Software Licensing Contracts

Software Licensing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software Licensing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Licensing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 635 784
Rank change year-on-year +75 +149 -83
Contract jobs citing Software Licensing 24 62 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.11% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.12% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 47 32
10th Percentile - - £138
25th Percentile £185 £308 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% -11.11% -8.86%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £528
90th Percentile £588 £575 £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £330 £450
% change year-on-year -39.39% -26.67% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £56.32
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.00 £58.29
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £61.58
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -67.52% +480.35%
75th Percentile £22.25 £21.00 £64.86
90th Percentile - - £66.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 - £61.58
% change year-on-year - - +480.35%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Software Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Licensing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Licensing.

Daily rate trend for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Licensing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Licensing.

Hourly rate trend for Software Licensing in the UK

Software Licensing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Licensing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 21 £230 -32.35% 31
UK excluding London +5 15 £200 -39.39% 18
Work from Home +112 9 £200 -60.00% 23
London +71 9 £450 -16.67% 16
South West +6 7 £200 -38.46% 6
South East +18 5 £185 -78.24% 3
Scotland +50 2 - -
Wales - 1 - - 2

Software Licensing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
5 4 (16.67%) Billing
6 2 (8.33%) Law
6 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Software Asset Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Software Manager
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Billing Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Commercial Manager
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Implementation Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Procurement Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Software Licensing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Licensing
2 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
1 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Asset Management
3 5 (20.83%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Information Management
5 3 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) B2B
6 2 (8.33%) Change Management
6 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) Software Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) Supplier Relationship Management
7 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MCP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Adobe
2 4 (16.67%) Ariba
3 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.33%) Cadence
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Apple
4 1 (4.17%) Avaya
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) MobileIron
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) VMware