TOWER Software Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

TOWER Software
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 TOWER Software products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TOWER Software over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 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 TOWER Software.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 346 368
Rank change year-on-year -55 +22 +111
Contract jobs citing TOWER Software 3 13 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.19% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 24
10th Percentile - £723 £563
25th Percentile - £738 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £775 £713
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% +8.77% +48.44%
75th Percentile - £788 £738
90th Percentile - - £764
UK median daily rate £525 £740 £715
% change year-on-year -29.05% +3.50% +19.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £37.00 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

TOWER Software 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 8,440 6,859 9,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.96% 45.75% 47.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,473 4,091 5,940
10th Percentile £220 £213 £210
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 669 378 523
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.06 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -40.42% +100.00%
75th Percentile £44.50 £59.99 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.41 £75.00 £75.45
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

TOWER Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TOWER Software relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

TOWER Software job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TOWER Software
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TOWER Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TOWER Software

TOWER Software
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TOWER Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TOWER Software

TOWER Software
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 TOWER Software within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
North West -31 2 - - 1
North of England -50 2 - - 1
South West - 1 £450 - 2
TOWER Software
UK

TOWER Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP APO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP IBP
1 2 (66.67%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP APO Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Logistics
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Model
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP