Administrator
UK

The median Administrator salary in the UK is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 253 299
Rank change year-on-year +98 +46 -39
Permanent jobs requiring an Administrator 1,870 1,442 2,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.46% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.60% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 980 1,219
10th Percentile £22,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £41,821 £40,500
% change year-on-year -16.31% +3.26% +1.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Administrator over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Administrator in the UK

Administrator
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +102 1,675 £35,000 -26.32% 816
UK excluding London +85 1,521 £35,000 -16.31% 754
Work from Home +28 503 £45,000 -10.00% 198
South East +60 429 £35,000 -22.22% 175
North of England +73 302 £30,147 -29.07% 176
London +43 287 £47,110 -21.48% 116
South West +43 268 £33,000 -22.02% 131
Midlands +55 242 £40,000 +0.91% 141
North West +52 159 £30,000 -36.84% 98
East of England +66 139 £29,750 -12.50% 93
West Midlands +33 133 £40,000 -0.74% 68
East Midlands +61 109 £37,500 +20.97% 74
Scotland -16 109 £35,000 -17.65% 45
Yorkshire +80 104 £35,000 -12.50% 57
North East -21 39 £33,500 -29.73% 23
Wales +2 27 £48,000 +24.68% 22
Northern Ireland +30 5 - - 4

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 632 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 622 (33.26%) Microsoft
3 322 (17.22%) Customer Service
4 319 (17.06%) Windows
5 311 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
6 307 (16.42%) Azure
7 304 (16.26%) Finance
8 291 (15.56%) SQL
9 245 (13.10%) Linux
10 219 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
11 202 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
11 202 (10.80%) Security Cleared
12 189 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
13 182 (9.73%) SharePoint
14 179 (9.57%) SQL Server
15 172 (9.20%) Active Directory
16 167 (8.93%) PowerShell
17 156 (8.34%) VMware
18 145 (7.75%) Degree
18 145 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
18 145 (7.75%) Self-Motivation
19 137 (7.33%) Oracle
20 132 (7.06%) Windows Server
21 122 (6.52%) Retail
22 121 (6.47%) Agile
22 121 (6.47%) Project Management
23 118 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
24 117 (6.26%) ITIL
25 115 (6.15%) Time Management
26 99 (5.29%) DV Cleared

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
1 182 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.39%) CMS
4 9 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
4 9 (0.48%) SAS
5 8 (0.43%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.32%) Apache
6 6 (0.32%) IIS
6 6 (0.32%) WordPress
7 5 (0.27%) Confluence
8 4 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.16%) Drupal
9 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.16%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.16%) Moodle
9 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.16%) WildFly
10 2 (0.11%) Site Server
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 202 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 189 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
4 33 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) 1Password
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.053%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 22 (1.18%) NEC Housing
2 19 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle HRMS
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.27%) Magento
6 5 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.21%) BASE24
7 4 (0.21%) Maximo
7 4 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.16%) iTrent
8 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Shopify
10 1 (0.053%) Cognos Controller
10 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.053%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 307 (16.42%) Azure
2 219 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 77 (4.12%) AWS
5 62 (3.32%) Entra ID
6 29 (1.55%) SaaS
7 26 (1.39%) OneDrive
8 25 (1.34%) GCP
9 23 (1.23%) Power Automate
10 19 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.91%) WhatsApp
12 15 (0.80%) OCI
13 12 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.64%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.64%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 9 (0.48%) Google Analytics
15 8 (0.43%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.13%) Intranet
2 85 (4.55%) Firewall
3 77 (4.12%) DNS
4 54 (2.89%) LAN
4 54 (2.89%) WAN
5 53 (2.83%) DHCP
6 49 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.30%) SAN
8 26 (1.39%) VPN
9 22 (1.18%) NAS
10 20 (1.07%) VLAN
11 17 (0.91%) VSAN
12 16 (0.86%) Internet
13 13 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
13 13 (0.70%) SSL
14 12 (0.64%) Wireless
15 10 (0.53%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.48%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 83 (4.44%) Power BI
3 67 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 61 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 52 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 49 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 39 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 38 (2.03%) MySQL
10 24 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
12 20 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.59%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.37%) Ingres
16 7 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.32%) OLTP
18 5 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
18 5 (0.27%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 28 (1.50%) Git
2 17 (0.91%) JIRA
3 8 (0.43%) Vagrant
4 7 (0.37%) Mercurial
5 6 (0.32%) AdminStudio
6 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.053%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.053%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.053%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.053%) Subversion
9 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio
General
1 632 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 304 (16.26%) Finance
3 145 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (6.52%) Retail
5 118 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
6 89 (4.76%) Marketing
7 66 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.99%) Legal
9 48 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 43 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 36 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 33 (1.76%) Local Government
13 32 (1.71%) Back Office
13 32 (1.71%) Law
14 27 (1.44%) Banking
14 27 (1.44%) Police
15 21 (1.12%) Billing
16 16 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.75%) German Language
18 12 (0.64%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.82%) HTML
2 25 (1.34%) CSS
3 13 (0.70%) XML
4 12 (0.64%) EDI
4 12 (0.64%) REST
5 11 (0.59%) .NET
6 9 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (0.43%) 802.1X
7 8 (0.43%) Software Packaging
8 5 (0.27%) Middleware
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (0.16%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.16%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.16%) JSON
10 3 (0.16%) SOAP
10 3 (0.16%) Visualforce
10 3 (0.16%) Web Services
11 2 (0.11%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.75%) Self-Motivation
2 75 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.69%) Data Centre
4 54 (2.89%) Driving Licence
5 48 (2.57%) Replication
6 33 (1.76%) PKI
7 26 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.34%) Clustering
9 16 (0.86%) Learning Management System
10 15 (0.80%) Blog
10 15 (0.80%) PMI
10 15 (0.80%) Social Media
11 13 (0.70%) Digital Signage
11 13 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.59%) NHS
12 11 (0.59%) Wiki
13 10 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.48%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.43%) Life Science
16 7 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 319 (17.06%) Windows
2 245 (13.10%) Linux
3 132 (7.06%) Windows Server
4 77 (4.12%) CentOS
5 70 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 70 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (2.99%) Unix
6 56 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 54 (2.89%) Windows 10
8 47 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (1.34%) Ubuntu
10 20 (1.07%) Android
11 18 (0.96%) Windows 7
12 15 (0.80%) Debian
13 14 (0.75%) Mac OS
14 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.70%) SUSE
15 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.53%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (17.22%) Customer Service
2 311 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (6.47%) Agile
3 121 (6.47%) Project Management
4 117 (6.26%) ITIL
5 115 (6.15%) Time Management
6 96 (5.13%) CRM
7 95 (5.08%) Migration
8 93 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
9 87 (4.65%) Performance Tuning
10 74 (3.96%) Cybersecurity
11 71 (3.80%) Agile Project Management
12 69 (3.69%) Performance Monitoring
13 68 (3.64%) User Experience
14 67 (3.58%) Mentoring
15 66 (3.53%) ERP
16 57 (3.05%) DevOps
17 55 (2.94%) Collaborative Working
17 55 (2.94%) Logistics
18 54 (2.89%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 291 (15.56%) SQL
2 167 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 82 (4.39%) Bash
4 62 (3.32%) Python
4 62 (3.32%) T-SQL
5 28 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.07%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.02%) Perl
8 12 (0.64%) C#
9 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.27%) SAS Macro
11 4 (0.21%) AWK
11 4 (0.21%) Java
11 4 (0.21%) RPG
11 4 (0.21%) VBA
12 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.16%) CQL
12 3 (0.16%) PHP
12 3 (0.16%) sed
13 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 202 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 145 (7.75%) Degree
3 99 (5.29%) DV Cleared
4 70 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 59 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 40 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
8 35 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (0.91%) OCP
10 15 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.75%) CCNA
11 14 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.64%) HNC
13 11 (0.59%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.53%) CCNP
15 8 (0.43%) OCA
16 7 (0.37%) MCSA
16 7 (0.37%) MCSE
16 7 (0.37%) RHCE
17 6 (0.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.16%) QA
2 35 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.82%) SLA
4 28 (1.50%) GDPR
5 27 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.80%) ISO 9001
9 10 (0.53%) PMO
10 8 (0.43%) ISO 14001
11 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.11%) COSHH
14 2 (0.11%) NEBOSH
14 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 83 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 33 (1.76%) vSphere
5 32 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (1.34%) Docker
7 21 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (0.80%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.70%) Firmware
10 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.37%) XenApp
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.21%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.11%) KVM
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.11%) Postfix
16 1 (0.053%) Dovecot
16 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 43 (2.30%) Ansible
2 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (1.23%) SCCM
3 23 (1.23%) SCOM
4 17 (0.91%) Puppet
4 17 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
6 11 (0.59%) Kubernetes
7 10 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
8 7 (0.37%) Nagios
8 7 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.32%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.32%) McAfee ePO
9 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.32%) SCVMM
9 6 (0.32%) WSUS
10 5 (0.27%) Foglight
10 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 622 (33.26%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.34%) VMware
3 137 (7.33%) Oracle
4 78 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 42 (2.25%) Citrix
5 42 (2.25%) Veeam
6 39 (2.09%) SAP
7 37 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.60%) Dell
9 28 (1.50%) NetApp
10 24 (1.28%) HP
10 24 (1.28%) NEC
11 21 (1.12%) Cisco
12 20 (1.07%) Google
13 14 (0.75%) IBM
14 13 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.70%) Riverbed
15 12 (0.64%) Epicor
16 11 (0.59%) Apple