Software Licensing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Software Licensing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Software Licensing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Software Licensing 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £461
25th Percentile - - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile - - £653
90th Percentile - - £674
England median daily rate £525 £340 £500
% change year-on-year +54.41% -32.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Software Licensing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,340 1,023 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.40% 82.63% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 416 825
10th Percentile £185 £241 £240
25th Percentile £363 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £708
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 214 366
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.54
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.59 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% +28.99% +1.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Licensing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Software Licensing job vacancy trend in the East of England

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Licensing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Licensing

Software Licensing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Licensing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Licensing

Software Licensing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Licensing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £450 -
Software Licensing
England

Software Licensing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) AdminStudio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) ICT Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) ICT Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Software Rationalisation
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CBAP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow