Sage Contracts

Sage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sage products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sage over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 617 793
Rank change year-on-year +91 +176 -50
Contract jobs citing Sage 40 29 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.058% 0.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 52
10th Percentile £274 £216 £401
25th Percentile £350 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £578
90th Percentile £666 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £588 £500
% change year-on-year +2.13% +17.50% +2.56%

All Vendors
UK

Sage falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,067 22,348 35,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.45% 44.82% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,207 14,472 23,701
10th Percentile £285 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £639
90th Percentile £730 £731 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 675 688 798
10th Percentile £14.16 £15.24 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.62 £19.05 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.41 £41.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.99% +85.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.00 £51.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.55 £19.96
% change year-on-year -22.18% +93.18% +10.86%

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 20 September 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 12 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 20 September 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 +86 40 £525 -8.70% 56
UK excluding London +53 28 £600 +2.13% 56
Midlands +5 13 £600 - 4
London +73 11 £525 +2.44% 8
South East +34 11 - - 18
Work from Home +94 10 £575 +64.29% 21
West Midlands +2 9 £600 - 1
North of England +37 6 £276 -21.14% 17
North West - 4 £273 - 12
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +16 1 £350 - 4
North East - 1 - - 1

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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Sage 200
1 6 (15.00%) Sage 50
2 4 (10.00%) Sage X3
3 2 (5.00%) NetSuite
4 1 (2.50%) BambooHR
4 1 (2.50%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (7.50%) AWS
1 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (5.00%) ClickUp
2 2 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.50%) Boomi
3 1 (2.50%) Intacct
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
3 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Manufacturing
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (25.00%) Consultant
3 9 (22.50%) Sage Consultant
4 6 (15.00%) HR Manager
4 6 (15.00%) Systems Manager
5 5 (12.50%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Accountant
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Systems Accountant
7 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) ERP Manager
7 3 (7.50%) ERP Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Construction Project Manager
8 2 (5.00%) ERP Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Integration Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 2 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) BREW
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Learning Management System
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Agile
2 6 (15.00%) ERP
2 6 (15.00%) Information Management
3 5 (12.50%) Project Management
4 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (10.00%) Line Management
4 4 (10.00%) Migration
4 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (7.50%) Data Engineering
5 3 (7.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (7.50%) ETL
5 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2
5 3 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.50%) Time Management
6 2 (5.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.00%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) CIPD
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.00%) SAP
2 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.00%) Workday
3 1 (2.50%) Concur
3 1 (2.50%) Dell
3 1 (2.50%) DocuSign
3 1 (2.50%) Infor
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) Zoho