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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 604 643
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 +45
Permanent jobs citing Software Licensing 140 82 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 73 40 143
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,377 £38,000
% change year-on-year +1.40% +16.78% -14.01%

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 70,466 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,630 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +8 138 £55,000 +10.00% 28
UK excluding London -18 109 £45,000 +1.40% 21
Work from Home +41 64 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Midlands -11 30 £75,000 +93.53% 4
East of England +7 28 £34,000 -8.11% 2
London -3 27 £80,000 +28.00% 8
West Midlands -4 23 £87,500 +125.78% 2
North of England -45 21 £37,500 -37.50% 2
North West +14 20 £37,500 - 1
South East -36 15 £54,000 +42.11% 5
South West - 15 £30,750 - 9
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 - 2
Yorkshire -29 1 £62,500 +4.17%

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 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Cloudability
2 3 (2.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.86%) Azure
2 27 (19.29%) AWS
3 24 (17.14%) GCP
3 24 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.86%) SaaS
8 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.43%) Stripe
9 1 (0.71%) Asana
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.71%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) Network Security
2 7 (5.00%) VoIP
3 5 (3.57%) Firewall
4 3 (2.14%) DKIM
4 3 (2.14%) DMARC
4 3 (2.14%) DNS
4 3 (2.14%) PBX
4 3 (2.14%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.14%) VLAN
4 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Power BI
1 5 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) JIRA
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (19.29%) Finance
4 21 (15.00%) Legal
5 14 (10.00%) Front Office
5 14 (10.00%) Law
6 13 (9.29%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (6.43%) Automotive
9 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.57%) Advertising
10 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.86%) Military
12 3 (2.14%) Marketing
13 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.71%) Banking
14 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Analyst
2 31 (22.14%) Senior
3 25 (17.86%) IT Support
4 24 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
5 17 (12.14%) IT Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Service Manager
7 15 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 15 (10.71%) Support Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) IT Manager
9 10 (7.14%) IT Analyst
9 10 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
9 10 (7.14%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Server Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Server Support
10 9 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Software Analyst
11 7 (5.00%) Systems Support
11 7 (5.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft Licensing
2 12 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.57%) Life Science
5 4 (2.86%) CMDB
5 4 (2.86%) Culture of Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.43%) CCTV
7 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.43%) Linux
2 11 (7.86%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
4 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (24.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 33 (23.57%) AI
4 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 27 (19.29%) Cost Management
7 25 (17.86%) Asset Management
7 25 (17.86%) FinOps
8 24 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 16 (11.43%) Software Asset Management
11 13 (9.29%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (9.29%) ITIL
11 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (7.86%) Data Protection
12 11 (7.86%) DevOps
13 10 (7.14%) Contract Management
13 10 (7.14%) Process Improvement
13 10 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.57%) Python
1 5 (3.57%) VB
1 5 (3.57%) VBA
1 5 (3.57%) VBScript
2 2 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) AWS Certification
1 24 (17.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.43%) CCNA
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) GDPR
1 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.43%) NIST
3 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.43%) Docker
3 8 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) SCCM
2 3 (2.14%) cPanel
2 3 (2.14%) Plesk
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.71%) Adobe
3 24 (17.14%) Apple
3 24 (17.14%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.71%) VMware
5 7 (5.00%) IBM
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle
6 5 (3.57%) Snow
7 3 (2.14%) Acronis
7 3 (2.14%) Datto
7 3 (2.14%) NETGEAR
7 3 (2.14%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.14%) Veeam
7 3 (2.14%) WatchGuard
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.71%) Capita
9 1 (0.71%) HubSpot