IT Systems Administrator Contracts

IT System Administrator
UK

The median IT System Administrator daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 681 839
Rank change year-on-year +115 +158 -114
Contract jobs requiring an IT Systems Administrator 18 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.029% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.030% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £250 £224 £363
25th Percentile £283 £275 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £415 £406
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +2.15% +35.42%
75th Percentile £675 £450 £433
90th Percentile £679 £468 £436
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £369 £406
% change year-on-year +49.15% -9.23% +35.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.90
25th Percentile £12.13 £26.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £12.25 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £12.38 £28.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £35.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.25 £27.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -55.45% +71.88% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

IT Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Systems Administrator in the UK

IT Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Systems Administrator in the UK

IT Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Systems Administrator in the UK

IT Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Systems Administrator in the UK

IT Systems Administrator
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Systems Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +90 17 £550 +32.53% 23
UK excluding London +31 16 £550 +49.15% 22
South East +24 12 £650 +250.40% 5
Work from Home +117 4 £578 +115.49% 14
South West +2 3 £250 -44.44% 4
London +82 2 £303 -42.38% 4
Scotland +49 1 £475 - 2
West Midlands +18 1 - -
Midlands +17 1 - - 5

IT Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT Systems 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 IT Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 5 (27.78%) Software Deployment
5 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
5 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) GitLab
7 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
8 1 (5.56%) HP
8 1 (5.56%) Dell
8 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (5.56%) DSL
8 1 (5.56%) Solaris
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (5.56%) HNC
8 1 (5.56%) Python
8 1 (5.56%) LDAP
8 1 (5.56%) ERP
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (5.56%) LAN
8 1 (5.56%) VoIP
8 1 (5.56%) WAN

IT Systems 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) DSL
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VoIP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Software Deployment
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.56%) ERP
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security
4 1 (5.56%) ITSM
4 1 (5.56%) Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Server Building
4 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.56%) Kibana
1 1 (5.56%) logstash
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) Puppet
1 1 (5.56%) SCOM
1 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) HP