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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 78 103
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +27
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 21 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.13% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 0.90% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 7
10th Percentile £350 - £398
25th Percentile £356 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £529
90th Percentile £631 - £536
England median daily rate £530 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +2.00%

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 557 442 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.09% 43.21% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 247 322
10th Percentile £195 £250 £185
25th Percentile £313 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.78% +9.17%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £560
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 68 137
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.79 £33.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%
75th Percentile £67.31 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% +33.33%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 11 £425 -15.00% 6
Bedfordshire - 6 £600 - 1
Cambridgeshire - 4 £363 - 2
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 (28.57%) CMS
1 6 (28.57%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
2 3 (14.29%) IIS
3 2 (9.52%) Confluence
4 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 3 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DHCP
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Release Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) IT Director
6 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) .NET
1 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 6 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 6 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (28.57%) CSS
1 6 (28.57%) HTML
1 6 (28.57%) jQuery
1 6 (28.57%) Node.js
1 6 (28.57%) React
1 6 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 7 (33.33%) Scrum
5 6 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 6 (28.57%) Personalization
5 6 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (23.81%) ITIL
7 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
8 3 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 3 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Performance Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) VMware