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 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 23 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.04% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.87% 1.51% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 6
10th Percentile £220 £427 £473
25th Percentile £350 £494 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -28.92%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £532
90th Percentile £645 £653 £537
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.50 £58.75 £55.80
% change year-on-year -60.00% +5.29% -17.33%

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 595 398 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.87% 40.90% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 210 238
10th Percentile £190 £225 £177
25th Percentile £325 £396 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +8.99% -3.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £553
90th Percentile £681 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 76 125
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £22.23 £24.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71.00 £82.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.80 £87.75 £77.30
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.42 £36.05
% change year-on-year +27.72% -4.51% +60.31%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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
Bedfordshire - 9 £600 -
Hertfordshire -13 8 £350 -38.46% 5
Norfolk - 3 £500 -
Cambridgeshire +5 2 £656 +9.38% 5
Suffolk - 1 £625 - 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 6 (26.09%) CMS
1 6 (26.09%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Administrator
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (26.09%) Technical Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) IT Director
3 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Service Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
1 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
1 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
1 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (26.09%) CSS
1 6 (26.09%) HTML
1 6 (26.09%) jQuery
1 6 (26.09%) Node.js
1 6 (26.09%) React
1 6 (26.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Android
2 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Scrum
2 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (26.09%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
3 6 (26.09%) Microservices
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (26.09%) Personalization
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Service Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITSM
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
1 6 (26.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
1 6 (26.09%) Sitecore
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Remedy
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.35%) VMware