Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 174 253
Rank change year-on-year +53 +79 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 817 818 976
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.47% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.55% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 501 597
10th Percentile £175 £203 £177
25th Percentile £289 £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 £450 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 44 60
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.22 £10.61
25th Percentile £12.00 £14.55 £12.05
Median hourly rate £13.78 £23.58 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.58% +62.62% +4.50%
75th Percentile £18.85 £48.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £47.20 £53.75 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.46 £25.98 £13.58
% change year-on-year -48.18% +91.27% -3.17%

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 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +59 717 £425 -5.56% 866
UK excluding London +86 568 £450 +12.50% 796
Work from Home +17 215 £450 - 219
London -17 199 £400 -11.11% 120
South East +60 182 £441 +16.05% 170
South West +30 99 £550 +22.22% 151
North of England +60 96 £380 +4.83% 194
Midlands +51 83 £406 +15.04% 148
West Midlands +39 57 £400 +23.08% 67
North West +30 55 £294 -38.16% 106
East of England +24 53 £375 -11.76% 92
Scotland +50 48 £310 -17.33% 47
East Midlands +27 26 £443 +34.24% 82
Yorkshire +28 24 £470 +121.18% 67
North East +25 17 £475 +69.64% 22
Wales +23 12 £575 +277.67% 25

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 193 (23.62%) Microsoft
1 193 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.71%) Security Cleared
3 157 (19.22%) Windows
4 102 (12.48%) Finance
5 97 (11.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 97 (11.87%) DV Cleared
6 94 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (10.53%) Linux
8 84 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
9 79 (9.67%) Azure
10 72 (8.81%) SharePoint
11 62 (7.59%) SQL
12 61 (7.47%) Customer Service
13 59 (7.22%) Public Sector
14 57 (6.98%) Active Directory
15 55 (6.73%) SQL Server
16 54 (6.61%) Windows Server
17 53 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
18 51 (6.24%) SAP
18 51 (6.24%) Degree
19 49 (6.00%) SC Cleared
19 49 (6.00%) PowerShell
20 47 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
21 45 (5.51%) DevOps
21 45 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
21 45 (5.51%) VMware
22 43 (5.26%) PKI
23 42 (5.14%) Performance Tuning
24 40 (4.90%) Migration

