Software Licensing Job Trends

Software Licensing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Software Licensing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 562 603
Rank change year-on-year -54 +41 +95
Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing 145 109 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.25% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 81 45 151
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,650 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £40,681
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +22.91% -15.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,500 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +31.58% -17.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Software Licensing job vacancy trend in the UK

Software Licensing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software Licensing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Software Licensing

Software Licensing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Licensing over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Licensing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 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
England -10 141 £58,750 +17.50% 41
UK excluding London -50 112 £45,000 -10.00% 34
Work from Home -6 63 £55,000 -8.33% 20
London -13 29 £80,000 +45.45% 15
Midlands -16 29 £75,000 +93.53% 4
East of England -1 24 £34,000 -28.04% 2
North of England -19 24 £37,500 -22.68% 9
North West -2 22 £37,500 +1.35% 4
West Midlands -13 22 £87,500 +125.78% 3
South East -31 19 £58,928 +33.93% 9
South West - 14 £29,000 - 6
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 - 1
Yorkshire -23 2 £63,750 +6.25% 3
Wales - 2 £27,500 - 1

Software Licensing
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Cloudability
2 3 (2.07%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.41%) Azure
2 27 (18.62%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (17.24%) AWS
4 24 (16.55%) GCP
5 18 (12.41%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.21%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (4.14%) SaaS
9 5 (3.45%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.38%) Stripe
12 1 (0.69%) Asana
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.69%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.21%) Network Security
2 6 (4.14%) Firewall
2 6 (4.14%) VoIP
3 4 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.07%) DKIM
4 3 (2.07%) DMARC
4 3 (2.07%) DNS
4 3 (2.07%) PBX
4 3 (2.07%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.07%) VLAN
5 1 (0.69%) FTP
5 1 (0.69%) LAN
5 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) Power BI
2 5 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) JIRA
General
1 42 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (19.31%) Finance
4 27 (18.62%) Legal
5 20 (13.79%) Law
6 14 (9.66%) Front Office
7 13 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (6.90%) Manufacturing
9 9 (6.21%) Automotive
9 9 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
11 6 (4.14%) Advertising
11 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.76%) Military
13 3 (2.07%) Marketing
13 3 (2.07%) Retail
14 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.69%) Banking
15 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.52%) Analyst
2 29 (20.00%) Senior
3 27 (18.62%) IT Support
4 24 (16.55%) Senior Analyst
5 19 (13.10%) IT Engineer
6 18 (12.41%) Support Engineer
7 17 (11.72%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (11.03%) Service Manager
9 11 (7.59%) IT Manager
10 9 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Server Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Server Support
10 9 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) IT Analyst
11 8 (5.52%) IT Support Analyst
11 8 (5.52%) Support Analyst
12 7 (4.83%) Systems Support
12 7 (4.83%) Systems Support Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.55%) Microsoft Licensing
2 14 (9.66%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.52%) Life Science
3 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.14%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.76%) CMDB
5 4 (2.76%) Culture of Ownership
6 3 (2.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.38%) CCTV
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Linux
2 13 (8.97%) Windows
3 5 (3.45%) Unix
4 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (26.21%) AI
3 30 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 29 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (18.62%) Cost Management
6 25 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (17.24%) FinOps
7 20 (13.79%) Asset Management
7 20 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (11.03%) Data Protection
9 15 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (9.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (8.97%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.97%) ITIL
12 12 (8.28%) Customer Service
12 12 (8.28%) DevOps
12 12 (8.28%) Risk Management
12 12 (8.28%) Software Asset Management
13 11 (7.59%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.45%) Python
1 5 (3.45%) VB
1 5 (3.45%) VBA
1 5 (3.45%) VBScript
2 3 (2.07%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (16.55%) AWS Certification
1 24 (16.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (4.83%) DBS Check
2 7 (4.83%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.38%) CCNA
4 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (2.76%) GDPR
1 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.38%) NIST
2 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.38%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) COBIT
3 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (11.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.21%) Docker
3 8 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) SCCM
2 3 (2.07%) cPanel
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.07%) Plesk
Vendors
1 77 (53.10%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.00%) Adobe
3 25 (17.24%) Apple
4 24 (16.55%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.52%) VMware
6 7 (4.83%) IBM
6 7 (4.83%) Oracle
7 5 (3.45%) Snow
8 3 (2.07%) Acronis
8 3 (2.07%) Datto
8 3 (2.07%) NETGEAR
8 3 (2.07%) SonicWALL
8 3 (2.07%) Veeam
8 3 (2.07%) WatchGuard
9 2 (1.38%) Capita
9 2 (1.38%) Cisco
9 2 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.69%) HubSpot