Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 175 255
Rank change year-on-year +54 +80 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 808 839 979
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 1.50% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.58% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 514 604
10th Percentile £175 £205 £180
25th Percentile £281 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 44 59
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.22 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.55 £12.04
Median hourly rate £13.78 £24.91 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.69% +71.76% +3.39%
75th Percentile £18.50 £50.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £55.59 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.18 £26.00 £13.58
% change year-on-year -49.30% +91.46% -3.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Administrator.

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +51 708 £425 -5.56% 820
UK excluding London +86 562 £425 +6.25% 769
Work from Home +13 213 £450 - 206
London -6 197 £400 -11.11% 113
South East +57 179 £378 +0.13% 172
South West +25 99 £550 +22.22% 147
North of England +57 93 £378 +7.86% 185
Midlands +49 82 £411 +16.60% 136
West Midlands +41 56 £400 +28.00% 63
East of England +21 53 £375 -11.76% 82
North West +33 52 £275 -38.89% 96
Scotland +50 50 £350 -6.67% 46
East Midlands +28 26 £443 +34.24% 74
Yorkshire +30 24 £470 +121.18% 67
North East +25 17 £475 +69.64% 25
Wales +23 11 £575 +277.67% 32

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Administrator contract 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 contract job ads featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 195 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 194 (24.01%) Microsoft
3 159 (19.68%) Windows
4 156 (19.31%) Security Cleared
5 99 (12.25%) Finance
6 98 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 94 (11.63%) DV Cleared
8 92 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
10 82 (10.15%) Linux
11 79 (9.78%) Azure
12 72 (8.91%) SharePoint
13 62 (7.67%) Customer Service
14 60 (7.43%) SQL
15 58 (7.18%) Public Sector
16 57 (7.05%) Active Directory
17 53 (6.56%) Windows Server
18 51 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
18 51 (6.31%) SQL Server
19 50 (6.19%) Degree
19 50 (6.19%) SAP
20 49 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
21 48 (5.94%) SC Cleared
21 48 (5.94%) PowerShell
22 47 (5.82%) DevOps
23 46 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
24 45 (5.57%) PKI
24 45 (5.57%) VMware
25 41 (5.07%) Migration
26 38 (4.70%) Data Entry

