Sage Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Sage
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 3 December 2025, 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 60 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Sage 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 0.15% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -25.53% +11.90% -3.45%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 394 286 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.08% 42.37% 49.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 167 247
10th Percentile £156 £258 £213
25th Percentile £336 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £516 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £633 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 14 23
10th Percentile £16.29 £13.86 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.03 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £18.11 £46.88
90th Percentile - £48.03 £88.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Sage job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Sage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Sage

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Sage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Sage

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 December 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 2 £350 -
Sage
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Metrics