Sage Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Sage
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 121 130
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +71
Contract jobs citing Sage 12 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 1.06% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile £238 - £418
25th Percentile £256 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - £614 -
England median daily rate £275 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -54.17% +4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.46 - -
England median hourly rate £14.23 - -

All Vendors
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,337 1,230 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.41% 45.95% 51.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 783 988
10th Percentile £239 £233 £210
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £596
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 29 44
10th Percentile £15.51 £12.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.47%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.18% +82.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
West Midlands -14 12 £275 -54.17% 13
Sage
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Intacct
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Project Leader
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Sage Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 4 (33.33%) ERP
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) SAP
5 1 (8.33%) Xero