Sage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sage products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sage over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sage Group PLC.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 657 792
Rank change year-on-year +146 +135 -153
Contract jobs citing Sage 74 36 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.062% 0.065%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 44
10th Percentile £275 £205 £366
25th Percentile £380 £272 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £566 £500 £538
90th Percentile £603 £605 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £375 £436
% change year-on-year +15.00% -14.04% -20.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile - £13.10 -
25th Percentile £11.25 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £12.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% - -
75th Percentile £16.82 £22.63 -
90th Percentile £17.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -31.43% - -

All Vendors
UK

Sage is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,246 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,291 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 691 877
10th Percentile £12.09 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +144 70 £450 +20.00% 116
UK excluding London +103 50 £431 +15.00% 104
Work from Home +137 23 £413 +17.86% 34
Midlands +46 19 £513 +13.89% 20
London +88 15 £575 +21.05% 15
North of England +39 15 £413 +37.50% 34
West Midlands +36 15 £475 -5.00% 10
South East +32 14 £525 +75.00% 30
North West +33 11 £413 +37.50% 20
East Midlands +21 3 £500 +37.93% 10
Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
Scotland +46 2 - - 3
South West +14 1 £450 - 5
East of England +3 1 - - 11
North East - 1 - - 8

Sage
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 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.05%) CMS
2 3 (4.05%) nginx
3 2 (2.70%) Drupal
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) FileZilla
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (13.51%) Sage X3
2 8 (10.81%) Sage 200
2 8 (10.81%) Sage 50
3 3 (4.05%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (4.05%) Maximo
3 3 (4.05%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.70%) Visualfiles
5 1 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) SaaS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (9.46%) AWS
4 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.11%) Serverless
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.41%) WhatsApp
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (4.05%) GitHub
6 3 (4.05%) Intacct
6 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Firewall
1 4 (5.41%) Wireless
2 3 (4.05%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (4.05%) SAN
2 3 (4.05%) SSL
2 3 (4.05%) WAN
3 2 (2.70%) FTP
3 2 (2.70%) WinSCP
4 1 (1.35%) LAN
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) MySQL
2 4 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (5.41%) Big Data
2 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) Metadata
4 2 (2.70%) MS Access
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.05%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (43.24%) Finance
2 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.27%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Legal
5 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Retail
6 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Project Manager
2 15 (20.27%) Consultant
3 12 (16.22%) Sage Consultant
4 9 (12.16%) ERP Manager
4 9 (12.16%) ERP Project Manager
5 6 (8.11%) Administrator
5 6 (8.11%) Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (8.11%) HR Manager
5 6 (8.11%) Implementation Manager
5 6 (8.11%) Implementation Project Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Project Implementation Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Accountant
7 4 (5.41%) Construction Project Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Facilities Management Project Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Facilities Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Facilities Project Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) EDI
1 3 (4.05%) JDBC
1 3 (4.05%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (4.05%) Node.js
1 3 (4.05%) ODBC
2 1 (1.35%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.05%) CCTV
1 3 (4.05%) Cyberattack
1 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
1 3 (4.05%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (2.70%) Learning Management System
2 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.35%) Life Science
3 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Windows
2 6 (8.11%) Linux
3 3 (4.05%) Android
3 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) ERP
2 12 (16.22%) Project Management
3 10 (13.51%) Agile
3 10 (13.51%) Facilities Management
4 9 (12.16%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
6 6 (8.11%) CAFM
6 6 (8.11%) Migration
7 5 (6.76%) CRM
7 5 (6.76%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.76%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.76%) Service Management
8 4 (5.41%) DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) IT Strategy
8 4 (5.41%) Line Management
8 4 (5.41%) SDLC
9 3 (4.05%) API Integration
9 3 (4.05%) Coaching
9 3 (4.05%) Security Operations
9 3 (4.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) SQL
2 8 (10.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.41%) Degree
2 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) CIPD
4 1 (1.35%) ACCA
4 1 (1.35%) CIMA
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) vCloud
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.05%) PaperCut
1 3 (4.05%) SCCM
2 1 (1.35%) Avamar
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) SAP
2 4 (5.41%) Aruba
2 4 (5.41%) Cisco
2 4 (5.41%) VMware
3 3 (4.05%) Ceridian
3 3 (4.05%) Darktrace
3 3 (4.05%) FireEye
3 3 (4.05%) HP
3 3 (4.05%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.05%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.05%) Splunk
3 3 (4.05%) Veeam
3 3 (4.05%) WatchGuard
4 2 (2.70%) CODA
4 2 (2.70%) LexisNexis
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) Facebook