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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 71 102
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 23 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.04% 0.64% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.79% 1.43% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 6
10th Percentile £350 £427 £473
25th Percentile £356 £494 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.65% -28.92%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £532
90th Percentile £635 £653 £537
England median daily rate £550 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% +2.50%

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 607 419 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.49% 44.39% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 233 257
10th Percentile £187 £225 £178
25th Percentile £325 £400 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £560
90th Percentile £679 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 70 126
10th Percentile £14.68 £16.95 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.35 £25.48 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.91% +20.00% -12.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £83.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +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 30 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 30 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 -18 9 £388 -31.87% 3
Bedfordshire - 6 £600 - 2
Cambridgeshire +7 4 £363 -39.58% 1
Norfolk - 3 £500 -
Suffolk - 1 £625 - 4
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 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Mimecast
3 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DHCP
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Release Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
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 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Android
4 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
5 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 6 (26.09%) Personalization
5 6 (26.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
7 3 (13.04%) AI
7 3 (13.04%) Generative AI
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Sitecore
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
3 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) VMware