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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 15 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.67% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.63% 1.45% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £398 £345 £470
25th Percentile £408 £394 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -28.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £550 £531 -
90th Percentile £578 £535 -
England median daily rate £494 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.25% -16.67% -7.69%

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 324 207 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 36.12% 29.03% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 105 134
10th Percentile £213 £255 £223
25th Percentile £358 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -6.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £600
90th Percentile £625 £613 £693
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile £17.77 £21.08 £16.66
25th Percentile £20.50 £30.05 £17.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.22% +138.10% +19.59%
75th Percentile £25.11 £55.00 £39.86
90th Percentile £25.14 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.20% +2.62% +36.36%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Software relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend 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 21 November 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 21 November 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 - 9 £422 - 1
Derbyshire +3 3 - -
Nottinghamshire 0 3 £550 +69.23%
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.67%) InDesign
1 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) GCP
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
5 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
1 5 (33.33%) OpenID
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
1 5 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) CrewAI
4 1 (6.67%) Flash
4 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.67%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Social Media
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Blog
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) RBAC
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) BCP
6 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
6 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Content Management
6 2 (13.33%) CRM
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) Social Media Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
1 5 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) Ping Identity
3 2 (13.33%) Facebook
3 2 (13.33%) Instagram
3 2 (13.33%) YouTube
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe
4 1 (6.67%) Avaya
4 1 (6.67%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) Genesys
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) VMware