Software Licensing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Licensing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Licensing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Licensing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 390 429
Rank change year-on-year +81 +39 +41
Contract jobs citing Software Licensing 27 9 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.043% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.051% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 29
10th Percentile - £185 £145
25th Percentile £215 £185 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £195 £315
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -38.10% -30.00%
75th Percentile £384 £300 £330
90th Percentile £450 £491 £504
UK median daily rate £248 £290 £330
% change year-on-year -14.66% -12.12% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.50 - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.25 - -
90th Percentile £35.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -41.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Licensing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Licensing in the UK excluding London

Software Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Licensing in the UK excluding London

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Licensing in the UK excluding London

Software Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Licensing in the UK excluding London

Software Licensing
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 Software Licensing 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 West +57 16 £220 +10.00% 9
Scotland - 3 £500 - 3
North of England - 3 £373 - 16
South East +45 2 £413 +122.97% 24
East of England - 2 £625 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £380 - 5
Midlands - 1 £185 - 7
North West - 1 £215 - 11
West Midlands - 1 £185 - 4
Software Licensing
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Software Licensing
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 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) IT Support
2 7 (25.93%) IT Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (11.11%) DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Database Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle Licensing
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Replication
4 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Windows
1 13 (48.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) ITIL
2 13 (48.15%) Service Management
3 5 (18.52%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (18.52%) Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) Data Management
5 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.11%) Database Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Security Patching
6 2 (7.41%) Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (7.41%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (7.41%) Problem Management
6 2 (7.41%) Software Asset Management
6 2 (7.41%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (7.41%) Data Guard
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam
4 1 (3.70%) VMware