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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.79% 0.39% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.29% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £360 £475 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £295
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +69.49% -34.44%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £305
90th Percentile £586 - -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% -7.69%

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 503 387 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.98% 30.16% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 172 334
10th Percentile £190 £260 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 53 85
10th Percentile £12.90 £23.65 £20.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £62.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +3.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.63 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -37.78% +0.56% +27.86%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 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
Hertfordshire -6 8 £488 -2.50% 8
Cambridgeshire - 2 £363 - 6
Essex -2 1 £200 - 2
Suffolk - 1 £550 -
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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Release Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Application Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) AI
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Server Building
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CRISC
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable