Sage Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Sage
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 November 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
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sage 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £195 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £444 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -22.83% - +12.75%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 710 664 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.65% 37.86% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 367 595
10th Percentile £213 £168 £201
25th Percentile £373 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £685 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 39 34
10th Percentile £16.84 £13.56 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.34 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +25.51% +3.41%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £59.10
90th Percentile £60.50 £29.60 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +76.24%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Sage job vacancy trend in Scotland

Sage
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sage

Sage
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sage

Sage
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Banffshire - 1 £190 - 3
Sage
UK

Sage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IMAP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AAT
1 1 (50.00%) ACCA
1 1 (50.00%) CIMA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xero
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Pegasus
2 1 (50.00%) VMware