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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +24
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.62% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 0.58% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £307 - £681
25th Percentile £464 - £690
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £718
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.44%
75th Percentile £650 - £733
90th Percentile £665 - £734
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.69%

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 427 345 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.92% 22.55% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 155 334
10th Percentile £190 £191 £197
25th Percentile £363 £272 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £588
90th Percentile £700 £648 £696
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 51 66
10th Percentile £17.39 £30.00 £21.13
25th Percentile £29.51 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Enterprise Software as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Software 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £600 - 5
Hertfordshire +4 2 £675 - 5
Essex +1 1 £200 - 7
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 1
Enterprise Software
England

Enterprise Software
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
1 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Java Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Application Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Risk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (37.50%) Garbage Collection
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) Application Security
4 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Product Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Product Vision
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CRISC
1 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable
20 Enterprise Software jobs in the East of England