Software AG Contract Job Trends

Software AG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Software AG products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software AG over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 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 Software AG.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 533 638
Rank change year-on-year +9 +105 +195
Contract jobs citing Software AG 36 29 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.078% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.17% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 1
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £625 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +23.08% -22.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £494
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £675 -

All Vendors
UK

Software AG 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 15,770 16,742 21,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.57% 44.82% 45.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,724 9,858 14,000
10th Percentile £275 £291 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 560 682
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -25.88% +82.71%
75th Percentile £37.50 £64.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%

Software AG
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software AG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Software AG job vacancy trend in the UK

Software AG
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software AG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software AG

Software AG
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software AG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software AG

Software AG
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software AG within the UK over the 6 months to 19 October 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 +25 31 £650 -3.70% 13
Work from Home +6 20 £650 +1.96% 13
London +38 17 £650 - 5
UK excluding London -28 12 £675 - 10
North of England -31 6 £675 - 2
North West -15 4 £675 - 2
Yorkshire -23 2 - -
South East +9 1 - - 5
South West +8 1 - - 3
Scotland +4 1 - -
Wales -1 1 - -
Northern Ireland -7 1 - -
West Midlands -13 1 - -
Midlands -18 1 - -

Software AG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Electronics
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.78%) Marketing
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Consultant
2 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 12 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 12 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 12 (33.33%) Software Consultant
3 9 (25.00%) Developer
3 9 (25.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (75.00%) EntireX
2 8 (22.22%) JMS
2 8 (22.22%) JSON
2 8 (22.22%) XML
3 6 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 8 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
2 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 3 (8.33%) Change Control
4 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.78%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (2.78%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.78%) Programme Management
4 1 (2.78%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Assembly Language
1 1 (2.78%) C
1 1 (2.78%) JCL
1 1 (2.78%) Natural
1 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (94.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
Vendors
1 35 (97.22%) IBM
2 21 (58.33%) webMethods
3 9 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Fujitsu