Administrator Contracts

Administrator
UK

The median Administrator daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 175 251
Rank change year-on-year +56 +76 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Administrator 795 852 995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 1.49% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.58% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 535 599
10th Percentile £168 £203 £185
25th Percentile £275 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 43 61
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.47 £10.63
25th Percentile £11.95 £15.44 £12.05
Median hourly rate £13.48 £25.95 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +78.97% +3.57%
75th Percentile £18.00 £51.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £55.85 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.05 £26.75 £13.97
% change year-on-year -51.21% +91.48% -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 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +57 697 £400 -11.11% 769
UK excluding London +87 542 £425 +6.25% 700
Work from Home +20 213 £450 - 207
London 0 204 £400 -11.11% 124
South East +65 173 £378 +0.13% 162
South West +40 97 £550 +29.41% 107
North of England +43 86 £388 +10.71% 171
Midlands +52 80 £425 +20.57% 134
West Midlands +39 55 £425 +30.77% 68
Scotland +67 53 £350 -6.67% 44
East of England +31 51 £375 -11.76% 90
North West +22 46 £225 -47.06% 105
East Midlands +31 25 £475 +43.94% 67
Yorkshire +30 23 £470 +121.18% 49
North East +23 17 £475 +69.64% 18
Wales +24 7 £610 +300.49% 18

Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 199 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 190 (23.90%) Microsoft
3 164 (20.63%) Windows
4 148 (18.62%) Security Cleared
5 100 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
6 94 (11.82%) Finance
7 92 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (11.45%) Microsoft Office
9 86 (10.82%) DV Cleared
10 85 (10.69%) Linux
11 78 (9.81%) Azure
12 72 (9.06%) SharePoint
13 64 (8.05%) Public Sector
14 63 (7.92%) Customer Service
14 63 (7.92%) Active Directory
15 59 (7.42%) Windows Server
16 58 (7.30%) SQL
17 54 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
18 53 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
18 53 (6.67%) SAP
19 51 (6.42%) Degree
20 50 (6.29%) VMware
21 48 (6.04%) SQL Server
22 47 (5.91%) PKI
22 47 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
23 46 (5.79%) SC Cleared
24 45 (5.66%) PowerShell
24 45 (5.66%) DevOps
25 42 (5.28%) Data Entry
26 38 (4.78%) 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 (9.06%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.89%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (1.51%) Confluence
6 9 (1.13%) SAS
7 8 (1.01%) Apache
8 7 (0.88%) IIS
9 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.13%) Moodle
12 1 (0.13%) nginx
12 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (11.45%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (2.89%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.88%) iTrent
3 4 (0.50%) Maximo
3 4 (0.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.13%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 78 (9.81%) Azure
2 47 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (4.53%) AWS
4 18 (2.26%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.51%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.01%) PaaS
7 7 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.75%) GCP
8 6 (0.75%) GitHub
9 5 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.63%) SaaS
9 5 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.50%) Google Sheets
10 4 (0.50%) OCI
10 4 (0.50%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.77%) DNS
2 20 (2.52%) Intranet
3 11 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.26%) Firewall
4 10 (1.26%) WAN
5 7 (0.88%) DHCP
5 7 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (0.88%) LAN
5 7 (0.88%) SAN
5 7 (0.88%) VPN
6 6 (0.75%) Internet
6 6 (0.75%) SSL
6 6 (0.75%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.38%) HTTP
8 3 (0.38%) IPsec
8 3 (0.38%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.38%) SMTP
8 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.39%) MySQL
3 15 (1.89%) Power BI
4 14 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (1.51%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.88%) DB2
10 7 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.75%) Ingres
12 5 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.63%) Metadata
12 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 31 (3.90%) 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
1 199 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.82%) Finance
3 64 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (4.03%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.02%) Banking
8 21 (2.64%) Legal
9 19 (2.39%) Marketing
9 19 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.76%) Retail
11 13 (1.64%) Law
12 10 (1.26%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.13%) Police
14 7 (0.88%) Electronics
15 6 (0.75%) Automotive
15 6 (0.75%) Back Office
15 6 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.64%) Itk
2 9 (1.13%) CSS
2 9 (1.13%) HTML
3 7 (0.88%) .NET
4 6 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (0.75%) Middleware
4 6 (0.75%) SAML
5 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.63%) Google Maps API
5 5 (0.63%) Kafka
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.50%) LDAP
6 4 (0.50%) Node.js
7 3 (0.38%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (0.38%) jQuery
7 3 (0.38%) SPFx
8 2 (0.25%) ISPF
8 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.91%) PKI
2 29 (3.65%) Management Information System
3 23 (2.89%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.77%) NHS
5 19 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.51%) Blog
7 11 (1.38%) Clustering
7 11 (1.38%) Replication
8 10 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.63%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.63%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (0.63%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.50%) CCTV
12 4 (0.50%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.50%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 164 (20.63%) Windows
2 85 (10.69%) Linux
3 59 (7.42%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.89%) Unix
5 15 (1.89%) Windows 7
5 15 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.13%) VMS
9 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.75%) 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 92 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (7.92%) Customer Service
3 45 (5.66%) DevOps
4 42 (5.28%) Data Entry
5 38 (4.78%) Migration
6 35 (4.40%) Change Management
6 35 (4.40%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (4.28%) Time Management
8 33 (4.15%) ITIL
9 32 (4.03%) Data Protection
10 31 (3.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (3.77%) Project Management
12 28 (3.52%) High Availability
13 21 (2.64%) Asset Management
14 20 (2.52%) Document Management
15 19 (2.39%) Problem Management
16 18 (2.26%) Agile
16 18 (2.26%) Data Management
16 18 (2.26%) Task Automation
16 18 (2.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.30%) SQL
2 45 (5.66%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.39%) Bash
4 16 (2.01%) Python
5 12 (1.51%) C
6 10 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.01%) Perl
9 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.75%) C++
10 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.63%) Groovy
12 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
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%) Java
14 2 (0.25%) JCL
14 2 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 148 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 86 (10.82%) DV Cleared
3 51 (6.42%) Degree
4 46 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.50%) MCITP
9 4 (0.50%) MCSE
9 4 (0.50%) MCTS
9 4 (0.50%) 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 (3.52%) QA
2 14 (1.76%) PMO
3 13 (1.64%) GDPR
4 12 (1.51%) SLA
5 10 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.63%) GRC
7 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.63%) NIST
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 63 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.75%) Docker
4 6 (0.75%) Firmware
4 6 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.63%) VMware Server
5 5 (0.63%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) ACF2
6 2 (0.25%) NFS
6 2 (0.25%) RACF
6 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Postfix
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (2.26%) Ansible
2 16 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.51%) SCOM
4 10 (1.26%) Data Guard
5 8 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.01%) NetBackup
5 8 (1.01%) Terraform
6 7 (0.88%) Control-M
7 6 (0.75%) Grafana
7 6 (0.75%) Nagios
7 6 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.50%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.50%) Puppet
9 4 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.67%) SAP
3 50 (6.29%) VMware
4 34 (4.28%) Oracle
5 26 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.64%) Google
9 11 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.38%) IBM
10 9 (1.13%) Apple
10 9 (1.13%) F5
10 9 (1.13%) Veeam
11 8 (1.01%) Splunk
12 7 (0.88%) Cisco
13 6 (0.75%) EMC
13 6 (0.75%) Sage
14 5 (0.63%) Progress
14 5 (0.63%) Veritas
15 4 (0.50%) Bloomberg
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