Software Licensing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Licensing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Licensing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 702 676
Rank change year-on-year +52 -26 +124
Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing 256 275 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.28% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 130 104 137
10th Percentile £37,375 £27,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,983 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £56,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.55% +13.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,075 £84,100 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -24.00% +17.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Licensing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Licensing.

Salary trend for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Licensing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Licensing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +93 250 £42,250 -23.18% 41
Work from Home +130 208 £38,000 -30.91% 23
UK excluding London -14 205 £38,000 -24.00% 30
South East -9 71 £40,250 -32.92% 13
North of England +54 67 £38,000 -36.67% 6
North West +33 57 £38,000 -36.67% 3
London +98 45 £60,500 +0.83% 15
Midlands -5 38 £38,000 -13.87% 2
West Midlands +21 37 £38,000 -17.82% 2
East of England +28 20 £42,250 +5.63% 3
Yorkshire +72 10 £40,000 -33.33% 3
South West -29 6 £28,500 -7.86% 1
Scotland -73 3 £22,000 -56.44% 3
East Midlands -20 1 £60,000 +79.10%

Software Licensing
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 20 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 19 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.34%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 25 (9.77%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Notion
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.09%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (11.72%) SaaS
3 21 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.64%) Azure
5 14 (5.47%) AWS
5 14 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.34%) Serverless
8 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.17%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.17%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.78%) Asana
10 2 (0.78%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.78%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.78%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 41 (16.02%) WAN
2 36 (14.06%) SD-WAN
3 24 (9.38%) Unified Communications
4 21 (8.20%) Cisco Firepower
5 14 (5.47%) DHCP
5 14 (5.47%) DNS
6 7 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.34%) LAN
8 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.17%) Wireless
10 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.78%) Firewall
10 2 (0.78%) Internet
10 2 (0.78%) Network Security
10 2 (0.78%) SAN
10 2 (0.78%) VLAN
11 1 (0.39%) NAS
11 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.08%) Power BI
3 6 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.34%) Tableau
4 1 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.56%) SpecFlow
2 3 (1.17%) Git
2 3 (1.17%) JIRA
General
1 45 (17.58%) Finance
2 42 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.77%) Marketing
4 15 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.30%) Legal
6 10 (3.91%) Aerospace
6 10 (3.91%) Law
6 10 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.73%) Retail
9 6 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (19.14%) Consultant
2 43 (16.80%) Architect
3 38 (14.84%) Senior
4 36 (14.06%) Cisco Architect
4 36 (14.06%) Senior Architect
4 36 (14.06%) Senior Cisco Architect
5 31 (12.11%) Analyst
6 29 (11.33%) Technical Consultant
7 21 (8.20%) Cisco Security Architect
7 21 (8.20%) Security Architect
7 21 (8.20%) Senior Security Architect
7 21 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.86%) Cisco Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.86%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.86%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.47%) Cloud Consultant
9 14 (5.47%) IT Manager
9 14 (5.47%) Software Analyst
10 12 (4.69%) AWS Consultant
10 12 (4.69%) Software Licensing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.95%) CSS
1 5 (1.95%) HTML
2 4 (1.56%) RESTful
2 4 (1.56%) Web Services
3 3 (1.17%) Software Packaging
3 3 (1.17%) WPF
4 1 (0.39%) CSS3
4 1 (0.39%) HTML5
4 1 (0.39%) React
4 1 (0.39%) REST
4 1 (0.39%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 118 (46.09%) Data Centre
2 30 (11.72%) Public Cloud
3 26 (10.16%) Private Cloud
4 13 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.13%) FMCG
7 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Licensing
8 6 (2.34%) Culture of Ownership
8 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.39%) Blog
11 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 72 (28.13%) Windows
2 36 (14.06%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.91%) Linux
4 10 (3.91%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows NT
7 1 (0.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (60.16%) Cybersecurity
2 133 (51.95%) Presales
3 50 (19.53%) Time Management
4 45 (17.58%) Asset Management
5 42 (16.41%) Customer Engagement
5 42 (16.41%) IT Asset Management
5 42 (16.41%) User Experience
6 40 (15.63%) Analytics
7 32 (12.50%) Value Proposition
8 29 (11.33%) Project Management
9 28 (10.94%) Software Asset Management
10 22 (8.59%) Contract Management
11 21 (8.20%) Migration
12 20 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (7.81%) Service Delivery
13 19 (7.42%) ITIL
14 18 (7.03%) Agile
15 17 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (6.64%) Cost Reduction
16 14 (5.47%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.13%) SQL
2 6 (2.34%) JavaScript
2 6 (2.34%) Python
2 6 (2.34%) R
3 4 (1.56%) C
3 4 (1.56%) C#
3 4 (1.56%) Go
3 4 (1.56%) Java
3 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (49.61%) Degree
2 37 (14.45%) CCNA
2 37 (14.45%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (14.06%) CCNP
4 33 (12.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (10.94%) MCP
6 12 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.39%) MCDST
10 1 (0.39%) MCSA
10 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.39%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (1.95%) GDPR
1 5 (1.95%) QA
2 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.17%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.17%) SLA
3 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (22.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (8.20%) Stealthwatch
2 15 (5.86%) CASB
3 14 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 201 (78.52%) Microsoft
2 147 (57.42%) Adobe
3 146 (57.03%) Apple
4 38 (14.84%) Cisco
4 38 (14.84%) Meraki
5 33 (12.89%) HP
6 32 (12.50%) Dell
6 32 (12.50%) Samsung
7 17 (6.64%) Intel
8 14 (5.47%) SAP
9 12 (4.69%) IBM
9 12 (4.69%) Oracle
9 12 (4.69%) Snow
9 12 (4.69%) VMware
10 8 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.95%) Xero
12 3 (1.17%) Symantec
13 2 (0.78%) Citrix
13 2 (0.78%) Veeam
13 2 (0.78%) Veritas