Software License Management Contracts

Software License Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software License Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software License Management 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 515 - 710
Rank change year-on-year - - +143
Contract jobs citing Software License Management 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% - 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £187 - £185
25th Percentile £216 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 - £225
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile £341 - £238
90th Percentile £369 - £238
UK excluding London median daily rate £280 - £210

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software License Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Software License Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software License Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software License Management in the UK

Software License Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software License Management.

Daily rate trend for Software License Management in the UK

Software License Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software License Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software License Management in the UK

Software License Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software License Management.

Hourly rate trend for Software License Management in the UK

Software License Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software License Management within the UK 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
England - 5 £280 - 4
UK excluding London - 4 £280 - 4
North of England - 3 £375 -
North West - 3 £375 -
London - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £185 -
West Midlands - 1 £185 -

Software License Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Asset Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scorecard
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (40.00%) Transition Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware