Sage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sage products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sage over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 676 813
Rank change year-on-year +159 +137 -187
Contract jobs citing Sage 72 44 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.072% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 41
10th Percentile £276 £206 £363
25th Percentile £389 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £547 £594 £500
90th Percentile £623 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile - £13.10 -
25th Percentile £11.25 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £12.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% - -
75th Percentile £16.82 £22.63 -
90th Percentile £17.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -31.43% - -

All Vendors
UK

Sage is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,764 26,353 35,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.78% 42.89% 39.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 17,612 23,695
10th Percentile £258 £269 £283
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 741 904
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.10 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +92.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £44.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +102.70% -2.63%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
England +152 68 £450 +2.86% 108
UK excluding London +82 46 £413 +3.13% 93
Work from Home +131 23 £413 - 36
Midlands +51 18 £450 -5.26% 17
London +111 17 £575 +12.75% 19
West Midlands +43 15 £375 -28.57% 8
North of England +46 14 £413 - 23
South East +32 12 £525 +31.25% 35
North West +41 11 £413 -8.33% 13
Yorkshire +25 3 - - 4
Scotland +40 2 - - 4
East Midlands +21 2 £500 +37.93% 9
South West +26 1 £450 - 5
East of England +9 1 - - 11

Sage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.17%) CMS
2 3 (4.17%) nginx
3 2 (2.78%) Drupal
4 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) FileZilla
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Sage X3
2 9 (12.50%) Sage 200
3 8 (11.11%) Sage 50
4 3 (4.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (4.17%) Maximo
4 3 (4.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.78%) Visualfiles
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.50%) SaaS
2 8 (11.11%) Azure
3 6 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (8.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.94%) Serverless
5 4 (5.56%) Intacct
5 4 (5.56%) WhatsApp
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.17%) GitHub
6 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.39%) IaaS
8 1 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
1 4 (5.56%) Wireless
2 3 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (4.17%) SAN
2 3 (4.17%) SSL
2 3 (4.17%) WAN
3 2 (2.78%) FTP
3 2 (2.78%) WinSCP
4 1 (1.39%) LAN
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) MySQL
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.17%) Big Data
2 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.17%) MS Access
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.78%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (45.83%) Finance
2 16 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (4.17%) Legal
4 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Retail
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Project Manager
2 15 (20.83%) Consultant
3 12 (16.67%) Sage Consultant
4 10 (13.89%) ERP Manager
5 9 (12.50%) ERP Project Manager
6 6 (8.33%) Administrator
6 6 (8.33%) Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
6 6 (8.33%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (8.33%) Implementation Project Manager
7 5 (6.94%) HR Manager
7 5 (6.94%) Project Implementation Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Accountant
8 4 (5.56%) Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Construction Project Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Facilities Management Project Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Facilities Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Facilities Project Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) EDI
1 3 (4.17%) JDBC
1 3 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (4.17%) Node.js
1 3 (4.17%) ODBC
2 1 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) CCTV
1 3 (4.17%) Cyberattack
1 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
1 3 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.39%) Life Science
3 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Android
3 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) ERP
2 12 (16.67%) Project Management
3 10 (13.89%) Facilities Management
4 9 (12.50%) Agile
4 9 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 6 (8.33%) CAFM
5 6 (8.33%) CRM
5 6 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 6 (8.33%) Migration
6 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
6 5 (6.94%) Service Management
7 4 (5.56%) DevOps
7 4 (5.56%) IT Strategy
7 4 (5.56%) Line Management
7 4 (5.56%) SDLC
8 3 (4.17%) API Integration
8 3 (4.17%) Coaching
8 3 (4.17%) Security Operations
8 3 (4.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) SQL
2 7 (9.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) ACCA
3 1 (1.39%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.39%) vCloud
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.17%) PaperCut
1 3 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.39%) Avamar
Vendors
1 11 (15.28%) SAP
2 4 (5.56%) Aruba
2 4 (5.56%) Cisco
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle
2 4 (5.56%) VMware
3 3 (4.17%) Ceridian
3 3 (4.17%) Darktrace
3 3 (4.17%) FireEye
3 3 (4.17%) HP
3 3 (4.17%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.17%) Splunk
3 3 (4.17%) Veeam
3 3 (4.17%) WatchGuard
4 2 (2.78%) CODA
4 2 (2.78%) LexisNexis
4 2 (2.78%) Salesforce