Administrator Contracts in England

Administrator
UK > England

The median Administrator daily rate in England is £425, 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 118 180 263
Rank change year-on-year +62 +83 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 721 678 765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.44% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.53% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 433 480
10th Percentile £175 £203 £175
25th Percentile £289 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +14.86%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £600
UK median daily rate £430 £445 £425
% change year-on-year -3.37% +4.71% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 39 54
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.27 £11.11
25th Percentile £12.00 £15.88 £12.67
Median hourly rate £13.50 £25.95 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.98% +78.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £17.38 £48.95 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £54.28 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £13.64 £23.30 £14.50
% change year-on-year -41.47% +60.69% +1.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Administrator in England

Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Administrator in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Administrator in England

Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Administrator within the England region 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
London -8 201 £400 -11.11% 102
South East +57 182 £450 +18.42% 151
South West +22 99 £550 +22.77% 128
North of England +50 95 £380 +1.33% 171
Midlands +49 83 £406 +15.04% 133
West Midlands +48 57 £400 +23.08% 64
East of England +23 56 £375 -11.76% 80
North West +27 54 £294 -34.72% 94
East Midlands +23 26 £443 +34.24% 70
Yorkshire +25 24 £470 +121.18% 60
North East +23 17 £475 +69.64% 19
Administrator
UK

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Administrator in the job title.

1 176 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 167 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 155 (21.50%) Security Cleared
4 136 (18.86%) Windows
5 99 (13.73%) DV Cleared
6 91 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
7 88 (12.21%) Finance
8 78 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (9.99%) Microsoft Office
10 68 (9.43%) SharePoint
10 68 (9.43%) Azure
11 65 (9.02%) Linux
12 56 (7.77%) SQL
13 54 (7.49%) Customer Service
14 51 (7.07%) SQL Server
15 50 (6.93%) Active Directory
16 46 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
16 46 (6.38%) Windows Server
17 45 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
17 45 (6.24%) PowerShell
18 44 (6.10%) VMware
18 44 (6.10%) Public Sector
19 43 (5.96%) SAP
19 43 (5.96%) SC Cleared
20 41 (5.69%) PKI
20 41 (5.69%) Degree
20 41 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
21 37 (5.13%) Data Entry
22 35 (4.85%) DevOps
23 32 (4.44%) Performance Tuning

Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 68 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.53%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (1.39%) IIS
5 7 (0.97%) Apache
6 6 (0.83%) Confluence
7 5 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.28%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.28%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (9.99%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.42%) Windchill
7 2 (0.28%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.55%) Maximo
2 4 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) iTrent
3 2 (0.28%) OPENHousing
3 2 (0.28%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.14%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 68 (9.43%) Azure
2 41 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (3.61%) AWS
4 13 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.39%) PaaS
6 7 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (0.97%) GCP
6 7 (0.97%) OneDrive
6 7 (0.97%) SaaS
7 6 (0.83%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.69%) OCI
8 5 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (0.55%) Cloudflare
9 4 (0.55%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.42%) Serverless
10 3 (0.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.74%) DNS
2 19 (2.64%) Intranet
3 10 (1.39%) WAN
4 9 (1.25%) DHCP
5 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.97%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (0.97%) LAN
6 7 (0.97%) SAN
7 6 (0.83%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.69%) Firewall
8 5 (0.69%) Internet
8 5 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.55%) SSL
10 3 (0.42%) FTP
10 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.42%) MPLS
10 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.42%) SMTP
10 3 (0.42%) VLAN
10 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.80%) MySQL
2 13 (1.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (1.66%) Power BI
3 12 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.83%) DB2
7 6 (0.83%) Ingres
7 6 (0.83%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.42%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.05%) JIRA
2 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.69%) Fiddler
3 4 (0.55%) GitLab
3 4 (0.55%) InstallShield
3 4 (0.55%) MSI
3 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.14%) Selenium
5 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 167 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 88 (12.21%) Finance
3 46 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
4 45 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 21 (2.91%) Banking
8 18 (2.50%) Legal
9 16 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.80%) Law
10 13 (1.80%) Marketing
10 13 (1.80%) Retail
11 10 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.25%) Billing
13 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.97%) Police
13 7 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.83%) Automotive
14 6 (0.83%) Back Office
14 6 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.80%) Itk
2 7 (0.97%) .NET
3 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
3 5 (0.69%) Google Maps API
3 5 (0.69%) HTML
3 5 (0.69%) SAML
4 4 (0.55%) CSS
4 4 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (0.55%) Middleware
5 3 (0.42%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.42%) LDAP
5 3 (0.42%) Node.js
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.28%) Kafka
6 2 (0.28%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.14%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.14%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.14%) Series 60
7 1 (0.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.69%) PKI
2 23 (3.19%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.36%) NHS
6 11 (1.53%) Replication
7 10 (1.39%) Blog
7 10 (1.39%) Clustering
7 10 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.69%) Freedom of Information Act
10 4 (0.55%) CCTV
10 4 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.55%) Housing Association
10 4 (0.55%) iSeries
10 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.42%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 136 (18.86%) Windows
2 65 (9.02%) Linux
3 46 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.22%) Unix
5 16 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (1.80%) Windows 7
7 13 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (1.66%) Mac OS
8 12 (1.66%) VMS
9 11 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (1.11%) Solaris
10 8 (1.11%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.55%) CentOS
12 4 (0.55%) zOS
13 3 (0.42%) AIX
14 1 (0.14%) HPUX
14 1 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (7.49%) Customer Service
3 37 (5.13%) Data Entry
4 35 (4.85%) DevOps
5 32 (4.44%) Change Management
5 32 (4.44%) Performance Tuning
6 28 (3.88%) Migration
6 28 (3.88%) Time Management
7 27 (3.74%) ITIL
8 25 (3.47%) Data Protection
9 23 (3.19%) Project Management
10 22 (3.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (2.77%) High Availability
11 20 (2.77%) Problem Management
12 17 (2.36%) Document Management
12 17 (2.36%) Validation
13 16 (2.22%) Agile
13 16 (2.22%) Asset Management
13 16 (2.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (2.08%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.77%) SQL
2 45 (6.24%) PowerShell
3 14 (1.94%) Bash
4 11 (1.53%) C
4 11 (1.53%) Python
5 9 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.25%) Shell Script
6 7 (0.97%) Perl
6 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.83%) C++
8 5 (0.69%) Groovy
8 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.42%) Java
11 2 (0.28%) AWK
11 2 (0.28%) Bourne shell
11 2 (0.28%) Korn
11 2 (0.28%) SOQL
12 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 155 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.73%) DV Cleared
3 43 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.69%) Degree
5 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.55%) MCITP
8 4 (0.55%) MCTS
8 4 (0.55%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.42%) AAT
9 3 (0.42%) MCSE
9 3 (0.42%) RHCE
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.28%) HNC
10 2 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.19%) QA
2 13 (1.80%) PMO
3 11 (1.53%) GDPR
4 9 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.25%) SLA
5 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.28%) GRC
7 2 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS
8 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 50 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.83%) Docker
4 6 (0.83%) Firmware
4 6 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.69%) VMware Server
5 5 (0.69%) vSphere
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) NFS
7 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (1.94%) Ansible
3 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.25%) SCOM
5 8 (1.11%) Data Guard
6 7 (0.97%) Control-M
6 7 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (0.97%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.83%) Terraform
8 5 (0.69%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.55%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.42%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 2 (0.28%) Grafana
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.28%) yum
Vendors
1 176 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.10%) VMware
3 43 (5.96%) SAP
4 29 (4.02%) Oracle
5 25 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.66%) Google
8 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.39%) IBM
10 9 (1.25%) F5
10 9 (1.25%) Veeam
11 7 (0.97%) Apple
11 7 (0.97%) Facebook
12 6 (0.83%) Sage
13 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.69%) Cisco
13 5 (0.69%) Progress
13 5 (0.69%) Refinitiv
13 5 (0.69%) Veritas