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 (8.81%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (1.22%) IIS
6 8 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.98%) Confluence
7 6 (0.73%) SAS
8 5 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.49%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.37%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.24%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.24%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 97 (11.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.24%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (0.98%) iTrent
1 8 (0.98%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.49%) Maximo
2 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.49%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.24%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.24%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) 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 (9.67%) Azure
2 45 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (4.41%) AWS
4 13 (1.59%) PaaS
4 13 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.22%) SaaS
6 9 (1.10%) OCI
6 9 (1.10%) OneDrive
7 8 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 7 (0.86%) GCP
9 6 (0.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.49%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.49%) Cloudflare
11 4 (0.49%) GitHub
11 4 (0.49%) Google Sheets
11 4 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.55%) DNS
2 19 (2.33%) Intranet
3 13 (1.59%) Firewall
4 12 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.35%) WAN
6 10 (1.22%) DHCP
7 8 (0.98%) LAN
7 8 (0.98%) VPN
8 7 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (0.86%) SAN
8 7 (0.86%) SSL
8 7 (0.86%) Wireshark
9 5 (0.61%) Internet
9 5 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.49%) Network Security
10 4 (0.49%) VLAN
11 3 (0.37%) IPsec
11 3 (0.37%) MPLS
11 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.57%) MySQL
3 14 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (1.47%) Power BI
5 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.86%) DB2
10 6 (0.73%) Ingres
11 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 26 (3.18%) JIRA
2 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.61%) Fiddler
2 5 (0.61%) GitLab
3 4 (0.49%) InstallShield
3 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.49%) MSI
3 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 193 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 102 (12.48%) Finance
3 59 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 53 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (3.55%) Manufacturing
7 25 (3.06%) Banking
8 21 (2.57%) Legal
9 18 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.71%) Marketing
11 13 (1.59%) Retail
12 12 (1.47%) Law
13 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.10%) Billing
14 9 (1.10%) Police
15 8 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.73%) Automotive
17 6 (0.73%) Back Office
17 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.59%) Itk
2 8 (0.98%) .NET
3 7 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.73%) Middleware
5 5 (0.61%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.61%) Google Maps API
5 5 (0.61%) HTML
5 5 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (0.61%) SAML
6 4 (0.49%) CSS
6 4 (0.49%) Kafka
6 4 (0.49%) LDAP
7 3 (0.37%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (0.37%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.37%) Node.js
8 2 (0.24%) ISPF
8 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.24%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.24%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.26%) PKI
2 33 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 22 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.20%) NHS
6 13 (1.59%) Clustering
7 11 (1.35%) Blog
7 11 (1.35%) Replication
8 10 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.61%) Freedom of Information Act
11 4 (0.49%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.49%) iSeries
11 4 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.49%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.49%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.22%) Windows
2 86 (10.53%) Linux
3 54 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.08%) Unix
5 17 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.71%) Windows 7
6 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (1.59%) Mac OS
8 12 (1.47%) VMS
8 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (0.98%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.86%) Solaris
10 7 (0.86%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.86%) zOS
11 5 (0.61%) AIX
11 5 (0.61%) CentOS
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (7.47%) Customer Service
3 45 (5.51%) DevOps
4 42 (5.14%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (4.90%) Migration
6 37 (4.53%) Change Management
6 37 (4.53%) Data Entry
7 33 (4.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (4.04%) ITIL
8 29 (3.55%) Project Management
8 29 (3.55%) Time Management
9 27 (3.30%) Data Protection
9 27 (3.30%) High Availability
10 21 (2.57%) Problem Management
11 20 (2.45%) Asset Management
11 20 (2.45%) Document Management
12 17 (2.08%) Agile
12 17 (2.08%) Validation
13 16 (1.96%) Data Management
13 16 (1.96%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 62 (7.59%) SQL
2 49 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.08%) Bash
4 15 (1.84%) Python
5 12 (1.47%) C
5 12 (1.47%) Shell Script
6 10 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.98%) Perl
8 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.73%) C++
9 6 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.61%) Groovy
11 3 (0.37%) Java
11 3 (0.37%) JCL
11 3 (0.37%) REXX
12 2 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.24%) AWK
12 2 (0.24%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 161 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.87%) DV Cleared
3 51 (6.24%) Degree
4 49 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.49%) HNC
9 4 (0.49%) MCITP
9 4 (0.49%) MCSE
9 4 (0.49%) MCTS
9 4 (0.49%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.37%) AAT
10 3 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.37%) RHCE
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.24%) OCP
11 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.43%) QA
2 16 (1.96%) PMO
3 10 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.22%) GDPR
3 10 (1.22%) SLA
4 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.37%) GRC
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS
7 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 57 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) Docker
5 6 (0.73%) Firmware
6 5 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.61%) VMware Server
6 5 (0.61%) vSphere
7 3 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.24%) ACF2
8 2 (0.24%) RACF
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 22 (2.69%) Ansible
2 16 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.59%) Data Guard
4 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.35%) SCOM
6 10 (1.22%) Terraform
7 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (1.10%) Kubernetes
8 8 (0.98%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.86%) Control-M
10 6 (0.73%) Grafana
10 6 (0.73%) Nagios
10 6 (0.73%) Puppet
11 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.61%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 193 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.24%) SAP
3 45 (5.51%) VMware
4 39 (4.77%) Oracle
5 27 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.84%) IBM
9 12 (1.47%) Google
10 10 (1.22%) Splunk
11 9 (1.10%) Cisco
11 9 (1.10%) F5
11 9 (1.10%) Veeam
12 8 (0.98%) Apple
13 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.73%) Facebook
14 6 (0.73%) Sage
15 5 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.61%) Progress
15 5 (0.61%) Veritas