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 72 (8.91%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (1.24%) IIS
6 8 (0.99%) Confluence
7 7 (0.87%) Apache
8 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.37%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Moodle
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (12.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) iTrent
1 8 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.50%) Maximo
2 4 (0.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.12%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.78%) Azure
2 46 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (4.58%) AWS
4 13 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.49%) PaaS
6 10 (1.24%) OneDrive
7 9 (1.11%) SaaS
8 8 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (0.99%) Entra ID
8 8 (0.99%) OCI
9 7 (0.87%) GCP
10 6 (0.74%) GitHub
11 5 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.50%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.50%) Cloudflare
12 4 (0.50%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.34%) DNS
2 19 (2.35%) Intranet
3 12 (1.49%) Firewall
4 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.36%) WAN
5 8 (0.99%) DHCP
5 8 (0.99%) LAN
6 7 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (0.87%) SAN
6 7 (0.87%) VPN
7 6 (0.74%) SSL
7 6 (0.74%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.62%) Internet
8 5 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.50%) Network Security
10 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.37%) MPLS
10 3 (0.37%) SMTP
10 3 (0.37%) VLAN
10 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.35%) MySQL
3 14 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.36%) Power BI
7 10 (1.24%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.74%) DB2
10 6 (0.74%) Ingres
11 5 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (3.47%) JIRA
2 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.62%) Fiddler
2 5 (0.62%) GitLab
3 4 (0.50%) InstallShield
3 4 (0.50%) MSI
3 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.12%) Selenium
6 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 195 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.25%) Finance
3 58 (7.18%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 25 (3.09%) Banking
8 20 (2.48%) Legal
9 18 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.61%) Marketing
10 13 (1.61%) Retail
11 12 (1.49%) Law
12 10 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.11%) Police
14 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Billing
15 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.74%) Automotive
16 6 (0.74%) Back Office
17 5 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.61%) Itk
2 8 (0.99%) .NET
3 7 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (0.87%) HTML
3 7 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.74%) CSS
5 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.62%) Google Maps API
5 5 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (0.62%) Middleware
5 5 (0.62%) SAML
6 4 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.50%) Kafka
6 4 (0.50%) LDAP
6 4 (0.50%) Node.js
7 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.25%) ISPF
8 2 (0.25%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.25%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.57%) PKI
2 31 (3.84%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.23%) NHS
6 12 (1.49%) Blog
6 12 (1.49%) Clustering
7 11 (1.36%) Replication
8 10 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (0.74%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.62%) Freedom of Information Act
11 4 (0.50%) CCTV
11 4 (0.50%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.50%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.37%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 159 (19.68%) Windows
2 82 (10.15%) Linux
3 53 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.10%) Unix
6 16 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (1.73%) Mac OS
8 13 (1.61%) Windows 7
8 13 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.49%) VMS
9 12 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.87%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.87%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.74%) zOS
12 5 (0.62%) AIX
12 5 (0.62%) CentOS
12 5 (0.62%) Solaris
13 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (7.67%) Customer Service
3 47 (5.82%) DevOps
4 41 (5.07%) Migration
5 38 (4.70%) Data Entry
6 37 (4.58%) Performance Tuning
7 35 (4.33%) Change Management
8 32 (3.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (3.84%) ITIL
9 31 (3.84%) Time Management
10 30 (3.71%) Project Management
11 27 (3.34%) Data Protection
12 26 (3.22%) High Availability
13 21 (2.60%) Asset Management
14 20 (2.48%) Document Management
14 20 (2.48%) Problem Management
15 17 (2.10%) Data Management
15 17 (2.10%) Validation
16 16 (1.98%) Agile
16 16 (1.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 60 (7.43%) SQL
2 48 (5.94%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.10%) Bash
4 15 (1.86%) Python
5 12 (1.49%) C
6 11 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 8 (0.99%) Perl
8 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.74%) C++
9 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.62%) Groovy
11 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.37%) Java
13 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.25%) AWK
13 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.25%) JCL
13 2 (0.25%) Korn
13 2 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 156 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 94 (11.63%) DV Cleared
3 50 (6.19%) Degree
4 48 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.50%) MCITP
9 4 (0.50%) MCSE
9 4 (0.50%) MCTS
9 4 (0.50%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.37%) AAT
10 3 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.37%) HNC
10 3 (0.37%) RHCE
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.25%) OCP
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.47%) QA
2 17 (2.10%) PMO
3 11 (1.36%) GDPR
3 11 (1.36%) SLA
4 10 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.50%) GRC
7 4 (0.50%) NIST
8 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS
9 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 57 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.74%) Firmware
6 5 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.62%) VMware Server
6 5 (0.62%) vSphere
7 4 (0.50%) Docker
8 2 (0.25%) ACF2
8 2 (0.25%) RACF
8 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) Postfix
9 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (2.35%) Ansible
2 16 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (1.49%) Data Guard
3 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.36%) SCOM
5 10 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.99%) NetBackup
6 8 (0.99%) Terraform
7 7 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.87%) Control-M
7 7 (0.87%) Kubernetes
8 6 (0.74%) Grafana
8 6 (0.74%) Nagios
9 5 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.62%) Puppet
9 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 194 (24.01%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.19%) SAP
3 45 (5.57%) VMware
4 38 (4.70%) Oracle
5 25 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.73%) IBM
9 12 (1.49%) Google
10 9 (1.11%) Apple
10 9 (1.11%) F5
10 9 (1.11%) Splunk
10 9 (1.11%) Veeam
11 8 (0.99%) Cisco
12 7 (0.87%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.74%) Sage
14 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.62%) Facebook
14 5 (0.62%) Progress
14 5 (0.62%) Veritas