Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Enterprise Application Software
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 12 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.52% 1.63% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.48% 5.39% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 8
10th Percentile £408 £305 £439
25th Percentile £416 £379 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -6.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £513 £544 £550
90th Percentile £569 £550 £700
England median daily rate £538 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -7.26%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 268 241 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.97% 30.13% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 132 165
10th Percentile £273 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -8.00% +9.36%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £588
90th Percentile £644 £624 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £16.16 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.92 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software in the East Midlands

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the East Midlands

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -11 9 £430 -3.48% 1
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £550 +69.23% 3
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (8.33%) InDesign
1 1 (8.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GCP
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Google Gemini
4 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Hibernate
1 7 (58.33%) LDAP
1 7 (58.33%) OAuth
1 7 (58.33%) OpenID
1 7 (58.33%) SAML
1 7 (58.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) CrewAI
4 1 (8.33%) Flash
4 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
4 1 (8.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Social Media
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Blog
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) RBAC
2 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
2 7 (58.33%) DevSecOps
3 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Content Management
6 2 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (16.67%) Social Media Management
6 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Web Usability
7 1 (8.33%) API Management
7 1 (8.33%) LLM
7 1 (8.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (8.33%) MCP
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) GDPR
1 7 (58.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) IBM
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) Ping Identity
2 2 (16.67%) Facebook
2 2 (16.67%) Instagram
2 2 (16.67%) Twitter
2 2 (16.67%) YouTube
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Avaya
3 1 (8.33%) Genesys
3 1 (8.33%) Google