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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 85 119
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.35% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 1.38% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £272 - £324
25th Percentile £379 £475 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% +10.56%
75th Percentile £650 £525 £620
90th Percentile £673 - £683
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -11.54%

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 472 363 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.76% 25.33% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 163 337
10th Percentile £202 £220 £181
25th Percentile £363 £314 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £680
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 46 79
10th Percentile £13.50 £28.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £17.79 £41.56 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £61.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +1.67% +47.31%
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.75 £90.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £28.13 £53.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -47.43% +16.61% +77.11%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 -8 2 £675 +35.00% 12
Cambridgeshire - 2 £491 - 10
Essex +1 1 £200 - 5
Suffolk - 1 £550 -
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
1 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Risk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Server Building
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CRISC
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable