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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 581 636
Rank change year-on-year +23 +55 +50
Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing 169 74 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 40 135
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +17.65% -29.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,050 £63,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,678 £38,754 £38,000
% change year-on-year +69.47% +1.98% -24.00%

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 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -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 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Top 13 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 18 May 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 +47 165 £66,750 +33.50% 38
UK excluding London +40 129 £65,678 +69.47% 25
Work from Home +119 93 £57,500 -8.00% 16
Midlands +4 42 £77,500 +99.98% 6
West Midlands +7 35 £90,000 +132.23% 1
London -3 34 £63,000 -16.00% 14
East of England 0 26 £75,000 +2.04% 2
North of England -20 25 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North West +29 24 £42,500 - 5
South East -10 19 £67,500 +107.69% 9
South West - 17 £32,500 - 1
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 - 5
Yorkshire -43 1 £62,500 +4.17% 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 8 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.78%) FileNet
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (13.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (14.20%) Cloudability
2 3 (1.78%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 70 (41.42%) Azure
2 47 (27.81%) AWS
3 24 (14.20%) GCP
3 24 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (9.47%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.69%) SaaS
6 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.18%) PaaS
7 2 (1.18%) Stripe
8 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.59%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.59%) IaaS
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.92%) Network Security
2 4 (2.37%) VoIP
3 2 (1.18%) DHCP
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.96%) Power BI
1 5 (2.96%) Tableau
2 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) JIRA
General
1 59 (34.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.93%) Finance
4 30 (17.75%) Legal
5 21 (12.43%) Law
6 14 (8.28%) Front Office
7 12 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.33%) Automotive
10 7 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (3.55%) Retail
12 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.37%) Military
14 3 (1.78%) Advertising
14 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.78%) Marketing
14 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 2 (1.18%) Billing
16 1 (0.59%) Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) Analyst
2 37 (21.89%) Senior
3 24 (14.20%) IT Support
3 24 (14.20%) Senior Analyst
4 15 (8.88%) IT Engineer
5 14 (8.28%) Service Manager
6 13 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.51%) IT Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) IT Support Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) Support Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Category Manager
8 9 (5.33%) IT Manager
8 9 (5.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Server Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Server Support
8 9 (5.33%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Software Licensing Specialist
10 7 (4.14%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.16%) Onboarding
2 23 (13.61%) Microsoft Licensing
3 19 (11.24%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.37%) CMDB
5 4 (2.37%) Culture of Ownership
6 3 (1.78%) Life Science
6 3 (1.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.18%) CCTV
7 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Licensing
8 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.47%) Linux
2 13 (7.69%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Unix
3 5 (2.96%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (41.42%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (34.91%) AI
3 54 (31.95%) Cost Optimisation
4 42 (24.85%) FinOps
5 34 (20.12%) Mentoring
6 32 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (18.34%) Asset Management
8 27 (15.98%) Cost Management
9 24 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (11.83%) Software Asset Management
11 19 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (10.06%) Client Onboarding
13 16 (9.47%) Decision-Making
14 14 (8.28%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (8.28%) ITIL
14 14 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (7.10%) Contract Negotiation
15 12 (7.10%) Data Protection
16 11 (6.51%) Contract Management
16 11 (6.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.96%) Python
1 5 (2.96%) VB
1 5 (2.96%) VBA
1 5 (2.96%) VBScript
2 3 (1.78%) SQL
3 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (24.26%) AWS Certification
2 24 (14.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (6.51%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.96%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.37%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) CCNA
7 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.37%) GDPR
2 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) COBIT
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
4 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (10.06%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.33%) Docker
3 5 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (5.33%) SCCM
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 99 (58.58%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.95%) Adobe
3 47 (27.81%) Apple
4 25 (14.79%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.92%) IBM
5 10 (5.92%) Oracle
6 6 (3.55%) Snow
7 5 (2.96%) VMware
8 3 (1.78%) Facebook
8 3 (1.78%) YouTube
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco
9 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.59%) Autodesk