Orchard Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Orchard
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Orchard products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Orchard over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Orchard Information Systems Ltd.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 565 571
Rank change year-on-year +58 +6 +166
Permanent jobs citing Orchard 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.008% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £40,870 - -
25th Percentile £41,424 - £31,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,195 £49,000 £32,387
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +51.30% -18.99%
75th Percentile £45,313 - £33,421
90th Percentile £46,076 - -
UK median annual salary £41,000 £49,000 £32,387
% change year-on-year -16.33% +51.30% -18.99%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Orchard falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12,482 12,772 13,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 35.55% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,889 6,088 10,437
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £61,041 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%

Orchard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Orchard relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Orchard job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Orchard
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Orchard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Orchard

Orchard
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Orchard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +19 1 £41,000 -16.33%
North of England +8 1 £41,000 -16.33%
East Midlands - 1 £45,390 -
Midlands - 1 £45,390 - 1
Orchard
UK

Orchard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Housing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Housing Management
2 1 (50.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Civica
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Northgate
2 1 (50.00%) Google