Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Enterprise Application Software
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 89 100
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 22 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.00% 0.55% 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.54% 1.61% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £206 £289 -
25th Percentile £220 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% - -
75th Percentile £500 £650 -
90th Percentile £585 £653 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.55% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £28.06 -
% change year-on-year -30.51% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 621 435 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.32% 34.36% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 193 165
10th Percentile £175 £195 £181
25th Percentile £349 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £679 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 94 70
10th Percentile £14.97 £16.95 £25.80
25th Percentile £16.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £74.00 £75.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £31.78 £48.75
% change year-on-year +29.03% -34.82% +11.00%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in the East of England

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in the East of England

Enterprise Software
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Enterprise Software
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
Cambridgeshire +7 8 - -
Hertfordshire -12 6 £350 -45.10% 8
Norfolk - 3 £500 -
Bedfordshire - 3 £220 - 2
Suffolk - 2 £388 - 2
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) SaaS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) IaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
1 1 (4.55%) eggPlant
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Business Development Manager
1 8 (36.36%) Business Manager
1 8 (36.36%) Development Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Application Security Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Security Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Business Development
1 8 (36.36%) Data Management
1 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (18.18%) ITSM
3 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Agile
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Remedy
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow