12 (9.02%) Firewall
3 11 (8.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (7.52%) BIG-IP
5 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.01%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.01%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (3.01%) SAN
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
2 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (4.51%) Power BI
4 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.26%) Looker
4 3 (2.26%) Tableau
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 50 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.03%) Finance
4 14 (10.53%) Law
4 14 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (9.77%) Local Government
6 11 (8.27%) Marketing
7 7 (5.26%) Back Office
7 7 (5.26%) Police
7 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.76%) Legal
10 4 (3.01%) Retail
11 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.50%) Billing
13 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (2.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (9.02%) Wiki
3 7 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.51%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.76%) Replication
6 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.01%) PKI
6 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.75%) CMDB
9 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.29%) Windows
2 16 (12.03%) Linux
3 12 (9.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.26%) Unix
5 4 (3.01%) CentOS
5 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.75%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (22.56%) Customer Service
3 21 (15.79%) Patch Management
4 16 (12.03%) CRM
5 15 (11.28%) Logistics
6 14 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 14 (10.53%) Migration
7 13 (9.77%) Problem Management
8 12 (9.02%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (7.52%) Data Protection
10 9 (6.77%) Computer Science
10 9 (6.77%) ITIL
11 8 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.02%) Data Migration
12 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (5.26%) Time Management
13 6 (4.51%) Change Management
13 6 (4.51%) Data Management
13 6 (4.51%) Knowledge Transfer
13 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.80%) SQL
2 19 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.27%) Perl
4 11 (8.27%) Python
5 4 (3.01%) Bash
6 3 (2.26%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.01%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) SLA
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 15 (11.28%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.51%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.01%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.01%) VMware Server
4 4 (3.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) vCenter Server
2 2 (1.50%) SCCM
2 2 (1.50%) SCOM
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) F5
2 10 (7.52%) VMware
3 8 (6.02%) Oracle
4 7 (5.26%) NEC
5 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.51%) SAP
6 2 (1.50%) Dell
6 2 (1.50%) Quadient
6 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Aruba
7 1 (0.75%) HP
7 1 (0.75%) QAD
7 1 (0.75%) Sage
7 1 (0.75%) Zoho