Sage Contracts in the Thames Valley

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South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 143
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +38
Contract jobs citing Sage 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.28% 0.068%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.58% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £220
25th Percentile £413 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.84%
75th Percentile £438 - £350
90th Percentile - - £380
South East median daily rate £263 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.23 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.23 -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 957 1,202 1,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 57.41% 47.96% 50.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 698 1,000
10th Percentile £304 £240 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £597 £611 £625
90th Percentile £662 £715 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 61 55
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.58 £18.29
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% -5.56% +172.73%
75th Percentile £44.33 £61.60 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £66.00 £71.40
South East median hourly rate £19.91 £55.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -63.82% +22.31% +125.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sage in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Sage in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sage in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £425 - 3
Sage
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) Prophet
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ARIMA
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Decision Tree
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Linear Regression
1 3 (100.00%) Logistic Regression
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) OCR
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR