Sage Contracts

Sage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 511 664
Rank change year-on-year +46 +153 +145
Contract jobs citing Sage 48 75 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.058%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.41% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 23
10th Percentile - £275 £205
25th Percentile £256 £380 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £566 £513
90th Percentile £700 £603 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £263 £431 £338
% change year-on-year -39.13% +27.78% -24.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - - £12.58
25th Percentile - £11.25 £14.94
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year - -34.25% -
75th Percentile - £16.82 £20.28
90th Percentile - £17.43 £21.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - -31.43% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,816 18,264 24,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 42.47% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 11,330 16,673
10th Percentile £281 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £619 £630 £644
90th Percentile £715 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,110 685
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.11 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

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 13 May 2025.

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 12 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 13 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
England +35 39 £275 -38.89% 174
UK excluding London +14 22 £263 -39.13% 139
London +37 16 £575 - 59
Work from Home +38 12 £750 +81.70% 87
South East +43 11 £263 -50.00% 47
North of England +11 5 £463 +12.12% 44
Scotland +11 4 - - 10
North West +11 3 £300 -27.27% 22
West Midlands +5 2 - - 6
Midlands +2 2 - - 14
Yorkshire +13 1 £463 - 8
North East -6 1 £575 - 14

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 7 (14.58%) CMS
2 3 (6.25%) WordPress
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Drupal
4 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Trello
3 1 (2.08%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Sage X3
2 1 (2.08%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.08%) Sage 200
2 1 (2.08%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) AWS
2 7 (14.58%) Amazon SageMaker
3 5 (10.42%) Google Workspace
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
4 4 (8.33%) OCI
5 3 (6.25%) Azure
5 3 (6.25%) DigitalOcean
5 3 (6.25%) Figma
5 3 (6.25%) Heroku
5 3 (6.25%) Slack
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.17%) Intacct
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) Serverless
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) WebEx
2 5 (10.42%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) DHCP
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) FTP
4 1 (2.08%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (4.17%) Big Data
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) MS Access
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) MLflow
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (62.50%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) General Ledger
4 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) Electronics
6 2 (4.17%) Marketing
6 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Analyst
2 12 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 11 (22.92%) Support Analyst
4 10 (20.83%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 7 (14.58%) Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior
6 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Consultant
7 4 (8.33%) Data Scientist
7 4 (8.33%) Sage Consultant
8 3 (6.25%) Administrator
8 3 (6.25%) Desktop Support
8 3 (6.25%) Sage Specialist
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Architect
9 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Sage Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Alpine.js
1 3 (6.25%) Bootstrap
1 3 (6.25%) CSS
1 3 (6.25%) Laravel
1 3 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (4.17%) Shiny
3 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.08%) LangChain
3 1 (2.08%) NumPy
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth
3 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.08%) Pandas
3 1 (2.08%) pydantic
3 1 (2.08%) pytest
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.08%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) AIX
2 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Mac OS X
3 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.17%) Windows 8
3 2 (4.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (16.67%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (12.50%) CRM
5 5 (10.42%) Analytics
5 5 (10.42%) Machine Learning
6 4 (8.33%) Data Science
6 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.33%) Project Management
6 4 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.25%) DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) ETL
7 3 (6.25%) Order Management
7 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
7 3 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (6.25%) Web Analytics
8 2 (4.17%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Python
1 8 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) PHP
3 2 (4.17%) R
4 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) vSphere
2 2 (4.17%) XenApp
3 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (4.17%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) Citrix
2 13 (27.08%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.42%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
6 2 (4.17%) Adobe
6 2 (4.17%) Autodesk
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco
6 2 (4.17%) Dell
6 2 (4.17%) Draytek
6 2 (4.17%) HP
6 2 (4.17%) McAfee
6 2 (4.17%) Sophos
6 2 (4.17%) Symantec
6 2 (4.17%) Toshiba
6 2 (4.17%) VMware
6 2 (4.17%) WatchGuard
6 2 (4.17%) Webroot
6 2 (4.17%) Wyse