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 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 80 106
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.69% 0.46% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.30% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £360 £475 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £295
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +69.49% -43.81%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £305
90th Percentile £586 - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 529 386 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.38% 35.22% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 183 307
10th Percentile £213 £256 £195
25th Percentile £338 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 50 86
10th Percentile £12.97 £29.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.25 £41.13
Median hourly rate £43.75 £66.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +11.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.46
% change year-on-year -21.62% -8.55% +61.83%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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
Hertfordshire -20 7 £488 -2.50% 18
Cambridgeshire - 3 £363 - 12
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 11
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 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
1 3 (27.27%) Mimecast
1 3 (27.27%) Nutanix
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Release Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Application Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Risk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Server Building
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
4 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CRISC
2 1 (9.09%) OSCP
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
1 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Qualys
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable