Sage Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 351 445
Rank change year-on-year +34 +94 +45
Contract jobs citing Sage 19 48 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.23% 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.54% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 12
10th Percentile - £275 £264
25th Percentile £256 £377 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £413 £388
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £291 £528 £447
90th Percentile £474 £543 £486
UK median daily rate £375 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - £11.25 £13.63
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -31.43% -
75th Percentile - £16.82 £19.13
90th Percentile - £17.43 £19.35
UK median hourly rate - £12.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - -36.84% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Sage in the UK excluding London

Sage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sage in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the UK excluding 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
South East +43 9 £263 -50.00% 36
North of England +9 5 £463 +12.12% 32
Scotland +15 4 - - 7
North West +9 3 £300 -27.27% 16
Yorkshire +6 1 £463 - 3
Midlands +4 1 - - 16
North East 0 1 £575 - 13
West Midlands 0 1 - - 9
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UK

Sage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BambooHR
1 1 (5.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Support Analyst
3 8 (42.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (42.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Accounts Assistant
6 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.26%) ERP Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) ERP Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) HR Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) JDE Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Web Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Web Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (15.79%) Order Management
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.26%) Data Entry
4 1 (5.26%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.26%) ETL
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Logistics
4 1 (5.26%) Migration
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.26%) Product Management
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.26%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.26%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Citrix
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
1 9 (47.37%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) JD Edwards
2 1 (5.26%) Workday
2 1 (5.26%) Xero