Sage Contracts in England

Sage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 22 May 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 470 610
Rank change year-on-year +41 +140 +120
Contract jobs citing Sage 38 72 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.47% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 21
10th Percentile £200 £272 £205
25th Percentile £256 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -2.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £588 £615 £613
UK median daily rate £263 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -41.67% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - - £12.58
25th Percentile - £11.25 £14.94
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year - -34.25% -
75th Percentile - £16.82 £20.28
90th Percentile - £17.43 £21.69
UK median hourly rate - £12.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year - -34.25% -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,424 15,228 20,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.62% 41.89% 41.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,330 9,729 13,818
10th Percentile £275 £263 £265
25th Percentile £406 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.92% +2.10%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 1,015 573
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.34 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -37.14% +63.63%
75th Percentile £58.58 £56.49 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £21.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +19.86% -47.03% +88.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sage in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sage in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sage in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
South East +46 13 £263 -47.50% 44
London +37 12 £550 +7.32% 67
North of England +8 5 £463 +12.12% 43
North West +4 3 £300 -27.27% 25
West Midlands -2 3 £165 -72.50% 9
Midlands -4 3 £165 -70.00% 13
Yorkshire +7 1 £463 - 6
North East +3 1 £575 - 12
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (13.16%) CMS
2 3 (7.89%) WordPress
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.63%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Trello
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Sage X3
2 1 (2.63%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.63%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon SageMaker
2 5 (13.16%) Google Workspace
3 3 (7.89%) DigitalOcean
3 3 (7.89%) Figma
3 3 (7.89%) GitHub
3 3 (7.89%) Heroku
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Slack
4 2 (5.26%) Azure
4 2 (5.26%) Intacct
4 2 (5.26%) OCI
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) WebEx
2 5 (13.16%) DNS
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) FTP
4 1 (2.63%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) MS Access
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (63.16%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Electronics
5 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Analyst
2 14 (36.84%) 2nd Line Support
3 13 (34.21%) Support Analyst
4 12 (31.58%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 7 (18.42%) Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Consultant
6 4 (10.53%) Data Scientist
6 4 (10.53%) Sage Consultant
6 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Desktop Support
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Alpine.js
1 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
1 3 (7.89%) CSS
1 3 (7.89%) Laravel
1 3 (7.89%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (2.63%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) AIX
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Mac OS X
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.26%) Windows 8
2 2 (5.26%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Mobile Device Management
2 6 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (10.53%) Analytics
4 4 (10.53%) CRM
4 4 (10.53%) Data Science
4 4 (10.53%) Machine Learning
4 4 (10.53%) Project Management
5 3 (7.89%) Customer Service
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Migration
5 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (7.89%) Prototyping
5 3 (7.89%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (7.89%) Web Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (5.26%) Programme Management
6 2 (5.26%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) PHP
4 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) vSphere
2 2 (5.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (5.26%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) ServiceNow
2 15 (39.47%) Citrix
2 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Adobe
4 2 (5.26%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) Dell
4 2 (5.26%) Draytek
4 2 (5.26%) GFI Software
4 2 (5.26%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) Kaspersky
4 2 (5.26%) NETGEAR
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Panasonic
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.26%) Spiceworks
4 2 (5.26%) WatchGuard
4 2 (5.26%) Webroot