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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 77 108
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 26 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.25% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.32% 0.69% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 6
10th Percentile £350 £489 £473
25th Percentile £356 £511 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +11.52% -30.61%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £532
90th Percentile £625 £643 £537
England median daily rate £530 £551 £563
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.04% +2.27%

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 602 432 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.85% 45.76% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 240 286
10th Percentile £185 £225 £186
25th Percentile £321 £399 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £550
90th Percentile £685 £688 £650
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 74 124
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.35 £29.45 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £84.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.85 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +25.00%

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 April 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 April 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 -10 12 £399 -29.89% 10
Bedfordshire - 6 £600 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 4 £363 - 4
Norfolk - 3 £500 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £625 -
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 (23.08%) CMS
1 6 (23.08%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) IIS
3 2 (7.69%) Confluence
4 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) SaaS
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) Mimecast
4 3 (11.54%) Nutanix
4 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DHCP
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Technical Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Administrator
3 5 (19.23%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Release Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) IT Director
6 1 (3.85%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Security Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) .NET
1 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET
1 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (23.08%) CSS
1 6 (23.08%) HTML
1 6 (23.08%) jQuery
1 6 (23.08%) Node.js
1 6 (23.08%) React
1 6 (23.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Android
4 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
1 12 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (26.92%) Data Governance
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
5 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) Personalization
5 6 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (19.23%) ITIL
7 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
8 3 (11.54%) SDLC
8 3 (11.54%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Sitecore
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) VMware