Software Licensing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Licensing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Software Licensing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Licensing 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 281 338 464
Rank change year-on-year +57 +126 +138
Contract jobs citing Software Licensing 23 7 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.046% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.052% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 10
10th Percentile - £185 £200
25th Percentile £215 £189 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £300 £520
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -42.31% +15.56%
75th Percentile £300 £475 £540
90th Percentile £588 £555 £605
UK median daily rate £248 £290 £330
% change year-on-year -14.66% -12.12% -26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Licensing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Licensing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Licensing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Licensing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Licensing.

Software Licensing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Licensing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Software Licensing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Licensing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Licensing.

Software Licensing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Licensing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.35%) IaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) 4G
1 3 (13.04%) DHCP
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) LAN
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
1 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
1 3 (13.04%) VPN
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
1 3 (13.04%) Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) IT Support
2 6 (26.09%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (26.09%) IT Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) IT Support Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) ITIL
2 13 (56.52%) Service Management
3 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
3 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
3 3 (13.04%) Data Privacy
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (13.04%) Inventory Management
3 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
3 3 (13.04%) Proactive Management
3 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
4 2 (8.70%) Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Validation
5 1 (4.35%) Change Management
5 1 (4.35%) Project Management
5 1 (4.35%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCNA
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Snow