Sage Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 175 209
Rank change year-on-year +27 +34 +58
Contract jobs citing Sage 16 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.46% 0.24% 0.035%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 0.51% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile - - £220
25th Percentile £256 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.84%
75th Percentile £269 - £350
90th Percentile £378 - £380
England median daily rate £263 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.55% +10.00%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,851 2,376 2,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.92% 47.65% 51.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,221 1,438 1,952
10th Percentile £210 £259 £205
25th Percentile £375 £409 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 139 129
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £15.45
25th Percentile £15.28 £22.54 £18.08
Median hourly rate £19.46 £57.35 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.08% +27.44% +127.85%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.30 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.93 £70.00 £72.61
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sage in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Sage in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sage in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Hampshire - 7 £263 - 9
Kent - 6 £263 - 2
Thames Valley +7 3 £425 - 12
Buckinghamshire - 3 £425 - 2
Sage
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Bedrock
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (18.75%) ChatGPT
1 3 (18.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Analyst
1 13 (81.25%) Support Analyst
2 12 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 12 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Hugging Face
1 3 (18.75%) NumPy
1 3 (18.75%) Pandas
1 3 (18.75%) Prophet
1 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
1 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (18.75%) A/B Testing
2 3 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) ARIMA
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
2 3 (18.75%) Data Science
2 3 (18.75%) Decision Tree
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Linear Regression
2 3 (18.75%) Logistic Regression
2 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
2 3 (18.75%) OCR
2 3 (18.75%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (18.75%) Random Forest
2 3 (18.75%) Scrum
2 3 (18.75%) Statistical Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Time Series Forecasting
2 3 (18.75%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Citrix
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
1 13 (81.25%) ServiceNow