Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 171 252
Rank change year-on-year +48 +81 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 791 855 1,006
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 1.49% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.58% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 533 604
10th Percentile £175 £203 £184
25th Percentile £275 £325 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% +10.83%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £608 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.50% +6.67% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 43 61
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.47 £10.63
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.44 £12.05
Median hourly rate £13.78 £25.95 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +78.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £18.44 £48.95 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £55.85 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.05 £26.00 £13.97
% change year-on-year -49.81% +86.11% -0.21%

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 694 £425 -5.56% 822
UK excluding London +90 544 £426 +6.50% 750
Work from Home +11 211 £450 - 201
London -7 198 £400 -11.11% 143
South East +56 173 £378 +2.58% 181
South West +28 97 £550 +29.41% 115
North of England +57 87 £375 - 180
Midlands +38 79 £425 +13.33% 145
West Midlands +40 54 £425 +30.77% 73
East of England +33 53 £375 -11.76% 92
Scotland +58 51 £350 -6.67% 49
North West +21 47 £250 -47.37% 104
East Midlands +32 25 £475 +43.94% 73
Yorkshire +29 23 £470 +121.18% 52
North East +25 17 £475 +69.64% 26
Wales +23 9 £575 +277.67% 20

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 194 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 188 (23.77%) Microsoft
3 162 (20.48%) Windows
4 151 (19.09%) Security Cleared
5 99 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 99 (12.52%) Finance
6 89 (11.25%) DV Cleared
6 89 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (11.13%) Microsoft Office
8 79 (9.99%) Linux
8 79 (9.99%) Azure
9 72 (9.10%) SharePoint
10 63 (7.96%) Customer Service
11 61 (7.71%) Public Sector
12 60 (7.59%) Active Directory
13 59 (7.46%) SQL
14 57 (7.21%) Windows Server
15 53 (6.70%) SAP
16 51 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
16 51 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
17 50 (6.32%) Degree
17 50 (6.32%) SQL Server
18 48 (6.07%) VMware
18 48 (6.07%) DevOps
19 47 (5.94%) PKI
19 47 (5.94%) SC Cleared
20 46 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
21 44 (5.56%) PowerShell
22 40 (5.06%) Data Entry
23 39 (4.93%) 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 (9.10%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2013
4 12 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (1.26%) Confluence
6 7 (0.88%) Apache
6 7 (0.88%) IIS
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
7 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (12.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (11.13%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) iTrent
1 8 (1.01%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.51%) Maximo
2 4 (0.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.99%) Azure
2 46 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (4.55%) AWS
4 16 (2.02%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.52%) PaaS
6 11 (1.39%) OneDrive
7 9 (1.14%) SaaS
8 8 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.01%) OCI
9 7 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.76%) GCP
10 6 (0.76%) GitHub
11 5 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (0.51%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.51%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.54%) DNS
2 20 (2.53%) Intranet
3 11 (1.39%) Firewall
3 11 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.39%) WAN
4 8 (1.01%) LAN
5 7 (0.88%) DHCP
5 7 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (0.88%) SAN
5 7 (0.88%) VPN
6 6 (0.76%) Internet
6 6 (0.76%) SSL
6 6 (0.76%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.51%) Network Security
9 3 (0.38%) HTTP
9 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.38%) SMTP
9 3 (0.38%) VLAN
9 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.40%) MySQL
3 14 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.77%) Power BI
4 13 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 9 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.76%) DB2
10 6 (0.76%) Ingres
11 5 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (3.67%) JIRA
2 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (0.63%) Fiddler
2 5 (0.63%) GitLab
3 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.13%) Selenium
5 1 (0.13%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 194 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.52%) Finance
3 61 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 25 (3.16%) Banking
7 19 (2.40%) Legal
7 19 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.15%) Marketing
9 13 (1.64%) Retail
10 12 (1.52%) Law
11 10 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.14%) Police
13 7 (0.88%) Billing
13 7 (0.88%) Electronics
13 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.76%) Automotive
14 6 (0.76%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.64%) Itk
2 8 (1.01%) CSS
2 8 (1.01%) HTML
3 7 (0.88%) .NET
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (0.76%) SAML
5 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.63%) Google Maps API
5 5 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (0.63%) Middleware
6 4 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.51%) Kafka
6 4 (0.51%) LDAP
6 4 (0.51%) Node.js
7 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.25%) ISPF
8 2 (0.25%) jQuery
8 2 (0.25%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.94%) PKI
2 29 (3.67%) Management Information System
3 22 (2.78%) NHS
3 22 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.52%) Blog
6 11 (1.39%) Clustering
6 11 (1.39%) Replication
7 10 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.63%) Freedom of Information Act
11 4 (0.51%) CCTV
11 4 (0.51%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.51%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 162 (20.48%) Windows
2 79 (9.99%) Linux
3 57 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.77%) Unix
7 13 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.64%) Windows 7
7 13 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (1.52%) VMS
8 12 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.76%) zOS
11 5 (0.63%) AIX
11 5 (0.63%) CentOS
11 5 (0.63%) Solaris
12 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (7.96%) Customer Service
3 48 (6.07%) DevOps
4 40 (5.06%) Data Entry
5 39 (4.93%) Migration
6 35 (4.42%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (4.30%) Change Management
7 34 (4.30%) Time Management
8 33 (4.17%) ITIL
9 31 (3.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 30 (3.79%) Data Protection
11 29 (3.67%) Project Management
12 28 (3.54%) High Availability
13 21 (2.65%) Asset Management
14 20 (2.53%) Document Management
15 19 (2.40%) Problem Management
16 17 (2.15%) Capacity Planning
16 17 (2.15%) Data Management
16 17 (2.15%) Task Automation
17 16 (2.02%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (7.46%) SQL
2 44 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 18 (2.28%) Bash
4 15 (1.90%) Python
5 12 (1.52%) C
6 11 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.14%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.01%) Perl
9 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.76%) C++
10 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.63%) Groovy
12 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.38%) Java
13 3 (0.38%) Korn
14 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 2 (0.25%) AWK
14 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.25%) JCL
14 2 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 151 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 89 (11.25%) DV Cleared
3 50 (6.32%) Degree
4 47 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.51%) MCITP
9 4 (0.51%) MCSE
9 4 (0.51%) MCTS
9 4 (0.51%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.38%) AAT
10 3 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.38%) HNC
10 3 (0.38%) RHCE
11 2 (0.25%) OCP
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.54%) QA
2 14 (1.77%) PMO
3 12 (1.52%) GDPR
3 12 (1.52%) SLA
4 10 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.63%) GRC
6 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) NIST
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.76%) Docker
5 6 (0.76%) Firmware
5 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.63%) VMware Server
6 5 (0.63%) vSphere
7 2 (0.25%) ACF2
7 2 (0.25%) NFS
7 2 (0.25%) RACF
7 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Postfix
8 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (2.28%) Ansible
2 16 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.64%) Data Guard
4 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.52%) SCOM
5 8 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.01%) NetBackup
5 8 (1.01%) Terraform
6 7 (0.88%) Control-M
6 7 (0.88%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.76%) Grafana
7 6 (0.76%) Nagios
8 5 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.51%) Puppet
9 4 (0.51%) SCCM
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 188 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.70%) SAP
3 48 (6.07%) VMware
4 39 (4.93%) Oracle
5 25 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.52%) Google
9 11 (1.39%) IBM
10 9 (1.14%) Apple
10 9 (1.14%) F5
10 9 (1.14%) Veeam
11 8 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.01%) Cisco
11 8 (1.01%) Splunk
12 6 (0.76%) EMC
12 6 (0.76%) Sage
13 5 (0.63%) Progress
13 5 (0.63%) Veritas
14 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg