Software Licensing Contracts in London

Software Licensing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Software Licensing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Licensing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 382 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +93 +87
Contract jobs citing Software Licensing 15 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.050% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.057% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £249 £270 £201
25th Percentile £368 £333 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £378 £530
Median % change year-on-year +52.12% -28.68% +17.78%
75th Percentile £600 £475 £549
90th Percentile £629 £555 £575
England median daily rate £220 £290 £325
% change year-on-year -24.14% -10.77% -27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -41.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Licensing in London

Software Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Licensing in London.

Daily rate trend for Software Licensing in London

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Licensing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Licensing in London

Software Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Licensing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Licensing in London

Software Licensing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +6 3 £575 +15.00% 8
Software Licensing
England

Software Licensing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) 4G
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MSI
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Procurement Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Licensing
2 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Asset Management
2 6 (40.00%) Inventory Management
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Software Deployment
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
5 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Software Asset Management
5 3 (20.00%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) CCNP
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 3 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Snow
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec