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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 84 96
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 24 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.99% 0.61% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% 1.84% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 0
10th Percentile £220 £307 -
25th Percentile £273 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £534 £650 -
90th Percentile £575 £665 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +21.88% - -

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 714 435 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.43% 33.26% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 186 153
10th Percentile £164 £193 £200
25th Percentile £295 £366 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £560
90th Percentile £694 £700 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 95 50
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.81 £29.63
25th Percentile £16.75 £23.78 £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.32 £54.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% -11.84% +2.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £71.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £30.93 £57.35
% change year-on-year +18.82% -46.07% +25.16%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +9 10 £419 -30.21% 17
Hertfordshire -14 6 £525 -22.22% 11
Norfolk - 3 £500 - 3
Bedfordshire - 3 £220 - 4
Suffolk -16 2 £388 -29.55% 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 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) SaaS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (4.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) eggPlant
3 1 (4.17%) Gerrit
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Business Development Manager
1 8 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 8 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Administrator
2 2 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (4.17%) Application Security Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Digital Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Product Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint Consultant
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Jolokia
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.17%) Rocky
4 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Business Development
1 8 (33.33%) Data Management
1 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (20.83%) ITSM
2 5 (20.83%) Service Management
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
1 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) BeanShell
3 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk