Software Licensing Job Trends in Birmingham

Software Licensing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Software Licensing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 96 108
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing 24 3 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.82% 0.24% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.26% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,343 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,801 - £38,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.82%
75th Percentile £49,259 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £90,000 £38,754 £38,000
% change year-on-year +132.23% +1.98% -17.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,114 1,171 2,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.03% 94.59% 82.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 759 1,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,125 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £69,957
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Licensing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Software Licensing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Software Licensing
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Licensing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Licensing

Software Licensing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) AWS
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 22 (91.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Analyst
2 12 (50.00%) Senior
2 12 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Procurement Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 8 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) CCTV
2 2 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Licensing
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (83.33%) AI
2 20 (83.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 20 (83.33%) FinOps
3 12 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (8.33%) Contract Negotiation
5 2 (8.33%) Data Privacy
5 2 (8.33%) High Availability
5 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (8.33%) SIEM
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) AWS Certification
2 12 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (83.33%) Adobe
2 20 (83.33%) Apple
3 12 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto