Enterprise Software Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Application Software
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 317 309
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -53
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 89 140 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.60% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.83% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 127
10th Percentile £414 £350 £388
25th Percentile £449 £441 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -0.49% +7.89%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.90 - £40.71
Median hourly rate £61.65 - £43.42
75th Percentile £63.29 - £46.12
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £44.71
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.98% -18.71%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Enterprise Software is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,981 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Software within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +23 28 £585 +6.36% 30
North of England +24 25 £475 -13.64% 30
North West +30 21 £475 -14.80% 19
Midlands +12 21 £513 +10.81% 21
East Midlands +12 13 £445 +27.14% 7
East of England +8 8 £510 -28.92% 9
South West +15 7 £710 +39.22% 11
West Midlands +13 7 £607 +5.57% 14
Scotland +25 5 £506 +1.25% 8
Yorkshire +16 4 £429 -22.09% 6
Enterprise Software
UK

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (6.74%) Alfresco
1 6 (6.74%) Appian
1 6 (6.74%) Camunda
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) CICS
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) SAP PLM
2 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.09%) Azure
2 15 (16.85%) AWS
3 6 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.62%) Azure AKS
4 5 (5.62%) Azure App Service
4 5 (5.62%) SaaS
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.49%) npm
5 4 (4.49%) Serverless
5 4 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (4.49%) Yarn
6 3 (3.37%) GCP
7 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.25%) GitHub
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.12%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) DHCP
2 5 (5.62%) iSCSI
2 5 (5.62%) SAN
2 5 (5.62%) VLAN
3 3 (3.37%) BGP
3 3 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (3.37%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.12%) ATM
4 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.12%) LAN
4 1 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.12%) SSL
4 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) DB2
2 5 (5.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.49%) Redis
4 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) GitLab
2 4 (4.49%) Git
2 4 (4.49%) Jasmine
2 4 (4.49%) Karma Test Runner
2 4 (4.49%) Mocha
2 4 (4.49%) webpack
3 3 (3.37%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.12%) gulp
5 1 (1.12%) Maven
5 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
2 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Automotive
5 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Advertising
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.98%) Architect
2 14 (15.73%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Consultant
3 13 (14.61%) Developer
4 10 (11.24%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (5.62%) Analyst
5 5 (5.62%) Angular Developer
5 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (5.62%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.62%) Virtualisation Architect
6 4 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.37%) Lead
7 3 (3.37%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) .NET
2 12 (13.48%) RESTful
3 9 (10.11%) AngularJS
3 9 (10.11%) JSON
4 8 (8.99%) React
5 6 (6.74%) Drools
5 6 (6.74%) jBPM
5 6 (6.74%) Middleware
6 5 (5.62%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.49%) Kafka
8 3 (3.37%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.37%) Django
8 3 (3.37%) REST
8 3 (3.37%) SAML
8 3 (3.37%) Web Services
8 3 (3.37%) YANG
9 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
9 1 (1.12%) Node.js
9 1 (1.12%) OAuth
9 1 (1.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.99%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.62%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.49%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.49%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.25%) iPad
6 2 (2.25%) PKI
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.12%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Android
2 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Agile
2 14 (15.73%) Business Strategy
2 14 (15.73%) DevOps
3 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (14.61%) Scrum
4 12 (13.48%) CI/CD
5 11 (12.36%) PLM
6 10 (11.24%) Microservices
6 10 (11.24%) Project Management
6 10 (11.24%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.11%) Architectural Design
7 9 (10.11%) BPMN
7 9 (10.11%) Migration
8 8 (8.99%) Containerisation
8 8 (8.99%) Information Assurance
8 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Management
8 8 (8.99%) OO
8 8 (8.99%) SDLC
8 8 (8.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.60%) SQL
2 18 (20.22%) Java
3 15 (16.85%) Python
4 11 (12.36%) C#
5 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.87%) Bash
7 6 (6.74%) C
7 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.62%) Bicep
9 4 (4.49%) Go
9 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.25%) C++
10 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.12%) COBOL
11 1 (1.12%) JCL
11 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) GxP
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.62%) vSphere
3 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.24%) Ansible
2 7 (7.87%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.25%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft
1 14 (15.73%) SAP
2 6 (6.74%) Pega
3 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.49%) Cisco
5 3 (3.37%) iManage
5 3 (3.37%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.25%) CA
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle
6 2 (2.25%) VMware
7 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.12%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) NetApp
7 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.12%) Sparx