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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 0.66% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% -4.35%

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 341 152 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.62% 26.39% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 78 131
10th Percentile £185 £180 £167
25th Percentile £331 £321 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +11.88% -6.16%
75th Percentile £500 £545 £534
90th Percentile £613 £588 £638
England median daily rate £508 £549 £549
% change year-on-year -7.40% -0.08% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 18
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.69 £12.12
25th Percentile £16.25 £22.34 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £31.76 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.32% +119.03% -17.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £43.38 £20.19
90th Percentile £25.50 £50.35 £26.50
England median hourly rate £31.18 £39.04 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.13% +20.12% +44.44%

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
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 11 February 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 3 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 3 £575 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 4
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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) CrewAI
2 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
2 1 (14.29%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) BCP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) GitOps
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) VMware