Enterprise Software Contracts

Enterprise Application Software
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 353 357
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -61
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 223 402 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 2.08% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 287 379
10th Percentile £412 £363 £411
25th Percentile £459 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £669
90th Percentile £825 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £510 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -0.49% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £43.84 - £36.71
25th Percentile £52.90 £66.25 £39.28
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £44.71
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +50.98% -18.71%
75th Percentile £62.90 £68.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £63.29 - £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.65 - £43.42
% change year-on-year - - -26.42%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Software over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the UK

Enterprise Software
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England -3 195 £550 - 181
London +18 108 £595 +1.71% 79
UK excluding London +6 86 £524 +2.70% 97
Work from Home +19 85 £575 +4.55% 112
South East +33 28 £585 +6.36% 28
North of England +26 22 £475 -13.64% 25
North West +28 20 £475 -14.80% 16
Midlands +6 20 £513 +10.81% 18
East Midlands +14 12 £445 +27.14% 8
East of England +18 8 £510 -28.92% 8
South West +15 7 £710 +39.22% 10
West Midlands +5 7 £607 +5.57% 10
Scotland +23 5 £506 +2.53% 5
Yorkshire +6 2 £432 -21.45% 5

Enterprise Software
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 7 (3.14%) CMS
1 7 (3.14%) SAS
2 6 (2.69%) Alfresco
2 6 (2.69%) Appian
2 6 (2.69%) Camunda
2 6 (2.69%) Confluence
3 5 (2.24%) Cloud Foundry
3 5 (2.24%) IBM Notes
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) InVision
2 3 (1.35%) Sketch
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.45%) Blender
3 1 (0.45%) Houdini
3 1 (0.45%) Maya
3 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.90%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.90%) SAP PLM
2 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.32%) Azure
2 39 (17.49%) AWS
3 21 (9.42%) SaaS
4 13 (5.83%) GCP
5 8 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.59%) Serverless
6 7 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.14%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (2.69%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.24%) Azure App Service
8 5 (2.24%) Figma
9 4 (1.79%) npm
9 4 (1.79%) Yarn
10 3 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.35%) GitHub
10 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.93%) DNS
2 7 (3.14%) SSH
3 6 (2.69%) DHCP
4 5 (2.24%) iSCSI
4 5 (2.24%) SAN
4 5 (2.24%) VLAN
5 3 (1.35%) BGP
5 3 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.35%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.90%) IPv6
6 2 (0.90%) LAN
6 2 (0.90%) WAN
7 1 (0.45%) ATM
7 1 (0.45%) Firewall
7 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.45%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) VPN
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.83%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.04%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.59%) DB2
5 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.14%) KDB
6 6 (2.69%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.79%) Redis
9 3 (1.35%) MySQL
9 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.35%) Power BI
10 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.62%) Git
2 16 (7.17%) JIRA
3 10 (4.48%) GitLab
4 8 (3.59%) git-flow
4 8 (3.59%) Maven
5 7 (3.14%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.14%) JUnit
6 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.79%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.79%) Mocha
6 4 (1.79%) webpack
7 3 (1.35%) Axure RP
7 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.90%) Gradle
8 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.08%) Finance
3 19 (8.52%) Banking
4 16 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.28%) Marketing
6 13 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.48%) Front Office
9 6 (2.69%) Legal
9 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Law
11 3 (1.35%) Automotive
11 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (28.25%) Developer
2 37 (16.59%) Architect
3 35 (15.70%) Senior
4 25 (11.21%) Consultant
5 23 (10.31%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.93%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (4.48%) Analyst
9 9 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.04%) SQL Developer
9 9 (4.04%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (3.59%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) UI Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (3.14%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 7 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (3.14%) Oracle Developer
11 7 (3.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.11%) .NET
2 23 (10.31%) JSON
3 20 (8.97%) React
4 19 (8.52%) REST
5 15 (6.73%) RESTful
5 15 (6.73%) Spring
5 15 (6.73%) XML
6 14 (6.28%) CSS
6 14 (6.28%) Hibernate
6 14 (6.28%) JPA
7 13 (5.83%) Web Services
8 12 (5.38%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.93%) SOAP
10 8 (3.59%) Jest
10 8 (3.59%) LESS
10 8 (3.59%) Material-UI
10 8 (3.59%) OpenFin
10 8 (3.59%) Redux
10 8 (3.59%) Sass
10 8 (3.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Algorithms
1 22 (9.87%) Data Structures
2 16 (7.17%) Fixed Income
3 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.48%) Low-Code
6 9 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.14%) Augmented Reality
8 7 (3.14%) Derivative
8 7 (3.14%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.24%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.79%) PKI
11 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) Social Media
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.76%) Linux
2 12 (5.38%) Windows
3 10 (4.48%) Unix
4 8 (3.59%) Android
5 7 (3.14%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.14%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (34.08%) Agile
2 36 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (15.25%) Microservices
3 34 (15.25%) SDLC
4 31 (13.90%) Scrum
5 28 (12.56%) CI/CD
6 26 (11.66%) User Experience
7 24 (10.76%) DevOps
8 23 (10.31%) Migration
8 23 (10.31%) Software Engineering
9 21 (9.42%) Project Management
10 19 (8.52%) Roadmaps
11 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (8.07%) TDD
12 17 (7.62%) Business Strategy
12 17 (7.62%) Test Automation
13 16 (7.17%) Electronic Trading
13 16 (7.17%) Software Architecture
14 15 (6.73%) Kanban
14 15 (6.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.35%) Java
2 59 (26.46%) SQL
3 32 (14.35%) Python
4 25 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.87%) C#
6 19 (8.52%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.73%) Go
8 10 (4.48%) Bash
9 8 (3.59%) Perl
10 7 (3.14%) C
10 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.69%) Ruby
12 5 (2.24%) Bicep
12 5 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.35%) C++
15 2 (0.90%) ABAP
15 2 (0.90%) R
15 2 (0.90%) Scala
15 2 (0.90%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.93%) Degree
4 10 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) MCSA
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.52%) QA
2 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) GxP
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) ITGC
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.42%) Docker
2 12 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.24%) vSphere
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.17%) Terraform
3 13 (5.83%) Ansible
4 10 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.35%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.90%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.45%) Control-M
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) logstash
7 1 (0.45%) Nessus
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.07%) Oracle
2 18 (8.07%) SAP
3 8 (3.59%) Databricks
3 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.14%) ION Trading
4 7 (3.14%) Splunk
5 6 (2.69%) Pega
5 6 (2.69%) Siebel
6 5 (2.24%) Lotus
6 5 (2.24%) New Relic
6 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.79%) Cisco
7 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.79%) iManage
7 4 (1.79%) TOWER Software
7 4 (1.79%) VMware
8 3 (1.35%) CA
8 3 (1.35%) IBM