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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 8 Nov 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 524 | 580 | 669 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +56 | +89 | -24 |
| Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing | 141 | 166 | 65 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.28% | 0.25% | 0.12% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 0.32% | 0.30% | 0.13% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 59 | 89 | 57 |
| 10th Percentile | £35,500 | £30,000 | £24,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £38,500 | £33,500 | £37,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £50,000 | £49,990 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +10.00% | +0.02% | +11.09% |
| 75th Percentile | £71,250 | £62,500 | £60,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £94,500 | £75,000 | £72,700 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £52,500 | £40,000 | £44,388 |
| % change year-on-year | +31.25% | -9.89% | +3.23% |
All Process and 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 | 44,303 | 55,889 | 50,206 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 86.67% | 82.62% | 93.88% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 26,710 | 29,381 | 38,581 |
| 10th Percentile | £28,250 | £33,875 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £35,500 | £45,000 | £43,800 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £54,000 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -10.00% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £75,000 | £78,750 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £97,500 | £98,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £46,750 | £54,000 | £52,500 |
| % change year-on-year | -13.43% | +2.86% | - |
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
Salary Trend
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 8 November 2025.
Software Licensing
Top 15 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 8 November 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 Permanent IT Job Ads |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | +54 | 127 | £49,225 | -1.55% | 98 |
| UK excluding London | +57 | 99 | £52,500 | +31.25% | 75 |
| Work from Home | +44 | 77 | £50,000 | +11.11% | 42 |
| London | +71 | 35 | £59,000 | -9.23% | 44 |
| South East | +38 | 32 | £65,000 | +30.00% | 48 |
| North of England | +20 | 32 | £39,500 | +12.86% | 5 |
| North West | +22 | 27 | £37,000 | -15.43% | 3 |
| Midlands | +55 | 21 | £37,500 | -36.44% | 5 |
| West Midlands | +39 | 21 | £37,500 | +1.37% | 5 |
| South West | +13 | 7 | £27,000 | -14.29% | 6 |
| Yorkshire | +4 | 3 | - | - | 1 |
| Isle of Man | - | 3 | £91,000 | - | |
| East of England | +24 | 2 | £57,500 | -47.73% | 2 |
| Scotland | 0 | 2 | - | - | 6 |
| North East | - | 2 | £42,000 | - | 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: