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 3 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 66 59
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 14 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.39% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.58% 0.84% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £178 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £350 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.22% -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
England median hourly rate £20.40 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -64.53% - -

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 306 237 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.45% 31.52% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 98 66
10th Percentile £153 £190 £220
25th Percentile £248 £381 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £538
90th Percentile £694 £686 £650
England median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 57 23
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.59 £18.63
25th Percentile £16.75 £30.61 £30.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.70 £96.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.67% -40.00% +23.18%

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 3 months to 13 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 3 months to 13 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 8 - -
Bedfordshire - 3 £220 - 1
Hertfordshire -1 2 £450 - 10
Suffolk - 1 £150 - 1
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 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) SaaS
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) Skype
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Business Development Manager
1 8 (38.10%) Business Manager
1 8 (38.10%) Development Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Application Security Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Android
2 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Business Development
1 8 (38.10%) Data Management
1 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
2 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (19.05%) ITSM
2 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.52%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (4.76%) Application Security
5 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (4.76%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) Remedy
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow